Summer Bulletin – The Final Chapter

Good evening all, hope you’ve had an amazing summer and looking forward to the new season commencing?

This will be the last summer bulletin as I’m off on holiday for 2 weeks so thought I would update on a few bits and pieces along with important dates etc.

Dates for your Diary

We are holding a Society Training Day this coming Sunday, 20 August, at DK Rugby Club. The day is an opportunity for you to meet fellow society members whilst running through the hot topics as we enter the new season…namely the new tackle height. Neil Chivers will host the session with a Bronco Test to begin with for those who have been unable to attend any of the other sessions, followed by a review of the new tackle height laws. If time permits he will also run through other areas that you have commented on in my last post.

Timings for the day are:

• 10.00 – 11.30 – Bronco Fitness Test
• 12.00 – 14.30 – New Tackle Height presentation and other updates

Lunch will be provided, if you can let Chivs know if you are attending – please click this link taking you to our facebook page, scroll to the post from ‘Neil Chivers’ and register accordingly choosing one of the options. This will allow us to cater for the correct numbers.

Bronco Fitness Test Dates

As mentioned above we will hold a bronco fitness test at the training day on Sunday 20 August @ DK Rugby Club. If you are unable to attend this we will also hold another session at Luctonians Rugby club on Tuesday 29 August @ 7.15pm. This is being run by Neil Reid-Warrilow.

New Season Availability

Our fixtures secretaries have started appointing games for the new season which you should start to see coming through now. If you haven’t had anything it might be that your availability is not up to date – please log on to WTR and update this and our team will appoint where games are available. If you’re unsure of how to do this we have created a new section on our website detailing how to manage WTR, click this link to check this out.

Refs on Tour!

In the last bulletin I updated on Julian, Theo and Theo’s sister refereeing at the European Championships in France. I have received an update on this from Julian:

Just an update on our experiences in France at the European Touch Championships last week
Both Theo and Julian gained their Level 4 badges (Level 5 is the top level, the Touch equivalent of Wayne Barnes!), and Theo ranked in the top 20 of over 80 referees, being awarded an appointment to the Men’s 40s division Gold Medal final between England and France
Julian & daughter Cara also refereed a Bronze Medal match between Wales and Switzerland in the Men’s 30s division.

Well done to the Edwards on an amazing tournament flying the flag for the Society!

Website Updates

Over the summer we have made a few changes to the website to now include ‘Referees Hub’. This section is designed to provide an overview of WTR, Appointments Team, North Mids League Structure, North Mids Referee Society Policies, Useful Refereeing Documents and Referee Reviewer / Match Official Documents. If you feel something is missing please let me know and I can review and add.

I have also created an area ‘For Clubs’ to help them navigate WTR, Fixtures, Appointments and anything else.

I hope you find these bulletins useful but if there’s something you’d like adding please feel free to drop a comment or email me through the contact form.