Fortnightly Bulletin

Hope you are all enjoying the weekend of Rugby, some lovely conditions to referee in with the rain we’ve had. I certainly felt the wind chill at Worcester today on the pitches by the motorway.

Celebrating One of our Own

This weekend sees our very own Training Director, Neil Chivers, as AR for the EPCR Challenge Cup fixture between Perpignan & Emirates Lions. Congratulations Chivs on your appointment.

If you want to catch Chivs on TV I’d go with the highlights unless you have one of these – France TV / beIN SPORTS / SuperSport / FloRugby.

Assessor Games

As a Society we have a number of volunteers who, along with our refs, give there time on a weekend to provide valuable expertise to aid development and assess our referees. If you are assigned an assessor for a game can you please ensure you update them with the following information:

• Game confirmation
• Any changes to venue, kick off time
• Time you plan to arrive
• Cancellations, as soon as possible

Our assesors, whilst appointed through WTR, do not receive the same notifications as the referee. The hosting club will communicate with the referee so if you can share the above with them it will make the admin a lot easier and ensure assessors know what is happening…along with not turning up to cancelled games 😉

Appointments & Cancellations

As a Society we issue appointments through WTR based on the availability set. When you are appointed a game can please ensure you Accept or Decline the fixture at your earliest convenience. Once the appointment is accepted the host club will be notified to make contact confirming the fixture, without the acceptance they’re unaware a ref has been assigned and may look to source their own referee.

If a fixture is not accepted and subsequently unconfirmed, the Society is unable to charge match fees where the hosting club sources their own referee. If you choose to travel to the game under these scenarios you may not be able to claim travel expenses.

England Rugby Match Official Update

Please follow this link to access the latest issue of the England Rugby Match Official update: https://bit.ly/MatchOfficialUpdateNov23   

This month contains training opportunities which includes joining a Developing the Developers Masterclass, links to sign up for the next round of Developing the Developers, Updates for Young Match Officials and much much more. 

And finally…

Last night the Shropshire based referees got together for a Christmas gathering at Beefy Boys in Shrewsbury. Hope you all enjoyed the burgers and had a good night…if only Shrewsbury wasn’t a 2 hour drive away 😉

As a Society we haven’t had a great deal of social events, certainly of late, and something we will look to entertain in the New Year. I will drop a post out on our facebook page to gauge numbers and then possible venues.

I hope you find the above information useful and enjoy the rest of the weekend!