Referee call to action

Is your club struggling to get society refs to cover your games? Can you do something about it? Across the country, we’re short of referees! 

Societies are struggling to cover lots of fixtures on a Saturday and Sunday, so I’m approaching you to help us recruit more refs into the game. It can be a flexible arrangement alongside playing/coaching/teaching with referees able to set their own availability and travel time preferences. For example, can you help cover a lower XV game within your club that wouldn’t usually get a ref? Can you help the club down the road? If you can only do 1 game a month like this, what an amazing way to help the game! 

 If you haven’t refereed for a while, or you’re worried about getting back on the park, you should check out our #BEPARTOFTHETEAM Kitbag (https://linktr.ee/RFURefereeKitbag) which has loads of resources to give you confidence to get out in the middle again! 

 If you, or someone you know, would be interested in completing the England Rugby Refereeing Award, we have courses happening across the country right now during October & November. Interested in finding out your local one? Check out  https://gms.rfu.com/GMS/coursefinder or https://bit.ly/RFURefCourses for the full list. 

 If you’re interested, get signed up using the links above and #BEPARTOFTHETEAM 

Any questions please contact Darren Gourley darrengourley@rfu.com (Midlands Training Manager) or John Widdowson johnwiddowson@rfu.com (Match Official Developer).