Welcome to Buckinghamshire Referees Society
Welcome to the Bucks Rugby Referee Society Website. We're a small, friendly referee society, officiating matches from National Division 3 South West to U13 youth rugby
Next Meeting Wednesday Ist February, 7.30 Amersham and Chiltern RFC (Weedon Lane, HP6 5QU). New Members, experienced or beginners, always very welcome.
This month's topics
Advantage, with Malcolm Jamieson
The Ro Bates "Half Time" Scores, with Richard Bobbett
All the resources are currently held on the Forms page, click here to access them. We are delighted that referees and players from all over the globe are using them.
Currently they include advice on pre match briefings, how to handle yellow / red card situations, and how to deal with weather cancellations. There is also all the latest BUCS, BBO, and National Colts Regulations. Other Laws include recent clarifications, front row replacement logic tree, the Laws From 1871 and from 2012 (no material changes since 2011), a guide to the different laws at the various age groups, and a set of famous Myths referees encounter. Assessors, you can download any of the three forms we use from this page.
This website allows our members to manage their own contact & membership details. For support, please email bucksrefs@googlemail.com
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Society Latest
January and February Resources
This month we have added the Law Book for 2012. It is the same as 2011, except the IRB have subtley changed the way pitches are marked out. We have included a before and after diagram helpfuly drawn up by a ref from rugbyrefs.com.
Also added are the Laws from 1881, some of us probably still remember them.
There has been a change by the South West Rugby about which team is responsible for resolving a shirt clash in the leagues...it is now the AWAY team.
If you ref Colts (U19) games, be aware that although the Laws appear to allow squeezeball, some referees find clubs expect it to be outlawed as there will be players from the U18 group playing too.
There is an interesting "What would you do?" question, one where the Laws don't seem to quite deal with a situation. The question is; what would you do if during a sin binning you found a player had been snuck on without you knowing it? Here's a direct link to the article.
Bill Roques
News/ Updates
Sky Sports/ Rugby Union News
Boudjellal to appeal ban
29th January 2012
Outspoken Toulon owner Mourad Boudjellal has said he would appeal the ban handed down to him after his criticism of referees.
Davies: Win was for Rhys
28th January 2012
Scarlets head coach Nigel Davies said a good luck message from ailing prop Rhys Thomas helped inspire his side.
Scarlets close on semi spot
28th January 2012
The Scarlets closed in on an LV= Cup semi-final berth with a 27-19 victory over London Irish on Saturday.
Photo of the week
Mr Stephen Proctor in action at Risborough v Bicester.
If you have a photo that you think is worthy of this spot, e-mail it to Andrew King
Video of the week