Refereeing School Rugby

With Steve Lander

Make your referees safe, competent and confident.  Reduce stress, touchline angst and angry parents.

A course for teachers and coaches who referee, or who are intending to referee next season, at all levels of the school game.  It will help develop confidence of when to blow the whistle, and, possibly more importantly, when not to do so.  Focusing on communication - with players, coaches and parents - Steve Lander goes far beyond the laws themselves into practical advice for the schoolmaster referee, allowing him to create a framework for safety and equity in which rugby has the best chance of breaking out.

The new Experimental Law Variation, applicable from 1st August, will be explained, together with practical advice on their application.

This course is entirely theoretical, but includes a wide range of exclusive DVD footage illustrating both the laws and practical examples of refereeing,

Course Programme: 

• Establishing a safe environment
• Referee responsibilities: what he may do, might do and must do
• Applying the law in school matches
• Ensuring safe procedures at scrum and contact
• Refereeing what matters: managing the game at all levels
• Getting the communication right
• Understanding materiality: letting the game happen
• Understanding and applying the ELVs
• Dealing with parents on the touchline
• Avoiding allegations of incompetence and bias
• Avoiding and dismantling confrontation