A report must be completed for EVERY Yellow Card and Red Card event. Forms can be downloaded from the documents section.

Any ordering-off incident must be reported, on the day of the incident, to one or more of: Mike Dilnott, Ian Dallas, David Walsh, Nathan Bramley or Richard Gordon.

Teamsheets:
WRFU grades:

All teams should be using duplicate carbon copy teamsheets.

• the referee needs to sight a teamsheet (with all the players listed) prior to the match
• at the end of the match, the referee needs to:
  • complete the Griffiths Memorial scoring in the bottom lefthand corner of the teamsheet
  • sign the teamsheet as a correct record of the result, sin-binnings, orderings-off, etc.
  • obtain/identify the names of players who have been sin-binned, ordered-off or who have suffered a serious injury

Referees do NOT collect teamsheets for WRFU grade matches. It is the responsibility of the clubs to get the teamsheets to the WRFU.

Secondary School grades:
Each team is to hand their completed Team Card to the referee BEFORE the match (ie: the referee must collect a Team Card from each team BEFORE the match). The referee retains possession of the Team Card.

At the end of the match, the referee completes ALL of the incomplete detail on both sides of the Team Card:

• Teams involved in the fixture
• Grade
• Date
• Division
• Venue
• REFEREE  – this is easy, just PRINT your name in the space provided!
• Yellow/Red Card and injury incidents specific to each individual player
• THE SCORE and how it was achieved (tries, conversions, penalties, drop goals, Total)
• Ground issues
• Conduct matters
• SIGNATURE OF REFEREE
• Game comments

Please hand in Team Cards at the WRRA Monday night meetings. If you are unable to attend the Monday night meeting following your game, please ensure that Team Cards are posted (or otherwise delivered) to College Sport Wellington or the Wellington RFU.

Please do not retain possession of Team Cards and do not discard them.

Richard Kahui – yeah right … WRRA member, Caleb O’Fee, wins the Telecom Backing Black All Black Look-alike competition

Once again, the College Sport Wellington Secondary School Girls Grades will be playing their fixtures on Thursday afternoons (usually a 4:15pm kick-off).

For those that are ‘always available’ or ‘sometimes available’ to referee these Thursday fixtures, could you please let the WRFU Club Rugby Administrator Nathan Bramley know? Please let Nathan know your general geographic location and where you can/cannot referee these games.

From the College Sport playing conditions:
GIRLS RUGBY- 10 aside
 
4. SPECIAL PLAYING CONDITIONS FOR GIRLS
(i) The minimum numbers of players required to constitute a team is 8 and the maximum who can present to play in any one game is 16.
(ii) There is unlimited interchange, but only at a stoppage in play when that team is in possession of the ball and in consultation with the referee.
(iii) All scrums are to be uncontested – no pushing & the team feeding it MUST win it – this is an NZRU directive and must be adhered to.
(iv) Conversions may be drop or place kicks and taken from any point in line from where the try was scored
(v) Games shall be of 2 x 25-minute halves, with 5-minute half time.
(vi) All players MUST wear a mouthguard, appropriate footwear and a uniform representative of their school.
(vii) In 10’s, there shall be 5 forwards & 5 backs and that apart all other variations listed above apply.
(viii) The above apart all other laws of Rugby shall apply.

5. TEAM CARDS
The coach of each team is responsible for handing a completed team card to the referee before play commences.

The referee will complete this card at the end of the game and return it to the WRRA for forwarding to College Sport Wellington and in turn to schools.

6. SIN-BINNED & ORDERED OFF PLAYERS
Any player sin binned (5 minutes) or ordered off (duration of match) may not be replaced, unless they are a specialist forward in which case they may be replaced BUT then another player must be taken off to keep the playing numbers at 9.

There is the opportunity for businesses to sponsor the WRRA by purchasing views from our videos website (just click on video camera icon on right-hand side for a preview).  The client has to complete the form and then send it to Ian Dallas or Pam Dilnott.

The client will then get an email from WRRA explaining the process around providing logos, etc and videos displayed will have links and banners to the sponsors to advertise their businesses.

Akihisa Aso spent time with the WRRA last year through a NZRU development initiative – he was due to return this month for further development opportunities, prior to him going to the U20 RWC. The ill health of his son prevented that, and unfortunately, we have now received the very sad news that Aki & Aya’s son, Shuki, has recently passed away from complications relating to further surgery on his heart. The WRRA has passed on their condolences to the family, on behalf of the membership, via a personal email from the chairman. For those who hosted him last year, a card is likely to be available for signing (see the Chairman).

Congratulations to the following referees and coaches who has been selected to represent the association at the Hurricanes Interchange:

Jubilee Cup Fitness test 2013

Please note the scheduled level 1 and 2 pre-season fitness test will be held on Sunday 26th May at 10.00 AM. The venue will be the gymnasium complex at Scots College. To assist with time management can those wishing to participate be at the venue at 9.30 so that Duncan Pearce can put you through your paces at 10.00am sharp.

A special thanks to Phil Smith for arranging the venue.

The format will be the same as last year with beep, sprint, agility components.

WRRA

1. Fiji/Samoa – in association with NZ Marist – not going ahead at this time
2. NSW Coast/Central Coast – Level 4/5 referee and possibly a coach – undetermined whether this will go ahead, at this time
3. Brisbane – Level 3 referee
4. Japan – this year it will be most likely a Level 2 referee trip along with a coach – this will be to Sugadaira “summer camp”
5. Dubai – a Level 1 referee trip along with two coaches – late October/early November

Congratulations to the following referees for being graded at the following levels: