Recent content by Cymro

Alain Rolland disallowed the Samoan try and said "double movement" penalty Wales. We all know what he means but why not use the correct signal and terminology ????

Wales show how to do it.

Did anyone see my successful bid on Scrum V "Dragon's Den" what a laugh it was. Scrum V Dragon's Den Tom :)

Was discussing an incident the other day, a player was red carded for referee abuse x 2 and WRU has given him (IIRC) a 18 week ban. he's a local lad who was home from UNI, the person I was discussing it with said he (the player) wasn't too bothered because it wouldn't affect him playing for his...

No. 1 son is finishing U13 this season and will be U14 next. as a No.8 He's keen to bulk up a bit, however I've been reluctant to allow him to weight train feeling he's been a bit too young. In the last year he's grown a lot (now 5' 8" at age 12 (13 in a couple of weeks)) and is about 9.5...

If anyone fancies a great day out in sunny North Wales we are looking for refs for next Sunday, 19th April at Bangor RFC 10:00 - 16:00. 25 teams and approx 70+ games to get through. anyone interested the orgainser is Junior Co-ordinator at Bangor RFC, contact details at...

Red vs Blue U18 cup match. score is 8 - 6 to Blue. final play of the game is a scrum to blue about 8M in from touchline about 30M out from Blue goal line. scrum won by blue, they move it blind a few meters and are tackled and a nice neat ruck occurs with SH poised to play the ball, he looks up...

I'm working at this event in a few weeks time. Any of you London boys planning to take part ? http://england.shelter.org.uk/what_you_can_do/events_and_challenges/vertical_rush

Reffed a game today. Blue player knocks-on about 12M out from opposition goal line, I indicate and call "advantage knock-on" ball bounces forwards to in-goal and is dropped on by green player. What would you give ? back for scrum to green about 12M out from their goal-line or 22 drop out to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/my_club/cardiff_blues/7822835.stm I saw the game and think unfortunately Dai Young has a point, poorly managed. Anyone else see is and have comments ?

I often get asked by players about the legality of slapping the ball from the SH hands when he's emerging from the bottom of a ruck, especially after I've penalised them for doing it. What are your thoughts about this action ? and which particular laws pertain to it.

who saw this last night ? fantastic :biggrin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/7733002.stm

When (and if) you ref Junior games (lets say U16 and below) do you wear full kit ? I have had a couple of discussions with other refs who sometimes just wear a tracksuit, I feel if you look like a "proper" ref you get treated like a "proper" ref, thoughts?

As a non ex-pack player, can anyone give me a bit of advice about deciding who is responsible for the early shove. I know it always looks like the team moving forward, but then the team moving backwards maybe not taking the hit well and making it look like an early shove ?

At last night's society meeting a colleague was discussing the scenario below: last 5mins of the game. Penalty awarded to blue 15M out from red line but not in front of the posts. Ref says "wait" and goes to deal with an injury. When he returns blue 9 has the kicking tee in hand and asks...