Recent content by RLRef1984

I thought you may enjoy this little clip from Premier Sports. First of all the ridiculous contraption George Stokes has to wear for Ref cam, and the final tackle comprising of at least 20 tackles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5HCrYfMFMg

Lets hope this doesnt get abused by the fans too much

Rugby League senior referee Steve Ganson has retired from refereeing to take up a new position in the RFL Match Officials Department. Ganson, 43, has been appointed as Match Officials Coach and Technical Director and will start his new role on Monday (April 15). Steve Ganson said: “I have...

I was 4th Man on a Championship 1 (3rd tier, 300 supporters) Rugby League game at the weekend and myself and the referee during a conversion attempt noticed a player urinating in open air outside the field of play, the referee gave him a rollicking and we reported the fact to the Match...

In a week after 3 players were banned for twitter attacks on a referee, this pops up Thoughts??

Just a topical question after a Superleague game was postponed at 2115 (2000 ko) due to the HOME rteam being stuck in traffic. How long would you wait before calling a game off and what would you consider? Pro games are different to our levels so how much time do you keep as spare time and not...

I thought I'd move our appointments section to this League part of the forum to make it look a bit more busy. Anyway 2 Reserve Appointments this year Last Sunday I was Reserve Ref for Featherstone vs Leigh in Championship. A match I was looking forward to but turned into a disappointing game...

I posted in the RL - tackle area part of the forum the news about shoulder charges not being banned in the UK at present. I am slightly uneasy over this and was hoping to see a ban. Ok the rest of Rugby League players and supporters wanted to retain them however I think that is because they like...

http://therfl.co.uk/news/article/26748/laws-committee-elects-not-to So basically the UK is keeping shoulder charges for the moment

Four clubs have agreed to trial three experimental rule changes in their festive friendlies over Christmas. The experimental changes are designed to enhance the thrilling spectacle of the world’s most exciting team sport and will be trialled in the Boxing Day friendlies, Leeds Rhinos v...

Well just had quite a lot of bumph through for season 2013 and there seems to been a bit of a cull of Academy Officials and a couple of Championship demotions but nothing headline grabbing. I've retained my Championship TJ grade but have been dropped off the National Conference Referee Panel, I...

Tis the season to be jolly as its nearly time for the fitness test to come and go Good Luck to my fellow leaguers undertaking the yo yo test this week, hope you do better than me

A bit of different one from me but how would you deal with these individuals, (all sadly current cases for myself) a) A referee who was the former Society Development Officer / Appointments officer who when he was in the appointments role refereed junior games in lieu of working (he's a taxi...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyNl7kOQD0U A Barla National Cup match (one of our amateur cups) was abandoned for a team amassing 5 dismissals, heres the highlights of the game. Opinions please

Cant put this on main forums due to my RFL code of conduct thingy but I was TJ on a Northern Rail Cup (RL Tier 2) game and of my 80 minutes 70 of them were easy as nothing doing, however between minutes 55 and 65 my job got hectic and I had to make 3 possible controversial decisions...