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JLomey
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I have recently been interested in becoming a referee after being injured playing, and to help me along my club allowed me to referee a friendly game between the 3rd and 4th teams.
The first thing I noticed is how many of the rules I don't know off the top of my head, it looks fairly easy when playing, but it definetly is not when in the middle.
One of the problems I had was I gave a penalty for hands in the ruck on the 5m line and the team took a quick penalty and took me over the tryline with them, I didn't know what to do so i awarded the try as I don't know if anything was actually in the rules to prevent this?
In the bar afterwards I was getting a little bit of stick over it, but some said it should have been a penalty reversed and others said there was nothing wrong with it, can someone please tell me the real line.
Also, what is the best way of learning all the rules? As I didn't realise how many I don't actually know.
Any help would be appreciated.
The first thing I noticed is how many of the rules I don't know off the top of my head, it looks fairly easy when playing, but it definetly is not when in the middle.
One of the problems I had was I gave a penalty for hands in the ruck on the 5m line and the team took a quick penalty and took me over the tryline with them, I didn't know what to do so i awarded the try as I don't know if anything was actually in the rules to prevent this?
In the bar afterwards I was getting a little bit of stick over it, but some said it should have been a penalty reversed and others said there was nothing wrong with it, can someone please tell me the real line.
Also, what is the best way of learning all the rules? As I didn't realise how many I don't actually know.
Any help would be appreciated.