A parent asked the GRFU who asked the RFU who asked the IRB and the IRB told the RFU who told the GRFU who told the parent
LEG SKINS REGULATION
In recent weeks the RFU has received a number of enquiries from concerned parents about their children playing rugby in cold weather, and asking if it is acceptable for children to wear tights/skins in such conditions. The IRB Regulation which governs this is unclear and in need of some clarification. The various affected staff members have discussed the issue and decided that the only commonsense position is to allow young players to wear such items in the interests of child welfare. The iRB were invited to consider the arguments in favour of this decision, and have ruled that the RFU may allow players to wear such RFU-approved items in age grade rugby, subject to the match referee’s assessment of the items as safe and the item’s conformity with iRB Regulation 12, in the following terms:
“A player must not wear any item of which any part is thicker than 0.5 cm when uncompressed or is denser than 45 kilograms per cubic metre unless specified within this Regulation 12/Law 4. Where this overall thickness consists of padded material covered by fabric, 0.5 cm is the maximum measured thickness for the combination of the uncompressed padding and the fabric. The fabric can contribute up to a maximum measured thickness of 1 mm on each side of the padding”.
The RFU intends to cascade the information down so that it reaches all necessary stakeholders and is applied uniformly throughout the country.
To purchase RFU-approved items of kit for training and playing, and to show your support for England Rugby, please visit
http://store.rfu.com/stores/rfu/default.aspx.
Did that start sound familiar?
I have a friend in Minsk,
Who has a friend in Pinsk,
Whose friend in Omsk
Has friend in Tomsk
With friend in Akmolinsk.
His friend in Alexandrovsk
Has friend in Petropavlovsk,
Whose friend somehow
Is solving now
The problem in Dnepropetrovsk.
And when his work is done -
Ha ha! - begins the fun.
From Dnepropetrovsk
To Petropavlovsk,
By way of Iliysk,
And Novorossiysk,
To Alexandrovsk to Akmolinsk
To Tomsk to Omsk
To Pinsk to Minsk
To me the news will run,
Yes, to me the news will run!
(Tom Lehrer, of course)