Western Force refereeing videos

[Agustin]

From the press release:

RugbyWA has commissioned a series of short videos highlighting some of rugby’s laws and the importance played by referees in our great game. The Community Rugby Department have worked to come up with some entertaining and fun skits that will appeal to both a rugby and wider audience.

Episodes 1 - 4 of the series are now live on the Emirates Western Force YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/WesternForceTV

Episode 1 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzXbhqQX1To

Episode 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qu75-oiA74

Episode 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShNNo_YCdVU

Episode 4 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjILale2NSM

Episode 5 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq9mlpeDJ2A

 

[big fish]

Fantastic!!!!

 

[crossref]

superfluous 'house' to signal a scrum in Episode 3 :nono:
what are they thinking of?

 

[Robert Burns]

The game, not pedantic refs and assessors :wink:

 

[Agustin]

A couple more:

Episode 6 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpfigUJShlQ

Episode 7 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38HlPVp7fGs

"Early engagement" - love it!

 

[Robert Burns]

Excellent videos

 

[crossref]

The game, not pedantic refs and assessors :wink:

hmm - i finished the IRB Laws quiz last night - the video section has the referee there in a Wales v SA game doing the house signal after a KO. So perhaps it's not strictly verboten.

 

[Phil E]

hmm - i finished the IRB Laws quiz last night - the video section has the referee there in a Wales v SA game doing the house signal after a KO. So perhaps it's not strictly verboten.

As has been pointed out to you already on another thread (not that you take any notice), the house signal is usually used when there is an option, to indicate which option has been chosen. It is not used when a scrum is the only choice.

So after a kickoff there is a choice; use a house symbol if they elect for a scrum.

 

[crossref]

As has been pointed out to you already on another thread (not that you take any notice), the house signal is usually used when there is an option, to indicate which option has been chosen. It is not used when a scrum is the only choice.

So after a kickoff there is a choice; use a house symbol if they elect for a scrum.

I have taken notice! I haven't made a house signal since. (well, I admit it one snuck out accidentally last week, a habit can be hard to break sometimes)

but having taken notice I was a bit :chin: to see the house signal used on the IRB Laws Quiz video... that's a place where you would expect all the demo videos to be perfect... wouldn't you?

 

[Ian_Cook]

hmm - i finished the IRB Laws quiz last night - the video section has the referee there in a Wales v SA game doing the house signal after a KO. So perhaps it's not strictly verboten.

As has been pointed out to you already on another thread (not that you take any notice), the house signal is usually used when there is an option, to indicate which option has been chosen. It is not used when a scrum is the only choice.

So after a kickoff there is a choice; use a house symbol if they elect for a scrum.

.....I was a bit :chin: to see the house signal used on the IRB Laws Quiz video...

Nuff said!

 

[Adam]

There's no harm in doing the house signal. I'll do it just to emphasise the point. I do the signals as I'm saying, "knock on red, scrum down, blue ball".

 

[B52 REF]

AM with AJ - I use it habitually (its in the LOTG after all) -like the backs to know what is happening next also useful for dozy forwards (especially near touch as all wandering off for LO) and useful commmunication habit if you do a lot of non-english speaking stuff (e.g. cornwall)

 

[Lee Lifeson-Peart]

I tried not to do it last game out and found myself trying so hard not to do the HS that occasionally I realised that's all I was thinking about!!:wow:

I might just let it dissappear "naturally"

 

[crossref]

I tried not to do it last game out and found myself trying so hard not to do the HS that occasionally I realised that's all I was thinking about!!:wow:

On Sunday I stopped the game becauae the action got too close to an injured player on ground..'peep injury...physio.. OK you have time to get some water lads..'

a minute or so later we were ready to restart.
- 'stopped for an injury, red in possession, scrum red;
- and I instictively started to to a house signal, and then stopped guiltily, then immediately realised this was a moment where a house signal was entirely approprate, and did one anyway.

I must have looked a complete plonker, waving my arms around indecisively :biggrin:

 

[Scienide]

I've been caught with improper binding a few times. Excellent find on those videos!