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Guitar, ukulele, and piano student; rugby fanatic; INTJ

Useful Referee Docs

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1) Referee Levels Workbook – what competencies you should be meeting based on your referee level; the Development Working Group also posts links to training videos; and some other useful items.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k2e2GJ5_VI3xUH3-e6q5l7yg7fs54QIzCgijjTvSMYA/edit#gid=840220322

2) Toolbox for Match-Day Phrases – to help assist in not being too wordy.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1OaqWxeJzcUGCcA_Qv1NazT4bifY7atmB/edit?filetype=msexcel

3) ADVANTAGE Referee System – everyone who is registered as a USAR Referee has access to uploading match film and clipping it. Helps with working on trends and seeing your performance over a period of time. Even if you don’t upload any matches, you can watch other people’s matches and see what notes they made for their goals/work-ons, etc.
https://live.advantagereferee.com/login

7s: 50/22, and GLDO

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Folks: This will seem bizarre, but there has been a big conflict in the law trials and the 50/22 and the goal line dropout (GLDO) as they apply to 7s. Basically:

  1. The lawbook (online) shows that the 50/22 and GLDO apply for both 15s and 7s. That’s the way it was played in tournaments after last Summer (Xmas 7s, UofR 7s, etc.).
  2. However, this is wrong, based on a World Rugby memo (09/10/2021) that (a) no one had seen until recently and (b) cannot be located online. [“No one” = inside or outside of the RSV from what we can determine (at least regionally, if not beyond).]
  3. Even though this is a World Rugby memo, they NEVER fixed the applicable online laws. That’s supposed to happen sometime soon. [Insert cursing here.]
  4. Thus, the 50/22 and the GLDO do not apply to 7s.

This has been verified by MARR.