NSW Rugby Referees - Referees Education
Resources used at Referee Education Nights throughout 2008 will be found here.
JULY MEETING
Pre-Game and Post Game - Ian Smith
Tackle/Ruck Discussion - Ron Mancell
NSWRRA's latest International Referee Ian Smith presented his thoughts on pre-game preparation and post-game analysis. A discussion was then held on various tackle/ruck scenarios and whether we can actually enforce all the tackle laws...
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JUNE MEETING
Decision Making and Materiality - Ron Mancell
Ron discussed the various stages that make up decision making as applied to refereeing. Part of this involves a discussion of materiality.
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MAY MEETING
Rescuing A Low-Skill Game - Nathan Pearce
ARU Panel Referee Nathan Pearce ran the group through strategies to improve games when everything starts falling apart, and your best laid plans come unstuck.
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APRIL MEETING
Developing a Scrum Plan - James Leckie
S14 Referee James Leckie presented on having an action plan for scrums, incorporating some practical solutions for getting around problems at scrum time.
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MARCH MEETING
Coach's Perspective on the Tackle Contest - Shannon Fraser
HSBC Junior Waratahs and Fiji's World Cup coach Shannon Fraser spoke to us about the attitude and approach to the tackle contest taken by coaches.
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2008 Annual Seminar
Game Management Guidelines 2008
Two documents were used in the presentation of the GMG for 2008 at the NSWRU Annual Seminar. One was a PowerPoint running through the major points of the presentation. The other was a printed handout, with more detail on each area of the GMG.
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DOWNLOAD HANDOUT (PDF, 262kb)