Womens

Premiership, PRO12 and International appointments

A bumper weekend of rugby, and with 20+ internationals around there’s some new referee faces being blooded across the Pro12 and the English Premiership. The PRO12 have been keen to point out two recently retired […]

World Rugby

Global law trials set for 2017 introduction 

The World Rugby Council has approved the introduction of five changes to law to be trialled globally next year. The amendments, which deal in aspects of law including front-row replacements, advantage, touch, penalty tries and […]

England Rugby launch Young Officials Programme

England Rugby has launched a Young Match Official (YMO) programme to encourage more young people aged 14-24 to get into refereeing. The programme aims to attract, train and retain 400 new young officiators to the […]

World Rugby

Referees to focus on dangerous head contacts

In a further effort to eliminate dangerous or reckless contact with players’ heads, World Rugby has issued a reminder to elite referees ahead of the November internationals instructing them to be especially vigilant in this […]

World Rugby

World Rugby Awards – Referee of Year 2016 shortlist

The World Rugby Awards are being held this coming Sunday, 13 November 2016,  as the warm up act to the World Rugby Conference and Exhibition in London. Once again, the ceremony features the award for World Rugby Referee […]