Durham County Rugby Football Union

Promoting refereeing for Women
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An evening, 6:30 to 8pm, has been arranged at Kingston Park, the home of Newcastle Falcons, to promote refereeing for women.

The event will take place on Friday 30th March, when presentations will be given by top women referees.

Information on how to get involved and what support is available will be highlighted

Registration forms must be completed and returned prior to the event. Click here to download registration form

Winners and Losers
April brings the last stages of a season which seems to have passed so quickly

Although a number of promotion and relegation positions have been settled there are some that are still to be decided

Congratulations to Darlington Mowden Park who are promoted and whilst neighbours Darlington are not mathmatical clear, promotion is surely certain

Gateshead's return to level 6 has been short lived as their return to D&N1 next season is certain. In D&N1 Rytons fight for survival could go right to the wire but with a superior points difference and arguably the easier fixtures remaining they should prevail.

D&N2 sees Yarm relegated and Consett and Barnard Castle competing for the 2nd promotion spot.

With only 1 game left Seaham have already secured the 2nd promotion place in D&N3

April 2012 Appointments

There are County cup finals and some semi-finals to be arranged. There are also several rearranged league games that will need the appointment of referees

Both Refs and Clubs are asked to assist in the confirmation of refs ASAP.

See appointments April 2012 appointments

Fit to Ref program
Durham Referees Society is looking to increase the support and expand the membership of this group. While the programme is designed for 40-65 year olds, we are now able to open this to almost anyone that is interested on the provision that they are going to attempt to Increase their Physical Activity over a period of 6 months See Fit to Ref

Interested - contact Dave Swainson or Will Halford

Forms and Information
It has been agreed that the society will no longer collect yellow card information For other forms see forms

Coaching pairings
T&D committee have announced the Coaching pairings for the 2011-12 season

coaching pairs

If you have not been given a coach and would like one please contact John Heselwood

Refsoc Mag available
The 3 D's have produced their 61st edition of the Durham Refsoc Magazine.

3D61 Refsoc

Grading Committee
Grading committee met on 11th January 2012 for the mid season review of the grading levels of the referees' within the society. These were confirmed at the general committee meeting. The chairman has made his usual telephone calls and has sanctioned the release of the gradings
January 2012 Grading list

Important information
Don't forget to inform Alan Thompson and David Sawyer which games you did and the score

Clubs please confirm the details of the game to the referee don't email, text or leave a message - they may not receive them!!

The same applies to refs, if you have to cry off etc don't leave messages

Federation Training Day
A Federation training meeting was held at Carlisle Rfc on Wednesday 7th March 2012 and over 65 people attended. The Main speaker was International referee Dave Pearson who highlighted various aspects of the game that referees at the top level have been told to look out for - not that they always successfully in spotting them.

The presentation was really interesting and at the end of the presentation Referee development officer, Will Halford ask the gathering if these issues are the same in the commumity game and would looking out for them help referees in the community game.

New Referees
The Society is always keen to welcome new members especially those that are willing to take up the whistle

If you are interested and want to know more please contact us.

Website

The first steps in a new look website have taken place. More changes will take place over the next few weeks