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Important Dates
1. HKSRFUR General Meeting: Monday 18 November 2013 at 7 pm at the POC. 2. End of Year Christmas Party: Wednesday 18 December at ~ 7 pm at the POC 3. Season training: Every Wednesday night at Kings Park from 7:30 pm. Table of Contents 1. Presidents Push 2. CAB Report 3. Community & Mini Referees Report 4. HKSRFUR General Meeting Minutes

Presidents Push
Warren Needham. President, Hong Kong Society of Rugby Football Union Referees. A most productive GM was had on Monday night. A lot of issues were discussed and clarified. GMs are an excellent forum for members to hear first hand what is going on in the Rugby Refereeing world and to give feedback. Ricky will be posting the minutes of all the GMs on the website for those who cannot attend. The coaching session after the GM is always worthwhile but this week was especially so. We looked closely at the tackle/ruck are and deconstructed the 3 main stages looking at the triggers we need to mindful of when referring. Everyone was engaged in authentic hands on approach. A special focus was on players going off their feet. The coaching session after the GM is an essential mechanism of the society to get consistency across the members. It behooves all of us to attend these. Of course the curry at the end of the GM is a tasty treat. October is almost over and were into the 4th round of competition this weekend. The season is flying along. If you havent completed a membership form yet, you need to get onto it now. The easiest way

to complete a membership form is to do it online. Go to the Members area of the website and at the top of the page is says SIGN UP FOR THE 2013/14 season - click here This will take you to the online form. Fill it out, hit submit and your done. Then get your $400HKD to Dougie (or Peter White). If your membership is not complete (completed membership form and subs paid) by November 3rd, you will be taken off assignr and will forfeit access to 7s tickets and/or jobs at the 7s. You have been warned. There are a lot of opportunities out there for members to further their refereeing both on and off the field. Congratulations to Dawn Isaac who was selected by the HKRFU to attend an iRB training workshop for female Citing Commissioners (CC) in Sydney in December. Congratulations also to our fearless CAB chair, Les Millard, who was nominated by the HKRFU to be an ARFU citing commissioner, which has been ratified by ARFU and hes off to be the CC at the Singapore club 7s next weekend. Dougie Shearer has been appointed to the dual role of referee manager and CC at the Asia-Pacific Womens tournament in Shanghai as well as the the mens Shanghai 7s. Hell be busy boy. I would also like to officially congratulate Matt Roden on his appointment as our Community Referee Manager (CRM). He will be completing the RM team of three joining Bernie (Performance RM) and Patrick (Junior RM). As soon as his work visa is cleared through immigration he will hit the ground running. Christmas Party Date Claimer: Wednesday December 18th at the P.O.C. More information will be out via assignr soon. Have a great weekend. Toot well. Wazza

CAB Report
Les Millard, Coaching Advisory Board (CAB), HKSRFUR. Now that the season is well underway we need to keep our standards up both on and off the field. There are reports from some of our referees who have indicated that there are players who still want to challenge them inappropriately during and after games. Remain calm and polite in your response. Don't allow yourself to be drawn into a slanging match. If a player comes to you politely remind them that they need to go through their captain. Choose an appropriate time, like at the next non penalty stoppage, to listen to the captain. Be calm and in control, but don't be arrogant in your response. Players will normally respond positively if they feel heard and a reasonable response given, even if they

disagree. Your job is to not allow these situations to affect your refereeing. Move on with the game putting it in your back pocket to review once the game is finished. Have a good weekend of rugby. Les Millard COMMUNITY & MINI REFEREES REPORT Patrick Kwok | Community Referee Officer | Hong Kong Rugby Football Union. Mob: +852-9614-6285 Appointments/Fixtures Appointing procedure starts Monday so please lock down your availability on Assignr every Monday morning as we have average 32 League fixtures, 20 non-league appointments per week to be made. If there are any changes to your initial during the week, please correct it on Assignr and contact Bernard. Soon as the appointments are published, please confirm it as soon as possible. If you have to decline the fixture, please do it on Assignr and also contact Bernard. Important HKRFU Senior League procedures 1. Scores Please ring one of the following numbers to HKRFU (2504 8312 / 2504 8315) , leave the score to the answering machines : 1- League ;2 Game; 3 CORRECT SCORE; 4 number of tries each team scores. FOR PREM GAMES, PLEASE SEND TO ANDREW LI DIRECTLY VIA Whatsapp 2. Yellow & Red Cards If you have yellow card in your game, go to our website and complete the YC form and send it to Andrew Li HKRFU League Officer. Andrew.li@hkrugby.com If you have a red card, please ring Bernard straight after your game and complete the red card report . This is important as these information need to send across to the clubs and the judicial hearing on Tuesday night 6:30 pm at HKRFU Office, so do you. Both reports required accurate information such as player name in full, infringements etc., and also to be done by Monday noon!! 3. Playing Time and related subs a. PREM, 40-40-40 , 12 Subs

b. NL1, 40-5-40, Rolling Subs c. NL2-5, 35-5-35, Rolling Subs d. Womens 10s 20-5-20, Rolling Subs. All games in Senior League are playing 15-a-side Adult Law, including Womens 10s league.

HKSRFUR General Meeting Minutes

Ricky Short The HKSRFUR General Meeting Minutes dated 21 October 2013 have been posted on the website & are now available for members. End