This is a quick reminder to all referees to ensure they carry out their stud checks before a game.

The picture attached is reproduced here with permission from our friends in the Western Province of South Africa ...

The reasons people plateau will vary; some may not even realize they never had "it", thought they did, and kept spinning their wheels in L5 forever, only to be finally "dropped" not b/c they've gotten worse, but b/c they're 35 and there's a 25 year old ...

The main Referee Web Awards Voting is over, our members looked at websites and judged on looks, content, Referee usefulness and Public Relations ability, as well as other things. To be eligible the website must be:-

• Based on it's own site (i.e. not part of a unions site, RugbyFirst & RugbyNet are acceptable as they can be customised to be their own site).
• It must be free for referees to use.
• It must be predominantly for referees (applies to non society/association sites).

The top website from each country (unless a country has less than two websites) also get that countries Website of the year, and a public vote to be commenced ...

The Referee Web Awards are underway at RugbyRefs.com and all members are eligible to vote for any website that is not their own society.

So make sure you get your vote in and ...