Minnesota Rugby Football Union

• All schedules MUST be submitted to the Minnesota Referee Society assignments coordinator by March 1, 2012
• Any CHANGES to this schedule must go through the Referee Assignment Coordinator.
• Teams are NOT allowed to secure their own referees.  All assignments MUST go through the assignment coordinator. 
• Any event that involves 3 teams or more will be considered a tournament and will be billed as such.  Teams must secure approval from the Minnesota Referee Society & the Minnesota Rugby Union VP of Play prior to the organization of such an event.
• All teams MUST be in good financial/CIPP (Player and Team) standing with USA Rugby, the MW Union, the MN Union and the Minnesota Referee Society prior to all due dates/deadlines.
• HS teams can not schedule Saturday matches unless they are either 1) Out-state teams 2) playing teams from out-of-state or 3) have prior approval.
• Referee assignments will be made in the following prioritized order –Minnesota League matches, visiting teams, social leagues, non-league, B-side matches.

• 2012 Referee Assignment Coordinator is:  Autumn Arvidson, mnrugbyref@gmail.com, Cell: 612-859-6439

14-20 minute match    -    $25/match + miles

30 minute match    -    $30/match + miles

40 minute match    -    $40/match + miles 

50 minute match    -    $50/match + miles

60 minute match    -    $60/match + miles                    

70 minute match    -    $70/match + miles                     

80 minute match    -    $80/match + miles

The above are rule of thumb fees and as mileage varies – referee doing multiple matches and some car pooling occurs. Please confirm with the MN Referee Society for final approval of fees.

All HS Teams will be “pre-billed” for scheduled home matches and will receive a final bill at the end of the season for extra unscheduled matches or playoff matches (including: freshman, b-sides and 3^rd half matches)

·         College and High School teams that supply a new working referee will get a $100 rebate on their following year’s referee bill.  There are other Level 1 referee courses throughout the Minnesota/Midwest at all times during the year.  Referees are required to referee 6 scheduled matches in 2012 and attend 5 monthly MN Referee Society meetings (metro area referees) to qualify the team recruitment rebate.

• Please contact the referee by e-mail (and/or phone) to confirm the match, match time and location of the match. Simply emailing or leaving a phone message is not confirmation with a referee. PLEASE confirm your match with the Referee by Wednesday, 9 pm, of the week of the game for Saturday and Sunday games, a minimum of THREE (3) days prior to your match when played during the weekdays (High School’s), please confirm before 9pm with the referee. Please exchange emergency numbers. If you do not contact the referee with time, location (directions) and mobile numbers, please do not expect them to show.
• All fields MUST be of proper size, with proper markings (www.irb.com).  All fields must have restraining ropes.  If ropes are only on one side of the field, then both teams and spectators MUST stay on that side (see the Midwest Rugby web site for the field directives: www.midwestrugby.com) All goal posts MUST have padding.  If tri-pod soccer posts are used, they must be padded for safety on ALL exposed bars.
• The home team MUST supply a match report.  Both teams MUST supply a printed USA Rugby team CIPP list from the www.usarugby.org web site and both teams MUST sign the match report verifying that those playing in the match at any time have individual insurance and are CIPP registered as players and team. All  teams must also indicate their starting 15 players numbering (1-15) by the individuals name on the printed teams USA Rugby CIPP list and indicate who your designated 8 substitutes will be for the match. Also, please indicate/circle all front row capable players. Substitution/replacement cards may also be issued before the match by the referee, please fill out and hand to referee or assistant referee upon entering the field of play. 
• Each team – HS/Club/College MUST supply the Referee Assignment Coordinator with 2 current contact phone numbers AND 2 current email addresses by March 1, 2012

Please fill out a referee evaluation post-match and submit it to Tammy Cowan.  Forms can be found on the Minnesota Rugby Union web site.  www.minnesotarugby.org