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Date Posted: Mon, May 28 2007, 21:23:39 GMT-10
Author: Brad
Subject: Re: Typical NRL Week
In reply to: Steve Clark 's message, "Re: Typical NRL Week" on Thu, May 24 2007, 9:54:15 GMT-10

>>Tim,
>A typical week for an NRL referee starts on Monday
>morning with a detailed review of your game with one
>of the referee coaches. This review involves the
>sideline officials and the video ref as well. At some
>stage on the Monday morning the referees and sideline
>officials wil have traning, the type of training will
>involve anything from a recovery session to a solid
>training session depnding on what day of the weekend
>that you refereed on. On Monday afternoon the squad
>will assemble i the office to view video footage of
>incidents out of the weekend that need clarification
>or that were particularly good or incorrect. Monay
>normally starts at 7.30 am and concludes at 4.30. On
>Tuesday we have three training sessions, stating at
>8.00am with for example boxing and rowing and
>grinding. Later in the dy we will have a session on
>the park doing some positioning drills and finish at
>about 4.00pm with weights. In between the sessionswe
>have ime in the office where we conduct discussions on
>how our previous week was. Wednesday is our day off.
>Thursday is our big day where we start at 7.30 with a
>communication and rules discussion. We look at
>examples of communication issues that we had in games
>during the previous week and sometimes we do a rules
>exam. This is followe d by training at 8.30 and then
>another session at 9.30. The sessions you do are
>detrmined by what day you are refereeing on, on the
>upcoming weekend. At b11.00am we have a discusson on
>team work. At 3.00pm we have a session on positioning,
>ollowed by another session at 5.00pm with the sideline
>officials on movement and speed.After Thursday
>training will depend on what day yu have refereed. For
>example this week I am on Friday, so I will not train
>on Friday but am expected to complete a recovery
>session on Saturday morning before I debrief my game
>at home in preparation for Monday morning with the
>coach. My prep on game day is farly simple. I try to
>stay relaxed and not think fotball to much at all. In
>fact I tend not to switch on until it is time to do
>the warm up before the game. I find that if you think
>to much about it before hand you can waste alot of
>energy.
>
>I hope that this has given you some idea of what we do
>in a typical week,
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Steve Clark

Very interesting insight for all of us. Thanks Steve. Also a big well done on your 300th game last Friday night. A fantastic effort in the modern day. Here's hoping you can make it to Grand Final day this year.

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