In line with most other clubs, NDTA has a shortage of referees and needs to involve “team referees” to supplement our established referee pool.
All teams are required to nominate one/two “team referees” one of which may be required to referee one game every third week on a roster system (so possibly total of 4 games per team over the 13 weeks of grading and round games). We do try to minimise the use of team delegate referees but need to be able to cover for a shortage of squad referees from time to time.
The team referee must be a team member or a family member of one of the players in the team. Teams are not to recruit referees from the club’s established referee pool, unless they are a family or team member.
The team referee must be a Level 1 (or higher) referee, OR be an experienced player able to ref at Level 1 standard, OR be prepared to attend the Level 1 referee course as soon as possible in the season and also receive some on-field coaching by experienced club refs.. (They are still required to referee the team’s rostered games before doing the course and must be able to ref on-field to assist our qualified ref’s). More than two people may share the referee duties so long as they are of Level 1 standard but for inexperienced people the intention is that two players will do regular games to gain the required experience and provide backup for each other. The club will pay for the level 1 ref course for members who are willing to commit to doing a few regular games and receive coaching.
No inexperienced team referee will normally be asked to ref a game at a higher level than his/her own team’s division, and will always be accompanied by a more senior club referee. Coaching will be made available as much as possible from our senior referees.
Referee Courses
Touch WA runs regular referee courses if you wish to sign up, visit this website.
Referee Course informationIf you enquire at Northern and we get enough people wanting to participate, the club will look to run a course at the club. Please email interest to our administrator at admin@ndtouch.com to enquire.