Rugby Australia MOD Pathways 2026

This document has been produced to outline the pathways for Match Official Developers as they move through the Facilitator Developer, Community Developer and Performance Developer profiles. Click on the link below to open the .pdf document. MOD Pathway Summary...

Referee Game Review Booklet

Many of our Match Official Developers (MOD) would be aware of, seen and/or used  the coaching/review booklet that was developed initially by Paul Ryan and Rob D’Elboux from the Newcastle Rugby Union Referees Association. This booklet has now been slightly...

Grading Our Referees

Grading Our Referees As we move into the second half of our regular competition seasons, in coaching our referees we will also start to think more seriously about grading processes. Grading, the process of ‘ranking’ our referees against others in our...

Coach The Coach

Over the years, we have spend much of our time in developing strategies to coach our referees, and we are pretty good at it. As referee coaches we participate in constant training, update courses and reviews, all designed to improve the on and off field performance of...

Coaching Towards The Finals

As we move towards finals, I would like to continue the process of assisting our CGBs in ‘getting it right’ so that our finals appointments reflect the importance of each of the games. As a CGB, we often see our core purpose being a mix between: Coaching...

Discussion Starters

GROW is a top leadership tool that works across all disciplines and cultures. With its four deceptively simple steps, GROW has proven to be successful all over the world. It forms the backbone of coaching in many organisations globally, due to the outstanding results....