Warwickshire RFU

Warwickshire Discipline Secretary / Age Grade Discipline Secretary (CBAGDS)

Adults

Warwickshire Discipline Panel usually meet fortnightly on a Wednesday evening to hear Discipline cases and a £15.00 fee will be charged to the Club, unless the case is “not proven”

All Clubs when receiving a red card must hold their own Club Discipline Hearing and a set of minutes should be taken and emailed to the Warwickshire Discipline Secretary prior to any Warwickshire hearing, Guidance is available to support Clubs on holding their hearings (Appendix 1)

Clubs will continue to hold their own Discipline hearings for the offence of “2 yellow cards” instead of the Warwickshire Discipline Panel and a new “Short Judgement Form” has been issued for Clubs to record the findings etc (Appendix 2) which is to be emailed to the Warwickshire Discipline Secretary

Warwickshire RFU we have a “Zero Tolerance” policy whereby any cases of “Abuse of match officials” will have 50% added onto the sanction decided before any mitigation is taken into consideration (Appendix 3) which Clubs are also encouraged to use at their Clubs Discipline hearings

The RFU have issued the Adult Sanctions for the 2020 – 2021 season (Appendix 4) for both Warwickshire Discipline Panel and Clubs to refer to when hearing the cases

During the difficult times of the COVID pandemic, Adult cases will be heard via Zoom meetings except “2 yellow cards” which will be heard as mentioned previously

Age Grade

All cases must be reported to the Warwickshire Age Grade Discipline Secretary who will forward the Referee’s red card report to the named person at the Club / School. The Discipline Hearing will be heard by the Club or School, with the minutes, sanction, dates and opposition of any games missed emailed to the Warwickshire Age Grade Discipline Secretary. Guidance and Sanctions are available (Appendix 5) for 2020 – 2021 season

All Clubs / Schools must inform the Warwickshire Age Grade Discipline Secretary within 48 hrs of all red cards being issued

Any queries please contact the Warwickshire Discipline Secretary / Warwickshire Age Grade Discipline Secretary in the first instance.