Bristol Referee Society

🏉🏉 **COMMUNITY RUGBY – A SAFE START FOR EVERYONE** 🏉🏉

As a Referees’ Society, we fully support the decision to delay the start of the competitive community game season until the **week commencing Monday 21 September**.

After a prolonged period of dry weather, many pitches remain hard and unsuitable for full-contact rugby. This is particularly important for referees and players as everyone returns to competitive rugby and builds back up to match intensity.

A short delay gives clubs, players, coaches, volunteers **and match officials** the opportunity to prepare properly and, most importantly, return to competitive rugby safely.

📅 **Competitive community rugby starts from 21 September** 📆

As referees, our priority is to help provide a safe, fair and enjoyable environment for everyone involved in the game.

We look forward to seeing clubs, players, coaches, volunteers and fellow officials back on the pitch when conditions are right.

**Stronger together 💪🏻. Safer together 🩹.**

🏉🏉 **See you on the pitch from 21 September.** 🏉🏉

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Phew 😮‍💨… what busy final weekend to the 2025/2026 rugby season. Awards handed out, a night to remember had by all topped off by the RFU Country Cup Finals. Thank you to for an amazing Friday night for our 133rd annual dinner and to for hosting the finals Saturday morning.
To all teams both players and match officials thank you for your service this season, enjoy the off period and see you fresh and ready for the 2026/2027 season 🏉🏉🏉🏉🏉 ✔️

Tonight almost officially brings about the end of the season. One last run out for the 2025/2026 season. See you all at .rugby.club for our Vase final between v best of luck to both teams and our amazing band of officials 🏉🏉🏉

YMOs out again supporting the Bristol Bears Foundation @ Ashton Gate.
sky, Amelia, and Seb from Somerset and Ethan from Bristol being the people in the middle overseeing 24 mini games in today’s showcase of rugby’s core values TREDS

Come to for the Womems Combination stick around for the Men’s Bowl . Will we get a repeat of the other years final between and .
Best of luck to both teams and our team of match officials out in the sun this afternoon ☀️🏉☀️🏉

Not got enough rugby in your life with the league season at its end…..come on down and support the ladies tomorrow in their single day competition. Best of luck to all the teams competing tomorrow ( .colts ) and our esteemed match officials our coaches out there making it happen. Don’t you worry though this isn’t the end of the combination matches so keep your eyes open 🏉🏉🏉 ❤️

Not got enough rugby in your life with the league season at its end…..come on down and support the ladies tomorrow in their single day competition. Best of luck to all the teams competing tomorrow ( ) and our esteemed match officials our coaches out there making it happen. Don’t you worry though this isn’t the end of the combination matches so keep your eyes open 🏉🏉🏉 ❤️

Huge congrats to our chosen match officials both on and off the pitch for this evening Cup final between and . As well as a thank you to .rugby.club for hosting us this year. Go well tonight all, and if you can’t make it down to support keep an eye out there are 2 more finals to come 🏉🎉🏉

With the completion of the summer season of seven rugby is officially on session. What have you signed up for? Are you a player, a coach, a referee, or those passionate supporters that make our game great. Either way we cannot wait to see you on the circuit this summer ☀️ 🏉🧡☀️🏉☀️🏉🧡

The End of an Era…

Thursday saw the final General Meeting of the season (containing surprise guest Wayne Barnes) as well as our esteemed Chairmen final meeting leading from the front, over 35 meetings 🤯.
A massive society thank you for everything you have accomplished and partaken in during your chairmanship…….stay tuned for the AGM to see who is stepping into the large shoes being left behind….