There are four people that each junior team has to have for all games:
- Coach:
- Linesmen/Assistant referees. All junior teams (U10 and above) must have a qualified assistant referee at all games, or you will lose competition points. There are several courses available locally. See the course list here.
- Ground marshals: Who wear the nice orange vest. Our parents cannot get carried away. This is not the Bledisloe Cup. There is a code of conduct which you would think would be second nature. Unfortunately it isn’t. Almost every season someone seems to want to shame themselves, their kids and their club (thankfully not often ours). It is almost always a coach or manager. Let’s avoid it this year. Leave it to other sports. Ground marshals are there to make sure the game can continue in a good spirit. The ref can pull out a black card at any time and stop the game if it isn’t.
- First aid officer. We must provide a first aid officer for each SJRU home game.