Last week end, the Norwegian Referees hold a meeting in Oslo and appointements for NM15s semi-finals have been released.

FIRA-AER is sending referee expert all over Europe to help local referee societies to improve. Klaus Blank, from the German Referee Comittee, has been sent by Patrick Robin, FIRA-AER referee manager, to work together with Norwegian referees.

On friday evening, Klaus led a discussion on positionning and the work of the team of 3. The aim was to share experience, ideas, tips to bring all refs to the same level. On saturday, everyone was in action, either during the Women NorgesCup 10s stage or during one of the 2 NM15s games. Both Blindern RK v Stavanger and Oslo RK v NTNU/Trondheim RK games were filmed. On sunday, videos from saturday's games were watched to discuss about the performance of the referees. Rather than an evaluation, it was an open and constructive discussion on positionning, management, signals.

All participants really appareciated the week end, it has been very fruitful for all of us. Thanks to FIRA-AER for helping us.

Appointements for the semi-finals on the 1st of October has also been released:

• Oslo RK v Stavanger RK, kick-off 14:00: Georges Mossford (Finnish Rugby Union) assisted by Vincent Bouchet (subs) and Stephan Glaser
• Bergen RK v Blindern RK, kick-off 16:00: Séverine Lescoffit assisted by David Watson (subs) and Pierre-Hugues Pouech