5.3.1: For all club and school rugby games played on a full sized field, technical zones are to be prominently marked with either control barriers, ropes, painted lines or cones. These technical zones are to consist of 2 x 10 m x 3 m rectangular boxes located on ONE side of the field, one for each team. They are to be situated at least 3 metres and no more than 7 metres back from the touch line with one of its edges in line with the 10 metre line and the other near the half way line.
5.3.2: Where clubs have games operating on two fields simultaneously side by side and where the space between the fields prevent 10 metres of clear distance between the touch lines and the control barriers, the two technical zones are to be erected on the outside edges of the fields and the area between the two fields is to be roped off to ensure NO PERSONS can access this area to watch the games.
5.3.3: Only team reserves, coaches, managers and water carriers are permitted in the confines of the technical zone during the match. All other personnel are to remain outside the playing enclosure.
5.3.4: Medical personnel and water carriers must be clearly identified and are the only personnel permitted to enter onto the field of play during stoppages (tries, injuries, other stoppages).
5.3.5: The referee is the sole judge of who can and who cannot enter onto the field of play during a match and when they can do that. No bibs, no entry to field of play allowed by referee.
5.3.6: Only clearly identifiable medical personnel are permitted to be outside the technical zone and inside the playing enclosure while the game is being played. They can be on either side of the field and roam the touch line, but must not interfere with the game in any way, including communicating in any way with a referee except for the purposes of entering onto the field to attend to an injured person or seek the referee’s assistance to stop the game.
5.3.7: All other team reserves, coaches, managers and water carriers must remain in the technical zone AT ALL times while the game is being played, and only water carriers are permitted on the field of play during stoppages.
5.3.8: An assistant coach can be a water carrier. A head coach cannot, except for a 7 and 10-a-side team that only has one coach.
5.3.9: Any Media personnel (club or otherwise) wearing suitably identifiable reflectorised bibs are permitted inside the playing enclosure but outside the playing area and technical zones with their camera or video equipment for the purposes of performing their media duties, so long as they do not interfere with or get in the way of any player or match official performing their duties.
5.3.10: Law 6.5 of the Laws of the Game of Rugby state that within the playing enclosure the referee is the sole judge of fact and of law during a match. Because the technical zones are part of the playing enclosure, all personnel contained within these areas are under the control of the referee and therefore subject to the same laws and disciplinary rules .
Admin Login