He needs to be careful doing this. The FA will not look favourably upon referees making themselves unavailable when in fact they are making themselves available elsewhere.
Beyond practical issues, I know some referees will also avoid leaving themselves open for late throwbacks for 'O'ther reasons. Not much imagination needed to work out their logic
If the FA notice this, he can be pulled off for senior football and even face sanction.
Just to point out, I don't actually know who it is, I just know that there is someone in the county who does it
Going back a few years, but a local L4 regularly did this and was found out, he was closing Saturdays to referee local games. He was given a warning the first time but carried on doing it and was reclassified to L5 as a result.
Assessment days are on week commencing 20th May. You would imagine that this means those invited would be notified either week commencing 6th May or week commencing 13th May, however this isn't confirmed.
). Candidates are then likely to be notified of the outcome by 24th May. The FA have (unsurprisingly) managed expectations by saying it is unlikely that all those nominated will be accepted.
Does that apply to 4w-3w too do you know?5 to 4 nominations need to be submitted by counties by 10th May latest (did mine yesterday
I don't think so. I have seen on Facebook that Manchester FA has already announced their 4W-3W promotions, so it must be approved at county level.
Clinging onto my 71.15 average with hope then!
Yeah I see that so you would have thought those who get nominated would be given a weeks notice. I have it on good authority that the FA want the final observer tables at step 5/6 on the 9th May. Also will be interesting to see how many the FA take from each pool at 4-3. My sources tell me they expect people who finish in the top 3 to receive automatic promotion then maybe 5 invited to an assessment day.
Observations had to be submitted by 1st May. So the final merit tables are probably all set now.
Hopefully so, but there may be appeals to finalise this week.
Fair point. Hadn't considered that. Imagine there is a spike around this time of year too.
The appeals will be from matches played at the end of April, and will be handled swiftly to accommodate the potential promotions.
