What sort of mileage are you putting in on the field @DanRicketts? My eldest son coaches a school team and my youngest son has expressed an interest in trying (sorry) out rugby. Now if dad was a referee as well (played for 10 years about 30 years ago)I'll register for next season but football will only happen when I'm not doing rugby. At the beginning of the season I was all fired up, secretary of the local RA and got us a new venue at the local non league club ground and joined a new league which I'd heard good things about. By Christmas I'd resigned from the RA and hadn't actually joined as I could see no benefits and was working my butt off to organise every meeting and not seeing other committee members even coming or sending apologies. The league had messed me about sending me to places that no other ref was being asked to on a weekly basis and seeing the same teams twice in a month (on a league with over 100 Saturday fixtures). By January i had closed every weekend and only opened for times i saw games i fancied. Plus the behaviour of players, coaches and spectators was dubious at best.
So I'll do football when i need to but I'm not going to commit to a league. Rugby is thriving and holds referees in high regard as the players know it's a hard game to referee and show respect, addressing me as "sir " even when they could swing for someone. I'm not looking back.
does anyone else get thoughts of just walking away from refereeing?
Just curious.
Had some negative feedback his evening. Quote a bit of it.
Had some negative feedback his evening. Quote a bit of it. Careful what you wish for eh?
does anyone else get thoughts of just walking away from refereeing?
Just curious.
What you need to do is a few tournaments,when you see the joy on U8/U9/U10 players faces when they play football its worth it, when you get(i have) a couple say to you "Are you a real referee?" and i reply yes, and they say to each other "wow look, a real referee" yeah its worth it. These players look up to you as a "real" referee something i think they will cherish. i've even been asked to present U9 tournament medals to a team of players and the look of enjoyment and pride on their faces... it's worth it. So SM go give it a try, ... then i hope you will realise refereeing is thankful and appreciated at least by the up and coming players.Just feeling a bit flat with it all. Not sure why, been reffing well enough, feeling happy with my performances. Waiting to hear about my promotion application (although fear this is banjaxed for this year, but c'est la vie ) just feeing bleh about it all.
Just not feeling the love for it currently.
What you need to do is a few tournaments,when you see the joy on U8/U9/U10 players faces when they play football its worth it, when you get(i have) a couple say to you "Are you a real referee?" and i reply yes, and they say to each other "wow look, a real referee" yeah its worth it. These players look up to you as a "real" referee something i think they will cherish. i've even been asked to present U9 tournament medals to a team of players and the look of enjoyment and pride on their faces... it's worth it. So SM go give it a try, ... then i hope you will realise refereeing is thankful and appreciated at least by the up and coming players.
Not say it was, but it does show that refereeing can be enjoyable.With respect mate, primary school football isn't the problem. Nor is it the answer.....