Recent content by JamesL

Pool average. I had one the same last season and currently 2 outstanding from my last 2.

Can't say I disagree entirely with this... Would be interesting at least as a trial.

Shopping. 🫢🤣

I think there may end up being some regional variability but I think that specialising, at least currently, doesn't lead to a change in the number of appointments. News of the day for me is I have specialised as a ref being in my 4th year I have had to choose and no chance of line promotion...

Very interesting indeed... I wonder what it will do to availability of games - or assistants at step 3/4.

It either fits in as VC with no challenge or serious if challenging. Pulling hair, deliberately at least, in my opinion is falls under brutality, specifically, a savage act.

So they are serious foul play then was my point...🤣

Just saying that if it was part of a challenge it wouldn't be violent conduct... 😁

The difference between playing and touching is action. If tve player makes an action that makes contact it's a play, if the ball just hits them with no action it's a touch.

If we are talking about blue 9 here then he is "clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent" so in my opinion he commits an offside offence. You say you buzzed for a potential offside. How was that resolved? As the referee I'd want to know what that...

In most cases pulling someone hair is a savage act. I haven't seen this incident so I can't say for sure it it meets the threshold to be considered savage but I don't think we need a great deal of force before we arrive at the point of calling it violent conduct.

Not sure but done a dig and pulled out a reply to a facebook post:

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder... I actually quite like it.

I dont have them now as I operate at a level when they aren't in use and in the small number of games that I do where they are I've had no occasion too. Sin bins don't necessarily indicate anything. For example in the year I got promoted, granted sin bins were new and so I think there's...

Fine balance if the winning team then concede well after any indicated amount of time. I keep saying this but context matters if it's literally just gone time then maybe we don't stop it. A short amount of seconds is easily explainable. Already let it go a little longer then we have to climb up...