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Plenty of time 😂 the warm up can be the jog/run to check the nets, which can easily be done in 3 mins!

Yes but that last sentence goes both ways. You can’t accuse certain referees on this forum and say they turn a blind eye which is part of the issue, when what they are doing is suggesting ways of preventing the issue. Player behaviour does need to be improved, but that is out of our control...

In youth football, I do this quite a lot. "Good save", "nice tackle", stuff like that where appropriate, and not minutes after. In OA, I'd be vary wary of doing so.

For some further context on those apps - I was sent a list of 13 teams that are currently under safeguarding bans in my CFA last night. 2 of them now have games showing up on those apps…. Coincidence? I highly doubt it. (Yes, this has been reported!) It is extremely difficult for new referees...

I agree that all of those are possibilities, but I do really think that finding games through apps that aren't actually organised by an appt officer/CFA shouldn't be allowed, as it is probably in those games that are allocated this way that have the biggest issues.

I have no idea why anyone would start with a potentially unaffiliated OA game as others have said. When I did my first OA game, my appointments officer admitted it wasn't the easiest game I could have been given, but what he did do was make sure I had 2 experienced ARs with me, and he only gave...

I’ve never consciously noticed it being above 500 or so before so I’m guessing that definitely has something to do with it

No, but if you can manage a situation well without a card, then I would try to. I had a friendly a few weeks back where there was an SPA foul inside 5 minutes. I chose to manage it by just pulling them to one side and making it very clear that if they did it again it would be a caution. In a...

I can't really help with how to solve the issue, but I can say this has happened to me with 2 separate leagues for this season (both women's OA). I got a response from one but then no follow up when I provided my details, and the other hasn't bothered. It really is bizarre.

I’ve had it at least 4 times today 😂 I’ve had 6 weeks off, what else am I supposed to do if RefChat is down!

Clearly you are trusted if you have been put on that game! Just go out there as you normally would, keep things under control for the first 10/15 and see how it goes and smash it.

This is something that will only be fixed with experience. I'm just over 2 years in now and still have to remind myself to switch arms etc in the second half. Keep going at it, you'll get there!

And it’s happened already 😂 thought I was bad for forgetting last year, 3 weeks in this time 🙄

Apologies, I should have made myself more clear. I've seen both already this season. Neil Davies was VAR for Spurs vs Burnley last week, and Tim Wood was VAR for Brentford vs Villa yesterday.

Yes. ARs are now also acting as VAR. I believe it's part of PGMO's new Specialist VAR pathway. More officials have been specifically trained on VAR use when not necessarily SG1 officials, or they are but are doing it anyway. I'm happy to be corrected by someone with more knowledge if this isn't...

I would agree with this. I'm on 7-6 and asked if my MDC's can be on youth games and the answer was a simple no. And for the OP and the original point of the thread: don't change the way you referee just because someone is there to watch you. It will be obvious! Trust me on that as I found that...

I've just checked the 1st halves for you: In same order as above: 3 mins 0 mins 1 min 0 mins 1 min 5 mins 4 mins 4 mins 1 min So I also disagree with 2 being the easy option, as in 9 games it hasn't been used once.

Don't want to sound like an a**hole here, but I'm reading this and taking from it that there were roughly 6 mins of stoppages that were accounted for in LIV vs BOU, AVL vs NEW, BHA vs FUL and so on. I think you're reading into it too much tbh. I have noticed that 2 and 6 are used far more...

That depends on what level you mean. I'm currently doing 7-6 and I'm allowed to referee on my local Div 1 (essentially Step 8), but the county prem which is Step 7 I can't (although I'm usually on the line in that division rather than in the middle anyway!). I'd imagine it depends on what level...

Either I paid you and forgot, or everyone else just can’t be bothered this year 😂