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Why do you consider the Referee only gave a yellow (& bottled it won’t cut it)? My apologies for replying to a question with a question.

For all those who are Referees who see that as a DOGSO from an armchair - I tend to agree with you. However, for all of these same people if you were on the actual game, can you say for certain that you would have done the same thing (red/DOGSO). For all those Observers who can imagine...

You are filling some gaps with guesswork. The truth was and still is, is that I liked Rusty’s comments because of what he said, but annoyingly and frustratingly, I couldn’t get the clip to work and I still can’t, though I had no trouble with the City clip.

I can’t see that I made any comment in the Blackburn comment, only that I liked Rusty Ref reply, whereby what he said about Law was correct.

Fair enough with the score at 0-0 at the time (I watched the clip on here when it was 1-0, but no excuse on my part for my inaccuracy). I saw presumably what Sam saw, because if he didn’t, then he would have seen a DOGSO. The wording is ‘obvious’ goal scoring opportunity with part of the...

There was a slight get out with the touch taking the ball to the right and with no VAR until the semi final, the Referee rightly or wrongly took the conservative approach. I can understand why he did what he did with showing a yellow, along with some frustration from Brentford, exasperated by...

Usually first instinct is the most accurate, though there are occasions when have to take some seconds to consider.

I saw this happen in a National League Game at Dover (NL/S) a few years ago when 4th officials hadn’t arrived yet & not only was it messy, but the Senior AR responsible for the TAs got caught badly out of position with the 2nd rear most defender. Not a good thing to attempt to do without a...

They see whatever they want to see at the time it suits them - whether they are right or wrong.

I can relate to all of that. 😀

Whoever it was was doing other Obsevers an injustice.

Wouldn’t say seconds/minutes, but by half time certainly get a good feel about what they are about & how they are performing. However, more often than not the more challenging situations come during the 2nd half when players become fatigued, frustrated with themselves or their team-mates or are...

You may be surprised. There is no template for anyone. I can see very young and very good, very young and not so good. Experienced very good and experienced and not so good. Sometimes in can just be because of attitudes.

I agree with much of what you said, but Observers shouldn’t need to know whether it’s a new L4 (or 3, or 2 for that matter), it’s all to do with what happens on the FoP (& sometimes off it - not that you have suggested this). Those who lack experience or skills will normally become clear & for...

Although it must be frustrating for Referees that they can receive reports well below the group average, but quite rightly, Observers have no idea what the group average is - otherwise it may influence what happens next & reason why Observers will not see the mark from 1st January. Would I like...

Great that you have recovered extremely well. I don’t disagree with the overall policy, but what I do definitely disagree with and shouldn’t happen is that not only should you be left to be surprised with your comments/with no development points, but that they also said the score should be the...

Not 100% conclusive one way or the other, though the goalkeeper does make clear contact with the ball off his knee albeit from a ricochet. I think the decision not to change anything was correct.

That’s true with opening sentence though with you only having 1 observation with probably 3 others due and others having had 4 and may not need any others, you could lose out.

I agree with you James and your final paragraph is probably why they are introducing the scheme from 1st Jan, cos I can almost guarantee the average mark will go down, albeit probably only by a small percentage. However, although a bit strange introducing it mid-season, the impact good bad or...

Perhaps I am being a bit slow & I haven’t got a live version to look at, but if still able to see the weightings then pointless in many cases, though many will not bother to look/work out. I think they found for NLN/S that there was clear evidence that when the Observer didn’t see the mark, the...