Some leagues advise the referee their average club mark, others don't - you need to ask your Appointments Secretary locally.
Not usually. When I first started out, my Youth League were very transparent WRT these scores. If I asked, they'd send me a screenshot of my games/scores. However, imagine being an Appt. Sec. with 100+ R's at your disposal. It may not be feasible or reasonable to expect this
All you'll learn at grassroots level is that in general the team that wins will give you a good mark and the team that loses won't.
I assumed that would be the case as a general rule.
Yep but they are unlikely to ever score you below 61 as that means they have to take the time to write a report justifying the mark. Hence a 61 is often referred to as a 'cowards mark'I assumed that would be the case as a general rule.
Wouldn’t recommend this tbh
Why not? I've only done it loosely in conversation...
I can take that a step further, refereed a contrib game back in 2008 between two local rivals in Essex. Finished with 9 cautions and a red, a really tough game where they were trying to kick lumps out of each other. After the game both club secretaries made a point of telling me, together, that they were both marking me zero, and they carried it through as I plummeted hundeds of places in the merit table. The assessor gave me 71, which whilst it wasn't a great mark it was above the standard expected.
As mentor to a referee who was in his first season at Contrib level, I was in the clubhouse an hour before the game and overheard the two managers talking.
I have "the rules" explained to me at nearly every game as an observer
On the second one, their 'logic' for being 'right' which I overheard was this " No, that can't be right, what he had broken his leg?!"Agree with Justylove - 2 examples from last night and perfectly understandable from 'their' point of view but illustrate perfectly how a lack of actual law knowledge can affect the view on our performances.
1) Red defender apparently being blocked off at corners, not in my half as senior AR. Benches ask, very politely, why I can't advise the referee, When I explain that its really nothing to do with me and that sometimes you just have to accept that if something like this is 'missed' by two pairs of eyes then you have to accept it. They did, tbf, accept my argument and asked if I could just mention to ref at HT - which I did.
2) Referee played an excellent advantage after a careless foul attempt to SPA, Ball ended up being fired just over the bar by a teammate. Crowd going mad for a yellow card - I DID explain but they insisted it was "still a booking" the funny moment came when I asked for "booking for what exactly?" " It just IS" came the frustrated reply - followed by the rather impractical and nonsensical advice that if I played a few games down here that would sort me out and teach me the rules (sic)!
