New referee first game witnout mentor tips
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If it's a 9 or 11 a side match with off sides, it counts. You need to keep a note of the match and the result. You will probably get a form for complete from your Referee Development Officer (RDO) where you record your 5 matches. I'd also recommend getting into the ha it of recording the match and any cards on the whole game system.
Turn up ready to go with all your gear and crack on. The assistants will be club assistants, so just ask them to help with, this can depend on which county fa you are in. In mine (northumberland), we tend to ask the club assistant referees to do ins/outs for throws and touchline and offsides. If they are doing offsides, just remember your decision is final.
Turn up ready to go with all your gear and crack on. The assistants will be club assistants, so just ask them to help with, this can depend on which county fa you are in. In mine (northumberland), we tend to ask the club assistant referees to do ins/outs for throws and touchline and offsides. If they are doing offsides, just remember your decision is final.
And big loud blows for all the ones in between.
Clear, confident signals.
Enjoy it and come back and tell us how you got on.
ChasObserverRefDeveloper
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Your RDO will have supplied you with a 5-match form, and advised which games count.
No registration is required.
Club Assistants will probably be regulars in that role.
Enjoy!
ChasObserverRefDeveloper
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ChasObserverRefDeveloper
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Most counties now require fewer than 5 to be "with offside" - mainly because so many new officials go to Mini Soccer initially.
SpecsSaver66
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You allow club officials to do offside? Wow! I'd never let that happen myself.
I find there really decent down where I live. It’s not that common you find one who is dishonest. I coach a u16 boys side and (of course) referee, so get to see plenty of club assistants. Most are fair.
Yeah absolutely, but I make the final decision and I let the CARs know that before the match.
It seems to be a county FA thing. In Northumberland, CARs do offsides, in Durham they don't.
Used to think the same having operated in an area that didn't let CARs do offside.
However I have only had positive experiences with CARs I have had since moving to an area that does use CARs for offside
SpecsSaver66
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I'm in Cheshire/Merseyside and here its the sole duty of the referee as there is the chance of bias or at least the suggestion of it.
SpecsSaver66
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Do you think they are knowledgeable enough considering a lot of refs still get confused by the tweaking and interpretations in recent times?
Where my roots are.
They are only indicating offside position. Still the refs call. Give em a good brief and that helps. Out county run club AR courses too which helps
We use CARs where I'm based, and like others have said, they get told to put the flag up if they're 110% sure the player was in an offside position. It's still my decision then whether they were committing an offence or not.
I generally find if you make sure they know this in the brief there's no issues if you overrule in the game (especially if you mention this to captains during the initial talk).
The only real 'contentious' situation is when someone's flagged but a teammate goes for the ball, but a shout of "He's not involved" generally keeps the game moving.
That said I did have to book my CAR the other week because he felt I wasn't being fair with when I was stopping the game for injuries in a youth match (U13/14)