Junior/Youth Newly qualified!
- Thread starter Tremayne
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Congratulations.
The biggest thing is to expect that it will be much harder than you think it is. I played a good standard of park football until I was 50, took up refereeing and was surprised as to what a difficult job it is to do well.
Stick with it, you will have days when you wonder why you bother, but as you get better and more experienced you will find how much you enjoy challenging matches, because you have the armory to deal with it.
Good luck!!
The biggest thing is to expect that it will be much harder than you think it is. I played a good standard of park football until I was 50, took up refereeing and was surprised as to what a difficult job it is to do well.
Stick with it, you will have days when you wonder why you bother, but as you get better and more experienced you will find how much you enjoy challenging matches, because you have the armory to deal with it.
Good luck!!
Thank you very much! I have spoke to many friends who are all qualified referees and they have said the same thing. For now I hope I can just use what I've learnt and also common referee knowledge in order to be the best I can. The moment I sat the exams, I knew it would be more difficult than I expected but hopefully I'm well enough equiped to deal with any problems. Thanks again!
Justylove
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My 3 pieces of advice:
1) keep reading the LOTG. I regularly browse through it just to make sure I've not forgotten anything, it's always the more obscure stuff that will catch you out, not the big things.
2) be really self critical on your performance, think about what you could have done better and why and then take 1 or 2 of those things and try to focus on them until you improve them. Then pick something else and do the same.
3) remember that even if you have a superb game and get every decision spot on, chances are one of the teams will think or say you've had a shocker. It's always quite amusing when a team tells you that you cost them the game, after they've lost 6-0!
1) keep reading the LOTG. I regularly browse through it just to make sure I've not forgotten anything, it's always the more obscure stuff that will catch you out, not the big things.
2) be really self critical on your performance, think about what you could have done better and why and then take 1 or 2 of those things and try to focus on them until you improve them. Then pick something else and do the same.
3) remember that even if you have a superb game and get every decision spot on, chances are one of the teams will think or say you've had a shocker. It's always quite amusing when a team tells you that you cost them the game, after they've lost 6-0!
Monotone Whistle
Well-Known Member
Congratulations on the new career.
My main advice is actually really simple. The important bits you will learn on the pitch, so concentrate on the following:
Look the part and act the part. Clean kit and looking professional is the start of effective match control. Before the game, be seen as someone with confidence and authority, arrive in plenty of time and do a proper warm up. Then, prior to ko, a nice confident blow of the whistle, get the Linos and the captains together and give them a confident, but short, talk about what you expect. It sets the tone.
Players are never, ever your friend. Be polite at all times and by all means engage in some friendly banter, but never let your guard down.
Always be consistent. If you let something go early, 9 times out of 10 it will come back and bite you later in the match. The same goes for what you say to players to explain a decision, keep it simple because, believe me, they will remember what you said and will turn it against you at the slightest opportunity.
I know this sounds a bit negative, but these are all things I experienced as a new L9 / L7. I look back on some of those games and shiver at what happened to me when I tried to be everyone's friend, lost a bit of concentration or just let too many things go.
My main advice is actually really simple. The important bits you will learn on the pitch, so concentrate on the following:
Look the part and act the part. Clean kit and looking professional is the start of effective match control. Before the game, be seen as someone with confidence and authority, arrive in plenty of time and do a proper warm up. Then, prior to ko, a nice confident blow of the whistle, get the Linos and the captains together and give them a confident, but short, talk about what you expect. It sets the tone.
Players are never, ever your friend. Be polite at all times and by all means engage in some friendly banter, but never let your guard down.
Always be consistent. If you let something go early, 9 times out of 10 it will come back and bite you later in the match. The same goes for what you say to players to explain a decision, keep it simple because, believe me, they will remember what you said and will turn it against you at the slightest opportunity.
I know this sounds a bit negative, but these are all things I experienced as a new L9 / L7. I look back on some of those games and shiver at what happened to me when I tried to be everyone's friend, lost a bit of concentration or just let too many things go.
Thanks a lot for this, I recently watched the LOTG online which I found to be very useful as it gives a visual element to it. I will definitely take your advice on board! Thanks again