Not sure if this has been covered on here before, but as someone who has completed the refereeing course I wanted to ask whether others felt grossly unprepared going into their first games?
IMHO the course is simply too short, whilst I am not expecting the course to cover every minutae of refereeing, but I have be compiling a list of things that I am surprised aren't covered in the course, as for me they seem like fundamental aspects of refereeing.
I would like to say that the trainers, RDO and support network are not including in this, their support has been invaluable. The trainers especially doing whatever they could with the 1.3 days they had available and having to deliver the FA's rigid learning pathway.
IMHO the course is simply too short, whilst I am not expecting the course to cover every minutae of refereeing, but I have be compiling a list of things that I am surprised aren't covered in the course, as for me they seem like fundamental aspects of refereeing.
- Time keeping
- Pitch inspection
- Player inspection
- Substitution procedure
- Sin Bins! (The FA's flagship respect programme isn't even covered)
I would like to say that the trainers, RDO and support network are not including in this, their support has been invaluable. The trainers especially doing whatever they could with the 1.3 days they had available and having to deliver the FA's rigid learning pathway.