Tips:
- Referee to law. This does not mean caution every foul but clearly distinguish between careless and reckless.
- Play advantage carefully. As a rule of thumb try to keep it to the final third of the field.
- All substitutions at half-way. Send the player back if needs be.
- Golden Rule: Do this on ALL games, not just assessments. This way it becomes natural and you are not changing the game to suit the assessor.
Craig,
Regarding using whistle to restart play, make sure you use it on the mandatory occasions, check page 80 of 2012 - 2013 book.
Also make sure you listen to your RA secretary !!!!
Best of luck with your promotion, see you during the season mate
Ublades
Use it for free kicks, corners and the kick off. Goal kicks not so important, but again keep it the same all the way through. Most assessors will try and help but there is the odd pedant who will say "You forgot to blow the whistle to signal the corner in the xxth minute and the yyth minute".
You may not lose marks for those, but they add little and bring the overall tone of the report down from positive to negative.
One other tip - Self preservation works! I already covered advantage in the defending third, but free kicks around the penalty area on the whistle! This way you get marks for correct distance, position, using the dead ball time, and have the match firmly in control
That is interesting, I did not think you should use the whistle to signal a corner. I never have in fact.
What about goals? I use to whistle for goals but was told by an assessor not to.
O
I think you tend to see those 'on the telly' whistle when it is a debatable corner to communicate to the players what decision you are giving.