I am recently just qualified in October. Having read several posts on this forum and it's quite interesting to see the differences between how the Scottish FA runs a new introductory course and how our colleagues in England run the course. In Scotland we run a 8 week class based course one night a week to learn with laws of the game. With exam at the end and that you are left to start refereeing. Also an online course. There is no practical session for new referees in Scotland. I have seen videos of courses in England doing a weekend practical course. Practicing hand signals, whistling, as well as flag signals.
This is just an observation being a new referee I think my RA or Scottish FA are missing a trick here. I don't know if it's just my RA and it maybe happens in other parts of Scotland.
New referees are encouraged to attend weekly training and monthly meetings. Which I have been doing and this is fine. I think a practical session after the exam would be hugely beneficial before taking your first game.
This is just my opinion and would be interested to hear other colleagues views how have more experience than me.
This is just an observation being a new referee I think my RA or Scottish FA are missing a trick here. I don't know if it's just my RA and it maybe happens in other parts of Scotland.
New referees are encouraged to attend weekly training and monthly meetings. Which I have been doing and this is fine. I think a practical session after the exam would be hugely beneficial before taking your first game.
This is just my opinion and would be interested to hear other colleagues views how have more experience than me.