That's all well and good @RustyRef but if you only referee weekends can you really be expected to close weekday nights as these hearings are invariable weekday evenings.......If you aren't available they need to offer you a different date. Where referees often come unstuck though is they haven't closed these unavailable dates with county, so the argument comes back that you could have been given a county cup game on that date so you should be available.