Yeah, I remember getting a mentor was a little tough as well. I had to email someone, who then gave me my mentor's contact details, who I then had to arrange a match that we could both do. And there wasn't much follow-up other than a hand-written report. Although I suspect if I did have any awful experiences, there would have been more contact.OK wrong term used but the point is still valid. Thinking about it I didn't get assigned a mentor either. On the plus side I have had not had a phone call from my RDO asking about one of my games yet so I can assume that the teams I have reffed have not had any issues or complaints, apart from pens not given, wrong offsides, no foul, no hand ball etc etc! Thats a good idea it would be nice to get some observations and feed back but I have a feeling the observers are not many and there are a lot of refs kicking around and if there are issues being reported they would have to observe those refs first .
Got my 30th of the season on Saturday.And yet down here (Brian's pov)/ up here (Rusty's pov) there are Observers who cannot recall the last time they did an observation- suggesting we're flush with them?
Strange state of affairs, then again mind you, we are the "drive through county" where nobody stops to look at anything!
And yet down here (Brian's pov)/ up here (Rusty's pov) there are Observers who cannot recall the last time they did an observation- suggesting we're flush with them?
Strange state of affairs, then again mind you, we are the "drive through county" where nobody stops to look at anything!
As I said in my OP I am not on the promotion trail this season, but reading through some of the latter comments in this thread there seems to be a suggestion that there are a lack of observers, or a lack of availability due to them refereeing. On the back of this, has there been any examples of promotion candidates not gaining promotion because they haven't had the required number of observations, but through no fault of their own?
The question there though would be are they available to observe, or are they not observing because they are out refereeing every Saturday and Sunday. Down here we've been extremely successful in weeding out some of the old school assessors who won't change and insisted on doing it their way, and the panel now has a high percentage of level 4s and above. The obvious down side of that is they are out refereeing every Saturday and most midweeks, so getting the coverage is probably harder than it was than when we had observers who had retired from refereeing 30 years ago and had nothing else to do on a Saturday and Sunday other than assess.
Can I ask why they need to know?I've always this season adviced clubs when I was being observed but to do it on the day of the game is showing me that your not prepared enough so do it on the same day the observer contacts you
I would be very wary of doing that. At our promotion seminar here in Essex, we were explicitly told not to do that - and I think the implication was that the assessment could be struck off if the observer believes the players knowing had an effect on how they treated you.I've always this season adviced clubs when I was being observed but to do it on the day of the game is showing me that your not prepared enough so do it on the same day the observer contacts you
But is that not for the FA to inform the club or the assessor themselves? Surely a referee informing teams of I have an assessor today so to speed things up etc is against the rules? Over here you turn up someone's there and they introduce themselves and you get squeaky bxumhole time!At some levels of football in England, they will need to ensure they have free entry to the game and car parking available to the observer.
At L3 and above, they may have an assigned seat for the observer + the curtsy of refreshments.