Recent content by ConnorWJH

I had my first game the other day, I used this watch, worked a treat counts down from 45 and you press a button to add on stoppage, quite loud beeps and relatively cheap, would say watch a football match on TV and use your watch whilst watching, gets you used to the functions before you're in...

I think my main area of self-criticism is confidence, I lost count the amount of times I should've blown for a careless foul cos I thought it was 'too soft' or thought "I can't sell that", and those times when I did blow, i.e for the pen, I had no confidence in my decision and was a little...

Baptism of fire that tonight, even with an inside friendly, felt like I really struggled to call offsides, tried to adjust my positioning but then found myself in the way of the game or miles away from play, gave a pen that both teams thought wasn't, thought I struggled to stamp my authority...

Having been in Anfield during the West Brom cup game last year when VAR was in use, I can vouch for the crowd being flummoxed 😂

There's been a slight change of plan, my first game won't be u11's, I've just had a phone call from the reserve team manager at the club I coach at, inside friendly last game of pre season, so will be reffing that tonight, little bit more nervous with it being OA mainly cos I can sell decisions...

From everyone's posts, I think I will do the handshake, for a few reasons it hopefully gets them used to respect and the pre match routine for when they grow older and 2. as Sheff has just said that handshake for u11's probably seems abit OTT to us adults but to an 11 y/o probably makes them...

That's where I'm confused cos it's just a friendly, might just ask the coach before ko

Tar mate 👍

Sorry if this has been posted previously, Got my first game post course 9v9 u11's friendly through the club I coach at. Few questions I've got, would you bother with the pre match handshake at that age? Think all laws are the same albeit smaller pitch, rolling subs also. Just not sure about the...

So update on this finished my course this afternoon, felt the 11v11 drill went well and just being a member of here and trawling the threads helped with regards to running patterns etc. had my doubts and a part of me still does, gonna try and use my contacts from coaching to get my first few...

Cheers, just printing off the LOTG now, so I can read them a few times before the course, and it'll stand me in good stead for when I start reffing (hopefully) 🤞

I certainly didn't before I looked into it

Booked it this morning, feeling excited but nervous at the same time, thanks for all the comments/advice 👍

Thanks for the advice everyone 👍 I'll look at getting it booked asap, worst comes to worst I've only gotta ref a couple of games to get my money back

Yeah, I think getting the initial so many games out the way and learning how to deal with backchat and the bullsh*t will be where I don't enjoy it, I suppose not alot of people do really, but we'll see 😊