Sithee, tha's reet!View attachment 1438
Nuff said!!
Sithee, tha's reet!View attachment 1438
Nuff said!!
In Essex you are pretty close to perfect....Just get on a train or a bus and 3 hours later you too could share perfection in God’s County..... Yurkshire
Interesting AF. From my experience most referees now do NOT give precise areas of the fop where they do/ do not want help. Just that they want it to be 'credible' and/or if you are in a better position than them.
For example a quick hoof up field could mean that although 40/50 yards from the incident, you as AR are the closest official to the incident so would be expected to help the referee. I do think being too precise in the fop about where the AR should/should not get involved can cause problems?
Laughed out loud and I am still giggling!That ^^^^^ reminds me of this:
Given I have basically cut the field of play into 3 areas and am only covering half of them, I would hope to be in a position to make the calls in my areas of the pitch, take it from edge of 18 to edge of 18 it's only 60/70 yards so approximately 6-7 secs sprint with ball in air etc I usually make it in time! Also, didn't say I wouldn't expect help in the scenario posted, I just outline the areas I fully expect them to assist me with, what's the point in having a qualified professional on the sideline and telling them ball in/out and flag for offsides?
Never run the line as an NAR, but go "under cover" occasionally as a CAR for my son's team.
Not had any particularly weird instructions from referees, but one referee last season made it clear before KO that he didn't want me to get involved in foul throws. Fair enough, no problems with that. His chat with the home team CAR he did separately, don't know what his instruction were, but 3 times during the game he flagged for foul throws and the ref went along with it.
I've only just started doing matches with NAR's, but I've already had good success with telling them to lead me in a 10 yard semi-circle around their current location and work with me to give the most credible decision outside of that. If that means I lead a decision 12 yards away from them because I'm in the better position, that's fine. And if that means they lead a decision over the far side of the pitch because I've been caught out by a fast break, that's OK too.
Yeah, I say "about 10 yards" because I assume most referees have paced that distance out enough times to have a fairly good idea of what it looks like, but it's still only a rough guide.This is similar to my approach with NARs, though I stray away from suggesting a particular yardage. I was an AR to a ref a few weeks ago who said he was 'happy for us to lead if the players were close enough for us to spit on' which was a simple way of representing the distance he was happy with.