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WAFCryan2014
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Hi, can someone please explain to me if \ how the refereeing levels and promotion criteria are changing for next season? (2017 18 season) Thanks
Yeah. Only thing I've heard that's being changed is mid-season promotions.Thanks for clarifying. Are Levels 7,6 & 5 definitely staying the same?
Yeah. Only thing I've heard that's being changed is mid-season promotions.
Ah okay. The only way I can see it happening is 7-5? As 6-4 you get your 5 in March and your 4 in April/May.Nope, they're just encouraging it more. At least that's the way it's been put over to me.
To go double 6-4 in one marking season you would almost certainly need to be an exceptional 6 and very good 5 by Nov/Dec, giving observers and FAs a chance to get 5 reports done for Dec/Jan & Feb. Some leagues will only take 5's if they are going for a 4, meaning that you will also have to deal with a mid season step up in standard too as well as different styles of observations.Ah okay. The only way I can see it happening is 7-5? As 6-4 you get your 5 in March and your 4 in April/May.
To go double 6-4 in one marking season you would almost certainly need to be an exceptional 6
I've seen some pretty naff level 5s get their 4! Nothing surprises me. I remember talking to a few L3's a couple years ago and their apprehension about the expected standard of the rising 4s was hilarious...turned out to be incredibly justified!I've seen some pretty naff level 6s go 6-4!
I've seen some pretty naff level 5s get their 4! Nothing surprises me. I remember talking to a few L3's a couple years ago and their apprehension about the expected standard of the rising 4s was hilarious...turned out to be incredibly justified!
Haha! Problem a couple years ago was that the rising 4's lack of quality was well known across Beds, Bucks, Berks, Herts & London, so it led to some "interesting" games with officials!!Indeed, when I was a level 3 I use to dread getting new level 4s as I never knew what was going to happen. Having to effectively stop a contrib game to tell the assistant when to flag for offside and when not (i.e. flag when the player gets the ball not as soon as it is hoofed forward) did not do my blood pressure any good at all ...!
Haha! Problem a couple years ago was that the rising 4's lack of quality was well known across Beds, Bucks, Berks, Herts & London, so it led to some "interesting" games with officials!!
Oh yes, it was very much quantity over quality at that time. I had to deal with, amongst other things ...
A lot of the cause was that they took away the requirement for the referee to mark assistants following the game, so the only view they had of assistant's performances was from the assessor reports, and some assistants could go weeks or even months on end without getting assessed. But there were a lot of assistants that shouldn't have been anywhere near that level, and it caused all sorts of problems at the time.
- assistants not knowing offside laws
- Flagging for free kicks when I'm 5 yards away and they are 40 yards away
- Even worse flagging for penalties in the middle of the penalty area
- Stupidly late arrivals and even more stupid match day attire
- Inappropriate behaviour in the board room, the worst of which was telling the home club chairman that I'd got a penalty wrong ..!
- And best (or worst) of all, spending the entire team sheet exchange on his mobile phone, despite me telling him before, during and after to hang up.
It's no better oop North, espec at Supply (assts). Fortunately the selection process before nomination to L4 is fairly stringent up here.
I've found supply league assistant quality to be a complete lottery. I've had two middles recently, one with two young lads similar age to me, one a L5 and t'other a L6, both on the county development group. They were both absolutely superb, you'd have struggled to fault them. Then the following Saturday, two at the other end of the spectrum; one a level 5 who's been around the block a few hundred times and looked a few hundred yards behind play, and another a career level 7 (nothing wrong with that before people get offended) but looked as though he'd never seen a flag before.
Pot luck!