I had an observation report come back from Saturday and there are a few things which are interesting.
The observer said that my pre match instructions need to be clearer to my AR’s and particularly to whose responsibility it is in which half of the pitch. However, he wasn’t there when I delivered my pre match instructions and I also don’t split the pitch up by halves.
He also said my caution procedure wasn’t good enough as I didn’t take the players names. This was a step 6 game and I have the team sheets copied into my notebook, but he didn’t like the fact that I ‘did not take the names of players - relied on team sheets’.
He said in the changing rooms afterwards that he didn’t like that I was (in his opinion) flashing cards.
Him and I discussed in the dressing room post match about an e-mail which was sent out at the start of the season basically saying that the FA want to speed up the caution procedure, etc. He presumed it was just for the Premier League and the professional game but I thought it was for the entire pyramid.
(It’s worth noting that I didn’t flash any cards- I isolated them and held the card up and then ticked their name off in my notebook afterwards).
He also ticked the category for the game as ‘challenging’ when it was a rather boring game. 3 cautions and 1 penalty. I had a game last week and had 7 cautions and 1 straight red and the observer ticked the ‘normal’ category for how challenging the game was. I just find that a bit odd.
I have come out of this observation with my poorest mark yet, which is fine, but I was just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the above. I know it’s difficult if you weren’t there but any advice is always appreciated. I don’t want to get into the territory of appealing observations, I just wanted to seek some clarification without it looking like I’m being salty !
Thanks all.
The observer said that my pre match instructions need to be clearer to my AR’s and particularly to whose responsibility it is in which half of the pitch. However, he wasn’t there when I delivered my pre match instructions and I also don’t split the pitch up by halves.
He also said my caution procedure wasn’t good enough as I didn’t take the players names. This was a step 6 game and I have the team sheets copied into my notebook, but he didn’t like the fact that I ‘did not take the names of players - relied on team sheets’.
He said in the changing rooms afterwards that he didn’t like that I was (in his opinion) flashing cards.
Him and I discussed in the dressing room post match about an e-mail which was sent out at the start of the season basically saying that the FA want to speed up the caution procedure, etc. He presumed it was just for the Premier League and the professional game but I thought it was for the entire pyramid.
(It’s worth noting that I didn’t flash any cards- I isolated them and held the card up and then ticked their name off in my notebook afterwards).
He also ticked the category for the game as ‘challenging’ when it was a rather boring game. 3 cautions and 1 penalty. I had a game last week and had 7 cautions and 1 straight red and the observer ticked the ‘normal’ category for how challenging the game was. I just find that a bit odd.
I have come out of this observation with my poorest mark yet, which is fine, but I was just wondering what peoples thoughts are on the above. I know it’s difficult if you weren’t there but any advice is always appreciated. I don’t want to get into the territory of appealing observations, I just wanted to seek some clarification without it looking like I’m being salty !
Thanks all.
