Russell Jones
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Checked with the county and they too have confirmed 'only Black' for the coming season. Hoorah, sense has prevailed ....anything from herts fa?
Checked with the county and they too have confirmed 'only Black' for the coming season. Hoorah, sense has prevailed ....anything from herts fa?
Next is leagues like ssml?Checked with the county and they too have confirmed 'only Black' for the coming season. Hoorah, sense has prevailed ....
So, our county will allow coloured shirts, but it is down to the individual leagues to decide what colour can be worn.
Glad that's cleared up, next season I will be officiating on upto 7 different leagues (including any county cup appointments I get) so it's conceivable that I may need all three alternate colours, although it would only really become an issue when working in a team of three
Got the same email yesterday, seemed strange they didn't specify a chosen colour like many other CFA's. I guess it might encourage more people just to stick with black, but you know most will buy a second colour, even if only to wear it once.
I agree.... Why create more confusion?This whole mess could have been avoided if the FA had just said all match officials can wear either black or *alternative* colour shirts.
Leaving to CFAs to decide is bad enough when competitions cover more than one CFA, but to just leave to individual competitions to decide is crazy.
You definitely won't be wearing any other colour than black on Contrib games, nor on Supply games (unless you have any supply leagues which are sanctioned by a CFA and not The FA).i can imagine going to some of the supply and contrib teams around me and telling them they need to change their undershirt when they can see i'm wearing black under a yellow / green top. as @lincs22 says, it'll kill your match control.
You definitely won't be wearing any other colour than black on Contrib games, nor on Supply games (unless you have any supply leagues which are sanctioned by a CFA and not The FA).
Hope so. We have a combined counties pool in the north west so we could have a referee from Cheshire, an assistant from Liverpool and an assistant from manchester fa on one game, and each of those could have been offered a different colour. So you'd be wearing the black anyway. Coloured kits are fine if you are on your own or with refs from same county i.e. county cups or if your kits are supplied i.e national league onwards but the supply and contrib in the middle might as well remain black as the leagues cross many county borders and you'd need the perfect storm to be ablw to wear your coloured kit.so refs the lowest and the top levels will have coloured tops yet contrib and supply wont?
Hope so. We have a combined counties pool in the north west so we could have a referee from Cheshire, an assistant from Liverpool and an assistant from manchester fa on one game, and each of those could have been offered a different colour. So you'd be wearing the black anyway. Coloured kits are fine if you are on your own or with refs from same county i.e. county cups or if your kits are supplied i.e national league onwards but the supply and contrib in the middle might as well remain black as the leagues cross many county borders and you'd need the perfect storm to be ablw to wear your coloured kit.
SF it's been done this way because The FA received a resounding no to coloured kits when they consulted on it. I'm sure the close relationship between kit sellers and some CFAs has nothing to do with certain counties heavily lobbying for coloured kits.
What they could have done is said to counties that the alternative kit colour will be e..g yellow and then asked counties if they wanted to opt in or not. You've got some counties going with one only alternative colour, and others allowing you to wear any colour if you're on your own.