This from yesterday. My assessor who is a good man and very helpful, if rather direct sees me after the game.
He says that my refereeing performance was "a bit of an enigma". He tells me that the way I refereed advantage ( ha ha - 3 tries scored from it!) was probably among the best of all the referees he had ever seen, but that there were a few incidents that let me down in particular.
The upshot of it is that it was not a performance that will help me go up a grade (bah) but will just keep me where I am. I'm keen to get some views on this. (There's a surprise). I'm not looking for support particularly just stuff that I can learn from.
1. I give a penalty for offside at the ruck. When explaining it to the captain he ask me who was offside and at the same time the player with the ball asks me if it is their penalty. I suddenly realise that I have the arm pointing the wrong way and say (totally in jest in a friendly game) "Ah yes well I was just pointing to the player and of course the penalty is to this side". I then change the signal around the right way and we are all happy. He says it was not helpful.
2. Yellow takes a quick throw in. I don't see the throw in and foolishly say "no quick one it has touched the touch judge". Would probably have got away with this, but was wired up and the assessor says everyone knew it had not, you lost credibility......guilty as charged......a bit of a dropped bollock really.
3. Not straight line out. I start to offer options to blue and some one from the pack shouts out "scrum please sir". I move to the 15 m line and the captain from blue says "what was the other option?" I say "the throw again, do you want to change your mind? We could probably do that".
I did know that if they had a penalty and they had elected to kick they cannot change their mind, but was it such a big deal?
I still have plenty of work to do at the tackle area. He says I am more confident and much more up with the game and as someone said in the week, from confidence comes competence.
Good comments from both teams after the game. Only 11 penalties, a bit of a scrum vest on a muddy pitch, but felt very low as I biked back..............
Will hold onto his advantage comments over the next week!
He says that my refereeing performance was "a bit of an enigma". He tells me that the way I refereed advantage ( ha ha - 3 tries scored from it!) was probably among the best of all the referees he had ever seen, but that there were a few incidents that let me down in particular.
The upshot of it is that it was not a performance that will help me go up a grade (bah) but will just keep me where I am. I'm keen to get some views on this. (There's a surprise). I'm not looking for support particularly just stuff that I can learn from.
1. I give a penalty for offside at the ruck. When explaining it to the captain he ask me who was offside and at the same time the player with the ball asks me if it is their penalty. I suddenly realise that I have the arm pointing the wrong way and say (totally in jest in a friendly game) "Ah yes well I was just pointing to the player and of course the penalty is to this side". I then change the signal around the right way and we are all happy. He says it was not helpful.
2. Yellow takes a quick throw in. I don't see the throw in and foolishly say "no quick one it has touched the touch judge". Would probably have got away with this, but was wired up and the assessor says everyone knew it had not, you lost credibility......guilty as charged......a bit of a dropped bollock really.
3. Not straight line out. I start to offer options to blue and some one from the pack shouts out "scrum please sir". I move to the 15 m line and the captain from blue says "what was the other option?" I say "the throw again, do you want to change your mind? We could probably do that".
I did know that if they had a penalty and they had elected to kick they cannot change their mind, but was it such a big deal?
I still have plenty of work to do at the tackle area. He says I am more confident and much more up with the game and as someone said in the week, from confidence comes competence.
Good comments from both teams after the game. Only 11 penalties, a bit of a scrum vest on a muddy pitch, but felt very low as I biked back..............
Will hold onto his advantage comments over the next week!