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Welcome to the website of the north Devon referees. Site updated Monday 30th August 2010 North Devon referees are pleased to be supported by the
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Any views or opinions expressed on this website are not necessarily supported by either the North Devon Referees Association or the Devon County FA unless stated otherwise |
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FORMS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD
The following forms are all downloadable from the following links
Referee Training in Devon
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County RA Quiz Results.
All the scores/results from the recent County RA quiz along with all the questions and answers can be found HERE |
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All the old photos/articles can now be found on the ‘Photo Gallery’ page here |
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Items of local interest which can be found by clicking on the title
North Devon RA membership list (list of those who are presently members of the NDRA)
Local appointments for September (North Devon Gazette League September appointments)
Early seasons appointments for Kingsley League and Under 16
Referees Report form Click HERE to view the new Referees Report form for use in the North Devon Gazette League this forthcoming season
Next Training Course Latest information on the next referees training course in north Devon can be found HERE
The end of FAMOA Following discussions between The FA and RA (Referees Association) RA-FA has been formed to replace FAMOA. For more information on this click HERE
Pictures from local cup finals (some good photos of local referees performing recently) Information released by the Devon County FA March 2010
Ref Bennett makes his debut in League (First north Devon ref to take charge of a Football League game)
Wait and see is key to getting it right (Andy Bennett on offside from the Journal)
Former Refs are picking up the whistle
(The above two pieces appeared in the North Devon Journal)
Former local referee tragically dies in fire
DCFA concerned about quality of report writing
(North Devon RA’s president Brian Pearce honoured!
Tony Cloak in the Independent
It’s official…Huxtable has ref potential North Devon Journal Thursday 6th August
Andy Bennett reveals his inner thoughts, taken from ’Refworld’ the website from the PGMO Brett’s article, and picture from a past Journal |
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All the following stories/articles can be found here!!
Whistle-blowers in the spotlight as big meeting looms (“Stronger refereeing at elite level would further nourish the grass-roots”) . Rooney and Messi must be protected from World Cup hitmen
Halsey wants no sympathy from players after his fight with cancer (Top ref Mark Halsey makes his way back from cancer
Former rugby referee Brian Moore tries the rugby whistle
Ramsey’s pain a legacy of aggressive culture
A number of football people were asked about whether players have a duty of care towards each other
Can Football learn from Hockey? Dermot Gallagher on ‘that’ goal for Porto
Fifa’s gilded elite find it all too easy to ignore an inconvenient truth
Michael Oliver – Youngest Premier League referee
FA hypocrites should show more respect
Mark Halsey – Cancer fight
Only severe punishment can stop this cheating
Bully on pitch crosses line for next generation
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More articles of national interest found here!!
Top referee believes diving is related to professional ethics
Send-offs on the slide as players follow rules
Uefa caves in and the game takes another step to the dark side
Mawhinney calls for law and order
Graham Poll writes on ‘Diving’
‘Piggy in the Middle’
Manager/referee abuse
FA have done game a favour
Psychologists' diving guide can help' referees spot cheats
Managers face action if they talk about referees before Games
Respect means living up to the wage packets
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“The Mole Speaks”
From next season the fine for cautions goes up from the present £8 to £10. This is voted in by The FA council and is effective nationwide. Maybe the players will start to learn!! Congratulations to Gary Suggate who competed in his first ever marathon at the London event. He ran the 26.1 miles in a remarkable 2hrs 57mins and 15sec. A great time for someone running this distance for the first time.
How about the following two stories? Alan Webster was refereeing a game where he had two neutral assistants, fortunately. He stopped his watch for a substitute and, guess what? He forgot to restart it. Apparently the game is still carrying on! Also heard than Alan showed a young lad a red card as a joke and the poor lad started to cry. What a bully!!
You certainly cannot knock Fred Saunders commitment to local refereeing and our local game.. Take this weekend of the 10th/11th April for example. First it’s the thanksgiving service for Maureen Pearce (the late wife of Brian) at Tawstock at 12.00 noon. Then its off to Torrington to referee the Torrington Admirals v Anchor game before heading of to Ilfacombe to assist off the pitch with the Arlington cup final before getting home in time for Match of the Day. Then on Sunday (11th) it’s in the middle of a Vets match before picking up the flag to do the Assistant job in the Wrey Arms Sunday league division 1 Final at Mill Road. All that with a dodgy knee amongst other things!! Have you noticed the Match officials for the Arlington cup final? Referee is Peter Sercombe and his assistants are Ian Hart and Mickey Angell. Maybe this cup should be renamed the Oldington cup!! The ages of these three gentlemen added together could well exceed the total age of all the players in the game. Noticed that at the recent championship game between Plymouth Argyle and Bristol City, which took place on Tuesday 16th March the two assistants were Andy Bennett and Brett Huxtable, our two top local officials. Think this is the first time these two have been together at a football league game!. Poor old referee is all I can say Two of our local referees recently took part in the Bideford Half-marathon. Experienced old campaigner Andy Walter along with young up-start Gary Suggate completed the 13.1 miles from Bideford to Torrington and return. One did it in a time of just over 1hr 47 mins and the other in a very good 1hr 21mins. I will leave it up to you to sort out which did which
Whilst on this sort of subject, level 7 ref Gary Suggate has some more arduous events to come this year. In April he will be taken part in the London Marathon and then in July plans to cycle from John O’Goats to Lands End. Oh, to be young and fit.
Our own level 2 ref Andy Bennett has hit the big time. The referee of the Bristol R v Stockport County game on Tuesday 2nd March picked up an injury and though he managed to reach half time he was not fit enough to carry on. Since Benny was senior Assistant he had to take up the whistle and took charge of the 2nd half. In his own words ‘it was awesome’!!
It got a bit missed when it happened but top local ref Brett Huxtable got engaged at Christmas. Congratulations to Brett and his Fiancée who happens to be former Football League Assistant referee Nigel Cockwill’s daughter.
Congratulations to the Wrey Arms Sunday League who, for the first time this season have decided that instead of providing their cup final officials with medals, match fee etc, will be providing a complete free match kit to the referee and assistants. This league has recently been leading the charge in looking after their officials. This league was the first, a few seasons ago, to raise the match fees to £20. Where some lead others follow.
This season it continues to be the case that we have more referees in the north then we have games available. Up until about a season ago it was more a case of some games each Saturday going un- covered. However now the Appointments Secretary has a different problem in that some referees’ are not getting games every Saturday. There is even a case of a newish referee got getting an appointment at all this month (March). Somehow I think this problem could continue since I understand that there are already a good number of enquires about the next referees training course including two former local referees looking to take the whistle up again. All referees might have to start to be prepared to have the odd spare Saturday off.
There is a new website for all those with an interest in north Devon football, which has been put together by Rob Bates, North Area Co-ordinator for the Devon County FA. You can this new site at www.northareadevonfootball.co.uk If you’ve got any news, gossip etc, which you’d like to share then please email themole@northdevonreferees.co.uk |
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Referees Match Report forms
As a result of an initiative by the North Devon Journal League, and following discussions between the league and our local RA branch, the good news is that the league will be introducing a Referees Match Report Form from next season 2010-11. It will operate, initially, only in the Premier division before being rolled out across the league the following season 2011-12. All referees officiating at a Premier game will be expected to complete and return the form, either by post or email, to the League secretary within 5 days of the match. Copies of the form will be circulated to all referees before the start of the new season. A copy of the form will, hopefully, appear on this website sometime soon! Clubs will be marked out of a 100. This mark is to be based on the teams/players general conduct on the field of play taking into consideration foul play, dissent, cautions and sending offs etc and any events immediately before or after the game. Any mark below 50 will require a letter of support for this mark to be sent to the league. The clubs will also be marked separately on the referees changing facilities, conduct of club officials and assistants, and the home team will also be marked on their administration. This will consider such things as notification of game, receiving team sheet and payment of match fee etc.
RA Subs due
NDRA Branch sub are due from 1st April. They are £20 for all existing members or any referee joining, if paid before 31st May and £24 thereafter. For newly qualified level 7 referees, joining for the 1st time, it costs only £9. Cheques should be made payable to ‘North Devon Referees Association’ and sent to NDRA branch treasurer
Ivor Phillips 8 Meadow View, Holsworthy, Devon EX22 6JH
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See? The referee was right!! |
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Latest Updates
Webb laments violent end to World Cup World Cup ref Howard Webb speaks about the game
Sunday League appointments for 5th September
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Early season reminder for all local referees
All referees are reminder of the new changes introduced to the North Devon Gazette League team sheets for this new season. The first is that you will notice an extra column has been inserted next to the players’ names with the title ‘Card’. This is for the match referee to indicate what disciplinary action, if any, is taken against particular players. This is not for the clubs to fill in. The second change is for the referee to insert the mileage he is claiming within his match fee. To see the new team sheets with the new areas highlighted visit the ‘Local News and Information’ page on this website. |