For those of you who know Des Coulson, he was rushed into James Cook for an emergency heart operation last night. The operation was a success and all being well Des hopes to be home tomorrow.
Category Archives: Announcements
York St John v York City Academy – Howard Webb
The ribbon will be cut at the York St John’s new facilities on Haxby Road on Wed 29th April at 6pm.
The event will be celebrated with a match between St Johns and the York City Academy team, refereed by none other than Howard Webb.
Annual Dinner – Change of Guest Speaker
Due to assessing commitments, our previously arranged guest speaker Alan Kaye is no longer able to join us on Saturday.
We are delighted to announce that we will instead be joined by Football League Referee Mark Haywood, fresh from his game at Middlesbrough that day.
Referee Promotions 2015
North Riding County FA are delighted to confirm that on Monday, 09 March 2015, the Associations’ Referee Development Committee approved the promotion of the following referees.
York
Level 6
Sam Mortimer
Liam Wadsworth
Jamie Hewitt
Level 5
Steve Hewitt
James Unwin
Level 4 (subject to FA approval)
Brandon Bishop
Elsewhere in the County
Level 6
Jonty Gill
Tim Craig
Graeme Lewis
Thomas Marshall
George Roberts
Jessica Shuker
Level 5
Ian Royle
Rory Sadler
Dane McCarrick
Alex Wyatt
Kyle Morrison
Geoff Mann
Leonard Thurlow
Matthew Jackson
Level 4 (Subject to FA Approval)
Jack Stephenson
Chris Newton
The Association would like to pass on their congratulations to each of the Referees and wish them all the best for their future refereeing careers.
RA Conference 2015 – Understanding Football
The Referees’ Association 2015 conference will be held Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th July at Radisson Heathrow, Haynes – UNDERSTANDING FOOTBALL, including the RA-FA Youth Councils “Special Mission” which is being held at Queens Park Rangers training ground, Harlington Haynes.
All details can be found on the booking portal or via Facebook, or see us on Twitter #RAconf2015
Mark Ward
It is with sadness that we announce that Mark Ward, Northallerton RA member and former Secretary, has passed away after a long illness. Our thoughts are with his loved ones at this difficult time.
For anybody wishing to attend his funeral, it is being held on Monday 12th January, at 2pm, in St Gregory’s Church, Bedale. Light refreshments will be served afterwards at the Chantry Hall.
Message from York Minster Engineering League
Referees in York have been asked to help the Minster Engineering League in their efforts to stamp out bad behaviour at games. Please remember the following when refereeing in the league:
1. Do not hesitate to caution or dismiss persistent offenders on the field and submit the reports to the relevant County FA.
2. Do not hesitate to report any misbehaviour by club officials or spectators to the FA. You do not need to have names of spectators and the club officials should be named on the team sheet given to you before the start of the match. Obviously give them a warning first but if they persist report them! Actual words or actions must be reported.
3. Submit an online match report via the League website for every game, even if there were no incidents in the game. By all means praise the teams, as some of you already do. You can find this online report form via the frontpage of the league website (www.yorkleague.org.uk) It is in the last option “online forms” under the “Information” menu. Just press Submit after completing the form and it automatically comes to me. By using this facility we can build up information on all clubs from you, our “eyes and ears” on the ground. Remember, you might not think an incident worthy of reporting to the FA or you did not hear the exact words shouted but it would be useful for the League to know what is going on so include it on your online match report. Also report any bad pitch markings etc. Surprisingly we hardly ever receive reports from referees on pitch markings but I am sure that not all pitches are marked out clearly in the prescribed manner.
4. All pitches on which our league games are played are supposed to have respect barriers in place. For the lower Divisions these should extend from penalty area to penalty area. The posts should be of a suitable safe material and ropes should extend between the posts. All clubs have been informed of this requirement but there are still some who are not using them. Please report (on the match report form mentioned above) if these are not being provided.
5. All spectators should be behind these barriers during the game. Only club officials / substitutes should be on pitch side of these barriers. There are some clubs in the lower Divisions that have permanent pitch barriers (eg Selby RSSC) but their spectators are ignoring them.
Change of venue for 4th December Meeting
THE 4TH DECEMBER MEETING HAS MOVED TO DRINGHOUSES SPORTS CLUB.
Address: St Helens Road, York, YO24 1HR.
The meeting will still start at 7:30pm, and our guest speaker is Carl Boyson, a Football League referee who took charge of York City’s 1st leg playoff game against Fleetwood last season.
We hope to see many of our members there!