York RA Dinner – 2015
The date and venue has been agreed for the end of season annual dinner.
It will be at the Marriott Hotel (Tadcaster Road), York.
Date is Saturday 11 April 2015, commencing with pre-dinner drinks at 1930 hrs.
It is envisaged that we will maintain last year’s prices, but we will introduce a choice of menu.
More details to follow.
Ever been short of cash at an RA meeting when membership subscriptions are due or you want to buy some Annual Dinner tickets?
We will now be able to take credit and debit card payments at our monthly meetings using Paypal Here.
As from 1 June 2014 the new Law amendments apply. They are minimal and cover Law 4 (Players’ Equipment) – allowing head covers to be worn and clarification of slogans on undershirts (see FIFA circular below)
FIFA also re-iterated that Match Officials are not allowed to use cameras or microphones. So nothing of note to worry about for next season in the local leagues.
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Always ensure that Players Equip complies with Law 4
North Riding County Football Association are pleased to confirm the appointment of Paul Stalker (North Officer) and Colin Atkinson (South Officer) for season 2014/2015.
Paul and Colin will be responsible for appointing match officials to all adult Saturday league fixtures including NRCFA County and Challenge Cups.
The following leagues will be part of this new appointing system:
Full information will be sent to all match officials in the week commencing Monday, 7 July 2014, this will include how to register for games within the pool and the appointment procedures that will be in place.
Once again we would like to stress to all match officials that they will still have the opportunity to request which leagues they officiate on in the first instance with both Paul and Colin looking to accommodate such requests.
Ross Joyce, Referee Development Officer, feels that the new appointing system is the way forward.
“After a couple of years of consultation with leagues I am pleased that we are now in a position to implement the new appointing process for all of our Saturday adult leagues in the County for season 2014/ 2015.
“I would like to stress that one of the key objectives of this is for the Association to modernize the way in which match officials are appointed and to ensure that each of our leagues are given the same opportunity to secure the services of a qualified match official, ultimately striving towards 100% coverage of all games.
“Moving forward, and with the appointment of both Paul and Colin, we hope to continue to develop and raise the standards of officiating, whilst providing opportunities for referees to officiate within a number of different leagues.
“We are very mindful that within some leagues referees often see the same clubs a couple of times per month which is not appropriate and can often cause problems. We hope by embracing the new appointment system we can tackle these problems and that a wider variety of officials can by appointed whilst ensuring the cost to clubs does not increase significantly.”
Further information will be sent to all leagues, clubs and match officials from July 2014. If you have any queries, please contact our Referee Development Officer, Ross Joyce, at ross.joyce@northridingfa.com.
Peter and the team have now raised £2150 so are getting very close to their target. Please support this great cause and mammoth effort and sponsor them on the Just Giving website.
A message from Peter Hartley:
Thanks to those of you who sponsored our Trans Pennine Trail Challenge in aid of St Leonards Hospice over last weekend.
All 5 of us managed to cover the 257 miles & finished in Hornsea at 6pm last night.
At the moment we have raised in excess of £2,000 & hoping to meet our target of £2500.
The bare facts are that it was a gruelling journey over 3 days & despite the fact we started with 5 brand new bikes, everyone of them was affected in someway, with 2 bald tyres, one smashed derailler, & 3 bikes finishing with no brakes as they had all worn down the brake pads.
Saturday left Southport at 9.30am, covered over 80 miles in driving rain at Glossop at 9.45pm.
Sunday left Glossop at 8.30am, started in 3 hours of driving rain, arrived at St Leonards Hospice at 8.30pm having covered nearly 100 miles.
Monday left St Leonards Hospice at 9.10am, apart from 2 hours of rain around noon, sunny weather, arrived at Hornsea at 6pm having covered over 70 miles.
Football League PLAY-OFF semi-finals, appointments : Thursday 8th to Saturday 17th May 2014
Scottish League : Appointments Wednesday 7th to Sunday 11th May 2014
Scottish FA : Other final appointments
UEFA : Appointments for U17 finals in Malta, 9th to 21st May 2014
CAF : Confederation of African Football course for Instructors and held in Cairo
PAUL REJER : The referee awards a PK but reverses decision after consultation
MLS : See how PRO monitors its referees on matchday
Premier League gear worn by referees revealed
Life as a Sunday League referee
Injured referee – maybe his last game
Parents convicted over teenage ref attack
RUSSIA : Shake-up in Russian refereeing
SERBIA : Ref blows whistle for half time just as goal was about to be scored
Apologies were received, from Mssrs G Hartley; Bradbury; Godson; Shiers; Bishop; Coote; Allenby and B Ballantyne.
Mins of Last meeting were read and accepted, no matters arising.
Correspondence regarding; CFA central appointments system; fitness tests; RA insurance and reply to complaints about the dinner were read and discussed.
Membership stands at 35, members to be aware you are not covered by insurance if not paid your subs.
York Legends Evening chairman gave a report of a good evening.
Cricket, 29TH June names to Joe Ballantyne. Jonny Ham had been in conversation with a Morcambe member who would like to restart the ties between the RAs in some way. Thoughts for Sept meeting.
Problem Corner, advice on a player and spectator at grips was discussed, also length of grass on the pitch, penalty spot in a hole, geography, the web site has you are the ref questions and other articles of interest.
Congratulations were given to promotion candidates and advice given as what to expect and what is expected when you make the step up.
Liam Wodsworth told of his experience in a Croatian tournament , Jan Suchecki and Amy Humphries are going to a tournament in the States
Peter Hartley asked for sponsorship and assistance in forthcoming cycle ride.
A.o.B. York College always on the lookout to referee matches, contact P Hartley or John Ledgeway
Meeting closed at 9.25
Another season gone. There was an improvement in membership up to 72 (65 last season). Meeting attendances averaged out at 26 which is roughly a third of the membership, with a good turnout of our younger members attending (then everyone is younger to me).
I think we had a varied spectrum of speakers, with PGMOL referee coach Graham Laws, Ross Joyce CFA RDO, Michael Ingham, York City (though once again the jinx appears after attending our meetings), Syd Nye training officer standing in at late notice, Head of PE at St Johns (amongst other positions) Mark Sullivan, our own Dave King and the quiz presented by Tony Thornton. Though the April meeting with nothing arranged went well with numerous topics raised and discussed.
Dinner, we had Sharon Shortle, Radio York presenter as guest. Meal was not to everyone’s taste, with a few complaints. The entertainment made up for it, thanks to Glynn. Colin Fawcett was presented with his RA 50 year membership award. Sam Bayley received the chairman’s award.
The Lol Cussons evening went well, it would be nice if a few more members could attend.
We attained a RA Quest Bronze Award for our procedures and administration.
Thanks go to all committee for their efforts during the season and also to donated prizes, sold raffle tickets , posed problems and assisted in any way.
Congratulations to all who gained promotions and received final appointments for their efforts during the season.
Sept 4…Oct 2…Nov 6…Dec 4…Jan 8 ?…Feb 5…Mar 5…Apr 2…May 7.
Anyone who has contacts with someone who they feel will make an evening’s guest please let me know.
1…Apologies
2…Mins last AGM
3…Matters arising
4…Secretary’s Report
5…Treasurers Report
6…Election of Officers
7…Any permissible business
Apologies, were received from Mssrs ; G Hartley; Bradbury; Godson; Shiers; Bishop; Coote; Allenby; and B Ballantyne.
Mins of Last AGM were read and accepted with no matters arising.
Secretary’s Report was accepted.
Treasurers Report, due to the Paypal system of on line payment the report was given verbally by Dave King. We are in a healthy position and balance sheet will be ready for September meeting.
Election of Officers. There was a new position created of a membership secretary to ease the treasurers workload, also two new candidates had been put forward for committee. The committee was elected en block;
President/Secretary…Ian Hotchkies
Chairman/Treasurer..John Ledgeway.
Vice Chair…Paul Ballantyne Supplies..Joe Ballantyne
Membership Sec…Sam Bayley Ex Officio….Anthony Thornton
Training Officer….David King
Committee..Brian Smith; Glynn Ellwood; Dave Milburn; Peter Cook; Geoff Hartley; Jonny Ham and Brandon Bishop.
CRA Delegates, Ian Hotchkies; Dave King; Brian Smith; Paul Ballantyne
York FA Reps; Dave King, Graham Bradbury
Auditor, Ron Price.
There being no permissible business meeting closed at 7.55