Good evening all, hope you’re looking forward to the weekend officiating…or keeping warm. They’ll be a few pitch inspections happening over the weekend if the games haven’t been postponed already. Hopefully the warmer weather today and tomorrow will help thaw grounds, as the rest weekends are already being taken up by the flood postponements and there’s a cup competition to fit in somewhere 😉
To kick things off this time round we’ve had a few new members this season, 23 have signed up with us since the start of the season. Firstly, welcome to the North Mids Society.
To ensure you are up to date with everything taking place there’s a few links below surrounding our social channels along with this bulletin. To ensure you receive the bulletin straight to your inbox please ‘Subscribe’ using the link on our home page, details at the bottom.
You will also find a raft of information surrounding how to set your availability on who’s the ref along with confirming fixtures, claiming mileage etc. Check out the Referee Hub to find out more.
We also have a society kit store which can be accessed through this link taking you to our page at Stag Sports.
The Society have a members only facebook page, click on this link and request access. You must be a current member of North Mids Referee Society to be granted access.
We are in the process of updating our other social media pages to include a social facebook page along with Instagram.
2 Yellow Cards Confusion
After some confusion last weekend we have gone away to clarify what needs to happen on issuing 2 yellow cards, and thus a red card in a match.
On showing the second yellow card, referees must make it clear that the player is being sent off and cannot be involved further. They should do this by showing the red card after showing the yellow.
In ALL cases the referee MUST submit the sending off report to CB Discipline.
There seems to be a wrong interpretation that because the yellow cards were for two technical offences a report is not necessary as ‘nothing happens’ with Discipline. In fact, what happens is that individuals and thus clubs are reviewed at the end of the season to see if further action is needed.
x2 Yellow Cards – Technical Offences / x2 Yellow Cards – x1 Technical Offence , x1 Foul Play / x2 Yellow Cards – x2 Foul Play – Red Card must be issued and a Red Card Report Completed.
Ask the Expert
We had a question posed to us through our ‘Ask the Expert’ section this past week as follows:
If a penalty is taken, hits the ground short of the posts but bounces up over the bar does it score 3 points or how should the game continue?
Our expert says –
Law 8.4 states: ”for any goal to be successful, the ball must be kicked over the crossbar and between the goal posts without first touching a team-mate or the ground”.
Therefore, no penalty is scored. If the ball then goes dead or is made dead by the non-kicking team, as this was a genuine attempt at goal, the restart is a 22m dropout. If the ball is not made dead by the non-kicking team, it remains live and play continues.
If a kick at goal hits an opponent before going over the crossbar between the goalposts (without touching the ground first) then the goal stands. This also applies from the more likely attempt to charge down a drop kick at goal.
If from a place kick at goal, the ball hits a team-mate (imagine that a “placer” as per Law 8.24 moves his hand/arm immediately before the kick and the ball hits the placer) before going over the crossbar the goal is not awardedand play continues until the ball is next made dead as above.
If you have any questions regarding Laws or in general please use ‘Ask the Expert‘ on our website or post on our private facebook.
Have a great weekend and if there’s a topic you’d like to see in our bulletin please let me know.