Rapid Promotion - Is it for you ?
23/04/09 12:08
Enhanced
Promotion - Is it for you?
The London Enhanced Promotion Scheme is now coming to the end of its third year in operation and, over those three years, only a small percentage of applicants have managed by the end of September to meet the crucial requirements of (a) refereeing at least twenty matches and (b) submitting at least ten assessment applications.
I would be failing in my duty of assisting referees to obtain promotion if I did not bring this to the attention of 2007/08 promotion candidates who are considering electing to join the Enhanced Scheme rather than the “Normal” Scheme, the requirements of which are contained in paragraphs 1.8 and 3.2 of the Promotion Scheme Rules, as printed on pages 197 and 198 the LFA Handbook & Directory for 2006/07.
A glance at a 2007 calendar shows that there are nine weekends (including Easter) between the start of the Promotion Year on 1st March and the end of April, together with a further five weekends in September. Some leagues and competitions might continue into early May (although others could close before
the end of April) but most local leagues will not start the new playing season until the third weekend of September. It therefore does not take a mathematical genius to work out that, if you only referee on one day per week, you will not manage 20 matches from March to September. Even if you officiate on one of the summer leagues, it will still be touch and go to reach this figure and that is assuming that the weather does not interfere. It therefore takes a considerable commitment to refereeing to achieve 20 matches as a referee between the start of the Promotion Year (1st March) and the last weekend of September.
I would urge all promotion candidates for 2007/08 to consider the foregoing before applying for the Enhanced Promotion Scheme as I do not want again to have the unhappy task of writing to a number of referees in October to tell them that they have not met the basic requirements and that they have therefore missed out on their chance of promotion.
The London Enhanced Promotion Scheme is now coming to the end of its third year in operation and, over those three years, only a small percentage of applicants have managed by the end of September to meet the crucial requirements of (a) refereeing at least twenty matches and (b) submitting at least ten assessment applications.
I would be failing in my duty of assisting referees to obtain promotion if I did not bring this to the attention of 2007/08 promotion candidates who are considering electing to join the Enhanced Scheme rather than the “Normal” Scheme, the requirements of which are contained in paragraphs 1.8 and 3.2 of the Promotion Scheme Rules, as printed on pages 197 and 198 the LFA Handbook & Directory for 2006/07.
A glance at a 2007 calendar shows that there are nine weekends (including Easter) between the start of the Promotion Year on 1st March and the end of April, together with a further five weekends in September. Some leagues and competitions might continue into early May (although others could close before
the end of April) but most local leagues will not start the new playing season until the third weekend of September. It therefore does not take a mathematical genius to work out that, if you only referee on one day per week, you will not manage 20 matches from March to September. Even if you officiate on one of the summer leagues, it will still be touch and go to reach this figure and that is assuming that the weather does not interfere. It therefore takes a considerable commitment to refereeing to achieve 20 matches as a referee between the start of the Promotion Year (1st March) and the last weekend of September.
I would urge all promotion candidates for 2007/08 to consider the foregoing before applying for the Enhanced Promotion Scheme as I do not want again to have the unhappy task of writing to a number of referees in October to tell them that they have not met the basic requirements and that they have therefore missed out on their chance of promotion.