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Random and unofficial insights and happenings at Football Tournaments nationally from the officials perspective

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Arrival Day

Good first day, almost everyone arrived who nominated and the team seems to be bonding well.
Dinner was lasagne, followed by indoor climbing and David Kurthi doing an "house rules" and introductions session.  I provided some sage advice about FB and social media usage during the week and following, I can only hope that they don't make too many mistakes...

Some details are leaking out about this weeks program....
 Allyson Flynn, Capital Football Referee Development Manager will be presenting whilst on crutches, speaking about the balancing act of being a FIFA AR.
 Ben Williams and Ben Wilson will make another presentation about the view from the top and hopefully some pre-Olympics gossip

On the rurmour mill, there may even be an appeared by Mark Shields, details to be confirmed........

For those of you statistically minded....
  •  Record number of Referee mentors are in attendance (13 for those taking count)
  •  Record number of new referees (42?) as opposed to returning (4)
  • Number of times Louie has been caugh napping in 2012 (0)
 
Everyone is finally been encouraged to head to bed and aside from one room still making too much noise (I'm looking in your direction Rm6), I'm heading towards my bunk bed.

Sunday is early breakfast, Mentors meeting, Fitness "assessment" in the beep test (hoping to beat 14 this year) and some quality instruction from local lumerinaries.

Uploaded today's pictures to the Flickr account, look for AusRef or click the linke to the right.  Happy to add any to the stream, see me at RefHQ.
 Thanks to Scott Ferguson once again freely providing this great resource of treasured memories going back to 2001

Follow me on Twitter@KangaCupRef and visit the Kanga Cup Referees - 2012 event page

ZZzzzzzz..........

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