KCRYA14 - All photos now online / Reviewing your performance

Evening everyone,

Well I've spent a productive afternoon indoors (no football for me this Sunday??) finalizing the uploading of Day 4 - Day 5 - Presentations photos to the Flickr account.

If you search for your first name and / or finals game "U/14MPlate" and select Your Photostream as shown below

you'll find pictures of your games, awards ceremony and perhaps random pictures tagged with you or your final game.

Over 1900 pictures online (new record for KCRYA) and I'm still waiting on pictures from NZ and Lynda for completeness (hint hint Paul, Brent).

I'm working on reviewing the video footage shot (mostly of Sunday's technical sessions and Sun - Wed's technical sessions).  At this stage I'm looking at uploading that footage onto a DropBox account for closed distribution but will have to work out the details yet as it's a lot of downloading to view it all (currently 37Gb).  If anyone has better ideas, love to hear some feedback.

I'll also be using the dropbox service to provide footage from past Kanga Cup technical sessions as soon as I can edit it down.  More details in a post later this week.

Reviewing / Goal Setting

How was your first full weekend back post KCRYA?  Any improvements?  New found confidence on your local leagues after refereeing in the hot house of Kanga?  Are you reviewing your performance game to game for areas of improvement?  Have you set new short term / medium / long term goals for your refereeing career?

Your Academy book had some brief reviewing sheets to help you in this regard, but you may have filled them all in.
Here's a possible template to start with.
Jim Ouliaris, formerly FIFA AR, current member of FFA/FFV Referees Technical Committee, FFV's Referee Standing Committee, and AFC/FFA Assessor / Instructor and back in 2012 was FFV's Talent Officials Program Manager.  Jim created along with help from Chris Bambridge, Ian Postlethwaite, Luke Brennan, Carlo Graser, Hakan Anaz, Kevin Dockerty (a stellar range of FFV's top refereeing minds) a range of documents you can still find on the internet and are still relevant today.  Here's Jim's Top Session 2 that covers topics including Unwritten Rules, SMART goal setting, LOTG Q&A, and a short quiz.  Give it a try, see how you go and the unwritten rules are especially interesting reading.
Used with thanks to Jim and the FFV crew.

Gossip from around the Grounds

Post Kanga lag for some of the Qld crew - Lynda has spent most of the week recovering from a cold, missed training but was back out assessing today.  Can't keep a good assessor down long, made of tough stuff up North.

Darren went straight back into the deep end of Football Brisbane's Capital 4 on Saturday afternoon (well someone had to do it!!) and promptly sent off two and cautioned half a dozen, keeping up the hard line spirit of Kanga Cup and not taking any nonsense.  He had a good night's sleep and promptly returned to the airport on Sunday for a few days in Melbourne.


Bit of a step up from this 3 days earlier

Tuesday's training was full of questions from KCRYA Alumni about how good/bad it was. Bit of jealously I felt about our AIS setup I think compared to years past - LOL

I caught up briefly with Oliver at Monday night's junior coaching on the Southside.  Otherwise it's back to normal.  I managed to have two quiet games (Sunday after, just a single RC for VC) and yesterday Capital 2 Ressies was a walk over 9-1, but was a fun training run working my angles. Already working on the annual report, did some correspondence with the KCRYA coaches and spent the rest of this week sorting out my Uni life for Semester 2.



CF - Delfina Dimoski (presenter on Sunday night)

had a big weekend being appointed to ACT NPL U/20's CR for first time.  There is speculation she's aiming on making a big play for Kanga Cup U/12's Plate Grand Final in 2015, so you can follow her progress on Twitter @DelfinaDimoski

Alasdair - MIA somewhere last seen in the FNQ area after missed flights and another long day on Saturday (LOL).

No word from NZ crew, but lots of FB updates indicating everyone got back.

If you managed to get some local publicity for your attendance, send me the link.  Remember, internal promotion of your time at KCRYA within your branch / region could be via your monthly newsletter / publicly speaking at your next coaching meeting - ask your Branch coach / mentor about it.

Anyway, time to get onto something else. Enjoy the photos and don't exceed your parents internet limit.

REMINDER: Visit http://www.ausref.com/index.php/shop for your all refereeing needs with your KCRYA exclusive discount code only valid until the end of July.  Thanks to Scotty for the Flickr site maintenance.

Until next time.

KangaCupRef