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What would you like to see at monthly meetings?

Monthly Meetings

These are held on the second Thursday of each month from September to May each season.

There is occasionally a meeting in late August each year to discuss the new law amendments.

The May meeting is usually the AGM.

An annual dinner / dance is also held in March each year.

York RA Events

Future Meetings

2007-2008:
22 June - Cricket v Lancaster RA (Acomb CC, York)
5 July - RA Conference (Solihull)
2/3 Aug - FA Refs Course (York College)

2008-2009:
11 Sept - first meeting of new season
9 Oct - Nigel Bannister, Referee
13 Nov - Barry Sygmuta, Referee
11 Dec - Quiz & Buffet evening

Venue

NEW VENUE from Sept 2005:
All meetings held at York City FC Social Club, Bootham Crescent, YORK.

Commencing 7.30 pm prompt.
Finish approximately 9.30 pm.
York CIty FC

Social Events

DINNER

The Dinner / Dance was on 31 March 2007.

The venue was the Beechwood Close Hotel, Shipton Road, YORK. Some 72 members/guests enjoyed a good evening.
Presentation to John Ledgeway (Junior Cup) - President Ian Hotchkies won the Numbers Board prize.
David King was also presented with the Chairman's Trophy.
The speaker was Peter Walton, Select List Referee. He had travelled direct from a game at Charlton to York and provided us with an entertaining evening, with some stories about his career and travels (we never quite got the rendition of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" - he saved that for Conference!

See separate report on Centenary Dinner on 7 March 2008, in the Centenary section of the site.
Nealry 200 attended the event at York Racecourse to celebrate 100 years of York RA.

The next event is the Presentation and Disco evening at Ramada Hotel, Skelton on the 17 October 2008. Make a note in your diary now.

CRICKET

War of the Roses
York hosted lancaster referees on Sunday 22 July at Acomb CC. The 30 over match saw York win with Jan Suchecki being York's man of the match. York batted first and scored 154/6 after 30 overs. Lancaster replied strongly and looked set to achieve a winning score only to concede wickets and made 117.

This annual event is a good social occasion and maintains relationships with our colleagues from over the hill. We look forward to travelling to Lancaster next year.
The score currently stands in York's favour 9-3 (3 drawn).

QUIZ NIGHT
The annual quiz / buffet evening is held at the December meeting each year.

RA National Conference

Conference was held at Sollihull on 5 July 2008.
The 2008 Conference saw a "The Future of Refereeing" as the theme, with Mike Riley and Steve Smith as Keynote speakers. Also Howard Webb made a presentation about his Euro 2008 experiences. Many workshops were held throughout the day - Mike Riley, Howard Webb, Steve Bennett, Martin Atkinson, Chris Foy to name a few.
Neale Barry also made a presentation of the Law changes which took all of 62 seconds!

It was a success and well supported by York.
Ian Hotchkies, Don Thorpe, David King, Anthony Thornton, Graham Bradbury and partners attended Solihull this year. Chris Simpson, Mark Dwyer and Paul Tomes attended on the Saturday, and John Ledgeway attended the Dinner.

The evening Dinner was the highlight with speeches by Geoff Thompson and Lord Triesman (FA) and by Pierluigi Collina plus David Elleray.
Other guests included Jack Taylor (1974 World Cup Final Referee) and John Motson, amongst many others.

The Friday evening was the highlight for me as I was awarded my Long and Meritorious Serivce Award by the RA (along with others including Colin Hart from N Riding).
York RA were also featured in the Conference brochure as we also celebrated our Centenary (as well as a number of other Socieities).

It was good to see a number of younger referees as well as some Premiership referees.

Why not consider attending Conference....it is free.
The National RA Conference in 2009....being held again at Solihull on 11 July 2009.
Why not attend the Saturday; you will enjoy it.

Next Meeting

11 September 2008:

This is our first meeting of the new season.

August

August 2007:

No meeting

September

September 2007

Nick Bassett, York City FC Secretary, gave us a talk about his past and how he became Secretary, a post he has held for some 2 years, having previously been involved in sponsorship at the club.
He felt that the club was going in the right direction and that the people at the club were working together.

The next project is potentially a new ground for the club.

October

October 2007:

David Milburn, Rugby League Match Commissioner and local Football Referee gave us a insight into the code of Rugby League.

His father was a football referee but David got into Rugby Union when he lived in Hertfordshire. After moving to York (St Johns College) and getting ito teaching he then became involved with the League code.
He refereed in the professional game and is currently a Rugby League Delegate.

The one law he would bring into football from Rugby is the 10 yard rule.

November

November 2007:

Our guest speaker was Andy Leaning, goalkeeping coach at Sheffield United and ex-York City player.

Local lad who played in the York Minor League (Beckfield Rangers) before trials with Middlesbrough. Played for York City under Dennis Smith / Viv Busby. Other clubs include Sheffield United, Bristol City, Lincoln and Chesterfield.

Went on to coaching at several clubs.

December

December 2007:

For the first time in many years there was no presentation evening as no course has been held.

QUIZ
The annual quiz was held (won by .... Graham Boothmans team) ending with an excellent buffet, supplied by Committee members.

January

January 2008:

This was a special Centenary evening with some 40 old and new members reiniscing over past years and refereeing careers even as far back as 1938.
Many previous officers and committee members attended and other previous members of the Association:

Graeme Adams
Barry Bean
Alan Blenkinsopp
Bernie Carter
Eric Chapman
Steve Elliott
Geoff Hartley
George Howard
Peter Jones
Allan King
Noel Madden
Peter Rennison
Stuart Rennison
Peter Rhodes
Michael Sargent
David Scoreby
Fred Young

It was an excellent evening with stories about Leslie Clarke and Trevor Lea, as well as other amusing incidents.

In the first part of the evening a presentation was given by representatives from Playfootball.net who are building new outdoor 5-a-side facilites at Clifton Moor, due to open in Feburary 2008.

February

February 2008:

An informal evening discussing questions at interviews was held, with the help of Gary Wilson.
The meeting was poorly attended.

March

March 2008:

Phil Joslin, FL Referee from Newark came to York and gave us a profile of refereeing - being honest and enjoying it.
Phil is currently a Referee Coach and also RDO for Derbyshire FA and in his last season on the FL after 9 years (plus 5 years as a FIFA Assistant Referee).

Phil gave us some of his experiences and involved members in an interactive discussion.
Congratualtions go to Phil for his appointment to the Johnstone's Paint Trophy Final at Wembley on 30 March.

It was also pleasing to see David Kirk from Harrogate at our meeitng.

April

April 2008:

Uriah Rennie, Premiership Referee, talked about his career and refeeeing in general. He mentioned how Mike Riley sent him off as a player.
His first FL line was at York City and made the Premiership line in 1992 before being promoted to the middle in 1998.

He said that today's referes need to have a sense of humour, confidence, be a good listener, dignity.....and enjoy the games.

May

May 2008:

The Annual General Meeting (AGM).
New Officers and Committee voted in, including new Committee member David Milburn.

(see list of officers page).

Young Referee of the Year Award went to Sam Vale.

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Meetings Archive

Details of Previous Meetings:

2004-2005:
9 September - Open meeting / Laws update
14 October - Carl Bassindale
11 November - Howard Webb
9 December - Quiz & Buffet

13 January 2005 - Steve Beck (York City)
10 February - Discussion Evening
10 March - Training Evening
8 April (Dinner)
14 April - Graham Law, York City FC
12 May (AGM)

2005-2006:
8 Sept - Law amendments
13 Oct - Billy McEwan, York City FC Manager
10 Nov - Barry Sygmuta, Premiership Assistant Referee.
8 Dec - Presentation Evening and Quiz/Buffet
12 Jan 2006 - Misconduct Reporting / Discipline
9 Feb - David King, Training Evening
9 March - Graham Bradbury
25 March - Dinner (Beechwood Hotel)
13 April - Keith Hackett, PGMO
18 May - AGM

2006-2007:
14 Sept - Colin Walker, Tork City FC
12 Oct - Chris Dale, NRCFA
9 Nov - Ian Blanchard, FA Head of National Referee Dev.
14 Dec - Presentation Evening and Quiz/Buffet
11 Jan 2007 - Match Scenario discussion in groups
15 Feb - Paul Robinson, FL Referee
8 March - Alex Mathie, ex-professional player
31 March - Dinner, Peter Walton
12 April - Training Evening
10 May - AGM

2007-2008:
13 Sept - Nick Bassett, York City FC Secretary
11 Oct - David Milburn, Rugby League Commissioner
8 Nov - Andy Leaning, Goalkeeping Coach
13 Dec - Annual Quiz and Buffet
10 Jan 2008 - Special Centenary evening
14 Feb - Discussion evening
7 March - Centennary Dinner
13 March - Phil Joslin, FL Referee
10 April - Uriah Rennie, Premiership Referee
8 May - AGM

2008-2009:

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