BFA To Host Two Day Referee Workshop
The Bermuda Football Association [BFA] is seeking a few good men and women to join the Bermuda Referees Association. The BFA will be hosting a two-day work shop for those interested in becoming a referee for the 2011/12 season.
The course will entail teaching the rules and regulations for football and will provide theory and practical sessions under the leadership of Second VP Gregory Grimes who is a qualified FIFA referee instructor.
Mr. Grimes brings over 30 years of experience as a former referee and referee instructor.
Presently, the BFA has 23 referees who serve for 7 months of the year during week days and weekends. They officiate an average of 6 games per month and will oversee Premier, First and PDL division games. The average age is 39, whilst the youngest age is 22.
The two day course will be held at CedarBridge Academy during the weekend of 16 –17 July from 9am – 4pm daily. For more information please contact the BFA office or go to Bermudafa.com
Now can we see your plan for football?
This administration has been in power for a year and we are yet to see a plan. We know that they have cancelled Olympic football for men, discontinued the scholarship program, failed to fund the club improvement program that was approved by the former admin,discontinued the prep school tour that was incredibly successful as well as the college showcase tour and the Clyde Best tournament.Whew!
They have continued to travel however to FIFA and CONCACAF meetings around the world.Silly me thinking that the game was about players and coaches.
Oh and do they still believe that hiring Jacques Crevoisier was a massive mistake or have they watched the tremendous work he is doing for the ABC Football School? The coaching Handbook is fantastic..
Well done Red, you have fully explored the impact of reduced funding (paragraph one).
Onto paragraph two you seem not to know that travel to FIFA and Concacaf meetings are funded by the same i.e. no cost to the BFA. You also seem not to know what our regional and international presence both administratively and athletically has been non-existent for quite some time.
I don’t think anyone doubted Mr Crevosier’s ability to write and talk about football – that is how he earns a living. There would (should) have been questions over his suitability for the task at hand and of course the cost of his services.
Additionally it is true that there had been some drift from the core mandate of the national body. If a player via the BFA gets a scholarship/pro contract and never comes back to the Island, how has the local game been improved?
If ABC football school turns out to provide accomplished players for the national programmes all the better.
Reduced funding was 250k which coincides with Broadleys total payment. The BFA have not replaced Broadley, therefore what has changed, vis a vis the 1million dollar budget that the former administration had at its’ disposal?
Suitability for what task? What exactly is this admin attempting to achieve. Further I am aware that this admin would have loved to involve Crevosier after determining what he is offering the ABC School.
Hit submit prematurely Frankie..
All players that are granted BFA scholarships don’t disappear and never return. Far from the truth. I am surprised that this is your concern as assisting young boys and girls to develop via football should be one of the major reasons administrators & coaches get involved in the game. I wish I could say that I am surprised by your answer however.
I am quite aware that FIFA and CONCACAF travel is funded by these organizations. I am equally and comprehensively aware that far to many of our administrators and those involved in the world game simply use the game for their own personal gain. Hence me asking the original question,ie, where is your plan and what have you done in 11 months besides take trips?????
As for ‘some drift away from the core mandate’ – seriously! Seriously? It is more like a tornado induced departure. Again,what is your mandate? What is your plan? Why has it taken 11 months to articulate something that the former administraion completed prior to taking over the FA?
Keep in mind that the former admin came into office and had their budget immediately slashed by 1.5 million dollars ( not 250K ) and in the 2nd year by an additional 500k. They simply reconfigured their plan ( like good companies do ) and completed massive amounts of very, very impressive work. That again is indisputable
Frankie – Forgot to mention that it is the BFA’s job to establish a plan for football in Bermuda and not the ABC School or any other club or organization. This school was not as prominent 11 months ago and I suspect it is because they have now filled a huge gaping hole created by a non functioning Association that seemingly has no plan, vision, ability or maybe interest in moving the local game forward.
Randy
All interesting stuff unfortunately the BFA doesn’t not offer full and open disclosure to the general public so we don’t really know what the BFA’s financial position.
In theory the national coaching manuals have already been written (or at the very least the material has been compiled) so engaging Mr Creviosier in a national role similar to his role at ABC would be reinventing the wheel. If it turns out that nothing had been complied between 2008 and 2010, then that would be serious food for thought for the current executive – don’t you think?
Prior to 2010 the BFA’s self ordained mandate was to largely ignore the clubs. Create the national academy and to try to directly involve itself in educational and professional opportunities for players – which i will reiterate is outside of the scope of the national body.
The principal aim of the National body is to put out – in conjunction with the local affiliates – competitive national teams. We haven’t done that in anyway shape or form in the last two years. To the extent we have fielded teams they have actually performed worse than pre-2008.
Again serious food for thought, don’t you think?
Nonsense Franky…We both know, or at least many of us know that the BFA do not have a coaching manual., unless you refer to the course work created and delivered by the last TD. I trust that you are not referring to this very basic course material as playbooks /manuals.
Frank, if you had closely followed the plan created by the previous executive and it’s out there for all to see, you would have realized that the mantra was development and that was done in full. To suggest that what took place prior was significant is to to unveil your bias or true lack of football knowledge. I can’t think of any credible football people that would support your position.
Nice one Baffled,
I think you have re-iterated the conundrum…the question is the “development” was pursued to what end? What good was is it if no legacy material was created in the process?
Are you saying we had a much trumpeted strategic plan but no substance wrt to its implementation? Or is the substance to be found in the fact that, we have a festival atmosphere at youth level, the national teams training twice a week, the same playing in random non-sanctioned matches and the odd announcement of professional “opportunities”?
A credible football perspective would know that players from u14 up have previously participated in the national programme (yes we did have one pre 2008) and introducing “new” training methods is not the same as actual development.
How about another question? Having de-recognised all previous coaching qualifications and introducing a new framework, how many A licensed coaches do we have at the moment?
Possibly the most confusing attempt at logic ever, Frank. I have no clue what any of what you have written means. Maybe Baffled can assist.
In the spirit of postscripts…I raised a question about the possibility players not returning, as opposed to stating a fact. How about the question Randy? Indeed how about the logistics now of locating and (successfully) incorporating non-Island based players?
I can’t deny that we had some very, very impressive ideas- some not so. Whether the “work” was impressive and to what extent the outcomes are a result of the halcyon days of 2008 – 2010 remains to be seen.
Frank you are becoming a tad bit ambiguous and therefore I am unable to answer your question, so I am forced to move to points raised in para 2.
As you mention there is no denying the impressive ideas put forward by the prior admin ( speak to any person that has real / extensive / unbiased knowledge of our game and they will tell you that the work was ground breaking – fact!! ) whether you agree or not, significant work was completed, despite the lack of real effort by member clubs and many members of that Exec.
Failure to act on excellent advice is not the fault of the author. As Marley says in one of his master works, ‘ In a fountain of water, the fool goes thirsty’
Stay thirsty and wither away amigo…
They seemed pretty specific to me (which might be the problem). lets see if i can break it down…
Why would the BFA need to hire Mr Creviosier to produce materials that should have been produced as part and parcel of the “grand plan”? If nothing of note had been produced then on what basis was the national programme being run including selecting and de selecting of players and money being spent?
If the facts are that all the thought and energy went into writing the plan and very little into the execution then just say so.
Hopefully its not too churlish to point out that the previous executive(s) bailed out on the “grand plan” little more than half way through their terms and certain members of the technical staff had their contracts up for renewal without being able to point to objective signs of progress.
Unless you count the u20s – with two years of preparation and ground breaking work – who failed to advance past the CFU group stage…
Bailed out…hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hiccup..ahhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Finally …it is abundantly obvious that you have no clue what it takes to create a long term and sustainable program.. If club football and the manner in which it operates in Bda or lack of same is not the starting point for any Executive then you are simply playing at it. Speak to any unbiased club Pres. and they will tell you how the former Exec assisted them..
Looking at the results of one team and discounting all the many poor decisions made by the current and at one point former Exec is again proof that you clearly don’t have a clue how to manage something/ anything successfully.
I look at the current situ of once proud clubs like Dev Colts and the mighty Zebbras under Nibs Lewis. Now consider the sorry state of affairs at the Colts and the fact that PHC have not played on their dormant, pristine field for 20 years and the fact that they don’t have a club house and the fact that they failed to have annual meetings and I simply rest my case..
It is shameful what has happened to our clubs and sitting members of the current Exec and former coaches of our 2008 national youth teams are significantly responsible for the mess that we find
ourselves in..Again,Fact,,
Last but not least …more was done in 24 mos when compared to what had been accomplished in the previous 24 years ..Fact!!
Long term involvement in any club, job or relationship means little if nothing noteworthy is accomplished..Ask any employer or long suffering spouse.
That Frankie boy sums up this current group masquerading as national football executives…
btw the way i like the insinuations that i clearly can’t know what i am talking about or that my view is inherently invalid – classic Bermudian.
For the record I am a results guy and “borrowing” the UK’s four corners development framework is not an achievement.
Ok Frank, that’s it, I’m out
If you suggest that the restructuring / complete overhaul of a poorly run BFA office or the Prep School initiative or Clyde Best tournament or college ShowCase initiative or assisting willing clubs to produce financial reports or delivering monthly financials and an on time annual report or a myriad of other accomplishments to be very little in the line of execution then you clearly are not results oriented. Quite the opposite. The facts speak for themselves and your revisionist stance is hilarious.
Broadley was hired by the current Exec and he clearly failed to produce results, hence the decision to replace him with Crevossier. A decision reversed by the current Exec. In short, poor results on the field of play can be attributed to both Broadley and the current Exec. As for the 2008 CFU group, please, no one and I mean no respected coach on this island believes that those in charge of that group have any clue about coaching. Look at their club teams and the rubbish football they played during their tenure as proof positive that they were poor coaches.
BTW the admin staff’s job is to run the office…so it is/was poorly run. We should be looking at the staff….
Results and this current BFA Exec should not be used in the same sentence and it was more then an insinuation that you don’t know what you are talking about..
As for the frame work – again you show your ignorance or it could simply be that you are a tad jealous…
The framework we have “borrowed” is designed to fit into an environment where the main concern is (English) professional clubs’ focus on results and phyisical attributes over technical ability.
I think you will find that there are no professional clubs in Bermuda hence our development “problem” is different.
Our development problem is lack of infrastructure (especially physical) and and acute lack of funding, which again you refer to citing one clubs lack of club house…
last one for the record:
Our 2010 u20s who played as u17s in the 2008 CFU youth cup made it to the quarterfinals in 2008, narrowly loosing to Cuba, the eventual winners.
For the record – no sane technical comm would have ever hired the coaches of that group… correct me if I am wrong but didn’t the head coach of that group get frog marched out of a stadium in the US for unsavory /untidy behavior while in charge of a Bermuda national youth team? Isn’t that the same person that was suspended for threatening a ref and the former TD?
Red/Randy/Baffled
Talk about going all around the houses to make a point (inclding the typical non-constructive invective).
Lets see, we started with the premise that the current exec haven’t come up with a plan and I pointed out that whatever the virtues of the strategic plan, the executuion of the same has been poor.
Oddly you agree with me: “Broadley was hired by the current Exec and he clearly failed to produce results, hence the decision to replace him with Crevossier”.
I think your point is that staff were hired before a plan was drawn up and that staff couldn’t execute the plan. Further the former exeuctive should be given credit for allowing the plan to go off the rails and their attempt to put it back on track as they were leaving the building.
So the sum of your point(s) is that the former exec hired the wrong guy and now some of them are back in office? That’s fair, although it seems you have some personal axes to grind.
So net result, the clubs are terrible and the strategic plan was a brilliant attempt do to all the work the clubs aren’t doing and we need to know what the current exec is doing to get the plan back on track? Is that your point?
What’s interesting is that you all have chosen ignore some specific questions:
- How does having a host of players overseas (with the accompanying issues of availabilty) help the local game?
- How many coaches have gone through the “new” certification process and to what level?
- What do we make of – irrespective of views on the indiviual coaches – that we had a group of players who were good enoughto make the qtr finals and two years later they can’t out of the group stage?
Did the same coach of that team get escorted from a U S field while in charge of a Bda youth team? Did the same coach reduce the once proud Dev Colts to the very depths of local football?
I am completely surprised that even you can’t see the merits of young players obtaining scholarships via football. Improving football in the manner being implemented by the ABC school is the very same approach recommended by the previous exec, brighter minds opted to introduce another plan..Wait, there is no other plan..
It is clear that in spite of the obvious and significant flaws of those coaches in charge of that 08 team they obtained decent results. It is safe to say that had Thompson, Bascome or Morton been in charge of that team they would have most likely gone further..
Oh and yes, many clubs are terribly managed. Many can’t pay their bills, have little to no paid up members and that is only the beginning. Again one need only look at Dev Colts and PHC to see what a lack of leadership gets you…Again Fact!
No personal issues here boss but can you point me in the direction of this executives plan..Even if it is the disjointed collection of ideas that the old / current exec crafted …Geez..can we something?
Finally and mean last comment on this matter..Firing Broadley from day one would have addressed the coaching issues and related on field results.. It would equally have created a avalanche of push back from the RG and in time sponsors ..That is why the current Exec must be held accountable for very poor judgement as they not only hired Broadley, but the 08 coaches as well. Very poor decisions made ..disastrous..
Now can we see a plan? I would settle for a first draft given that you have been in power for nearly 12months…