Umpire Appointments for the 2008/9 season
There will be 4 fixed poolsheets covering the season, 2 before and 2 after Christmas. Greater use of club umpires is inevitable. They will be appointed to neutral games, and be expected to travel to neutral venues. Clubs will be asked to name the umpires that they have appointed to those games that the Pool Secretary has nominated them (the clubs) to cover. Clubs will be expected to appoint suitable Level-1 umpires. This may mean someone who is not just Level-1 qualified, but also has some experience in umpiring. In Norfolk suitable umpires are those who have been trained and assessed to Level-1 standard, AND have been graded by NHUA for that League, and are active. Club umpires will be named and deployed on the poolsheet in advance of the fixtures. Failure to provide suitably experienced umpires may lead to sanctions and penalties being applied by the East League. The East Leagues will be monitoring the situation and examining the teams sheets and poolsheet appointments to see that clubs are honouring their commitments across the whole of the East region.
For this season NHUA will endeavour to appoint umpires to all Men's Div 1 games, to all Men's Div 2N and to all Women's East League Div 1N games for Norfolk teams. We may not have enough experienced/senior umpires to cover all of these games each week. The shortfall will be made up by using club umpires. At this point we are not envisaging appointing umpires to any East Women's Div 2 or Men's Div 3NE games.
.Please note that the umpires' match fee has now increased to £15. This is to cover travelling and other out-of-pocket expenses, recently there has been a dramatic rise in the cost of fuel and this is reflected in the match fee.
The appointments and poolsheet is a totally electronic, PC internet driven system. The aim is to stop posting poolsheets to people and you come here for the info. We will be contacting Club ULOs, club umpires and NHUA members by email. Please make sure we have your correct and up to date information. If you are not receiving emails and info from us, it's because we have the wrong email address. You will be able to download a copy of the poolsheet here in pdfformat by pressing the Poolsheet button above. Go to this link if you don't yet have the Adobe Acrobat Reader These are quite big files and may take a moment or two to download if you are using a dial-up modem/old PC. If you have trouble 'seeing' the poolsheet, try 'pressing' your refresh button. Sometimes installing a later version of Acrobat Reader over an earlier version causes problems. Remove the early version before upgrading.
Umpire appointments to HA Cup and Vase Games
It is the responsibility of the home (Norfolk) team to contact the the NHUA Pool Secretary as soon as details of the fixture is known. In the first instance NHUA will try to appoint suitable umpires for the game. In later rounds of these competitions, the ERHUA will normally make the umpire appointments. Failure to inform us in good time may result in no umpires being appointed.
updated 12th January 2009