{"id":103,"date":"2011-12-14T21:50:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T21:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.internetstrategiesuk.com\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2026-08-14T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T17:19:53","slug":"association-guidance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/association-guidance\/","title":{"rendered":"Association Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Social Networking Sites<\/h3>\n<p>Members are prohibited from commenting on any match decision and such comments could lead to them being referred to the SFA Compliance Officer for the consideration of a sanction.<\/p>\n<p>SFA Guidance reminds members to keep any social network page PRIVATE.\u00a0 When a person\u2019s site is \u2018open\u2019, there is a security threat in regard to that individual. \u00a0It can be very easy\u00a0for someone to use information\u00a0to cause damage to that person.<\/p>\n<p>Referees who disregard this guidance are liable to investigation by the Association \/ SFA Compliance Officer and possible disciplinary sanctions.\u00a0 Members of our association have recently been fined by the Scottish FA for posts on Social Media.<\/p>\n<h3>Association Communications<\/h3>\n<p>Members should use the following lines of communication:<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bruce (Association Manager)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individual \/ Private Footballing Matters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ian Bailey (Association Secretary)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All other matters of correspondence relating to all levels of football<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Owen Lawrence (Assistant Secretary)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change of Personal Contact Details<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Members are advised only to contact the Association&#8217;s Appointments Secretary in relation to matters in connection with the relevant match appointment and not any issues relating to match incidents etc, which in all occasions must be directed to the Association Secretary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Networking Sites Members are prohibited from commenting on any match decision and such comments could lead to them being referred to the SFA Compliance Officer for the consideration of a sanction. SFA Guidance reminds members to keep any social network page PRIVATE.\u00a0 When a person\u2019s site is \u2018open\u2019, there is a security threat in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aberdeenanddistrictreferees.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}