Role & Responsibilities
The responsibilities of the Area Officiating Committee (AOC) are:
- To recruit, develop and assess neutrally appointed umpires and umpire support.
- To appoint officials to EH Area Leagues and EH Competitions.
- To support the recruitment, and development of Club umpires, working with Cluster Leads and Umpire Club Developers to deliver workshops and members evenings and to facilitate the assessment of umpires.
- To recruit and educate young umpires, provide opportunities for their development and progress to Adult League and Competitions appointments.
- To deliver Technical Official education and opportunities for TO development in Clubs and to recommend TO appointments to Leagues and Competitions.
Appointments
Appointments will continue to be made using the Officiating Management System (OMS) which has now been merged into the Game Management System (GMS) used to administer all Leagues and Competitions.
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The Midlands have 111 clubs across a very large geographical area.
In order to improve the retention, engagement and development of umpires, and communication with the clubs, we recruited a number of passionate Club Cluster Leads and Support Leads. Their role is to help with proactive outreach across a cluster of clubs. The hope being that by creating more local and familiar points of contacts, that the clubs will get more opportunity to understand how we can support them.
Day to day the role focus is to triage incoming requests for support and also proactively share news, updates and information on resources to their clubs.
Club Cluster Lead Contacts:
Name Role Email Stuart Poulton Cluster 1 Lead clusterlead1@midlands.hockey Ian Bradley Cluster 1 Support ian@bionelectrical.co.uk Roger Carter Cluster 2 Lead clusterlead2@midlands.hockey Dave Buttery Cluster 3 Lead clusterlead3@midlands.hockey Bradley Shough Cluster 4 Lead clusterlead4@midlands.hockey Becs Roycroft Cluster 4 Support officiatingclubliaison@midlands.hockey David Last Cluster 5 Lead clusterlead5@midlands.hockey William Murphy Cluster 6 Lead clusterlead6@midlands.hockey James Pennington Cluster 6 Support jpennington@p-tech.org.uk If you are unsure which Cluster your Club belongs in, please contact areaadmin@midlands.hockey