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I haven't seen Vad on the appointments lately. Injured?

He's only been involved in 1 game this season so far and we are now a third of the way through. It was the weekend that we struggled to put out 6 teams of match officials over the weekend and we had 8 match officials doing 2 games each across the weekend. 1st November - Round 9. He was AAR1 to the lovely Mr Solymosi in the Újpest v MTK Budapest match. Újpest had requested a postponement, MTK refused and therefore Mr Puhl had to find match officials for 6 games not 5. He may well be involved in tomorrow's game but I'm not expecting to see him out.

Mr Puhl said a few weeks ago that there are big changes coming to the NBI referee list in the near future with as many as 5 or 6 referees leaving the list and being replaced by younger referees. I would suspect the 5-6 leaving to be Solymosi Péter (48), Iványi Zoltán (45 in December), Erdős József (43), Pintér Csaba (43) and Andó-Szabó Sándor (42) possibly along with Vad II retiring through injury. This is the 3rd season now he has barely had a game, the only explanation is that he is struggling with a recurring injury.

Incoming I would expect to see Csonka Bence (28) & Pillók Ádám (32), who made their NBI debuts towards the end of 18/19 and are both establishing themselves very well. Last season we had debuts from Antal Péter (34), Káprály Mihály (30 in November) and  Zierkelbach Péter (32) has made his NBI debut this season. There are a few other NBII refs who could well be close to debuting on the NBI – Hanyecz Bence, Molnár Attila as 2 examples.

I have to accept it is the lovely Mr Solymosi's last season - I'm hoping for a May not December retirement!

Article on Mr Puhl's interview here!

Újpest v Paks
2020.11.27 - 20:00
Budapest, Szusza Ferenc Stadion
Referee: Csonka Bence black shirt
4O: Farkas Balázs
AR: Márkus Tamás, Becséri Gergely
AAR: Takács János, Molnár Attila

Kisvárda Master Good v Budafok
2020.11.28 - 14:45
Kisvárda, Kisvárdai Várkerti Stadion
Referee: Zierkelbach Péter
4O: Csatári Tibor
AR: Szalai Balázs, Vígh-Tarsonyi Gergő
AAR: Szilasi Szabolcs, Ducsai József

Mol Fehérvár v ZTE
2020.11.28 - 17:00
Székesfehérvár, Mol Aréna Sóstó
Referee: Erdős József black shirt
4O: Bornemissza Norbert
AR: Albert István, Király Krisztián
AAR: Andó-Szabó Sándor, Lovas László

Ferencváros v MTK Budapest
2020.11.28 - 19:30
Budapest, Groupama Aréna
Referee: Antal Péter
4O: Aradi József
AR: Garai Péter, Horváth Róbert
AAR: Solymosi Péter, Takács János

Rest to follow

Takács János with 2 AAR appointments. Shortage of referees I guess.

We are really struggling thanks to a dreadful prolonged covid spike within football in general here.  He's the same age as Solymosi Péter, nowhere near as fit & I suspect this is also his last season. Don't think he's done many NBII games as referee but (apart from 4 weeks out himself due to covid), he's a decent & reliable AAR2. He was in Bognár's team when there was the post match positive tests after the Kispest game & Bognár was replaced in Europe.  He & one of the others were out for 4 weeks, the rest of them 6 weeks.  Would not surprise me to see Csonka & Molnár out as AAR's on Sunday or Andó-Szabó & Solymosi out either as AARs or the 2 referees although Bognár might be available after his Thursday excursion to Dublin, if he gets a negative test in time - wouldn't be the first time for that part not to happen (round 3 their tests weren't back in time for him to use the Thursday night Eu team - the lovely Mr solymosi had been 4O)

I feel for Mr Puhl right now he's juggling a very small pool of match officials, trying to adhere to the 48hr rule, while praying for no new positives tests or injuries, to cover just 6 games!

Mezőkövesd Zsóry v DVTK
2020.11.29 - 14:05
Mezőkövesd, Mezőkövesd Városi Stadion
Referee: Iványi Zoltán
4O: Horváth Zoltán (F)
AR: Tóth II. Vencel, Medovarszki János
AAR: Káprály Mihály, Kulcsár Katalin

Budapest Honvéd v Puskás Akadémia
2020.11.29 - 18:45
Budapest, Új Hidegkuti Nándor Stadion
Referee: Pillók Ádám
4O: Szécsényi István
AR: Georgiou Theodoros, Huszár Balázs
AAR: Farkas Ádám, Takács János

Merkantil Bank Liga Nb II. 19. Forduló

WKW ETO FC Győr v Vasas
2020.11.29 - 13:00
Győr, ETO Stadion
Referee: Solymosi Péter
4O: Radványi Ádám
AR: Berényi Ákos, Sinkovicz Dániel

3 days out of 3 for Mr Takács.  All Budapest based games, nice weekend away for him, he is listed as from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county. Very unique county as it borders Slovakia, Romania and Ukraine!  He was born in Vác so maybe he has moved back there. It's not far from Budapest 15/20 km.

OTP Bank Liga NB I. 13. forduló

Budafoki MTE v Újpest
2020.12.04 - 20:15
Budapest, Budafoki MTE Sporttelep
Referee: Káprály Mihály
4O: Horváth Róbert
AR: Georgiou Theodoros, Király Krisztián
AAR: Antal Péter, Takács János

#SolymosiWatch - bmb's sanity restored! Unlikely to be redshirted though as Vidi play in blue & red. Paks in green & white

Budapest Honvéd v MTK Budapest
2020.12.06 – 15:15
Budapest, Szusza Ferenc Stadion
Referee: Iványi Zoltán
4O: Bornemissza Norbert
AR: Garai Péter, Szécsényi István
AAR: Radványi Ádám, Lovas László

Paks v Mol Fehérvár
2020.12.06 – 17:30
Paks, Paksi FC Stadion
Referee: Solymosi Péter
4O: Medovarszki János
AR: Tóth II. Vencel, Vígh-Tarsonyi Gergő
AAR: Szilasi Szabolcs, Takács János

Appointments not released until 2am Hungary time, really hope the officials knew before then! Takács János 3rd AAR appointment this weekend again, Vígh-Tarsonyi Gergő out again. All AAR's are NBII refs.  Mr Puhl is really having a tough time of it at the moment trying to cover the games. I think he will glad to see the winter break arrive!! 3 more games after this round plus a couple of postponed matches scheduled for 23rd December - a redshirted Mr Solymosi would make a perfect birthday gift Mr Puhl! 

Mr Puhl is really having a tough time of it at the moment trying to cover the games.

We have 12 NBI res and 4 officially still NBII refs who regularly referee in the NBI.  Just having a quick look at the appointments over the past few weeks... This week is Round 13

Missed 1 round: Solymosi Péter (Wk 3 after being in Europe on the Thurs); Erdős József (this weekend); Antal Péter (5)
Missed 2 rounds: Pillók Ádám (1 & 10), Káprály Mihály (2; 10), Zierkelbach Péter (1 & 10); Bogár Gergő (3; 12)
Missed 4 Rounds: Csonka Bence (Wk 2-5); Farkas Ádám (9-11; 13)
Missed 5 Rounds: Andó-Szabó Sándor (wk1; 5; 9-11); Iványi Zoltán (1-3; 5-6)
Missed 6 Rounds: Karakó Ferenc (1; 5; 10-13)
Missed 8 Rounds: Pintér Csaba (4-5; 8-13); Berke Balázs (2; 4; 6; 9-13)
Missed 10 rounds: Bognár Tamás (1-3; 5; 7-10 [covid]; 12-13 [Europa League Thurs games]

Vad is out injured & has been all season so we are down to 15 in total. He was used as an AAR on week 9 out of sheer desperation!

As we still have the AAR system we need 3 referees/game so 18 per round, we have a number of NBII refs who act only as AAR's in the NBI along with our 2 FIFA ladies, our NBI refs normally do 1-2 NBII games each season as well. 6 (50%) NBI referees have missed 5 -10 games out of 13, that is a huge loss.  The VAR training program started in October as well and has also been hit. Mr Puhl has done a great job in finding enough officials for every game so far.