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Yes. I understand that PIADM is likely not to be black and white and some judgement on who is in most danger of getting hurt needs to be assessed quickly. Same with lowering the head of one player while another player raises his foot to kick the ball - whose more at fault? Kes, it also makes...

Thanks GraemeS. That makes a lot of sense. So if the player on the ground is actively trying to kick the ball I shouldn't make a call until either he gets kicked by the opposition or if the ball gets trapped in the grounded players body with them making no attempt to get it out (aka shielding...

If it ends up in the goal I don't think I'll get flak from the defenders as the attackers were not really aggressive towards the defender on the ground. There was no complaint from them on the day either, just from the attackers that thought the defender couldn't "jump over the ball while on the...

Oh right. Yes defenders doing scissor kicks I can image would be quite rare too. I didn't think about the keepers knee situation though. I suppose as it's a non-contact incident it would easier to ignore and then maybe warn the keeper for next time. If the knee makes contact with the attacker...

Ahh yes, thanks for the correction for the correct restart. I should have researched the restart before posting that line. In your experience is this a common, rare or very rare incident - ie IDFK for non contact PIADM foul in the goal area?

Actually in hindsight of my hindsight maybe letting play go on was a safe option as well - I might have got more flak from the attackers if I awarded a foul against them. Then again by letting things go am I making a rod for my back as I have read so often on this forum. So many options - so...

YES Will_A. That was EXACTLY my thinking as well. The right but tougher and riskier decision was PIADM but safe referring would be to give a defensive soft foul. Your right, I could have put in a hard sell to the attackers even though I'm sure they would have laughed at me. What made it worse...

Thanks heaps for that as I decided at the time that it was a "No Call" and hoped it was OK. I understand it was a YHTBT moment but if you think it was a weird scenario then I feel better about the whole thing. If it happens again exactly like it did I will feel much more confident in giving an...

Thankyou social lurker for your directness with regarding the LOTG. I was aware and PIADM is an IDFK outside the penalty area - just wasn't too sure about inside the penalty area and wanted to be 100% confident before calling a penalty. To be clear I volunteered to ref the adult game as a favour...

Thanks for that clarification. It does makes sense about "Intent to play to the ball". If he wants to try and kick it / knee it / head it etc then it's on him and a PIADM offence occurs according to "commonly accepted" practices. So in my case I should have awarded a penalty and just cop the...

Hi All. Long time reader and first time poster from Australia here. I would love some guidance on what you do if the following occurred in a game you were reffing. I know it's not relevant to the incident but it was my first adult game which I volunteered for - due to a ref shortage. Just...