Coin Toss - YOUTH Games

[socal lurker]

I also coach an U12's team, and as our home pitch has quite a large slope, I ask my skipper to always play uphill first as I would rather we were playing downhill in the 2nd half when the legs are tiring. It's annoying if the ref asks my skipper if he would rather kick off instead.

Good heavens. I’ve never heard a ref ask that.

 

[one]

I also coach an U12's team, and as our home pitch has quite a large slope, I ask my skipper to always play uphill first as I would rather we were playing downhill in the 2nd half when the legs are tiring. It's annoying if the ref asks my skipper if he would rather kick off instead.

Yes but.... (A bit of analytical thinking) Would your 11 year olds have tired legs in second half in the second half because you asked them the run uphill in the first half?

Above is a moot point anyway as the amount of uphill and downhill running is pretty much equal in both halves. It's a matter of wanting to be faster in attack or in defence. Which makes no difference as your opponents run in the same direction and have the same advantage/disadvantage.

 

[Anubis]

I also coach an U12's team, and as our home pitch has quite a large slope, I ask my skipper to always play uphill first as I would rather we were playing downhill in the 2nd half when the legs are tiring. It's annoying if the ref asks my skipper if he would rather kick off instead.

I dont go as far as asking that but on occasion, when it appears no odds which way round, and the captain has deliberated and is unsure, then for no obvious reason says, change ends, i have said " are you sure" not to question the captains right to change ends, but just to second guess me instructing the change round only for the captain to revert back to we just stay as we are

 

[Kes]

Adults/youth, it's all the same to me. Who ever wins the toss, I turn to them and say "Okay, so you've got choice of ends or kick off, but not both".

Seems to work.

 

[one]

I want to kick off in the second half...




Got a few of you thinking

 

[JamesL]

I want to kick off in the second half...




Got a few of you thinking

So which end do you want to attack in the first half?

And a caution for being a numpty.

 

[Peter Grove]

Good heavens. I’ve never heard a ref ask that.

I was going make more or less the same point. It's not the referee's place to question the player's choice after the coin toss. Whatever the person winning the toss chooses, is what you go with.