Had my first development league fixture as referee - yay, going up in the world! and I was assigned to work with one of the top ref's in the country as my senior assistant. I got plenty of advice from him, which was pretty cool;
One of the bits of advice he gave me was to try and communicate my decisions, especially regarding cautions/sending offs more via body language etc, so that the technical areas and other people would identify the reasoning for the card.
Things like, pointing out the multiple fouls for persistent infringement, or the talking sign for dissent. The idea is it would help calm things down a bit if the coaches etc understand the rationale etc. But, I wonder how else I could improve on this aspect? Are there any go-to signals that can be used for this purpose etc?
Do you guys use this method yourselves? What do you think about this?
One of the bits of advice he gave me was to try and communicate my decisions, especially regarding cautions/sending offs more via body language etc, so that the technical areas and other people would identify the reasoning for the card.
Things like, pointing out the multiple fouls for persistent infringement, or the talking sign for dissent. The idea is it would help calm things down a bit if the coaches etc understand the rationale etc. But, I wonder how else I could improve on this aspect? Are there any go-to signals that can be used for this purpose etc?
Do you guys use this method yourselves? What do you think about this?