Hi all
First game in a year and only my 5th game in 2 years. Hopefully have overcome my injury and can play far more regularly from now.
Reffed this morning for the first time in almost a year, it’s my 5th game which means my test is imminent. I’ve got a few things from the match which is like to ask my fellow colleagues. Firstly the home team coach was an absolute nightmare and something I’ve yet to experience. I’ll list the events and dialogue from the game and hopefully get some advice to improve next time.
1) I think I’ve learned to always take the split second to watch what happens before the play is played or moves before watching the ball. There were two incidents where I should have followed this rule. Firstly there was an incident whereby the blue team player played the ball and as I watched the ball go to the blue attacker I hear a very loud exchange which sounded like a ‘kick out’ by a blue team player. Furthermore the red player goes down in agony. I don’t fully see the incident but I book the blue player for reckless play (I felt he followed through on a tackle unnecessarily), this led to the blue team player asking why he was booked in which I explained that I felt he kept his foot in after the tackle. Him and the coach disagreed with this decision and moaned it was a ‘coming together’. Should I have dealt with this differently?
There was a further incident where I don’t feel I kept full eyes on play (and instead watched the ball). Red team go through on goal, he kicks it past the running out goalie and scores. My eyes are on the ball but I notice in my peripheral vision that there was a ‘coming together’ at first I thought it was the running out goalie but red team players and coach were stating that it was the ‘blue number 3’ that went in hard. Apparently it was a red card according to a few players on the red team but I used the excuse that I played on for the goal which most of the team understood and accepts. My improvement point here is to watch what happens after the ball is kicked in these incidents to see if anyone has gone in hard and look for penalty shouts.
Overall I felt I had a good game but the home coach felt otherwise. During an injury stoppage he came over to me and stated ‘is kicking the ball away allowed now is it’ to which I immediately knew I’d have a problem with this coach. I don’t feel that the red team purposely delayed the restart of play and therefore I carried on with the game. What I mean by this is that the red team didn’t boot the ball away but weren’t exactly rushing to give the blue team the ball quickly when I gave a foul to the blue team but I didn’t feel like it was delaying the restart. Anyway after the game he was very vocal towards me. He came straight over to me after the game and stated the following:
“How many foul throws do you want to miss? One of them led to a goal!”
“You missed every foul for us but did the opposite for them every time”
“Their player took our players out at every opportunity during a long ball and you ignored it”
“During kick off you kicked off with one of their players in our half!’
As you can see he was a serial moaner. How do you deal with people like this? I just stated to him that I felt the long balls were contested fairly and appropriately and were subjective. At the end we just agreed to disagree but he was at me from the word go. Pretty upset about this as it has really affected my confidence as I felt I did quite well today but never mind.
I don’t want to give constant fouls for ‘pushing’ on 50/50s as the game would never be played, I’d personally much rather let play continue unless its an obvious push in the back. I was thinking well if that’s all you can moan about 50/50 long balls and foul throws I mustn’t have done that bad. Anyway thanks for reading I know what I need to improve on and will strive to improve. Just upsetting when coaches affect your confidence on this manner
My improvement points are as follows
-watch for foul throws even when you can’t see the pitch lines ! (Very poor pitch lines)
- watch for pushes and pulls on 50/50 long balls. I don’t want to be blowing up for them every 5 seconds but just watch for obv ones
-watch the aftermath of a shot for any fouls and who committed them.
First game in a year and only my 5th game in 2 years. Hopefully have overcome my injury and can play far more regularly from now.
Reffed this morning for the first time in almost a year, it’s my 5th game which means my test is imminent. I’ve got a few things from the match which is like to ask my fellow colleagues. Firstly the home team coach was an absolute nightmare and something I’ve yet to experience. I’ll list the events and dialogue from the game and hopefully get some advice to improve next time.
1) I think I’ve learned to always take the split second to watch what happens before the play is played or moves before watching the ball. There were two incidents where I should have followed this rule. Firstly there was an incident whereby the blue team player played the ball and as I watched the ball go to the blue attacker I hear a very loud exchange which sounded like a ‘kick out’ by a blue team player. Furthermore the red player goes down in agony. I don’t fully see the incident but I book the blue player for reckless play (I felt he followed through on a tackle unnecessarily), this led to the blue team player asking why he was booked in which I explained that I felt he kept his foot in after the tackle. Him and the coach disagreed with this decision and moaned it was a ‘coming together’. Should I have dealt with this differently?
There was a further incident where I don’t feel I kept full eyes on play (and instead watched the ball). Red team go through on goal, he kicks it past the running out goalie and scores. My eyes are on the ball but I notice in my peripheral vision that there was a ‘coming together’ at first I thought it was the running out goalie but red team players and coach were stating that it was the ‘blue number 3’ that went in hard. Apparently it was a red card according to a few players on the red team but I used the excuse that I played on for the goal which most of the team understood and accepts. My improvement point here is to watch what happens after the ball is kicked in these incidents to see if anyone has gone in hard and look for penalty shouts.
Overall I felt I had a good game but the home coach felt otherwise. During an injury stoppage he came over to me and stated ‘is kicking the ball away allowed now is it’ to which I immediately knew I’d have a problem with this coach. I don’t feel that the red team purposely delayed the restart of play and therefore I carried on with the game. What I mean by this is that the red team didn’t boot the ball away but weren’t exactly rushing to give the blue team the ball quickly when I gave a foul to the blue team but I didn’t feel like it was delaying the restart. Anyway after the game he was very vocal towards me. He came straight over to me after the game and stated the following:
“How many foul throws do you want to miss? One of them led to a goal!”
“You missed every foul for us but did the opposite for them every time”
“Their player took our players out at every opportunity during a long ball and you ignored it”
“During kick off you kicked off with one of their players in our half!’
As you can see he was a serial moaner. How do you deal with people like this? I just stated to him that I felt the long balls were contested fairly and appropriately and were subjective. At the end we just agreed to disagree but he was at me from the word go. Pretty upset about this as it has really affected my confidence as I felt I did quite well today but never mind.
I don’t want to give constant fouls for ‘pushing’ on 50/50s as the game would never be played, I’d personally much rather let play continue unless its an obvious push in the back. I was thinking well if that’s all you can moan about 50/50 long balls and foul throws I mustn’t have done that bad. Anyway thanks for reading I know what I need to improve on and will strive to improve. Just upsetting when coaches affect your confidence on this manner
My improvement points are as follows
-watch for foul throws even when you can’t see the pitch lines ! (Very poor pitch lines)
- watch for pushes and pulls on 50/50 long balls. I don’t want to be blowing up for them every 5 seconds but just watch for obv ones
-watch the aftermath of a shot for any fouls and who committed them.
Job done...