After my match last night where I was acting as Junior AR, we were discussing a few of the key incidents. And when explaining one of his decisions the ref said something along the lines of "well I did that because if I had done X instead, then I would have had to do Y as a result" (being deliberately vague here)
I didn't think that was correct, so queried it and both the ref and Senior AR doubled down and agreed that the ref would have been obliged to do Y, so I accepted and we moved on. But I've checked the LOTG today and I was correct - if he had done X then he wouldn't have been obliged to do Y as a result, instead he should have done Z.
We were talking in hypotheticals so it isn't the case that anything wrong in law happened last night - but if he was to do X in future and then do Y as a result, I think that would be a potential replay match and suspend referee level of mistake. And of course, it's possible I misunderstood the issue completely, although I don't think so.
So with all that in mind, I'm struggling this morning with the question of if I should drop him an email with a screenshot of the relevant section of LOTG and a polite correction. Or does the ref/AR relationship effectively end when we shake hands and get in our cars at the end of the night, and doing this would come across badly? Appreciate everyone's thoughts on how they would feel if an AR came back to you after a match to "correct" your law understanding!
I didn't think that was correct, so queried it and both the ref and Senior AR doubled down and agreed that the ref would have been obliged to do Y, so I accepted and we moved on. But I've checked the LOTG today and I was correct - if he had done X then he wouldn't have been obliged to do Y as a result, instead he should have done Z.
We were talking in hypotheticals so it isn't the case that anything wrong in law happened last night - but if he was to do X in future and then do Y as a result, I think that would be a potential replay match and suspend referee level of mistake. And of course, it's possible I misunderstood the issue completely, although I don't think so.
So with all that in mind, I'm struggling this morning with the question of if I should drop him an email with a screenshot of the relevant section of LOTG and a polite correction. Or does the ref/AR relationship effectively end when we shake hands and get in our cars at the end of the night, and doing this would come across badly? Appreciate everyone's thoughts on how they would feel if an AR came back to you after a match to "correct" your law understanding!