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Game Situations



Here is the first game situation one of you e-mailed me. The way I thought this would work is rather than just hear the reply of one person, we could hear from all of you. First I will post the situation, followed by the way the author handled it. Your job is to send me an e-mail on how you would handle it. I do not want this to be a “your way is wrong” type of outlet but rather suggestions that might help all of us in the future. Lets say that if you put your name in the body of text, that means I can use your name . This will only work if you participate, so please, dash me off a quick response and lets have some FUN!

Situation:

One of the "trickiest game situations" that I have encountered is what to do when a team is losing, and appears to have no chance of recovery; this is due to poor field assignments by the coach; and the coach is clueless about why things are going the way they are. Now before you are tempted to remind me that we are there to enforce the laws, these are often 6 and 7 year old kids I am talking about.

I was the referee when I suggested to a coach that his keeper might want to stay in goal and let another player take the goal kicks. (The goal kicks were barely leaving the penalty area before the other team was pounding it back at the goal.) This evened out the game, but it was too late in the game to even come close to effecting the outcome.

Bob Bilyeu

What would you do?
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Game situations wanted! I am looking for tough game situations you have encountered as a referee or a fan and how they were handled. We are not looking to embarrass anyone, so if it’s one you saw, do not put any details that would identify the referee.


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