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**Susy Soccer** · 05-31-2007, 06:22 AM

Were you playing at UMass? :D

As an aside - I am amazed the two grade 9 refs had the composure they did to even try to pull this off. I appreciate with the wisdom of age or more training, they might have called the whole thing off, BUT I have to give them credit for having the confidence to try.

**Soccer Fan** · 05-31-2007, 07:12 AM

There was a guy in street clothes working one of the sidelines that I suspect was the dad of one of the girls because I heard him asking the coach after the game "how they get paid". I think he had a lot to do with it

05-31-2007, 07:48 AM

I heard another odd thing regarding referees, this for a town travel make up game.

Apparently 2 teams faced off with 3 center refs, no linesman. Apparently the head center ref was 'training' the other 2. Coaches let the game go on then the loser protested and the make up was last night. Odd.

**Soccer Fan** · 05-31-2007, 09:45 AM

That is really weird....

**Vman971** · 05-31-2007, 03:34 PM

I was one of the coaches of that game. The field condition was surprisingly bad with the long grass and lack of lines. The other coach asked if we still wanted to play and we told her we didn't have a problem with it. The girls just wanted to play the game. We talked with both refs while we waiting for the key to unlock the goals to arrive and explained to them exactly what was on the line in this game (which was absolutely nothing). We were joking with them a bit, asking them for a color code for the cones so we could figure out what the orange and red cones meant. We told the refs to just do their best and assured them we wouldn't scream at them from the sidelines. If they missed a call, so be it. I think they did a decent job given the conditions (though they did miss the call on the corner kick that led to the first goal). If this was a MAPLE game, we wouldn't have played it (I'd like to think we wouldn't have 2 grade 9s in that case) but since it was a MASC game, it really wasn't a big deal.

**ieleven** · 05-31-2007, 03:48 PM

What team was responsible for the field. I would think someone would check the field before a game is scheduled on it.

**Vman971** · 05-31-2007, 03:51 PM

What team was responsible for the field. I would think someone would check the field before a game is scheduled on it.

The other team.

05-31-2007, 07:10 PM

Originally posted by Vman971

I was one of the coaches of that game. The field condition was surprisingly bad with the long grass and lack of lines. The other coach asked if we still wanted to play and we told her we didn't have a problem with it. The girls just wanted to play the game. We talked with both refs while we waiting for the key to unlock the goals to arrive and explained to them exactly what was on the line in this game (which was absolutely nothing). We were joking with them a bit, asking them for a color code for the cones so we could figure out what the orange and red cones meant. We told the refs to just do their best and assured them we wouldn't scream at them from the sidelines. If they missed a call, so be it. I think they did a decent job given the conditions (though they did miss the call on the corner kick that led to the first goal). If this was a MAPLE game, we wouldn't have played it (I'd like to think we wouldn't have 2 grade 9s in that case) but since it was a MASC game, it really wasn't a big deal.

Who won last nights rematch? I was talking to a few parents up onthe hill

**Vman971** · 05-31-2007, 07:24 PM

What rematch? It was the first time we ever played them. Red Devils won 2-1

**Red99** · 05-31-2007, 07:31 PM

Originally posted by Vman971

I was one of the coaches of that game. The field condition was surprisingly bad with the long grass and lack of lines. The other coach asked if we still wanted to play and we told her we didn't have a problem with it. The girls just wanted to play the game. We talked with both refs while we waiting for the key to unlock the goals to arrive and explained to them exactly what was on the line in this game (which was absolutely nothing). We were joking with them a bit, asking them for a color code for the cones so we could figure out what the orange and red cones meant. We told the refs to just do their best and assured them we wouldn't scream at them from the sidelines. If they missed a call, so be it. I think they did a decent job given the conditions (though they did miss the call on the corner kick that led to the first goal). If this was a MAPLE game, we wouldn't have played it (I'd like to think we wouldn't have 2 grade 9s in that case) but since it was a MASC game, it really wasn't a big deal.

What a nice attitude you have, putting it all in perspective and just making sure the girls got to play and not coming down on the refs! I assume that if the fields had been truly horrible you wouldn't have allowed the teams to play so as not to risk injury. Kudos, coach.