Schedule for the 2/16 & 2/17 weekend is up. Confirm your assignment, if you have one, before Friday. There are people who did not games due to the lighter schedule this week. I am not emailing anyone on Friday to ask as I have done every single week this season. I will just reassign the games. I already have 2 people on call. If you are available for the weekend of the 23rd and 34th, submit your availability. There may be makeup games the weekend of March 2 and 3 but I would expect it to be light.
Last weekend was....eventful. If you had U16 or younger last week, I heard nothing negative from anyone regarding the refereeing. If you had high school however.......
I would like to thank those who did those divisions last weekend, both girls and boys and to those doing those games this week as well as the weekend following. If you haven't heard there were a plethora of yellow cards, a few red cards two major injuries and a game terminated due to a spectator's behavior that threatened the safety of a referee. For the rest of the season, if a player does anything to entice an opponent in any way, it is a caution. There are to be no verbal warnings. Anything deemed to be of an insulting nature towards any person, that person is to be sent off or dismissed. If it is a spectator, have the coach remove that spectator. If they fail to do so, dismiss the coach. Repeat this process until there are no more coaches or the spectator is dismissed. If the spectator returns, terminate the match. If you get in a situation where you feel physically threatened, get to a safe place and call the police.
Last thing, if you happen to dismiss a coach for irresponsible behavior, please note in the report "Red card - other". Unfortunately I was looking through the reports and noticed a coach was "sent off" but I missed the fact as the report said other instead of red card.
Keep up the effort and the professional attitude I've come to expect from everyone. Good luck those handful of people attending either regional or national championships this weekend. Send me pics, or it didn't happen.