Here's an interesting one, during my game yesterday. A feisty well battled local derby Blues vs Reds, with blues being the Home team. On paper blues should be cruising through this one with no issues at all, but with a local derby as we sometimes know that's not always the case.
As i said, well battled and feisty nothing malicious at all throughout the game, a bit of tempers seeing that the reds were leading 2-0 within a quick 20 mins of the game and stayed very much strong in keeping the blues away from the goal.
Halfway through the 2nd half, Blues have a great chance score and the result is 2-1 now, i can see a couple of the Blue team players running towards the goal to grab the ball and speed things up as they were chasing the game. The reds #4 gets hold of the ball first and walks slowly to the centre circle, I knew things are going to get ugly as I was ready to blow my whistle asking the blues to step away so i can control the situation, it erupted. Blues #2 and #8 try to forcefully knock the ball away and naturally Reds #4 fights back pushing #8 into the net. Big whistles from me shouting back off now all of you, it calmed down within a minute. Had to dish out 3 cautions for AA and USB.
My coach was there and asked what could i have done differently to control that situation. His suggestion was knowing that the score was close and that the minute blues score they would want that ball in the centre right away; I should have been proactive made the run to the back of the net controlled the ball myself and told everyone to go back to their respective halves as I got control of the ball.
Never occurred to me before, but yes I will keep that in my tricks book for next time!
As i said, well battled and feisty nothing malicious at all throughout the game, a bit of tempers seeing that the reds were leading 2-0 within a quick 20 mins of the game and stayed very much strong in keeping the blues away from the goal.
Halfway through the 2nd half, Blues have a great chance score and the result is 2-1 now, i can see a couple of the Blue team players running towards the goal to grab the ball and speed things up as they were chasing the game. The reds #4 gets hold of the ball first and walks slowly to the centre circle, I knew things are going to get ugly as I was ready to blow my whistle asking the blues to step away so i can control the situation, it erupted. Blues #2 and #8 try to forcefully knock the ball away and naturally Reds #4 fights back pushing #8 into the net. Big whistles from me shouting back off now all of you, it calmed down within a minute. Had to dish out 3 cautions for AA and USB.
My coach was there and asked what could i have done differently to control that situation. His suggestion was knowing that the score was close and that the minute blues score they would want that ball in the centre right away; I should have been proactive made the run to the back of the net controlled the ball myself and told everyone to go back to their respective halves as I got control of the ball.
Never occurred to me before, but yes I will keep that in my tricks book for next time!