santa sangria
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I ran the line for a bottom of the table clash between two side born offside. Great ref, comms, lots of wait and see, well into double figures for offside offences, including disallowing the equalizer
We are in the middle of the season already and maybe these deliberate play observations are useful:
- long ball, poor back header by a defender, eventually collected by the attacker who started the long ball in an offside position and came back to collect. I made the rainbow. Easy one really but not expected by the ref or players - I think because it’s such a long time from the original pass. This has been every other match recently. Deffo good to talk in the pre-match. Comms great here.
- long, high GK kick from the hand, comes hard at the “mixed ability” centreback, his volleyed shank balloons out to the winger, who started in an offside position. I thought about and flagged it and communicated “waiting… offside… not a deliberate play” on comms.
My ref was switched on. He blew for it but said hmm we should discuss later. I think I got this one wrong. I haven’t seen a specific video example. On balance, fast and high ball, but lots to time to play a very expected ball. Also no one expected or appealed, I alone knew the player was offside at the kick. There was no need to flag. Perhaps I was already too flag happy with all the other offsides!
We are in the middle of the season already and maybe these deliberate play observations are useful:
- long ball, poor back header by a defender, eventually collected by the attacker who started the long ball in an offside position and came back to collect. I made the rainbow. Easy one really but not expected by the ref or players - I think because it’s such a long time from the original pass. This has been every other match recently. Deffo good to talk in the pre-match. Comms great here.
- long, high GK kick from the hand, comes hard at the “mixed ability” centreback, his volleyed shank balloons out to the winger, who started in an offside position. I thought about and flagged it and communicated “waiting… offside… not a deliberate play” on comms.
My ref was switched on. He blew for it but said hmm we should discuss later. I think I got this one wrong. I haven’t seen a specific video example. On balance, fast and high ball, but lots to time to play a very expected ball. Also no one expected or appealed, I alone knew the player was offside at the kick. There was no need to flag. Perhaps I was already too flag happy with all the other offsides!