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Message: [QUOTE="DarthGrumpy, post: 1833647, member: 2141"] It happens. I had a ref last year who did not know that slide tackling is not allowed in Rec (we play a multi-town rec league) for U9. The other team's best player, he got a hat-trick, made 5 slide tackles without a single whistle. Luckily only one of my players was hurt. I finally had enough and grabbed the ref and the other team's head coach and told that player was done or I was going to call the Rec Commissioner on the spot. The opposing coach said he did not know about the rule, which I pointed out was BS because it was rule #1 on the rule book that each coach got at the beginning of the season. I should know as I wrote it. The rule on slide tackling was foul #1) warning (some kids play on Rec also play travel, which does allow slide tackling, so I can understand a U9 kid just forgetting), 2) yellow, 3) red. Oh, my team lost by a goal, too. This year, a different ref, now U10, was trying to explain to me that two goals scored by the other team were not offside were no offside. I get that offside is a tough call to make, especially when there is just one referee. The explanation that the goals counted because the goalscorer (same player) was not in an offside position when he scored both goals and therefore the the two passes that lead directly to each goal to players who were significantly offside did not matter. It was an interesting conversation. Basically, both goals were from long clearances from their defensive end across the midfield line to 3 players who were all behind our defensive line by several yards. So, the clearance pass and then the pass from the wing to the middle were offisides; but, the final parallel pass that got the goal keeper past our keeper was technically not. We lost 4 to 2. [/QUOTE]

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