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[quote=Anonymous]Overhead a rather spirited conversation between an adult referee (appeared to be the chief/man-in-charge) and a young/HS-age referee on the sideline during halftime, where the young referee was visibly upset about some issues with parents of the game she's reffing. the adult ref was basically dismissing her concerns and told her "first of all, you should never speak to the parents, you just don't do it, period." I was mostly focusing on my son's game on the next field which the adult ref was reffing so didn't see what happened between the young ref and the parents on the other field, but noticed a long pause between actions when players were just standing/sitting on the field waiting while the ref and the coaches appeared to be engaging in an long and animated conversation.

Anyway, my son isn't old enough to ref and I don't think he'd be interested doing it, but I was just surprised by what the adult ref said about not speaking to parents. Again I don't know what happened but I've read on here and elsewhere that it's not uncommon for refs to direct parents of proper behavior and even issuing yellow card etc. So, is such actions only to be done by an adult ref and never the youth ref? And this "rule/guideline" exists because of safety concern of the youth ref, i.e. to prevent parents from escalating an argument to a physical threat or harm? I'm just curious of what you all think.[/quote]

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