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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not trying to be "all refs suck" here...but I have a actual question. 
Two weeks ago, U10 tournament. Ref was wearing a heavy coat the whole game, barely took his hands out of his pockets, and never left the center circle. 
I know all the complaining in the world doesn't help, but is there anything realistic that we as parents can do when the refs seems particularly bad?[/quote]

Well, if it was at ASIST, it was pretty damn cold for those early morning games.  Did the ref miss a lot of calls? At U11 in that tournament, we had a ref who was, ummmmm, rather large and in charge. I didn't think he could move around enough to be effective. But he actually did a really good job in both of my kid's matches that he officiated and I told him "nice job" after both matches when he was signing the game card. And we didn't win one of those matches, so I wasn't sucking up.

I don't think there is anything realistic that we as parents can do during a match if we feel the ref is doing a bad job.  If we are trying to teach our kids to respect the referee and the game, then the only thing to do is to remain quiet and maybe curse to ourselves under our breath.  If it's a league match, then an email to the assignor (as OP suggested) is a good way to go. I think it's a mark of a quality league to solicit feedback on the refereeing and to want to improve. EDP does a good job with this.  As for the parents and clubs who feel empowered enough to yell at the ref the entire game, there should be consequences. I can think of a few clubs north of the Mason-Dixon line who are notorious for this.  Their reputation is getting so bad that I think they should start getting banned from tournaments in this area.[/quote]

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