I’ve seen teams from all over the place play “when in doubt, kick it out”. Most frustrating thing to watch as a coach.
It's the oldest defensive strategy in the world.
I’ve seen teams from all over the place play “when in doubt, kick it out”. Most frustrating thing to watch as a coach.
My DD's coach always let parents know we need to act appropriately on the sideline, i.e. act like an ass, parent-coach, or some other shenanigans and your DD's playing time will be affected. From my own experience, nothing works quite as well as threatening parents with playing time for their kidsPassion has nothing to do with parents acting like asshats. You can care without acting foolish. Too many parents at younger ages scream and parent-coach at little Johnny and Jennie. Yes it’s much better at the olders, but those parents can be assholes too.
Noise makers [not my ex wife] aren't allowed at high school games, are they allowed in club?Forgive me..I am old and dumb (great combination..highly recommend it btw)
But are you talking about actual cowbells? At Ulittle games? That would be horrible to listen to. Do parents really bring noisemakers to these games?
It’s bad enough to hear that one dad screaming at his kid as if they purposely made a bad play or gave up a goal..but to contend with noisemakers of any kind would be brutal.
What's wrong with telling a kid to get the ball from the net if they are down a goal with 5 minutes to play? I don't see kids grabbing the ball from the net if they are up.
....When you play a certain team out of Chino that likes to kick the ball out of bounds when their up by a goal, it just gets a bit old.......
Referee point of view. As soon as the ball goes into the net and is considered a goal the ball now belongs to the team that has the kickoff. I have seen fights start because players from the team that scored the goal try to take the ball out of the hands of the keeper or a defender that was just scored on. Besides, the kickoff cannot occur until all three referees have entered the scoring information in their books, substitutions are completed and the referee crew is ready. Getting the ball out of the back of the net is not going to speed up the game.
For clarification, I am taking about the kid that grabs the ball out of the net anda promptly kicks it to the creek so that the kickoff is delayed.I’ve seen kids grab the ball from the back of the net when they are up and then promptly boot it to another field to waste time. Btw never seen a card given for this.
At some point, kids need to learn a little gamesmanship. It might be "bush league" to kick a ball out as far as possible when winning by a goal with 2 minutes left. It might be bad to foul a kid at midfield who might beat you on a breakaway. It might be against the rules to grab a hold of a jersey on a scrum during a corner kick.
If grabbing the ball out of the back of the goal when down with a few minutes left is the worst thing you see on a Saturday youth game, you're in good shape.
Are Surf parents the only ones with an attitude like this? I have often heard that line but I have to believe it is only because I have been exposed more to Surf parents. Come on OC parents, are there any clubs that have parents with this same attitude?She looks at me and says in a sarcastic tone, "Its ok, we are with Surf."
Where can I find this in the Laws of The Game?
Maybe a club that has white and blue strips?Are Surf parents the only ones with an attitude like this? I have often heard that line but I have to believe it is only because I have been exposed more to Surf parents. Come on OC parents, are there any clubs that have parents with this same attitude?
100% with this.....Id say its parents and def TV too.....You obviously don't have a older age kids playing if you believe in this. At older age groups grabbing the ball by scoring team from the back of the net can result in all kinds of altercations. Just fyi, if the goal scored, ball belongs to a team who got scored on and referees will issue a caution to a player grabbing the ball more times than not.
At younger ages, kids do this because they seen it somewhere else (tv or older sibling games) or because coach or a parent asked them.
Where can I find this in the Laws of The Game?
Are Surf parents the only ones with an attitude like this? I have often heard that line but I have to believe it is only because I have been exposed more to Surf parents. Come on OC parents, are there any clubs that have parents with this same attitude?
Ok well I always here "It's a free world and I can sit where I want to sit." But the "because I am with X club" is just too funny.No it is not just Surf. I have had similar attitudes from West Coast, Blues, Beach, Slammers and Legends parents. I had a Legends mom who wanted to sit right next to the Legends goal. I politely asked her to move to the sideline. Her response was, "Don't worry about me I am with Legends." I had to get the Legends team manager involved before she would move. I had a Celtic parent try and get sarcastic with me once when I asked her to please backup off of the sideline. The Celtic coach shut her down quickly.
Ok well I always here "It's a free world and I can sit where I want to sit." But the "because I am with X club" is just too funny.
Unless I was filming I always sat where we were suppose to. And while filming I never used it as an excuse to coach during the game.
There is no where in the LOTG that says where, how far, or how hard a player can kick the ball. If I was a coach and up by a goal or two with only a few minutes left, I would prefer my players boot the ball to the next galaxy instead of the forward taking it to the corner. I have seen far to many players injured trying to guard the ball in the corner to run time off the clock and fights break out. As a referee I am extremely quick to call fouls in the corner late in the game. IMHO kicking the ball to the next galaxy is good gamesmanship.
One thing that bugs me is dogs at or on the field. Please leave your dog at home unless it is a true service dog. If you cannot go a few hours without seeing your dog then maybe you need therapy.
Unfortunately, I've seen refs issue yellow cards for this action, I guess under the premise of time wasting. Not a fan of doing this or dribbling into the corner, I would rather have the kids try to play keep away from a development standpoint. While booting it to the next zip code is effective, its also the sign of a lazy coach.
I love dogs and I've always owned dogs, but dogs are dogs, they're not people. Dogs don't belong in most public places, particularly restaurants and retail stores, and certainly don't belong in places that are posted "No Dogs Allowed". If you want to treat a dog like a person, then do it at home.
The only way yellow could be issued if the ball is booted while being out of bound already. Once it's on the field, on what basis anyone will issue a yellow?
Yeah, your guess is as good as mine, you'd have to ask the refs that issued the cautions. I can speculate that they deemed it "unsporting behavior" because they believed it wasn't in the spirit of the game. Refs have wide latitude when it comes to invoking spirit of the game elements.