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Old Fri Feb 25, 2005, 08:11am
Jurassic Referee Jurassic Referee is offline
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Originally posted by Wearin' Stripes
Stop play and let the kid in as soon as his team is in control. Tell everyone at the bench you screwed up.
Why would you stop play as soon as the short-handed team is in control instead of waiting for a natural whistle or TO? Why would you think of taking away the other team's legal advantage in playing 5 on 4? Imo, you're just bailing out a team that isn't smart enough to get 5 players out on the floor. That ain't our job.

Are you really gonna apologize for screwing up? I always thought that it was up to the teams to get 5 players out there, not the officials. Sure, we're supposed to check for 5, but sh*t happens. When it does, the bottom line is that it's the coach's fault that he doesn't have 5 players out there, not the officials'. Let the coach tell us that he screwed up.
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