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Originally Posted by glyphrunner
Tonight, we had a very interesting, while absurd, situation happen on the coin toss (and subsequent second half options).
Ref: "Home, you've won the toss. You have the option of kick, receive, defend a goal, or defer to the second half."
Home Captain: "We'll defer and defend that goal" (indicating the west goal).
Ref: "You only get one choice right now; kick, receive, defend a goal, or defer to the second half."
Home Captain: "Ok, we'll defend that goal" (once again indicating the west goal).
Ref: "Visiting captain, you have the option to kick or receive."
Visitor Captain: "We'll receive."
Ref: "Home captain, you'll be kicking from the west end and it will be white choice in the second half."
Both teams shake hands and go off to their sidelines. No qualms or questions at all. Then, when we're giving the options for the second half, Home Captain insists that they get to receive the ball even though Visitor Captain has already stated their desire to receive the ball. For some reason, the Home coach also insists that it should be their ball to begin the second half.
I know we did this correctly, but I just had to share the fact that there are still some people out there that don't understand that you don't always get to receive the second half if the other team received in the first half.
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A way to avoid this, and the way it's done here is:
Toss the coin. To the winner say: *** you've won the toss. Do you want to make your choice now or defer the second half?
If he says "defer" then the loser will usually say " we want the ball" before you can ask him.
Don't make officiating harder than it already is.