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Old Wed Dec 06, 2006, 07:49pm
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Originally Posted by Old School
I'm not so sure I agree with everyone's thought pattern here. Pretty much everyone is saying stand your ground with a senior official. Go line up the players and shoot the 1 - 1 against your senior partners ruling. This does not sound like a verry wise thing to do, especially if you are a rookie. Not to mention, you don't want to stand out there arguing with your partner about a call. This makes both of you look stupid. Make a decision and move on. If you are not the R for the game, stand down and let the R make the decision. If it's the wrong thing to do, it is on the R and it will come back to him.

Since we do not know the R side of the story. I'm going to withhold judgement. However, I will say this, challenging a more senior partner could be detrimental to your career. Don't ever think it's okay to show up your partner like you have been advised to do here. That's like showing up your dad. Yea, you are right but..... If you are not the person responsible to make the decision, then yeild to that person. One day you will be that person and you will be the wisher.

The next thing you need to do in my opinion is call the person that assigned you the game. Get their advise about the play in question so that you can learn and let the assigner get back to the Referee of the game. If the R did something wrong, the assigner will get back to him. By doing this, you cover your bases.

Peace
I certainly hope that you are not mentoring people in your association. Should someone step in and change the other guy's calls because he is more senior even though the changed call is wrong? That is what you imply here.
btw, do you know anyone named JMO?
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