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Old Fri Feb 08, 2008, 11:41am
Scrapper1 Scrapper1 is offline
Lighten up, Francis.
 
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee
I will slowly, very slowly walk over and get the ball. I will then slowly, very slowly, walk back. I may stop in the middle of my slow walk and re-tie my shoelace. When I get back, I may re-tie the other shoelace. I will then verbally check with both teams to make sure that they are ready for me to administer the throw-in.

Repeat as needed.

The message sent is usually taken.
This is too much trouble. Just stand there. It accomplishes the same thing. Everybody waits until they realize the ref's not gonna get it. Then somebody will get it.

Personally, I usually just ask the closest kid to "help me out". Rarely do I have a problem with that approach.
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