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I had a situation where, I am lead and ball goes OOB, I see no tip, look at partner and he is moving to the other end, so he sees no tip, I call it and the players react and the crowd reacts like everyone saw the tip. I call partner over and he says " Did you see a tip?" I say "no", he says " the way everyone reacted, there MUST have been a tip, let's give it to them". I think he was right. We did and everyone was happy. Even the team that lost the ball.
On another occasion early in my refereeing, I missed the tip and called it for home, in front of visitors bench. I know I must be wrong because the coach never complained all night, butt now he was. I go to partner who was lead and I was trail. I ask " Tell me you saw something I didn't see". He says " I didn't see anything" I suck it up and accept that I made a bad call.
Today 10 years later, I would go to partner and say " Did you see the chick in the 4th row?" "BLUE BALL" and change my call. EXPERIENCE is a wonderful thing.
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