Official's time out

[mick]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Ms. Downs, since it's after Mr. Grammar Guy's normal bedtime, I'm afraid it falls to me to show you the yellow card for a double spurious misuse of an apostrophe. As soon as I've jotted your name down in my little book, we'll restart this thread with an indirect free kick.

Actually, Back In The Saddle, the "double spurious misuse of an apostrophe" was intended to make you smile.
...And I see it did.
mick

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

Ms. Downs, since it's after Mr. Grammar Guy's normal bedtime, I'm afraid it falls to me to show you the yellow card for a double spurious misuse of an apostrophe. As soon as I've jotted your name down in my little book, we'll restart this thread with an indirect free kick.

Originally Posted by mick

Actually, Back In The Saddle, the "double spurious misuse of an apostrophe" was intended to make you smile.
...And I see it did.
mick

Actually, mick and BITS, to quote from my favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, "I deserve neither such censure, nor such praise." It was a typo.

[mick]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
Ms. Downs, since it's after Mr. Grammar Guy's normal bedtime, I'm afraid it falls to me to show you the yellow card for a double spurious misuse of an apostrophe. As soon as I've jotted your name down in my little book, we'll restart this thread with an indirect free kick.

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Actually, mick and BITS, to quote from my favorite novel, Pride and Prejudice, "I deserve neither such censure, nor such praise." It was a typo.

Actually, Back In The Saddle, please accept my humblest apology for stealing that call in your primary. It was your call and I shouldn't have been looking there.
mick

[Back In The Saddle]

Originally Posted by mick

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Actually, Back In The Saddle, please accept my humblest apology for stealing that call in your primary. It was your call and I shouldn't have been looking there.
mick

No worries. I'm sure Mr. Darcy would have something provocative to say in this situation, like, "If you're both watching rainmaker, who is watching the other posters?"

[Jimgolf]

At this age, the officials are often as inexperienced as the coaches, and are often working by themselves. The scorers table may be at one of the baselines, and not in the usual location. If the official comes to where the table should be and signals the call with correct mechanics, there should be no need to clarify. However, inexperienced officials may not take an unusual table configuration into account when signalling and the coaches may need the call explained. Sometimes, even the table needs a call explained. I can remember a couple of games where a jump ball call was not clear and the table didn't change the arrow on the inbounds pass.