Fair????

[Raymond]

Originally Posted by garote

So I tell the coach at halftime that I didn't appreciate the fact that his assistant went and complained.....

You probably would have been better served not to have done this part. Site coordinator had already backed your decision so you had no need to say anything to the coach about it.

In fact, in the future, in these types of informal tournaments, you probably would come off better by noticing the illegal numbers first, get a quick word in with the site coordinator, then pulling both coaches together and saying "hey, we realize there are some illegal and duplicate numbers out here, but the coordinator says it's OK." Just a little preventive summer-time officiating, IMO.