"Let them play" part two

[rainmaker]

Originally Posted by Scrapper1

Short answer is "no". I specifically say that we want to keep the post play under control. If that means we have a few extra whistles early on, so be it.

Especially "no" to the question about only getting "big fouls", if you mean "hard fouls" or extra-physical play. Officiating that way, I think, would lead to really rough play and nobody wants to see that.

Call a normal game according to whether the player gained an illegal advantage with the contact, or whether the contact was simply too rough (even without an advantage).

Just my opinion, but I really think if you ONLY get the big stuff, you're in for more big stuff than you'd like.

This is all especially true at the higher levels. It may look to the crowd that all you're calling is the big stuff, but that's because there isn't anything else except the occasional big stuff, because the players have adjusted.

Lower levels they don't always know how to adjust so you're watching for them to let up and they don't. Then you've got to decide what to do, whether you've got the onions to keep calling it all.