Partner comes with info

[Terrapins Fan]

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.

Originally Posted by Terrapins Fan

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.

I was working with a veteran and he said if I ever know I am wrong and need to change my call, to call my partner(s) over and say "Gotta change my call, nod your head guys." Simple tricks work well!

[JRutledge]

I would not even go to my partner after making a call. I would just signal what I had if I believe what I saw or wait and ask for help before calling anything.

Bottom line, these need to be discussed in pre-game so that you can gauge the temperature of your partners and come to some way to solve these issues. There are often 2 or 3 of us that might see something even if our primary is being observed. How many times does a ball fly by us and it came from some other location on the ball? We just should talk about these things so that we are not surprised with what could happen when the bullets are flying.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by seanwestref

I was working with a veteran and he said if I ever know I am wrong and need to change my call, to call my partner(s) over and say "Gotta change my call, nod your head guys." Simple tricks work well!

That sounds horrible. Don't assume that "veterans" and their ideas are great.