Cincinnati SAY East Wings Refs – Fall, 2011
Note: Each week's schedule page is updated individually.

Click here for available schedules.

 

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Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Wings play 12 minute quarters.

Field Directions

Note to Coaches: We try to schedule two refs per field, but there may not always be enough refs, so that may not always happen. If only one ref shows up for a Wings game, that ref gets the fees from both teams ($15 + $15 = $30). Please offer to find linesmen for the solo ref. If no ref shows up, the coaches should ref the game.


Useful Information For Refs:

Field status hotline - 513 369-8036. Be sure to call this number before you head out to the fields if there is any chance the fields might be closed or changed due to recent, current, or expected weather conditions.

  • The full, correct uniform consists of an official ref shirt with SAY patch, black shorts, black socks with three white stripes, and black shoes. You should also have your whistle, timer watch, red and yellow cards, pen, paper for notes, and coin-toss coin. It's a good idea, too, to have your rule book handy to look things up between quarters and after games when you are unsure of some of the calls you made (this is a way to learn).

·         For assignment on Wings fields, email Wings Ref. Assigner Nick Beck at Nick.Beck@duke-energy.com
-- if you don't have email, please call 513-532-4896 (cell)

  • NOTE: I'm a working ref too, so if you leave it too late to call off I may be on a field somewhere and you may not be able to reach me. If I am not available, you can try to contact the referee coordinator or one of the other volunteers listed on the SAY East website.
  • Check the schedules for each weekend (linked at the top of this page) to see when there are openings, then email or call with your request (email is preferred).
  • Each game can have up to two refs.
  • If you are relatively new to reffing, let me know so I can try to pair you up with someone more experienced.
  • The number and times of games can vary from week to week and field to field.
  • Assignments are given upon request, with the following considerations:
    • Ref slots are assigned "first come, first served," for the following two weeks, beginning on Sunday evening at 7 p.m. each week.
    • When a schedule becomes available you can sign up for two games if there are an even number of games on a field, or for two or three otherwise.
    • When you are thinking of what times you want to request, please keep in mind that if you leave a single game on the schedule it may be hard to fill, especially at the beginning or end of the day.
    • If there are still open game times by the Thursday before the weekend, you can request any number of the remaining open games.
    • To give more refs the opportunity to work on the SAY fields, we would like you to limit yourselves to advance scheduling of two games per day (unless there are an odd number of games on a day, in which case we'd be glad to have some refs take three games rather than be stuck with just a single game).
    • Each week you can request two or three games for each day in the upcoming weekend and the following weekend, but no further. Again, we are doing this in order to promote access to more refs.
    • Please be sure to check the schedule on Thursday or Friday for the coming weekend to see if there are any open slots. If there are, and you can take them, please let me know. (This is not advance scheduling - this is "just in time" scheduling - so if you are looking on the Thursday or Friday for that Saturday or Sunday, you can have as many games as you like!)
  • Ref names in brackets [name] on the schedule are unconfirmed. This usually comes up when one ref tells me another ref will team up to do one or more games, but I don't count the second ref as confirmed until I hear it from that ref directly by phone or email, except when both refs are members of the same family.
  • The schedule pages are "read only" -- you have to contact me for game assignments. When you request assignments, please try to not leave empty slots at the beginning or end of the day, as these "orphan times" are less attractive and harder to fill.
  • Please check the schedules frequently to make sure nothing changes on your scheduled games, and to see if anyone has had to take themselves off the schedule due to illness or other problems -- as always, if there's an opening, the first person to ask for it will get it.
  • Please be responsible and show up for your games. If you think you can't do a game you signed up for, tell me immediately. If you don't show up for your games or you don't communicate in a timely manner, you run the risk of not being scheduled in future.
  • Whenever you give yellow or red card, please let me know the details so I can keep an eye on the various teams.
  • If you give a red card, please call and email me the details ASAP. When you send the email, please include Joe Nolan, 871-8710 jnolan@gmail.com , Scott Hatch, 515-8702 ghatch@fuse.net , Steve Wetzel 252-2488 steve.wetzel@gmail.com .

Other Stuff:

 

Safety Notice: Attention Refs

To: John Slaboch
Subject: ear posts
John,
I refused to allow a player to play with ear posts today, even though covered with bandaids.
Correct or incorrect?
Ray
p.s. what about hard casts covered with padding?
----John Slaboch wrote: -------
Ray,
Correct--posts are the same as earrings,perhaps even worse since just like a pin. Also, SAY does not allow  hard casts even if covered with plastic etc.
John 

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Use those cards if necessary!

Marc, Here's a complaint that came in from  a ref. What do you suggest?

We've had one unpleasant game (more than the usual occasional grumbling) - One team's coaches were fine but a couple of their kids are a little rough (unintentionally for the most part). The other team's kids were fine but coaches and parents were unpleasant - “If they push you, push them back.” If we didn't need coaches so badly, it would be nice to have a rule that you couldn't coach unless you had refereed at least one game where everyone yelled at you and you realized that reffing is a lot harder than it looks from the sidelines.

Thanks.
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And he replied:

Subj:  complaint about coach and parents
Date: 4/30/03 11:33:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time  
 
ray
  The refs should be instructed to tell the coaches to quiet their parents and that telling the kids to foul is not acceptable. If it continues, card the coach. My area is cards. I need cards to issue sanctions. TELL THEM TO USE THEIR CARDS.

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