• About the non-ref screaming, in Greif i think that goal ref was not clearly distingue from crowd. For ehbpc 2010, we are working on ugly t-shirts for ref, like in Rugby, black and withes stripes.

    We need to have a clear systeme of signal with arms between ref and goalref. And a clear code about wistling.

    This is obvious, and something that the centre ref must, without fail, do before the start of the game:

    make sure s/he has a designated goal-ref at both ends, and that that individual knows that they are it, and that their decision is the only decision that matters (as in when DT called 'no-goal' for Beards shot, when everyone around him was screaming goal), and that they clearly signal a goal to the centre ref.

    I did this for every game I reffed.

    It does help to give the goal-refs a distinctive shirt to wear, but it's not totally necessary.

    At some point before EHBPC, there needs to be long discussion about what the rules are, and how the refs are supposed to enforce them, which includes all the people that are going to be reffing.

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