Advice for National Series refs

1 A) You can't call what you can't see, so issue warnings "no hacking" and penalise someone if you see it again. Andy's "protestations" should be disregarded completely or (at the very least) taken with a pale of salt. The idea that there is a "victim" if you haven't seen anything and are just going on complaints is bad reffing, but if you felt that a team were deserving (with the winging removed) then playing advantage followed by a ball turnover sounds correct to me.

1 B) Tricky call. It's hard to tell if an attack has ever truly been hindered or assisted by the events in a game until the ball does/doesn't go in. Instead, try to imagine that as the ref you should maintain the status quo and restore order/advantage (if a foul occurs). If Andy still had the attack then play advantage, but if the attack failed then issue the ball turnover and consider the "incident" paid back to Andy by given him possession of the ball again. If the foul was bad or stopped an "easy" route to goal (a last man situation, etc) then take the player off and allow a power play (enforce a 2 minute penalty if you truly believe the player cheated the other team out of a goal).

2) I hated this game, mainly because I was enjoying a non-physical day and it came as a bit of a surprise. If two players enjoy a rough game then so be it, but if things start getting out of hand then take control by being very verbal, or by stopping the game (when neutral) and asking everyone to calm down, or if you've had enough and it's getting stupid/dangerous, then remove the offending players (if it's obvious) and allowing the game to continue 2v2, or simply remove the next person that fouls for 30 seconds and repeat as necessary. (Some games are physical and clean, others are physical and dangerous, others are physical and malicious, don't just see a physical game as a reason to make calls... look for t-bones, blindside checks, elbows, slow bones, etc.)