Since we've had such a great time discussing the mechanics of flipping a coin (sigh), I thought I'd ask a question of the list as to how they deal with an injured player, specificially one that needs trainer / coach assistance. As a prelude to this, had a game recently where two players went up to head the ball and banged heads. One player came down, stopped play and called for the trainer. One of my ARs ran from his line to the point of injury (it was in front of the goal and I was maybe 5 yards from it) and proceeded to instruct the player on how to deal with the injury, despite my advice to remove himself and wait for the trained medical staff to deal with it. My position for quite a while is to get the trainer on the field and move away before they get there, since half the time the trainer is a coach and a certain percentage of those times the coach has no intention of dealing with the injury but is looking to "discuss" the incident. If I'm away from the player, it becomes obvious what the coach is doing and no one should be shocked if the coach then goes to the parking lot, doesn't pass go and doesn't collect $200. (I've only had to do that once). So am I right or is my nonmedically trained AR correct? (Ok, fine, I'm complaining). Now back to how to conduct a coin flip.
You were 100% correct and your AR should have stayed on their touchline unless there was some sign of mass confrontation.
We are not medical professionals out on the field. If you want to put that hat on because you are in your day job then do so. But if the injury is bad enough that you are having to call on professional medical opinion that doesn’t have enough time to arrive by ambulance then the game probably needs abandoned anyway.
I agree with fairplayforlife. As an assessor, handling injuries is a key indicator of referee performance, in my opinion. Call on the coach/trainer and then go talk to AR2. I don't want to see the referee standing over the player(s) who are down. Nothing good will come from that. The only exception I would make is for a situation in which teammates of the injured player want to express their opinion of the player whose contact caused the injury. If you are going to card the injury causing player, this is an excellent opportunity pull him away from the scene to give him your opinion of what he did and display the card. Maybe even if you aren't going to card him, you can use body language that says he'd better not do anything like that again, even if that isn't what you are actually saying. If the coach comes past the injured player to yell at you, over there with AR2, you've got lots of opportunity to loudly announce, before he gets to you, "Coach, please take care of your injured player."
Mechanics: A player is beaten to the ball because he trips over a divot and falls. The opponent takes off downfield. Player gets up and takes a few uncertain steps. Coach yells, "If you're hurt, go down." Player dramatically crumples. Parents start yelling, "Player down! Player down!" All other players stop moving. Or did you mean the ref mechanics when a player is injured?
Thanks. Honestly, you can thank my wife for that. And, those cookies aren't for just anybody. Only a select few get to enjoy them.
This thread, apart from the cookies and nice guy back-slapping, read more appropriate as other related to head injury (https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/head-injuries.2008437) appeared to be dormant. Someone in this video needs to be seriously lacking in proper training, or empathy, or ... (http://bit.ly/2GDEP0e) Please no one ever have callous attitude as this referee. These were the questions posed by the poster -- Should this goal be allowed? Did it take too long to restart the game? What was the referee doing all this time? How concerned was the coach about his injured player? What should the referee have done should be a more pertinent inquiry.
I'm probably too quick to the whistle when it comes to kids getting hit in the head, concussions scare the heck out of me. I try really hard to see how the kid reacts, and if they make any motion to grabbing their head, bending at the waist, anything that shows that they were hurt in any way by the impact, I'm stopping play. A kiddo rubbing the spot then going right into it won't get a whistle, but I watch them for a little bit to look for signs. In the video above, I'd have stopped play the second she crumpled up and called coach on. I think the ref's body language is really bad, appears disengaged, but looking at a video is hard to say. Some guys are just way, way, way too laid back. Can this be used as a ploy to stop a scoring opportunity? Sure, but I'm not putting kids into further harm's way because of the possible actions of a few crappy coaches/players. Only had one coach, maybe two get upset with me about it so far. one was a U10 match, kid got hammered in the back of his head, I though his eyeballs would come popping out. Ball fell to his fellow attacker at the top of the PA, but the kid dropped like a sack of hammers. Naturally, coach wanted advantage to play out, cuz, you know, U10 world cup final, down 7-4 with ten minutes left...