Fw: SYSA Coaches: Weekly Update - Game Day Rosters, Referee Feedback

[SYSA Registrar]

Good afternoon, club registrars - 

Please see the e-mail that was sent today to all rec coaches & managers, U10 & older.  This is the first of weekly e-mails that the association plans to send each week on Wednesday or Thursday.  We are hopeful that with weekly reminders of routines, rules, and event deadlines, both new and returning coaches alike will feel more comfortable with the requirements for participation in our city wide leagues.

Each week will include different topics or content.  I will forward each week's version to you, while Ed will send it each week to the club presidents.

We would like to ask that you post these to your coaches or resources page on your club websites, if you are willing.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

Thank you!!

Paige Blomsø
SYSA Registrar
Seattle United FC Registrar

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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 1:12 PM
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Subject: SYSA Coaches: Weekly Update - Game Day Rosters, Referee Feedback

 

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Hello SYSA Coaches,

Beginning this week, we hope to send you a weekly email with information about the Citywide League. We promise to keep the emails short and to the point. If you have thoughts about things we should cover, please send them to us at infor...@sysa.org , or call 206-552-0723.

This week, we’d like to focus on three things: Game Day Rosters, Referee Evaluations, and Substitute Referees

Game Day Rosters

Each coach should bring three printed copies of the team roster to each game. The roster is a way for coaches and referees to make sure all players on the opposing team are registered. We frequently get complaints and comments from a coach that their opponent had a Seattle United or other unregistered or select player on their team. We can avoid these concerns if each coach brings their printed roster to each game, and gives them to the referee and the opposing coach before the game.

• Instructions for printing your roster can be found on the SYSA web site, at this link. The instructions for roster printing, and other important information, can be found in the Coaches Handbook, on the Schedules page at this link.
• Print three copies of your roster for each game, and give one to the referee, and one to the opposing coach.
• Protesting a Game -- If the opposing coach does not have a printed roster, you can inform the referee and the coach that you are playing the game under protest. If you do this, and SYSA finds out subsequently that your opponent played an unregistered player, the game results can be overturned, and penalties assessed on the other team.
• The rules for protesting a game are in section 8.2 of the SYSA Rules of Competition, at this link. Please note that to protest a game you must inform the referee and other coach before leaving the field.

Referee Evaluations

All coaches, parents, and players need to show respect to game referees during play. Shouting at a referee, harassing them, and disagreeing with calls in a vocal manner is not modeling good, Honor the Game behavior. If you believe a referee has not performed well, you can submit an evaluation of the referee online after the game. These evaluations are carefully read and used to improve performance by the Seattle Soccer Referees Association.

• Please wait until after the game to send referee evaluations. Criticizing a referee on the pitch is inappropriate.
• The referee evaluation form can be found at this link.

Substitute Referees in Case of a No Show

There are not enough referees in Seattle to cover all the games being played. If a referee does not show up at your game, it is most likely because no one was available to referee the game, not because the referee assigned did not come.

In the event of a referee not being assigned to or appearing at your game, here are the SYSA guidelines for what to do.

• The SYSA Rules of Competition, 5.2, state that the lack of a referee should not be cause to cancel a match.
• Both coaches should agree on any substitute referees for the game.
• The Seattle Referees recommend that a parent or sibling be chosen to referee.
• Each team can provide someone to referee one half of the game to provide a measure of fairness.

Thanks for all you do for the kids in SYSA!

The SYSA Staff and Board

[Lake City Soccer Club]

Great information -  I think this is a really good idea.

Will you be posting these somewhere on the SYSA website?  I think adding a link to the club websites that will take them to your SYSA page would be the easiest.  One link and we would be done and don't have to stay on top of getting the weekly updates posted since we are spending less time in the system as we get further into the season.

Thanks,

Stacy

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[David Funke]

Good information.  The practice for printed rosters for all the matches I have been involved in as coach and referee over the years is for the referee to get all three copies and write the final score on all of them, keep one copy and each team gets a copy of their roster and the opponents roster with the score on it at the end of the game.  The procedure described below takes the referee out of the exchange of rosters between teams.  Is that an intentional change?  That the referee gets all the copies isn’t written anywhere, I think it just came from when the rosters were carbon paper forms so the referee had all three copies.

Dave

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