[ayso45-refs] Conflicting games - getting coverage

[Jordan Dea-Mattson]

Hi All -

With regards to this specific case I have an offer of coverage and
will be "closing the deal soon".

Yours,

Jordan
On 10/4/06, Beau James <b_james at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Jordan Dea-Mattson wrote:
>
> > Hi All -
> >
> > I have upcoming at the end of October two home games for each of my
> > son's teams (U7/U9) which are scheduled at the same time.
> >
> > I thought that this wasn't supposed to happen, but it did.
> >
> > How should I go about getting coverage for one of these games?
>
> I'm copying this reply to both the referee and coach mailing lists,
> in case others run into similar situations.
>
> Region 45 uses "team referees" for U7-U10 matches.  Except for U10
> center referees, we do not assign referees for U7-U10.  The details
> are covered here:
>
>     http://www.ayso45.org/referees.html#refbydiv
>
> When the home team's team referee is not going to be available for
> any reason (out of town, conflict with another match, injury, whatever),
> the first option is for the home team's team ref and/or coach to contact
> the visiting team's coach and/or team ref, to request that s/he officiate.
>
> If that option does not work for a particular match, the backup option
> is to send a request to the referee mailing list asking whether some
> other referee is available to cover the game.
>
> One note: the requests for help need to be broadcast to the whole list,
> but *please* unicast any responses.  That is, please respond only to
> the requestor, not to the entire referee mailing list.  This will help
> keep the mailing list volume under control.
>
> Beau
>
> > Yours,
> >
> > Jordan
>


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Jordan Dea-Mattson
jordan at dea-mattson.com