[ayso45-refs] When to stop play when time expires?

[DAVID M STUBBS]

I would like to add one comment on stoppage time.  Always look at your watch when a player gets injured (it may be short or quite long) and add that time once play resumes, then STICK TO IT.  Do not allow anything to change that time.  It should be locked in.  Making a change could affect the outcome and you want to stay "clean" on that point.
   
  -Dave Stubbs
  
Beau James <b_james at pacbell.net> wrote:
    
One final question that came up at a U10G game this afternoon.    When my clock indicated halftime, I blew the whistle and stopped play. At  that moment, one team was controlling the ball near the net and might have  been able to score. During halftime, the coach indicated he believed I  should have exercised my discretion to allow play to continue until a  natural stopping point occurred, rather than signaling halftime as indicated  by the clock.    My recollection is that refs should exercise discretion at the quarter  breaks and interrupt play at a natural break in play. However, I think I  recall hearing that adjusting the hard stops duration so that one team can  have an opportunity to shoot on the goal is unfair and shouldn't be done.     

Exactly!

  
Should I have delayed blowing the halftime whistle by 15 or 30 seconds to  allow the attacking team to shoot on goal?    Thx,  Daniel

Definitely not!  For every coach/player/parent who feels it is unfair for the clock to expire during his team's attack, imagine the reaction of the opposing coach/players/parent when they discover that the referee is favoring one team by adding time for an attack to succeed!

Each half ends when time expires.  Each team had equal opportunity to play during the half.

The "stop a a natural break in play" guidance applies only to the AYSO substitution opportunities "approximately midway through the first half" and "approximately midway through the second half". Substitution breaks are an AYSOism, and we suggest looking for a natural break in play so that this AYSOism disrupts the flow of the game as little as possible.

Someone will ask, "but what about stoppage time?"  

The referee decides to add stoppage time at the time of the incident causing lost playing time (a long injury pause, excessive time-wasting tactics by one team, etc.).  The referee does not add stoppage time because an attack is in progress! When the previously-decided amount of stoppage time has been played, then the half ends.  Regardless of what is happening on the field.

Beau

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