What a great game. Got to yell at refs and hear wonderful announcements. Nice bright sun in my face for 2 hours since I had to seat on the visitor side. Sad to see 2 man crew for the game. Hard to officiate a competitive, physical game with just 2 but I thought they let them play. If they had called every push, hook and grab there wouldn't have been 1 min of continuous play so why with less than six to play and half dozen girls at top of the box kicking and pushing do you decide to now blow a whistle. Was a mann girl pushing; probably. Was a Riverside girl pushing, probably. I think Riverside got short end on a few offsides on breakaways also.
Riverside won because they created more opportunities and applied more pressure. You see several basketball games where a team scores on the last second by a tough call and the good coaches always say if we played better it wouldn't have gotten to that point in the game.
Several years ago during a heated club game decided by a last minute call: all the players were upset and cards were flying everywhere. The coach pulled them aside after game and said " I go into the game knowing the officiating is going to be suspect. So keep your mouths shut, take care of yor end and I'll handle the refs. If your don't like it, get better and score more goals and it won't come to this."
Although I usually remember this after the game not before.
Last edited by patriot; 04/15/11 02:53 PM.
