Intentional Fouls in the Circle, Stick Shielding, a Long Barrier

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00:07:35 1. What Is An Intentional Foul In The Circle?: GERvGBR (W) @FIH_Hockey
00:28:19 2. Intentionally Playing the Ball With the Body: GBRvBEL (W) #FIHProLeague
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Field Hockey Umpiring | FHumpires on 2024-06-26 at 12.02.42

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good

day to you all. Happy Word Up Wednesday, Keely Dunn and FHumpires. and I am delighted that you're This is going to be a,

um. Yeah, a good show. A good show. Can I show? Look, there's,

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William's here? Like, what is this? What is

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get

Simon? Is it a special thing?

Hartmut's here again.

because of Masters, all Everybody's speaking different

languages fantastic.

Okay. Come on, scenes! Do the scene! Topics.

What is an intentional foul in the circle? We are going to start with

intentionally playing the ball with the body,

uh, slash long barrier, two stick shields,

passing

in the night.

Can defenders

tackle 3D skill? What?

Question mark. Advantage out of

defense. And then our last topic, there's no such thing as a friendly.

There is no question That's going to be an interesting discussion,

so I hope you can stick around to the end,

but I need to work my way into because it's not going to

be easy.

Um, yay! Thank you! And

Mark. Thank you for

coming by. I have to I have to fix the And Scott's here. I'm so appreciative, Scott, that

you are here, every week. just gonna call it. I'm just gonna say like it, take the praise. Very, very, very good.

a little, um, I

look a little pale.

you noticing I need

to have skin tones,

bit of this, no. There. Okay, now I

look like a human being Deep breath, okay,

let's go.

What

is an intentional foul in the Please, for your viewing pleasure, take in

this clip.

And

the penalty corner, Stafford Horse wants the penalty stroke and they

are going upstairs to try and upgrade

the penalty corner to a penalty stroke.

Yes, you please check if there's

something, uh,

some action the shoot like intentional, Cassandra Della has played the advantage a challenge there. That's the challenge from

You see out of shot

Dale hand up playing

the advantage does stop getting to the ball. I'm not sure the advantage

accrues. There's the tackle and that's is that is that

is that a good advantage? Well,

there isn't the advantage because she can't get

to the ball. I think Stappenhorst, I have some

advice for you.

The ball was flicked towards goal and was going to go in the

goal.

Therefore award a penalty stroke. And they keep their referral. Thank I am going to be dancing a lot of

tight,

difficult tight ropes

in this show, this is only a moderate challenge because

What I appreciate

when we are under stress, and this happens to us all the time when we're on the players ask us sometimes we come back

with language that isn't

the most accurate description of what has happened What is the proper

application, interpretation rule?

What is the principle And our words And that's okay. We need to

keep working

on it and we need

to be cognizant of these things so that we get better. For

some reason, y'all think I'm good at talking about umpiring things.

Thank you for those of you who are buying into this story right But

it's not,

it's not an easy skill to develop. And I know that when I

was going through my career, I had a

times where I

was on the

pitch and I was really unhappy

with the way that I was I felt stupid,

I stumbled over my words.

misspoke. I

literally just said the wrong thing.

And

in that

regard, we will all have empathy. is a

learning opportunity and what I want to outline

here what

I in situation and how we should be presenting these of decisions

out into the So what we have here is

the, the the actual

foul that's occurring happens right at

the moment where the

defender

reaches in, tome number six, reaches in from

behind and

reckless as to the result

of breaking play here inside the circle. So I'm just going pop it back right here. Okay, this is where,

going to work?

Video

Pencil, So why ain't

you showing?

you showing? It says you're on. Okay. Oh, there it's, this is the moment where

we have the stick that

to be

treated as an

foul. The play continues then at this continues on

and the attacker here

doesn't have a significant amount advantage

whatsoever. So

she goes

from here to here. Goalkeeper in a great position.

There's maybe, you know, one meter between where the ball was and the goalkeeper being able to take the blocker.

And because of the disadvantage,

she's not able to get a good shot away.

when

we are calculating whether advantage can be played or not, which was an

issue that was

raised by Sarah Robertson she approached

the umpire, well, advantage was

That is not

good advantage

because advantage

has

to be that

the opportunity that the player

still fouled is than what would've been awarded because of foul This isn't even

a penalty worthy event.

This is not

on the level of a terms of outplayed

situation.

You got outnumbers of players you have. piece, you have ball under

control, you have goalkeeper back, you have players running out, all those sort of things. This is not a better scoring opportunity and it's definitely not a better scoring opportunity So the language that the video umpire uses for me is

not

helpful in defining exactly was happening For me, this

is a penalty stroke as a result of an intentional foul in the Full stop.

doesn't have to be a shot on goal. Factually, it wasn't a shot on goal in that moment, it doesn't And when we describe things incorrectly in these kind of moments, doesn't help us when we need call intentional fouls for things

that are happening anywhere near an active This is

not Definitely not

a 12.

12. 48.

Um, who's, got it?

Um, somebody

show me what

is in This is not a probable goal The ball going into that was not. Probable has to be 75 got to be around that area

an unintentional foul that stops a probable goal is enough for That's

not what here. This is an intentional foul.

Okay? So,

I sent

some,

um,

some

messages to,

friends

in the commentary box, and they were like, well,

either way

is fine. It's like, no, it's not, it's not fine,

because if we don't have this clarity

in the way that we these decisions to players

on the coaches, to spectators,

to each other afterwards.

We are not going to be able

to make

accurate and supportable in the I hope

that makes I am interested in your thoughts as

well. Let me know what you think.

Um,

and

then

we'll go to the I start reading before I is not constructive. The third umpire

says the shot

was going in. Don't

think he was looking at that first player. So who is he looking at? Who got felt?

And thank you. Uh,

the intentional foul

12. 4b, and can I play it again in real speed?

Well picked picked up, and here is

Stappenhorst. Stappenhorst through on goal, good save

from Pritchard, it's up into the air. And the penalty corner, Stappenhorst wants the penalty stroke,

and they are going upstairs

to try and upgrade

the penalty corner to a penalty Yes, go ahead.

Okay, can you please check if there's uh, some action the shoot like intentional, Sandra Adele has played the advantage a challenge there, that's

the challenge

from You see, out of shot, Adele with,

hand

up playing

the advantage here.

does stop getting to the ball.

I'm not sure the advantage accrues. There's the tackle. And

that's, is that?

Okay. So, Mark, I understand what you're saying now.

The save

off the body, but that ball wasn't going So,

what, what I want us

to process is The lack of advantage that's there because that is a penalty stroke worthy in the first instance.

Right there, that's a penalty stroke.

a penalty stroke scoring opportunity better than anything that

was happening it's a very,

I mean, a lot of things happen in a circle. A lot of things happen but

that ball was going that hit yes, what

ended up being

called by the umpire.

the penalty stroke comes, should have come from the Does that make Okay. But now I understand better where the languaging comes in. So Mark, I appreciate you pointing that out because that's not

all what I was processing because the first file for me was, was more than enough

to have a look at there. I look small. Okay.

So you can write in a pull

option for that.

And,

uh,

thank you that the first file I get it. And

part

of this is that

a useful exercise

to, think about.

We need to be better at all levels of identifying these intentional in

We, we often watch the matches

at our level and we think, oh, you know, why can't they score?

score I keep calling

penalty corners,

I'm not

very good at them, they can't execute Why can't they score? Is it because there are far too many recklessness to the result

fouls that are not getting penalized therefore

the players

are not learning what they should not be risking in terms of tackle attempts?

The game is messier and uglier because we aren't doing our job in Thought. And, yes, Stephen, this is a fantastic thing to point

out. I

absolutely love where the umpire Sandra has

flashed. It's,

a slang term. can

call it whatever you want,

but she has moved sharply

and Rapidly, up to the top of the circle, you can see her there, towards in that direction and

by the time she makes her decision,

she's probably about six meters off the back line, but she has moved up so that

she has the angle she needs to get to while that ball is on the opposite back line and she is

not being blocked by supine That is crucial and an excellent piece of movement.

Not all umpires this. And if

this isn't part of your positioning pattern and your movement system,

consider it. Consider

trying it. It's not always

the best solution, but

it often is

for you to be

able to make this call.

Some umpires choose to

stay back

on the

back line

and then they ask

their colleague

who is 45 meters

away to help them with that that's way on the on their uh,

close back line.

That's really

difficult.

You look after your if your colleague

can help, But

rely on them as the primary source of that happen on the

far

side of the circle, very really good to point out, is that flash.

Uh, Simon,

you gave a penalty apologizes to his team for a shit tackle.

I'm gonna say it.

but then claimed it

couldn't be a

penalty stroke as it wasn't a shot on

goal. That's exactly what I'm trying

for us okay? And if I mistook that because I was

looking at the ball wide called as a penalty corner

and, uh,

and that was actually what the umpire was stroke, so be it.

Sometimes I'm putting pieces together intuiting what I've and it's a good reminder for us. Good reminder for that when

we're watching

video,

we're watching a broadcast

of a

match,

we are shown pictures that

will

give us

one aspect. Often it's

narrowed down, from particular angles, and when those

Wonderfully omniscient commentators do their bit.

influences the way that we are interpreting the in So I appreciate that reminder.

That's very good. Is it because of this position that she was blocked by

the players? Anique is asking. surprised she didn't see the P stroke herself. Um, she, she

played advantage off

it, potentially, because she has her arm out. I just think that an issue of

applying what is reckless as the result.

Reaching in from behind when you've already been beaten

with the ball

and just swinging your stick in is

reckless.

You are not in a high,

that is, is, that is not a high probability It's not even a medium really likely that you are going to commit a foul.

And that's

what we call breaking down play, and that's what we have to penalize as Players don't want

to commit fouls. I'm not saying,

I, generally a few times where they're

like, screw it,

I'm gonna foul this person

because I

don't

want them to get by me.

But very often they're like, I'm just gonna try this and see what happens.

And what we want

them to do is not

high risk measures, and if they do, we have to mete out the

appropriate we are trying to

encourage skill, flow, and Definitely not at this level.

They are not encouraged to not give Um, but if that's, if that's messaging

that you get at

your, in your region, in your level and things like that, come talk to me and give me those people's names and they can come talk to me Cause we got to

fix Not

all angles If the umpire has played the advantage, the says

umpire,

says, says Paul,

I don't think the

advantage good So if the, if the question had gone up

whether advantage had been appropriately played foul, then I think there's a good chance that would have been Steven, you

gave a penalty stroke just the weekend

just gone for a diving tackle behind from behind

from behind from behind just inside the circle along the baseline ball ended up back on the attacker's stick but no advantage yes even though may have possession possession does not equal

opportunity You must have opportunity more penalty that you would have awarded

team

penalty you Okay,

good stuff That's a good discussion.

Let's poll.

Do, do, look! did look. I, I know y'all aren't am, but I'm excited. So, penalty stroke for six of you, or fifty five Um,

one of

you wants a penalty stroke for intentionally, an intentional foul

that goal. And then G, penalty stroke,

intentional foul on the circle against the attacker with possession opportunity to play the ball.

Um,

yeah, that's

So, basically, we have 10 votes for A, and

I'm not doing mean, is that,

I mean, yes, you're right. I should have written it out more, but

okay.

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Hamilton gets away

from Blockmans and here is Robertson with Hunts in front of her. That's Got to be a corner

and a card.

has to be,

There has to be a personal penalty

in there. Based on that as a defender putting her knees on the floor to

create a

broad physical barrier.

There is a corner. But the knee, there has, surely

there's a personal penalty attached to Watch the defensive, alignment, step up, down, you're on the floor. You have created a physical barrier. That's a decision, an individual decision,

surely carries a personal Okay. So again, this,

this conversation is about language and hopefully I

didn't misunderstand anything

about

the conversation

think I Because

I hope as we sort of work through this that y'all are pretty comfortable with the So

the

defender does a really good job, very

intelligently, making sure that

she outside the for this.

And she closes the gap a little bit,

but she's not

in a great position to make

a tackle. And she

takes her body down to I didn't know this. We learned this together. Maybe a couple months ago. That log barrier's a And you're all like, Keely, you're so cute. I know. Canada. I don't know cricket.

And

the terminology refers to a player who stretches

their body out on the ground in order to block its progress Is that a foul cricket? I don't know. Are there fouls

at cricket? Don't know that either.

But that's where the word,

the terminology comes from.

So if that helps you, great. It even helps me because the words describe exactly what you're seeing.

It is a player who is

using their body.

to block the that the ball would go

through without trying

to use their in order to play that ball. They are ensuring that the ball doesn't go through or they are reckless as the result of stopping the ball from going

through. Okay, so

let's talk about what

the

team penalty is here.

It's

just outside the circle. It's

a penalty corner.

Thank you.

can now move on to the next There we go.

Whether it's a card

depends on

where we are in management of the game. And Stephen, that wall was,

ball was heading

to an attacker in a great That's a big So the argument, Stephen, that you're making is that the

impact of that foul

was significant.

required

more. So I'm willing to accept that. Let's, let's have a look at exactly what Stephen's saying here. Um, it's probably best to watch it on this big

replay here. So, as I'm looking,

that

ball was heading to an attacker. No, it wasn't.

So I, I understand

where you're

going with the

argument, but just on the basis of

the

facts, here's the thing, and

she was

trying to flick the ball that way. Now, the, arrow doesn't even make it look,

angle of the arrow is wrong, she was trying to

flick it over

on the right hand side, and you have

You know, lots of players

in the way of those The

player was not open. So, and you can make the art and that's fine. And if that's

the way you see the

facts in that particular situation, okay.

don't see them that

way at all. The conversation and the way that you have to process this particular event

to decide whether you're going to award a personal

to look at repetition, danger, and impact. Just because it's an obvious foul, just because she really meant

to do it, that doesn't,

that doesn't require, sorry, let me get replay going That doesn't

necessitate a

personal old school thinking. Okay? And it's also very arbitrary. It's not a helpful framework.

Because what you're trying to do is put the emphasis on what the player's got going in their We are not mind readers and we

don't want to be mind readers.

Those spaces are scary. to go in there. What we want

to do is apply a repeatable,

measurable criterion that allows us

to be fair

with our carding So in this particular game, we're

in seven minutes.

Having watched the whole game,

I can tell you this is the first intentional foul. Recklessness to the result, intentional foul

that happens inside the 23 on either end.

So it's it's the first one. we don't have repetition.

Is it dangerous? Does the foul, not that there's danger that the

defender

creates for herself

by going down, like, let's

be precise about how we're attaching the word danger to the

danger caused by

the defender in committing this a member of opposing team? No. Okay,

so we don't have repetition, we can look at impact. And if

you see this as being a high

impact

foul,

then you have reason

attach

more of a

This is distinguishable from a breakdown foul,

Say the same thing happens outside the 23.

Because we don't have the

option to add the

upgrade,

the more severe penalty, the more severe team penalty.

We just

go straight to, it's a breakdown play,

if it's

the first time, it's not dangerous, and

it's not

high impact, we go to a green.

Easy.

But because inside the 23 and inside the circle,

we have the ability

to step up that team penalty, we already have a big hammer there.

So, it's

repetition takes a step back. And

we step

It's like a, 5 scale of and so that's where we can go first.

if it happens again, if

there is another

intentional breakdown of play, recklessness to the result, inside the 23 or inside the now we have

our petition

and we can start moving up the ladder, the

elevator. Does that make sense?

Doubt the intention of going

down there. She wants to go low in slits, trying to get her stick. She's recklessness

to the result. Thank

you for Helping me

tease out

the difference of those two Her job is to stay on her feet because she can't play the ball with her body.

She does Where did the ball hit the defender?

In the thigh.

In the thigh that was down on the ground. So it would have been probably under her knee if she wasn't

down. Uh,

you gave a penalty

stroke for a long barrier

in the D, umpire coach wasn't Yeah, I remember this. Yeah,

there's a difference between, holy crap,

pitch is really slippery and out of nowhere, somebody slips and not

taking care.

to not commit that foul. That is reckless. She is, she is absolutely trying to go down as and she has

to stay.

If she had laid down her stick alongside her lid, would

that be a foul?

And see, now

we're getting into

reading her mind.

okay?

Reckless result.

Okay. Um,

see the thumbs

up from player

to the ump. You love that. That is often, well, I don't love that.

Of course.

of course, it's not a foul until it actually hits her.

But

if it hits her, she has

been reckless as a result of stopping that ball from

going through by playing with her body. Easy. The mezzanine.

I like it. I'll take it.

she was standing on her

feet, would you agree the ball was high above the

knee? No, I'm not Not

And thank let's have a look at the poll.

do do Um,

80 percent of you,

80 percent of you are going with a penalty

corner, and one of

you won a free hit for danger,

uh, added by, uh, this is

supposed to be anonymous, but I guess your name goes on

it when you add the poll I corner

and yellow card.

Okay, we worked through it there.

you see the

point of impact when the

defender up, it's high to you.

Just gonna move this

out of the way if I can, which Oops. There! Phew,

That was a

lot of work. Actually, Okay! you very much for playing and

Muchos

And let's do some announcements. Uh, the first thing

that I wanted to share with you Oh, here! Ha! That's, that's

not

what I meant. I'm just depressed.

Vigar just went and got himself promoted

in the KDHB.

Um, Vigar's the one on the left, by the way, and this is the best photo I have of him. I could not have chosen another

one. There were

no other photos, uh, where he looked

so accomplished

and confident. He's got a gorgeous, FHU rain jacket he, makes Like he's making that

jacket look really good. Anyway, he's been,

he's been promoted

to the

KNHBD panel, which apparently

allows him to do C panel, C games as well. I don't know how it works, and it's probably not called

a panel, and

I don't know what the proper words are in Dutch, but

who cares?

Congratulations,

very

happy for you, and

you've earned it.

Vegar had a great so.

to this.

And the other thing I

wanted to talk about, okay, let's do it this way.

Ian

Parsley

somebody who

I have been interacting for years.

been around and he's

been a

supporter of

What, what I do with FHumpires and we've had lots of conversations and

I really appreciate, you know, having people like that, even if

they're not necessarily members of the server, maybe they don't show

And so when I saw that this popped up,

I was really proud to hear about Ian, um, found out quite fortuitously,

really good fortune, but,

um, he was at a

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stroke event, hometown,

unfortunately,

because his mother had had and they were offering blood pressure checks He found out that he has,

he had

extraordinarily

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he was able to start addressing uh, trying different things with food. His activity levels were already really good,

but what

he really had to do was get on appropriate levels medication

in order um, in order to address This was a life intervention.

This is the ultimate And

I want to say to Ian, good on you.

Good

on you for

going ahead

and getting yourself tested, and then by helping raise awareness for if you haven't had your blood I don't need to go for a physical, eh,

whatever. This is a reason why every physical exam that I've ever had at a doctor's office, they

start by putting blood Important And

thank you, Ian,

for sharing your story in the newsletter,

co. uk.

for listening. being

willing to talk about this, and congratulations for We are all in a

better place because you

are in a better place as

well. So thank you Okay.

And yes. Bigger, taller than McDowell. Meish? Ernst, don't at me. get your blood pressured on every time you get That is. Fabulous. I unfortunately cannot give blood because some of the prescriptions I'm on. Um, I don't even

know what kind of monstrous human being would result donated any part

of my blood, even diluted. So, for the good of all

personkind,

I'm not allowed to but I used to I did all that Yes, something that just saves there you go.

Okay. Topic

three?

Two stick shields.

Because it hasn't felt like

a 3 0 game. you know,

you look

at the scoreline and think Netherlands

dominated. Come on then Andy, when was the

last time the Dutch conceded a point

from same tournament? Yep. When? Was it 2016? No,

no. stick shielding or body shielding? Okay.

of course.

Hannah,

uh, we've given a

penalty corner

for a foot.

Uh, if you could just check for stick

shielding, uh, just before that, check for the stick shielding just

before it entered the D? Okay.

Hannah,

let's Yeah, just there. pushes the ball back. Pushes the stick. To the right now. What do you

think? It's a difficult this angle. Could you take it right back for me from where the first

pass

was? I think it's further back if you can. line of the ball is going away from the two

of them. Just here.

Watch here. Collects it. And then the right stick

goes.

She moves it to the right for me.

Is there any

closer angle you can get me of it? That's one. Here.

Good. she just moves the

stick to the right.

Can one again, please? And as slow as you've got see from

that is In real time Could And he's like, as

slow as it goes? On the back slow as it first. That causes There,

the defender hits the stick, and then she tries to move it

to get the stick off. Okay, decision Rachel? Hi, Hannah. I

have advice for you. I believe there was a stick shield before the foot.

So restart with a free hit defense

and Germany keep their referral.

Thank you. All right.

So, what was

Sorry, I just saw Rupert's comment here.

And the answer is,

um,

obviously, two times That's how to do it. Two

times speed, I do it all the time on

Um, First of all, I

think there's

a nice little moment here of

empathy we can all

appreciate. If you've ever played and you've tried to talk

after,

um, you've gone

on a big sprint and tried to make a play and poor Selena Rose is trying communicate her reasonings

To,

uh, to Rachel umpire, and she's so out of breath she can't even get the words out.

So, um, nice

little,

uh, nice little moment there. Anik, as you see it, the stick moves 20 centimeters from the ball to the

stick.

Um,

if what

you're

saying, I'm not sure,

20 centimeters sure doesn't, I don't think needs to be, I don't think

There's a

qualification unless

that's some piece of guidance

that

you're using Sorry, I'm

just. If that's a piece of guidance

that you're using in the

Netherlands to try to determine

shielding, I'd be interested in hearing more about that.

But one

of the things that you can look for, although I don't think it's the

only time

that shields

exist, is when

the attacker's the

ball.

And

in this case, you can see that

it pushes away the defender's in that For me,

For Hannah, everybody, it should a clear How do we get better at finding these?

And we had a discussion in the server in

you're not a member of the server, uh, it's

free to join.

Did I mention that before? It's

free to join. AskFHU, section,

the channel of the server is a great place to come specific like this.

And

In it we had a discussion about ways

that you can improve your accuracy

when

you are trying to shield, potential

stick And,

one of the things that we

do is, have a tendency to too much attention The ball is

round, it's fascinating, it moves

very quickly, and that is dangerous, friends.

It's difficult to track one thing that is

moving faster than everything else on the Instead,

when you are anticipating two players coming into

for a tackle attempt,

switch your focus

to and watch what they First of all, you're going to look for their

body vis a vis the progress of that they are

a tackling

position where they are in front of, and by

that I mean in front of the midline of the attacker's body such that they should be able stop the ball in its progress towards

the goal, the goal that that defender is, defending.

I'm saying defender Then you have

the first element.

They are in a

tackling I'm not saying that

you can't tackle

from other You can do, you

can do so legally.

It tends to be

riskier. But in terms of what the attacker is not permitted to do when they are dribbling

when they are dribbling forwards and the defender's in a good

tackling position, they are not allowed to interpose their stick in between

the defender's stick and the ball in order to

it from being tackled.

Okay, so that's the first thing. Now you're watching the defender, you're good with their body position, then you watch their stick.

Is their stick up at their waist?

Is their stick swinging wildly and contacts the attacker's high up?

Even if the attacker has over the ball like this, is

the contact up here?

No. Is

the defender's

stick low?

It's in a

more of a blocking position rather

than a wild swing at the That, then,

if they can't, if they do all these things right, but they can't reach the ball. We have stick obstruction.

Paul, the first touch took the ball at a playable

distance. Defender is now not in position

to play a tackle, not a shield, if

you can't reach the ball. I don't see Scott, in general watching

the attacker

stick rather than the ball makes it much easier

to see

if the defender is committed to stick tackle

obstruction as

well.

Look at the defender,

okay? Try that. I

want you to take it up a notch.

I want to,

I want

you

to really stretch yourself and look at what

the defender does

because the defender

is going to move their stick even more slowly than the It's easier to identify. Watching the attacker stick, they're going to do all these and you're going to get

befuddled by that too. Okay.

Defenders stick. Defender's body. Okay, Okay. I will have a look at the poll. And 100

percent of you who voted went with a free hit excellent I agree.

This is later in the same game. That's coded. Yes. Corner. That's the wrong title. That's the wrong title.

Hopefully it's the right.

It's probably not the right

poll, But anyway, it's right

below 3A.

I've a long corner for the ball over the back, um, out the play, just before back line. Oh, that's a great angle. Thank you. Well,

if she hits the ball, it is going straight over the back line, and she's just, well stick check isn't it? But is,

is it that, is that

her intent?

So is she intending to knock that ball off the floor? Yeah, can you play it in real time for me? Or is she just intending to make a tackle? Yeah, so just play

that in full,

full, speed.

Oh, what was it? One at the other end, and now this one. just shows these, these

tight spaces, how

difficult. Okay, decision coming.

Thornbury?

Yep? There is no clear reason

to change your

decision, continue with your long

corner

and Germany lose their referral

Long corner? There

you go. And you've lost your referral. We're gonna take So I will wait for your but I have added this little segment right at the end of it

as well. Okay, so I'm, I'm interested, this one is more difficult the first example,

uh,

for a variety of reasons, some of which involve the secondary or the additional potential element of

intentionally playing the ball

the back line. One of the confounding

parts of this is that I'm not entirely convinced

as to whose stick is actually on the ball. And

you see contact,

Germany are attacking, So if

orange,

that Dutch defender has played the

ball off the back line,

are,

you know, then there's the potential that

we'd have to look at whether that was

intentional or not. And,

but

what's interesting is, is that if

there is a stick shield here

in this moment, Then

it,

you would argue that it can't be that a Dutch player played the ball

intentionally off the back line because Dutch

player couldn't access the ball,

couldn't contact

the ball

because

there was a German stick

in the way and it

was a German stick that last touched the ball before it went

off the end line.

Now

the interesting part about

playing the ball is that that's not

necessarily,

let's see, we're gonna go to the rules here because I want to

have a look some wording here.

do, do, do, do, do, do,

do, oops, I was not in the right section. Oh, and look, it's on my FaceTime Hi.

That's

because I had some problems There we go.

Back to this. And geckolab,

I thought it came off the German stick as well

in terms of who

was last in contact with it.

So,

I don't mean to get obtuse about this,

do just want to

take a

look at ball outside the So, play is restarted by a

player of the team which

was not the last team to

touch or play the ball.

So, touch is in there.

So, for me, it was a German stick that was last to touch, last

to touch the ball before it passed over the

back line. So,

there is not

a stick shield,

then we have a 23 meter on our hands. And if there was a stick shield, a 23 meter restart is absolutely okay

as well, because it's

basically the same Although, I would like to be precise about that, because if players

are smart, they

may want to take that free hit from anywhere inside the circle, instead of only in line with where it was,

uh,

where it headed out.

And the Netherlands player hit the German stick, which

then put the ball off for you. And let's go back to the scene so everybody can get their eyeballs on

things a little bit more. And the Netherlands

player hits the

back of the German stick,

penalty corner for you. And I mean, I guess

you can see that as a stick obstruction by the Netherlands

defender.

And so does Topper.

That is not, that level of contact not really going to be

disadvantaged at this it's a, it's a

really

small,

it's a

really small touch. And frankly, I would go first with a,

with a stick shield anyway.

But what was interesting for me on this play was I've gotten this,

is that, that

I believe that there's a stick shield here in this moment

And I've slowed it down.

We can have another look at it. It's paused.

And it's there. And

that is

an interposing of the stick without changing its direction. It wasn't as obvious

as the first one where the ball gets put, the stick gets off the ball and

away, and that distance is created.

But that is still

interposing the stick

for no

other reason of moving the ball.

to stop the defender from accessing.

Is that

stick shielding or stick

tackle? Okay, so let's just

sort out the language, and

this is why I

don't like

using

stick shield because stick shield is a slang term that we use in English

to refer

to a

stick obstruction that is

committed by an

attacker.

It's an attacking stick obstruction.

So let's just call it a stick

obstruction by the attacker or a stick obstruction by the defender.

Does that help?

But Can we

clarify that? All that kind of stuff. yes, that

was for the back of the play.

Um,

the player needs to receive the pass. I'm not sure what pass is involved here.

So,

it's very difficult

When the ball is

on the left side of the attack, on the far side away

from you, and

player and attacker is progressing

with the ball in that direction, this

is where you really need to be attuned to the existence of a potential stick obstruction by an attacker.

And

yeah,

it is very difficult to spot in

real time, especially because the angle of

that,

you are

in the wrong, just the wrong,

if you're not at the best angle in order

to see what's happening over there,

and often you're in your happy place, but you can't, you're actually blocked. seeing that because, I don't know, there's players in the

way because

that's the hotline to the goal and you're too close to that,

or there's a

body, the body of the actual defender is in the way of you seeing it,

which I think

is what occurs here.

Very, very tricky to see.

So part of our challenge and one of the ways that we can try to address

this as well, and I talked about shifting your focus to the defender stick

is one technique. Another technique to

anticipate. Prepare yourself for the likelihood

that if a ball carrier is coming with a ball

on the left side of their

body and they're being chased, pursued

by a defender who is

tackleable,

a tackling position, how can I move so I can best see this? What am I going to look for from the defender to see whether they have been blocked? Not something active necessarily that the attacker does, but again, keep your focus on the defender

stick, you are anticipating that this is

a potential decision that

you need to make. And I think that because it's one of those skills, like we look for

feet all the

time, we look for

defensive stick obstructions

all the time,

we start moving up the ranks and we have older and older players,

we need to also anticipate that this is a call that we're

gonna

have to

make

more often.

And in order to do that, we're reading. We're moving, we're changing our angle so that we can pick this call out. Reading anticipation is very important. Is that a call for the colleague? No.

Okay.

This is, this

is the controlling umpire

circle. And

I mean, a colleague might be able to help, but it's not their responsibility.

It's not for a supporting umpire get all up in that

primarily. And it

could be,

if I go back to the

of this,

let's just see if we've

got

mean,

Vandy's thinking because

she's putting her

hand up to,

uh, to her

mouth,

and something that,

you know, I talk about

frequently is when you're anticipating

players coming into contact,

especially in the circle,

get your whistle in your mouth and

leave it there

so that you can make

a quicker decision.

very

important skill to add to your

repertoire.

but

that's

going to

be, that could potentially be problematic. And especially because it's right in the circle,

unless you

communicate with your colleague that

I want you to override what

I can see

with your angle over

on the far

side of my circle supporting umpire and make a decision

to blow a free hit out,

Unless

you've talked about that before the game has started,

not

going to want to that. Uh, Gecko Lab, the German stick of structure was an

early potential offense. Okay.

there's a lot of, a lot of moving pieces

going

on.

Um, you wouldn't be seen as wrong to see that as the defender

interfering with

the stick, you would

have been right on top to distinguish it. The second sequence is an spot.

Okay, let's have a look at the poll, and

if you missed it,

but it's

right underneath 3A. So there we go. So, penalty corner for stick obstruction,

uh, six

of you voted for that, two of you, um,

then, um, staying, I think, I

think the

two votes that

go under

E go under

A because that's what the stick obstruction is. Um, stick hit by Dutch defender is a stick obstruction. Again,

language stuff. So,

um, and only one of you saw a stick? Shield. I'm having a tough day here. Convincing y'all of what I'm seeing.

That's the way it

goes sometimes. Can defenders tackle 3D skill? This is a rhetorical question. We have no bull here.

to be 'cause rhetorical questions are rhetorical one are allowing her to play that

dangerous cross

in front of Wichard goal. ball

out of defense from

Toman. But good tackle from Hamilton as, uh, It's a

bit difficult to see, many people who were watching this game

with me in the watch party noted it.

So I wanted to pick it out. And particularly because I've noticed that in my experience watching matches over the last few years,

that there's a significant number of um,

players Germany in particular, that I've, I've just seen instances where they are able

to successfully

make clean tackles

on attackers who

are executing 3D skills and dribbling in the air.

And I

think I had an example of

that, that I showed,

that we're shown, that we showed

in the 3D

skills live stream that we did uh, if you're still around.

Uh, you're

probably bored right now. Uh, he sticks around as long as he can, but come on. Uh, Ernst and Phil Roper and Joep de

who is my favorite

Dutch player of all time now,

Um,

we talked about

how to tackle, how to do, uh, those things

legally. And it was interesting because Euben Phil didn't

seem to really buy into

that. They're like, no, it's just too hard.

And I'm like,

but here,

here

you can, and it's something that you can practice,

and you can develop. And look,

Susie Hamilton

executes a clean pick

and

she doesn't even do the skill the way that, you know, I've sort of

seen. done successfully, which is

with more of an upright. She actually just waits until the ball is

up in the air and then plays it downwards away from

the attacker's stick

and sort of picks

it around her and then granny dodges her, picks up the

ball and off she goes. German attacker is just like, what?

just happened?

Nice, clean pick for everybody out there in the hockey world

who was

so dismayed. With the evolution of 3D skills by attackers, it makes it so hard for defenders. They're never going to be able to tackle. They're always going to foul.

This

is the worst.

We have to outlaw this skill. Shut up. You're wrong.

It's just a question the defender's skills

catching up with the attacker's possible.

It's

doable.

It's

going to happen more. And it's an issue of

training,

creativity, practice, reps, and time. for these players to develop their skills up

to that level, everybody,

you know, practices their 3D skills in these little, you know, uncontested drills.

So if you're a coach out there, I'd love

to hear

more about how you coach 3D skills.

Because

if you're doing it by

uncontested skills, you are depriving your defenders an opportunity

to develop their skills to tackle.

And that's why they're behind. That's why they can't do it.

We don't practice every

or it's

not sufficient to train dribbling skills when they're on the ground

never having defenders

involved.

why are we doing

that with 3D skills?

Ernst,

sometimes you

are probably just

pushing my button so I'm just

to leave it.

Amit, good to see you.

Tom, looks like

some better patience

and control than you've

seen in your matches.

with the under

16s, if an attacker does this, you can almost expect to stick bashing it through it well.

and that's

something for you to deal with,

and something that you, if you call this appropriately and you communicate with players, you have

conversations

with coaches, you do all this work,

you will help elevate the standards in

your

area.

And you know what? At under

16 level, the sticks are bashing through when the ball's on the ground too.

Um,

Paul, if a defender hits a stick or waist height due to a missed 3D tackle,

is that a

free hit or a PC? Depends. Was it recklessness? The result. You take all the other things Samantha,

you always tell the lads who ask if you can tackle

it clean, have a go,

just don't bash the And Scott, the attackers

still need to keep

it safe and go around defenders, absolutely, so the defenders can do their jobs

as long as they're ready to tackle, making it very difficult for attackers

to even without 3D.

Yep, absolutely there.

And I

think this is what you and I agreed on. We agreed that it was strainable. I'm not sure if it's our other two friends. Really bought into all of that on the live stream.

will add that link

in the description

if you're watching this on if any of

the mods dig that out quickly and

put it in the live chat,

that would be much appreciated and I'll up

as a card. Uh, yeah, PCs and cards, they all

get it, says Tom. It's mostly just

frustration because the other is showing off. I can't. Don't testosterone me today. Just don't.

I But they all understand. That's super fair. I can't deal. I cannot deal today.

Not today. You say

not today.

No poll. So I'm not going

go to the poll screen.

Isn't

that coincidental? 114. Holy

smokes. I thought, oh,

I'm not even going to fill up my Keely yard.

Here's a good clip.

I love this.

Advantage

out Waller. onto the foot of Calvert. Shame, Cause that approach play from Great Britain, excellent there.

Jack Waller immediately got the ball in the middle of the pitch. He's looking Facing forwards, wanting to forwards. Yeah, well dealt with that press.

It's

not going to the next scene,

but I got

this. Okay, hi. I wanted to point this out because it's a nice example

of effectively and correctly

playing advantage

out of defense.

It is more difficult to do

because generally, even though possession can be clear when a defender has recovered the ball, is now an attacker, but

is deep in their

defensive half, defensive 23 perhaps, even in their circle, and they have possession, but do they have opportunity?

And what I love about this advantage here an understanding.

So the ball has popped up and you can

see the umpire has seen this. They are signaling advantage.

They know. So

well done, Aidan. And There is all kinds.

One, two, three, four, five attackers here.

and there's a whole

bunch of defenders. There's

six defenders, five on six. and

look at this space.

There is

opportunity for this team. part of

your reading

of the play

and you're anticipating this could be a stick obstruction. Ooh, I don't like the player's body position.

I think

this might go off

their foot,

Is you're assessing various outlets. Various things that a

player might do if they were to

recover the ball in that position.

And

as we advance this forward,

you can see is good opportunity.

Is it better than a free hit? Potentially, because there could be

some outnumbered situations with a quick aerial. If somebody's out of position, we can't

see the whole pitch,

so we don't know what

could possibly accrue, but there, oops.

But there might be

that aerial. involved.

There could be another angle like this could go here and then you

could have

a square ball in across or you

could have a deep

angle or that could be an aerial. Who knows? There's a lot of great potentials that you can imagine even though we can't see the whole thing that come out of this.

And this is how you

assess

advantage coming out of defense is

recognizing space, recognizing

opportunity. Seeing,

clear and solid

possession,

and then showing

the players

with your

arm. And

potentially didn't hear it, but it could have happened. But

I recommend using your voice to also say, play that.

You've got it. My two words, I am always saying go on, go on.

Go on! going to be your style. Go Nutsport. Go Nuts for it. And I

think here that,

um,

yeah, the, the player has stopped the ball

and

I think they do so because they're actually expecting

that

the free hit is

going to happen.

And it's like, Oh,

Oh, I can keep playing. Great. So he's got it

both ways, which is awesome. And you're caught. Good work. I don't know what to do about getting these in the right spot.

Tom, you

love the control most times of the international players who understands its advantage and to leave

the ball alone.

Absolutely. Scott, save yourself and colleague the

words advantage over when it

reaches a point

that you won't be going back to the offence.

Scott, we have had this conversation.

The advantage

was used

or spent even if they messed it

up.

Advantage is is a decision that you make in the moment when the foul occurs.

You

do not make a habit of going back. If you have

screwed

up. and you miss applied advantage

it would be unfair for you to not go back the once or twice in the game that that happens, okay. But it is not a I'm gonna wait

to see what happens and then I'm

gonna go back.

Please be careful with your language

there. I am working really hard to get everybody on the right page with advantage. It is a decision in the moment you must make it

by reading the play. And looking at what the options are, you make it in

the moment

and you go. And

yes, it's

on the players to do the best with that advantage And Paul taking for me. Samantha, these are the best advantage at lower levels, especially when they make that

pass to the line. The player almost half a field. Yep. Nice

to hear.

Yep. And always be vocal because the player with the ball

in this particular instance, who recovers

the ball after the foul,

They've got the umpire behind them.

So your signal is great for everybody. around. That's your arena umpiring.

That is the coaches,

the players

who are on the bench,

guy with his dog over at

the fence.

You are showing all of them that you saw the foul. Your voice is what indicates to

the players who are on the ball, especially because at most levels, they're going to be looking down at the ball.

They're

not looking

at you. You are reassuring them.

I saw the foul. You don't have to yell at me. You don't have

to put up

your hand. You are Entitled to

And that's why I say go on, because I'm actually telling

the players, I am not going to be interrupting you. I'm not encouraging them. I'm not saying like, it's not that

kind of go on,

especially when I say it with my rusting bitch face.

It is a continue,

continue to play, go on,

just

fewer syllables. And play on is good too. Raise your hand. Absolutely. Just

Understand where your language was kind of going a little bit on the tangent that, um, wasn't really, wasn't really feeling confident

in what was

happening Okay.

Fabulous. I enjoyed that. Thank you for

the opportunity to bring that to your attention get discussion

about advantage.

There's no such thing as a frenzy. He makes work and he was choosing that. Janssen doesn't get hold of it. Back it comes. Another chance. Needs to be careful. Hendricks is from distance and they need to

need to be careful.

Because Jonas van Dijk's seen this and he's seen Hendricks reaction, so whatever else goes into the

hit a teammate, will have seen what's happened.

have seen what's happened. We're gonna do two things.

Wait. Wait, yeah? I

think there'll be a card

for

the

late

ball, which causes danger. Okay, so I'm gonna give two yellow

cards. Yeah. For the late hit. And I'm gonna give two yellow cards, and I'm gonna explain now, yeah?

Um, no, no, no. Two yellow cards. Because there's the yellow card for the late hit, which causes danger.

Easy, easy. I'm first, I'm first talking, yeah? First, we'll go Felix, Felix, yeah. Okay? I'm not, going to both captains, yeah? Please? It It should what

what Duco does

is not

right. I want you

to tell that. Clearly, what Felix does

is not right. No, no. No, sorry, no. No, um,

no. Uh, Alex? Clearly tell him, I'm not giving clearly a yellow Normally,

and now we're not

going to do that because I don't want to see that on the It's a free out. You tell,

you tell, you go for it, He said,

he's

given two yellow cards.

All this has happened is just a mess in here. This is in a minute. Here is the late strike. The

whistle had already gone,

so that is dangerous play. Now look at Hendrix coming

from distance. But this is after the

whistle, that's dangerous, should be a card.

But then it's the piling of Hendrix into the back of it. The answer is that I think he protected his teammates,

get

them please.

Yeah. I'm not convinced that shouldn't be two yellows. I understand the nature

of the game, but I do think you've

got to put your foot down kind of action.

So now, guys. Come on. You can't. You can't. been discussed pointed out, discussed on the socials already. I took in some comments on

Reddit.

And such,

and

this

I'm in full spirit of disclosure.

is going to be a hard

thing for me to

talk about

because

I have, I have six core values that I put up

on my website on the about

page that helped guide me towards

being the

best

FHumpires coach

can

be.

And two of them are clashing here.

One of them

is that I have a core value of radical candor

that I try to be

clear,

sincere,

and straightforward

with

my feedback

to umpires that I coach. And I consider that

to be all of you as well as

the people who are part of the third team inside

memberships.

Everybody I happen upon,

you know, out my travels, all that kind of thing.

In this situation

conflicts with one of my other core values, which is to not drag umpires.

Everything has to be constructive clear and I'm Going to apologize

right now

because I feel as though I am not going to be able to serve both of those values to the extent that

I should,

but I'm going to, I'm going to try.

I'm going to do my best.

The reason that I titled this section,

there's no such thing

as a friendly is because I have this conversation frequently with umpires the server on live streams and such where they say, I was umpiring a friendly. I was umpiring

summer league. I was umpiring

mixed

hockey. I was

umpiring

a test match between

this

under 16 and

this under 18 and blah blah blah.

I was umpiring a match,

whatever

you call it,

and this thing happened and

I didn't give cards. And my response

is always to say there is

no such thing as a friendly. The rules that we have in place in our game.

I think.

As much as I know about sportsball this and sportsball that,

our rules are

quite unique in that almost every single one of them is about safety. And at the

heart of it, when you strip all the things away,

if we don't enforce the rules of the game.

We are not

keeping players safe.

People say, ah, well, it's

just not

the spirit of

a summerly game or, or

friendly or anything to send

players off. paying

money to be there and we should keep them on the field. What about the other 32 players?

Do they not pay their money

and pay their time to be there and

enjoy the best hockey that they can play?

they not deserve to feel safe? Do they not deserve for the game to be conducted fairly? Four weeks before Paris,

should a a Belgian player pinged with a ball on a late shot

and nothing be done about it that could have broken his

foot?

That is a safety issue.

Should a player

be able to run from the center line into a melee

and start grabbing people? And should that be

allowed? Just to, okay.

When we are entrusted,

as we are in every single game,

to take care of player safety, we must do our jobs.

Because it's not about

the feelings of

that one person that we

are carding, or the two people that we're carding, or even the captain that comes to us and plays

with us, Ah, the game doesn't need it!

You know

what the game needs? Is for everybody

to know that they are going to be safe.

can

play without breakdowns.

They can play without misconduct. Because that is what we

are charged to do.

Take

the word friendly and

just chuck it out of

your vocabulary.

You are

umpiring a match

and every match is

important in terms of safety and fairness, even if it's not important in terms of result.

In this particular match,

we were watching this in the watch party and I said, has the feeling of a so called friendly.

The players are walking around giving zero fucks about what's happening. said those words

in the first half

and you know what? This is going to go wrong if the right measures aren't taken when things happen, like

breakdown tackles, like misconduct. Because it's so

easy to get lulled into the sense of, oh, it's going to be okay.

Ah, they're all

fine. They're fine because

you're there.

Not to be

their friends, not to be the most popular person on the planet, but to enforce safety and fairness

With a view

to everybody, not the individual.

I was zero surprised

that

happened the first I was

a hundred thousand percent surprised at the result. So what I want to emphasize for us if you watch the rest

of the game, there were consequences to this.

Were there fights?

Was

there murder on the pitch? No.

But the game's tenor absolutely changed. Hendrix

went up and took a drag flick that was pretty out of control,

up at the other end, immediately afterwards.

Not okay. Not okay.

when we are in this position, don't get lulled into false insecurity. You don't have

to be all

angry when you give these

cards You know, it's like, hey, I just, I have to do my job.

I need to show

all these players that they can trust me,

that

I'm going to keep them safe.

That's it.

Um, go watch it and you make your own,

uh, your own

decisions about what you see. I know how

I felt about it. That's something

I'll get into in the next segment, the next of this. umpiring slightly, but you believe that's

the

only ever to match

the player's skills so that

they're safe. Your principles are the same for all Good. Thank you, You

agree it's difficult to discuss. Yeah, it's worth

watching the whole

thing. It's worth watching the whole game. You have to watch the whole

thing, and this is why we do watch

parties.

for all of you

who are part of the community, you're

part of the third team,

this is why I do those.

And it sometimes, happens. But for all the times that I try to indicate to everybody,

these are the signs we

should be looking for. It's there.

It's there. This is gonna happen. Ten minutes. Set your clocks. We're gonna see it.

Bang, it

happens ten minutes later. This

is what we're working on,

is our awareness, our anticipation, our understanding of what

players need, even if they don't

want it.

What do they need?

Can

I play it again with sound? He makes work and he was choosing to play. Janssen doesn't get a hold of it. Back at comes another chance. Needs to be careful. Okay. Hendricks is running from distance and they need to be careful.

Yeah. He's, Jonas Fantech seen this and he's seen Hendricks's reaction to whatever else goes into the circle. Yeah, yeah. Wait, wait, wait. It's hit a teammate. Disengage the umpire, we'll We're gonna do We're gonna Wait. Yeah. I

think there'll be a

card

for the late

hit of

the ball, which causes danger.

I'm gonna give two yellow cards. Yeah. With a late hit.

I'm gonna

give two yellow cards,

and I'm gonna explain it just now, yeah? Um,

no, no. Okay.

Two

yellow cards. there's the yellow card.

The late hit. There's the yellow card. Felix, Felix, Felix,

yeah. Felix, Felix, yeah. Okay? I'm not but I'm gonna to yeah? Felix! Felix Dice!

Please.

It should be two yellow

cards.

So,

clearly, Ducu does,

I want you to

tell that. Clearly, what

Felix does is

not right.

You're gonna tell

No, sorry, no. No, um,

no. Alex? Clearly tell him. I'm not giving a yellow Normally, and now we're not gonna do it because

don't want to see that

on the pitch, yeah?

It's a free out. You tell, you tell, you go for it. He said he's giving to you a card.

Okay, so,

Anika Hupp.

Yes.

That was clear enough and loud enough However,

now that we've gone through that part,

that's not

the part

that got me really upset when was watching What we have is a male umpire who

walks over to his female colleague and says,

this is what happened, this is what we're

going to do.

He then listens to the captain make an

argument

about not giving a card, and he says, I'm going to talk to the captains,

walks away from his supporting, from the controlling umpire, from his colleague, takes

the two captains away, and then changes his

mind. If you did not see this,

if you do

not see the problem

in this, you are not paying attention.

of all, that isn't teamwork.

When you have

to sort out these

melees, Our approach needs to be that we go to our colleague

And we may be

the supporting umpire

who's been

able to see more of

the things

because we've kept more of a distance and we're not in the middle of it.

That is a

great way to deal with the melody that one umpire might

be closer to the action

and be trying to avert or mitigate some of the worst things that are happening in the second

umpire watches.

When that is over the two of you

get together and you discuss

together what actions are going to be taken? This is Rachel's circle, and she is silenced in this moment from contributing anything to what happens here. I am not okay with this.

and I'm not saying this because Rachel's my friend.

I barely

know her. We,

we've spoken a few

times in person. That's about it.

But

in this moment, I'm Rachel. If you're a female umpire, we are all Rachel's. We all know what this is To be treated

as though we can't possibly handle a heated temperamental situation with male players.

It's not okay.

91 percent of you who are watching this right now,

statistically speaking,

are male umpires.

We need you to do better.

No.

I mean,

sure, we can blame Rachel, but

given that he

just sort of walks over her and makes pronouncements, takes the players away, what's she gonna do?

Walk up and say,

no, that's not what's happening. It's my damn circle. I know that there should be two yellow cards.

Off they go. How,

how does that work out in terms of teamwork?

This entire audio exchange, both of those

umpires know, the

players know, everybody knows that it's going over the broadcast. How do you possibly manage out of that?

I, I, Yes,

but you can't

ignore

context. can't ignore those things. And

it doesn't matter

if it was intentional.

optics fucking terrible

And it

sends

all

the signals, all the signals that we experience intentionally

all the time. Hi Anna.

You came in right at the best time. It's nice to

see you. I think you might be new. Sorry.

It's a very just, just,

you know, I don't know.

I don't know why

things happened the way it did.

I don't know what

people were

feeling in the

moment. I know what I'm feeling. I know what I was feeling when I was watching this.

I know what I feel now

when I

see it again. I know what I've been feeling for the last 24 hours trying to decide how am I going to deal with this.

was justified doing that both umpires dealing

with multiple skirmishes. Yeah, there are nuances There are nuances

about, you know, people being busy, about that sort of thing, but getting on the same page is a crucial step And that's the thing. It's

the optics of it.

And we know at

the level where things are

being broadcast that optics are crucial. They are everything.

In fact,

let's not even talk about broadcast. Let's talk about the

fact that if anybody is

watching this

without the benefit of TV, the

optics are still present.

They're still there. They're not okay.

And

what I appreciate about this statement is just the last. You look at this as a man,

so you can't judge

that part. You can't. You don't know what it's like.

When I got my

First stab at getting assessed for the men's panel

England, separate panel

from the women's

panel. I was about four years in, I was a promising list, still promising list FIH And I got appointed to a match between Indian Gymkhana and somebody else.

And everybody

knows that Indian Gymkhana a team of

Indo British

players.

And my phone, when those appointments were released, my phone

lit

up.

Everybody was

calling me.

Okay.

This is what you I had scores

of my male

colleagues

offering me

completely unsolicited advice how to deal with Indo British male players.

I grew up umpiring Indo Canadian male players

in not my first rodeo. And I had zero trepidation about walking into

that situation and

being able

to do a good job.

in fact, I have

tactics and techniques

that y'all don't even know about that I can use because I'm a And I use them

because I will do

all means necessary.

The game

went fantastic.

They

couldn't wait to have me back.

the tees were great. This presumption that we need saving, that we need helping. No teamwork.

Good to see you, Viv.

No partnership. And this is something that you can empathize with. If you're not a female umpire, you can empathize when you've been completely overstepped and you've been silenced.

and how you feel in the moment.

Because you know that

a member

of the team,

you have this fine line

to walk. To not be the one that makes things worse because

you overtly

argue with your colleague.

How do you

manage that? How do you handle that? When

the power dynamic is there,

the finding the right tools is not easy. It's not this.

I agree.

And Anik,

we've all been there,

We've all been Taco, you've experienced

being overruled like that and worse by a female umpire though.

yes, it can happen. There is. Gray and nuance and all

that kind of stuff. I get But we're talking about a pattern of systemic

behavior. Predominant

behavior. And this

is an example that

I've never

seen it like So what we need to take out of this is a a new awareness that we don't

want to be complacent,

that teamwork needs to be our highest

priority,

that we have to go

in with the full context of gender, sexuality, ability, racial, religious

considerations. I know it's hard,

But guess what?

That's the job, is to do

hard things.

we need

to keep all of those contexts

in mind when we go into these interactions, and above all, the game is first.

players are first, and

not just

the safety of

the players is I hope that outlines

everything. And

there's just no

other way for me to have approached this and shared the depth of the problem without

sharing like

this.

Do I think Jonas is a

bad person?

Absolutely not.

Do I think he

made a mistake

in the moment? Because even though he came in with

an appearance of authority, when melee

on your pitch at the international level, it is You are now under a microscope.

I have been there.

I've been there a few times and it is hard and your,

your, your stress levels go

through the roof. Your adrenaline,

your heartbeat is

going like this because that shit's going down on your watch.

So I

understand that this is a fairly challenging situation.

This is for us to learn from.

This is for us to go forward

and be better from. Okay, um, thank you and Please do watch on

the replay that is going to end just about now because

I think that's all that I have to, uh, discuss. I appreciate that there are some of

you in

the chat who are continuing,

debating some of the finer points. Another

way that you can continue having

this discussion is to come into the server

and we can start a thread and ask FHU

and talk more about it.

But

if I failed upholding either my radical candor or my no drag of

umpires

and I believe I did fail on both parts. Again, my apologies. I did the best that I could,

and let's keep moving forward. Ten more

pro league games. Junior Pan Am

Cup

starts

on July 2nd in Vancouver, Canada. European Under

21 Championships,

and then that little thing that they call the Paris Olympics.

you are wondering about

How you

can get involved all of this, join the third team. FHumpires dot,

or actually you can just go to FHE3T dot

com, and you can join in in the learnings. And even,

luckily

most games aren't like this.

Emotionally fraught and difficult

circumstances, usually for just learning and it's great. So,

uh,

if you have any questions about how this all works, come into the server. Again,

It's free

of charge

we will, we'll, we'll

talk about

it. I'll, I'll let

everybody else talk about being on the 13th for Okay.

Um, I,

I really want to,

to,

I'm

trying,

Um,

Anik, you're

in the server.

You don't have to join again.

You don't have

to join again. You just have to

open up discord. So go to discord. com. Log in with your login. Don't rejoin the invite. It's like, if you didn't have a Facebook account

and somebody said, come into a Facebook group, you

need to set up a Facebook account. Then you need to go. Do not accept the invites.

Do not try to follow the invite. If you are already in the server, please and go watch the game.

game.

Thank

you for coming in. Sorry. It's

already late. Thank

you for everybody who's stuck

around for all of this. And you're very welcome for the coaching, Scott. appreciate it. Thank you, And thank you, Alistair.

your point earlier that I lost

in the

professal about studying

the example, absolutely spot on as thank you for pointing that out. And I hope everybody saw that

one time and now I can show.

Thank you. Um, let's keep going. Ten more

Pro

League games and it's over. See you next week. Bye.

I'm lazy, just wanna be okay. How can I pick up the pieces? When everything breaks with every day. I'm getting older, I feel the weight up on my shoulders. I'm strong enough, I'll rise above. It's all gonna be okay. If I can be anything, I think I'm gonna be me. I'm gonna be me. Cause

I wanna go, no one else I'd rather be. I think I'm gonna be, I think I'm gonna be me.

Everything's changing, just trying to navigate. Oh, I keep on believing. I'm gonna find my way with every day. I'm getting older, I feel the weight upon my shoulders. I'm strong enough, I will rise above. It's all gonna be okay. If I can be anything, I think I'm going to be me.

I think I'm gonna be, I think I'm gonna be me.

Me. I know I got me. Me.

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good day to you all. Happy. What a Wednesday. Keely down FH Empires [Mic bleed] 13. And I am delighted that you're [Mic bleed] This is going to be a, um. Yeah, a good show. A good show. Can I show? Look, there's, there's been things. There's been things happening over the last week of Pro League and boy, if I can get through the next 10 matches and not get entirely, entirely annoyed saying the words Pro League and if I can never say them again, at least for a few months afterwards, I will be delighted.

I can't wait to be saying olympics, olympics, olympics, olympics, olympics. because this has [Mic bleed] It's been really [Mic bleed] Samantha, I will, um, I will see if I can dig up a link for you. [Mic bleed] Gotta be me, because I know it's available on some of,

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This is not working for me. There we go. That's gonna work out. [Mic bleed] the Sam Hill is happening with my comments? They were all fine last week, weren't they? They were. Hi AJ, I'm glad you're here. Anique, you're here live? That's nice. That's nice. I'm very happy. I'm glad that I have my sisters in the house because we have some stuff to talk about Matt Drazy, good to see you and you're complaining.

Do not. Bring any heat related, when you are in England, complaints. I'm not having [Mic bleed] Okay? I, can I, I need to understand more. More, you know, cause, You need to explain to me what [Mic bleed] Okay? I'm sorry, I'm just too dense to figure it out. I need to know. Ugh! Everybody, it's okay. Simon's [Mic bleed] nice to have you. Paul, also, you're here from Ottawa. Good to have you. William's here? Like, what is this? What is this? I get Anik, I get William, I get Simon. Is it a special thing? Hartmut's here again. It's because of Masters, [Mic bleed] is Everybody's speaking different languages [Mic bleed] That's fantastic. Okay.

Come on, scenes. Do the scene. Topics. What is an intentional foul in the circle? We are going to start with intentionally playing the ball with the body, uh, slash long barrier, two stick shields, passing in the night. Can defenders tackle 3D skill? What? Question mark. Advantage out of defense. And then our last topic.

There's no such thing as a friendly. There is no question [Mic bleed] That's going to be an interesting discussion, so I hope you can stick around to the end, but I need to work my way into [Mic bleed] it's not going to be easy. Um, yay! Thank you! Of course. And hi, Mark. Thank you for coming by. [Mic bleed] I just, I have to fix, I have to fix the comments. And Scott's here. I, I'm so appreciative, Scott, that you are here, like, every week. I'm just gonna call it. I'm just gonna say [Mic bleed] Nobody's, like, clocking it, [Mic bleed] take the praise. Very, very, very good. I look a little, um, I look a little pale.

[Mic bleed] you noticing [Mic bleed] I need to have skin [Mic bleed] little bit of this, [Mic bleed] no. There. Okay, now I look like a human being [Mic bleed] Deep breath, okay, let's go. What is an intentional foul in a [Mic bleed] Please, for your viewing pleasure, take in this clip.

And the penalty corner, Stafford Horse wants the penalty stroke and they are going upstairs to try and upgrade the penalty corner to a penalty stroke. [Mic bleed] [Mic bleed] Yes, go ahead. Can you please check if there's something, uh, some action [Mic bleed] the shoot [Mic bleed] like intentional, [Mic bleed] Cassandra Della has played the advantage here. That, there's a challenge there. That's the challenge from Thoman. You see, out of shot, Sandra Dale with, with her hand up playing the advantage [Mic bleed] she does stop Stafford Horse though, getting to the ball. I'm not sure the advantage accrues. There's the tackle. And that's, is that, is that a good advantage? Well, there isn't the advantage because she can't get to the ball. I think Stappenhorst, that's her [Mic bleed] I have some advice for you. The ball was flicked towards goal and was going to go in the goal.

Therefore award a penalty stroke. Okay. And they keep their referral. Thank [Mic bleed] [Mic bleed] I am going to be dancing a lot of tight, [Mic bleed] lot of difficult tight ropes in this show, but this is only a moderate challenge because What I appreciate is that when we are under stress, and this happens to us all the time when we're on the pitch, and players ask us questions, sometimes we come back with language that isn't the most accurate description of what has happened [Mic bleed] What is the proper application, interpretation [Mic bleed] rule? What is the principle [Mic bleed] And our words fail [Mic bleed] and that's okay. We need to keep working on it and we need to be cognizant of these things so that we get better. For some reason, y'all think I'm good at talking about umpiring things.

Thank you for those of you who are buying into this story right [Mic bleed] But it's not, it's not an easy skill to develop. And I know that when I was going through my career, I had a times where I was on the pitch and I was really unhappy with the way that I was expressing myself. I felt stupid. I stumbled over my words.

I misspoke. I literally just said the wrong thing. And in that regard, we will all have empathy. But this is a learning opportunity for us. And what I want to outline here is what I see in [Mic bleed] situation and how we should be presenting these kind of decisions out into the [Mic bleed] So what we have here is The, the, the actual foul that's occurring happens right at the moment where the defender reaches in, Toma number six, reaches in from behind and is reckless as to the result of breaking down play here inside the circle. So I'm just going to pop it back right here. Okay, this is where, [Mic bleed] going to work?

Video pencil. So why ain't you showing? [Mic bleed] don't you show in? It says you're on. [Mic bleed] Okay. Oh, there it's,

this is the moment where we have the stick [Mic bleed] that needs to be treated as an intentional foul. The play continues then at this moment, it continues on, and the attacker here doesn't have a significant amount of. advantage whatsoever. So she goes from here to here. Goalkeeper in a great position.

There's maybe, you know, one meter between where the ball was and the goalkeeper being able to take the blocker. And because of the disadvantage, she's not able to get a good shot away. And when we are calculating whether advantage can be played or not, which was an issue that was raised by Sarah Robertson when she approached the umpire, well, advantage was played.

That is not good advantage because advantage has to be that the opportunity that the player still has who has been fouled is better than what would've been awarded because of the foul [Mic bleed] This isn't even a penalty coroner worthy event. This is not on the level of a penalty corner in terms of outplayed situation.

You got outnumbers of players you have. set piece, you have ball under control, you have goalkeeper back, you have players running out, all those sort of things. This is not a better scoring opportunity right here, and it's definitely not a better scoring opportunity [Mic bleed] So the language that the video umpire uses for me is not helpful in defining exactly what was happening [Mic bleed] For me, this is a penalty stroke as a result of an intentional foul in the [Mic bleed] Full stop. It doesn't have to be a shot on goal. Factually, it wasn't a shot on [Mic bleed] in that moment, but it doesn't have to be. And when we describe things incorrectly in these kind of moments, it doesn't help us when we need to call intentional fouls for things that are happening that aren't anywhere near an active [Mic bleed] This is not Definitely not a 12. 58, 12. 48. Um, who's, who's got it? Um, somebody, show me what is in [Mic bleed] This is not a probable goal [Mic bleed] The ball going into that was not. Probable has to be 75 percent [Mic bleed] It's got to be around that area. And an unintentional foul that stops a probable goal is enough for a penalty stroke.

That's not what happens here. This is an intentional foul. Okay? So, I sent some, um, some messages to, to friends in the commentary box, and they were like, well, either way is fine. It's like, no, it's not, it's not fine, because if we don't have this clarity in the way that we explain these decisions to players on the pitch.

to coaches, to spectators, to each other afterwards. We are not going to be able to make accurate and supportable [Mic bleed] in the [Mic bleed] I hope that makes sense. I am interested in your thoughts as well. Let me know what you think. Um, and

then we'll go to the [Mic bleed] I start reading before I finish my sentence, which is not constructive. The third umpire says the shot was going in. Don't think he was looking at that first player. So who is he looking at? Who got felt?

And thank you. Uh, the intentional foul is 12. 4b, and can I play it again in real speed? Absolutely.

Well picked up, and here is Stappenhorst. Stappenhorst through on goal, good save from Pritchard, it's up into the air, and the penalty corner. Stappenhorst wants the penalty stroke, and they are going upstairs to try and upgrade the penalty corner to a penalty stroke.

[Mic bleed] Yes, go ahead. Okay, can you please check if there's something, uh, some action [Mic bleed] the shoot [Mic bleed] like intentional, [Mic bleed] Sandra Adele there has played the advantage here. That, there's a challenge there, that's the challenge from Thoman. You see, out of shot, Sandra Adele with, with her hand up playing the advantage here.

[Mic bleed] she does stop Stafford Horse though, getting to the ball. I'm not sure the, the advantage accrues. There's the tackle. And that's, is [Mic bleed] So, [Mic bleed] I understand what you're saying now. The save off the body, but that ball wasn't [Mic bleed] Okay. So, what, what I want us to process is The lack of advantage that's there because that is a penalty stroke worthy foul in the first instance.

Right there, that's a penalty [Mic bleed] And a penalty stroke scoring opportunity is better than anything that was happening [Mic bleed] And so it's a very, I mean, a lot of things happen in the circle. A lot of things happen quickly, but that ball was going wide that hit 31 anyway. So yes, that's what ended up being called by the umpire.

but the penalty stroke comes, should have come from the first file. Does that make sense? Okay. But now I understand better where the languaging comes in. So Mark, I appreciate you pointing that out because that's not at all what I was processing because the first file for me was, was more than enough to have a look at there.

[Mic bleed] I look small. Okay. [Mic bleed] So you can write in a pull option for that. And, uh, thank you that [Mic bleed] the first file [Mic bleed] I get it. [Mic bleed] And part of this is that it's, it's a useful exercise to, to think about. We need to be better at all levels of identifying these intentional files in [Mic bleed] We, we often watch the matches at our level and we think, oh, you know, why can't they score? [Mic bleed] can't they score or keep calling penalty corners and they're not very good at them and they can't execute those? Why can't they score? Is it because there are far too many reckless to the result fouls that are not getting penalized [Mic bleed] and therefore the players are not learning what they should not be risking in terms of tackle attempts?

The game is messier and uglier because we aren't doing our job [Mic bleed] Thought. And yes, Steven, this is a fantastic thing to point out. I absolutely love where the umpire has gone here. Sandra has flashed. It's, it's a slang term. You can call it whatever you want, but she has moved sharply and rapidly up to the top of the circle.

You can see her there towards in that direction. And by the time she makes her decision, she's probably about six meters off the back line, but she has moved up so that she has the angle she needs to get to while that ball is on the opposite back line and she is not being blocked by the supine [Mic bleed] That is crucial and an excellent piece of movement. Not all umpires choose this. And if this isn't part of your positioning pattern and your movement system, consider it. Consider trying it. It's not always the best solution, but it often is for you to be able to make this call. Some umpires choose to stay back on the back line and then they ask their colleague who is 45 meters away to help them with that call that's way on the on their uh, close back line.

That's really difficult. You look after your circle, primarily, and if your colleague can help, great. But to rely on them as the primary source of decisions that happen on the far side of the circle, very risky. So, really good to point out, [Mic bleed] is that flash. Uh, Simon, you gave a penalty apologizes to his team for a shit tackle.

I'm gonna say it. but then claimed it couldn't be a penalty stroke as it wasn't a shot on goal. That's exactly what I'm trying for us [Mic bleed] okay? And if I mistook that because I was looking at the ball going wide that was called as a penalty corner and, uh, and that was actually what the umpire was deciding was a penalty stroke, so be it.

Sometimes I'm putting pieces together and intuiting what I've seen and it's a good reminder for us. Good reminder from [Mic bleed] that when we're watching video, when we're watching a broadcast of a match, we are shown pictures that will give us one aspect. Often it's narrowed down, it's from particular angles, and when those Wonderfully omniscient commentators do their bit.

It influences the way that we are interpreting the events in [Mic bleed] So I appreciate that reminder. That's very good. Is it because of this position that she was blocked by the players? Anik is asking. I was surprised she didn't see the penalty stroke herself. Um, she played advantage off it, potentially, because she has her arm out.

I just think that this is an issue of interpretation. and applying what is reckless as the result. Reaching in from behind when you've already been beaten with the ball and just swinging your stick in is reckless. You are not in a high, that is, that is not a high probability tackle [Mic bleed] It's not even a medium probability tackle.

It's really likely that you are going to commit a foul. And that's what we call breaking down play, and that's what we have to penalize as [Mic bleed] Players don't want to commit fouls. I'm not saying, I, generally speaking, there's a few times where they're like, screw it, I'm going to foul this person because I don't want them to get by me.

But very often they're like, I'm just going to try this and see what happens. And what we want them to do is not take high risk measures, and if they do, we have to mete out the appropriate penalty because we are trying to encourage skill, flow, and safety.

Definitely not at this level. They are not encouraged to not give the [Mic bleed] Um, but if that's, if that's messaging that you get at your, in your region, in your level and things like that, come talk to me and give me those people's names and they can come talk to me [Mic bleed] Cause we got to fix [Mic bleed] Not all angles [Mic bleed] If the umpire has played the advantage, the correct decision as a PC says [Mic bleed] umpire, um, sorry, says, says Paul, I don't think the advantage is good [Mic bleed] So if the, if the question had gone up whether advantage had been appropriately played on the first foul, then I think there's a good chance that would have been [Mic bleed] Stephen, you gave a penalty stroke just before The weekend just gone for a diving tackle behind from behind from behind from behind just inside the circle along the baseline ball ended up back on the attacker stick but no advantage. Thanks. Yes, even though you may have possession, possession does not equal opportunity.

You must have both and the opportunity has to be more than the penalty that you would have awarded. The team penalty [Mic bleed] Okay, good stuff. That's a good discussion. Let's go look at poll. Do, do, look! [Mic bleed] did [Mic bleed] look. [Mic bleed] I, [Mic bleed] I know y'all aren't excited as excited as I am, but I'm excited.

So, penalty stroke for 6 of you, or 55%, um, one of you wants a penalty stroke for intentionally, an intentional foul that stops a probable goal, and then G, penalty stroke, intentional foul on the circle against an attacker with possession or opportunity to play the ball. Um, yeah, that's A. So, basically, we have 10 votes for A, and I'm not doing [Mic bleed] mean, is that, I mean, yes, I, you're right. I should have written it out more, but okay. 10 votes for A. Excellent stuff. Okay, let's go to this screen. by the way, July 1st is the first day of the season training plan. the season training plan to get you ready for your late September, early October season restart, if that is the region of the world that you are in.

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Got to be a corner and a card has to be, there has to be a personal penalty in there. Based on that is a defender putting her knees on the floor to create a broad physical barrier that is a corner. But the need there has, surely there's a personal penalty attached to that. Watch the defensive, a lineman, step up.

Down. You're on the floor. You have created a physical barrier. That's a decision, an individual decision that surely carries a personal penalty.

Okay. So again, this, this conversation is about language and hopefully I didn't misunderstand anything about the conversation here. [Mic bleed] think I [Mic bleed] Because I hope as we sort of work through this that y'all are pretty comfortable with [Mic bleed] So the defender does a really good job, very intelligently, making sure that she steps outside the circle for this.

And she closes the gap a little bit, but she's not in a great position to make a tackle. And she takes her body down to the [Mic bleed] I didn't know this. We learned this together, maybe a couple months ago, that log barrier is a cricket [Mic bleed] And you're all like, Keely, you're so cute. I know. Canada. I don't know cricket.

And the terminology refers to a player who stretches their body out on the ground in order to block its progress through. Is that a foul cricket? I don't know. Are there fouls at cricket? Don't know that either. But that's where the word, the terminology comes from. So if that helps you, great. It even helps me, because the words describe exactly what you're seeing.

It is a player who is using their body, to block the space that the ball would go through without trying to use their stick in order to play that ball. They are ensuring that the ball doesn't go through or they are reckless as the result of stopping the ball from going through. Okay, so let's talk about what the team penalty is here.

It's just outside the circle. It's a penalty corner. Thank you. We can now move on to the There we go. Whether it's a card depends on where we are in management of the game. And Stephen, that wall was, that ball was heading to an attacker in a great position. That's a big card. So the argument, Stephen, that you're making is that the impact of that foul was significant.

It required more. So I'm willing to accept that. Let's, let's have a look at exactly what Stephen's saying here.

Um,

it's probably best to watch it on this big replay here. So, as I'm looking, that ball was heading to an attacker. No, it wasn't. So, I, I understand where you're going with the argument, but just on the basis of the facts, here's the thing, and she was trying to flick the ball that way. Now, the, the arrow doesn't even make it look, because the angle of the arrow is wrong, but she was trying to flick it over on the right hand side, and you have You know, lots of players in the way of those attackers.

The player was not open. So, and you can make the art and that's fine. And if that's the way you see the facts in that particular situation, okay. I don't see them that way at all. The conversation and the way that you have to process this particular event to decide whether you're going to award a personal [Mic bleed] is to look at repetition, danger, and impact.

Just because it's an obvious foul, just because she really meant to do it, that doesn't occur, that doesn't require, sorry let me get [Mic bleed] replay going [Mic bleed] that doesn't necessitate a personal [Mic bleed] That's old school thinking, okay? And it's also very arbitrary. It's not a helpful framework, because what you're trying to do is put the emphasis on what the player's got going in their minds.

We are not mind readers and we don't want to be mind readers. Those spaces are scary. [Mic bleed] to go in there. What we want to do is apply a repeatable, measurable criterion that allows us to be consistent and fair with our carding [Mic bleed] So in this particular game, we're in Q2, seven minutes.

Having watched the whole game, I can tell you this is the first intentional foul. Recklessness to the result, intentional foul that happens inside the 23 on either end. So it's the first one. So we don't have repetition. Is it dangerous? Does the foul, not that there's danger that the defender creates for herself by going down, please, like, let's be precise about how we're attaching the word danger to the [Mic bleed] Is danger caused by the defender in committing this foul to a member of the opposing team? No. Okay, so we don't have repetition, we don't have danger, we can look at impact, and if you see this as being a high impact foul, then you have reason to attach more of a penalty. This is distinguishable from a breakdown foul, say the same thing happens outside the 23.

Because we don't have the option to add the upgrade, the more severe penalty, the more severe team penalty. We just go straight to, it's a breakdown play, if it's the first time, it's not dangerous, and it's not high impact, we go to a green. Easy. But because inside the 23 and inside the circle, we have the ability to step up that team penalty, we already have a big hammer there.

So, it's like repetition takes a step back. And we step back. It's like a, a 5 on the scale of 1 [Mic bleed] Okay, and so that's where we can go first. But if it happens again, if there is another intentional breakdown of play, recklessness of the result, inside the 23 or inside the [Mic bleed] now we have our petition and we can start moving up the ladder, the elevator.

Does that make sense?

Doubt the intention of going down there. She wants to go low and slips trying to get her stick. She's reckless as to the result. Great. Thank you for helping me tease out the difference of those two [Mic bleed] Her job is to stay on her feet because she can't play the ball with her body. She does [Mic bleed] Where did the ball hit the defender?

In the thigh. In the thigh that was down on the So it would have been probably under her knee if she wasn't down.

Uh, you gave a penalty stroke for a long barrier in the D, umpire coach wasn't [Mic bleed] Yeah, I remember this. [Mic bleed] time. Yeah,

there's a difference between, holy crap, the pitch is really slippery, and out of nowhere somebody slips, and not taking care. to not commit that foul. That is reckless. She is, she is absolutely trying to go down as [Mic bleed] and she has to stay. If she had laid down her stick alongside her lid, would that be a foul?

And see, now we're getting into reading her mind, okay? Reckless as to the result.

Okay.

Um, see the thumbs up from player to the ump? You love that? That is often, [Mic bleed] well, I don't love that. Of course. Of course. It's not a foul until it actually hits her. But if it hits her, she has been reckless as a result of stopping that ball from going through by playing it with her body. Easy. The mezzanine.

I like it. I'll take it. If she was standing on her feet, would you agree the ball was high above the knee? [Mic bleed] not [Mic bleed][Mic bleed] do do Um, 80 percent of you, 80 percent of you are going with the penalty corner, and one of you want a free hit for danger, uh, added by, uh, this is supposed to be anonymous, but I guess your name goes on it when you add the poll result, I [Mic bleed] [Mic bleed] corner and yellow card. Okay, we worked through it there.

When you see the point of impact when the defender stands up, it's high to you.

Just gonna move this out of the way if I can, which [Mic bleed] Oops. There! Phew, that was a lot of work. Actually, [Mic bleed] Okay! Thank you very much for playing and participating. Muchos [Mic bleed] And let's do some announcements. [Mic bleed] Uh, the first thing that I wanted to share with you Oh, here! Ha! That's, that's not what I meant. I was depressed.

Veigar just went and got himself promoted in the KDHB. Um, Veigar's the one on the left, by the way. And this is the best photo I have of him. I could not have chosen another one. There were no other photos, uh, where he looked so accomplished and confident. He's got a gorgeous [Mic bleed] FHU rain jacket [Mic bleed] which [Mic bleed] he, makes look good.

Like he's making that jacket look really good. Anyway, he's been, he's been promoted to the KNHB D panel, which apparently allows him to do C panel, C games as well. I don't know how it works, and it's probably not called a panel, and I don't know what the proper words are in Dutch, but who cares?

Congratulations, Vigor. I'm very happy for you, and You've earned it. VeeR had a great tournament [Mic bleed] so [Mic bleed] to this. And the other thing I wanted to talk about, okay, [Mic bleed] let's do it this way. So Ian Parsley is somebody who I have been interacting with on Twitter for years.

He's been around and he's been a supporter of What, what I do with FHumpires and we've had lots of conversations over the years and I really appreciate, you know, having people like that, even if they're not necessarily members of the server, maybe they don't show up for the live streams. And so when I saw that this had popped up, I was really proud to hear about this.

So Ian, um, found out quite fortuitously, [Mic bleed] really good fortune, but, um, he was at a heart and stroke event, [Mic bleed] in his hometown, unfortunately, because his mother had had a [Mic bleed] and they were offering blood pressure checks at the event. He found out that he has, he had extraordinarily dangerously high blood pressure for no sort of really discernible reason.

It was just the way his body was operating and he was able to start addressing this with, uh, with trying different things with food. His activity levels were already really good, but what he really had to do was get on appropriate levels of medication in order to, um, in order to address it. This was a life saving intervention.

This is the ultimate proactivity, and I want to say to Ian, good on you. Good on you for going ahead and getting yourself tested, and then by helping raise awareness for other people. So if you haven't had your blood pressure tested [Mic bleed] like, I don't need to go for physical, eh, whatever.

This is a reason why every physical exam that I've ever had at a doctor's office, they start by putting a blood pressure [Mic bleed] Important stuff. And thank you, Ian, for sharing your story in the newsletter, [Mic bleed] co. uk. Thank you for being willing to talk about this, and congratulations for [Mic bleed] We are all in a better place because you are in a better place as well. So thank you [Mic bleed] Okay. And yes. Bigger, taller than McDowell. Meish? [Mic bleed] Ernst, don't at me. [Mic bleed] You get your blood pressure done every time you get blood. That is. Fabulous. I unfortunately cannot give blood because of some of the prescriptions I'm on.

Um, I don't even know what kind of monstrous human being would result after getting donated any part of my blood, even diluted. So, for the good of all personkind, I, I'm not allowed to give blood, but I used to before I did all that [Mic bleed] Yes, [Mic bleed] something that just saves [Mic bleed] there you go.

Okay. Topic three?

Two stick shields. Because it hasn't felt like a 3 0 game. Dang it. You know, you look at the scoreline and think Netherlands dominated. Come on then Andy, when was the last time the Dutch conceded a free from the same tournament? When?

Was it 2016? No. So shielding, stick shielding or body shielding? Okay. Yep. Yeah, of course. Hannah, uh, we've given a penalty corner for a foot. Uh, if you could just check for stick shielding, uh, just before that, please. So we'll check for the stick shielding just before it entered the D? [Mic bleed] Okay. Hannah, let's have a look.

Uh, time [Mic bleed] Yeah, just there. [Mic bleed] just pushes the ball back. To the right now. What do you think? It's a difficult one. Could you take it right back for me from where the first pass was? I think it's further back if you can. The line of the ball is going away from the two of them. Just here.

Watch here. Collects it. And then the right stick goes. She moves it to the right for me. Is there any closer angle you can get [Mic bleed] view of it? Again, this one. [Mic bleed] There, she just moves the stick to the right. Can you show me that one again, please? And as slow [Mic bleed] got it. Easy to see from that angle, but [Mic bleed] stick on the back.

Once more, please. Is that as slow as it goes? On the back first, it [Mic bleed] I think the defender hits the stick, and then she tries to move it to get the stick off. Okay, decision [Mic bleed] Rachel? Hi, Hannah. I have advice for you. There was a stick shield before the foot. So restart with a free hit defense and Germany keep their referral.

Thank you. right. So, what was Sorry, I just saw Rupert's comment here. And the answer is, um, obviously, two times speed. That's how to do it. Two times speed, I do it all the time on [Mic bleed] Um, First of all, I think there's a nice little moment here of empathy that we can all appreciate. If you've ever played and you've tried to talk after, um, you've gone on a big sprint and tried to make a play, and poor Selina Rose is trying to communicate her reasonings.

To, uh, to Rachel Williams, the umpire, and she's so out of breath, she can't even get the words out. So, um, nice little, uh, nice little moment there. Uh, Anique, as you see it, the stick moves 20 centimeters from the ball to the stick. Um, if what you're saying, I'm not sure, um, you know, 20 centimeters sure doesn't, I don't think needs to be, I don't think.

There's a qualification unless that's some piece of guidance that you're using in Sorry, I'm [Mic bleed] If that's a piece of guidance that you're using in the Netherlands to try to determine stick shielding, I'd be interested in hearing more about that. But one of the things that you can look for, although I don't think it's the only time that stick shields exist, is when the attacker stick comes off the ball.

And in this case, you can see that it pushes away the defender's stick in that moment. For me, for Hannah, for everybody, it should be a clear [Mic bleed] How do we get better at finding these? And we had a discussion in the server in AskFHU. If you're not a member of the server, it's, uh, it's free to join.

Did I mention that before? It's free to join. AskFHU, the the This section, the channel of the server, is a great place to come in with specific play [Mic bleed] like this. And in it we had a discussion about ways that you can improve your accuracy when you are trying to determine stick shield, potential [Mic bleed] And, One of the things that we do is, have a tendency to do, is to pay too much attention to the ball. The ball is round, it's pretty, it's fascinating, it moves very quickly, and that is dangerous, friends. It's difficult to track that one thing that is moving faster than everything else on the [Mic bleed] Instead, when you are anticipating two players coming into contact for a tackle attempt, switch your focus to the defender. and watch what they do. First of all, you're going to look for their body position vis a vis the progress of that attacker. If they are in a tackling position where they are in front of, and by that I mean in front of the midline of the attacker's body, such that they should be able to stop the ball in its progress towards the goal, the goal that that defender is, uh, defending.

I'm saying defender [Mic bleed] Then you have the first element. They are in a tackling position. That's great. I'm not saying that you can't tackle from other [Mic bleed] You can do, you can do so legally. It tends to be riskier, but in terms of what the attacker is not permitted to do when they are dribbling straight, when they are dribbling forwards and the defender's in a good tackling position, they are not allowed to interpose their stick.

in between the defender's stick and the ball in order to protect it from being tackled. Okay, so that's the first thing. Now you're watching the defender, you're good with their body position, then you watch their stick. Is their stick up at their waist? Is their stick swinging wildly and contacts the attacker's stick high up?

Even if the attacker has put their stick over the ball like this, is the contact up here? No. Is the defender's stick low? It's in a more of a blocking position rather than a wild swing at the stick. That, then, and if they can't, if they do all these things right, but they can't reach the ball, we have stick [Mic bleed] stick obstruction.

Paul, the first touch took the ball at a playable distance. Defender is now not positioned to play a tackle, not a shield, if you can't reach the ball.

I don't see [Mic bleed] Scott, in general, watching the attacker stick rather than the ball makes it much easier to see if the defender has committed a stick tackle obstruction as well. No. Look at the defender, okay? Try that. I want you to take it up a notch. I want to, I want you to really stretch yourself and look at what the defender does because the defender is going to move their stick even more slowly than the attacker.

It's easier to identify. Watching the attacker stick, they're going to do all these [Mic bleed] befuddled by that too. Okay? Defenders stick. Defenders body.

Okay, I will have a look at the poll.

And a 100 percent of you who voted went with a free hit [Mic bleed] excellent [Mic bleed] I agree.

This is later in the same game. That's coded. Yes. Corner. [Mic bleed] That's the wrong title. [Mic bleed] Hopefully it's the right. It's probably not the right hole. But anyway, it's right below three eight. I've a long corner for the ball over the back, but um, out the

play, just before back line.

Oh, that's a great angle. Thank you.

Well, if she hits the ball, it is going straight over the back line and she's just. But it's a stick check, isn't it? But is, is it that, is that her intent? So is she intending to knock that ball off the board? Or is she just intending to make a tackle? Yeah, so just play [Mic bleed] in full, full speed. Oh, what was it? One at the other end, and now this one. It just shows these, these tight spaces, how difficult. Okay, decision coming. Somery? Yep? There is no clear reason to change that. Your decision, continue with your long corner and Jeremy lose their referral

long corner. There you go. And you've lost your referral. We're gonna take it up, up there. Just wait for the whistle.

So I will

wait for your thoughts, but I have added this little segment right at the end of it

as well. Okay? So. I'm, I'm interested, this one is more difficult than the first example, uh, for a variety of reasons, some of which involve the secondary or the additional potential element of intentionally playing the ball off the back line. One of the confounding parts of this is that I'm not entirely convinced as to whose stick is actually on the ball.

And if you see contact. Germany are attacking, yes? So if Orange, if that Dutch defender has played the ball off the back line, are, you know, then there's the potential that we'd have to look at whether that was intentional or not.

And, but what's interesting is, is that if there is a stick shield here in this moment, then it, you would argue that It can't be that a Dutch player has played the ball intentionally off the back line because the Dutch player couldn't access the ball, couldn't contact the ball, because there was a German stick in the way and it was a German stick that last touched the ball before it went off the end line.

Now the interesting part about playing the ball is that that's not necessarily, let's see, we're going to go to the rules here because I want to have a look at some wording here. [Mic bleed] do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, oops, I was not in the right section. Oh, and look, it's on my FaceTime [Mic bleed] Hi. That's because I had some problems yesterday.

There we go. Back to this. Yes. And GeckoLab, I, I thought it came off the German stick as well in terms of who was last in contact with it. So, I don't mean to get obtuse about this. But I do just want to take a look at ball outside the field. So,

play is restarted by a player of the team which was not the last team to touch or play the ball.

So, touch is in there. So, for me, it was a German stick that was last to touch, last to touch the ball before it passed entirely over the back line. So, if there is not a stick shield, then we have a 23 meter [Mic bleed] on our hands. And if there was a stick shield, a 23 meter restart is absolutely okay as well, because it's basically the same decision.

Although, I would like to be precise about that, because if players are smart, they may want to take that free hit from anywhere inside the circle, instead of only in line with where it was, uh, where it headed out. And the Netherlands player hit the German stick, which then put the ball off for you. And let's go back to the scene so everybody can get their eyeballs on things a little bit more.

And the Netherlands player hits the back of the German stick, penalty corner for you. And, I mean, I guess you can see that as a stick obstruction by the Netherlands defender.

And so does Topper. That is not, that level of contact is not really going to be disadvantaged at this level. [Mic bleed] it's a, it's a really small, it's a really small touch. And frankly, I would go first with a, with a stick shield anyway. But what was interesting for me on this play was, if I've gotten this, is that, that I believe that there's a stick shield here in this moment.

And I've slowed it down. We can have another look at it. It's paused. And it's there. And that is an interposing of the stick without changing its direction. It wasn't as obvious as the first one where the ball gets put, the stick gets pushed off the ball and away, and that distance is created. But that is still interposing the stick for no other reason of moving the ball.

but to stop the defender from accessing.

Is that stick shielding or stick tackle? Okay, so let's just sort out the language and this is why I don't like using stick shield because stick shield is a slang term that we use in English to refer to a stick obstruction that is committed by an attacker. It's an attacking stick obstruction. So let's just call it a stick obstruction by the attacker or a stick obstruction by the defender.

Does that help? Can we clarify that? All that kind of stuff. And yes, that was for the back of the play.

Um, the player needs to receive the pass. Um, I'm not sure what pass is involved here. So, it's very difficult. When the ball is on the left side of the attack, on the far side away from you, and player and attacker is progressing with the ball in that direction, this is where you really need to be attuned to the existence of a potential stick obstruction by an attacker.

And yeah, it is very difficult to spot in real time, especially because the angle of that, if you are in the wrong, just the wrong, if you're not at the best angle in order to see what's happening over there, and often you're in your happy place, but you can't, you're actually blocked. from seeing that because, I don't know, there's players in the way because that's the hotline to the goal and you're too close to that, or there's a body, the body of the actual defender is in the way of you seeing it, which I think is what occurs here.

Very, very tricky to see. So part of our challenge and one of the ways that we can try to address this as well, and I talked about the shifting your focus to the defender stick is one technique. Another technique is to anticipate. Prepare yourself for the likelihood that if a ball carrier is coming with a ball on the left side of their body, and they're being chased, pursued by a defender who is in a tackleable, a tackling position, how can I move so I can best see this?

What am I going to look for from the defender to see whether they have been blocked? Not something active necessarily that the attacker does, but again, keep your focus on the defender stick, but you are anticipating that this is a potential decision that you need to make. And I think that because it's one of those skills, like we look for feet all the time, we look for defensive stick obstructions all the time, [Mic bleed] as we start moving up the ranks and we have older and older players, we need to also anticipate that this is a call that we're gonna have to make more often.

And in order to do that, we're reading. We're moving, we're changing our angle so that we can pick this call out. Reading anticipation is very important. Is that a call for the colleague? No. Okay. This is, this is the controlling umpire circle. And I mean, a colleague might be able to help, but it's not their responsibility.

It's not for a supporting umpire to get all up in that

primarily. Okay. And it could be, if I go back to the beginning of this, let's just see if we've got [Mic bleed] mean, Vandy's thinking because she's putting her hand up to, uh, to her mouth and something that, you know, I talk about frequently is when you're anticipating players coming into contact, especially in the circle, get your whistle in your mouth and leave it there so that you can make a quicker decision.

A very important skill to add to your repertoire, but That's going to be, that could potentially be problematic, and especially because it's right in the circle, unless you communicate with your colleague that I want you to override what I can see with your angle over on the far side of my circle supporting umpire and make a decision to blow a free hit out.

Unless you've talked about that before the game has started, probably not going to want to do that.

Uh, Gecko Lab, the German stick up structure, was an early potential offense. Yes. Okay. and there's a lot of, a lot of moving pieces going on. Um, you wouldn't be seen as wrong to see that as the defender interfering with the stick, you would have been right on top to distinguish it. The second sequence is an easier spot.

Okay, let's have a look at the poll, and if you missed it, but it's right underneath 3A, so there we go. So, penalty corner for stick obstruction, uh, six of you voted for that, two of you, um, then, um, Stane, I think, I think the two votes that go under E go under A because that's what the stick obstruction is.

Um, stick hit by Dutch defender is a stick obstruction. Again, language stuff. So, um, and only one of you saw a stick shield. I'm having a tough day here. Convincing y'all of what I'm seeing. That's the way it goes sometimes. Can defenders tackle 3D skill? This is a rhetorical question. We have no bull here.

It needs to be because rhetorical questions are rhetorical one are allowing her to play that dangerous cross in front of Chards goal. That's, uh, s but ball out of defense from toman. But good tackle from Hamilton as, uh, . It's a bit difficult to see, but many people who were watching this game with me in the watch party noted it, so I wanted to pick it out.

And particularly because I've noticed that in my experience watching matches over the last few years, that there's a significant number of um, players from Germany in particular, that I've, I've just seen instances where they are able to successfully make clean tackles on attackers who are executing 3D skills and dribbling in the air.

And I think I had an example of that, that I showed, that we're shown, that we showed, in the 3D skills live stream that we did. Ernst, uh, if you're still around, Uh, you're probably bored by now. Uh, he sticks around as long as he can, but come on. Uh, Ernst and Phil Roper and Joep de Mol, um, who is my favorite Dutch player of all time now, um, we talked about how to tackle, how to do, uh, those things legally.

And it was interesting because you and Phil didn't seem to really buy into that. They're like, no, it's just too hard. And I'm like, but here, here you can, and it's something that you can practice, you can develop. And look, Susie Hamilton executes a clean pick, and she doesn't even do the skill the way that, you know, I've sort of seen.

Dunn successfully, which is with more of an upright, she actually just waits until the ball is up in the air and then plays it downwards away from the attacker's stick and sort of picks it around her. And then granny dodges her, picks up the ball and off she goes. And the German attacker is just like, what, what just happened?

Nice, clean pick for everybody out there in the hockey world who was just so dismayed Bye. With the evolution of 3D skills by attackers, it makes it so hard for defenders. They're never going to be able to tackle. They're always going to foul. This is the worst. We have to outlaw this skill. Shut up. You're wrong.

It's just a question of the defender's skills catching up with the attacker's skills. It's possible. It's doable. It's going to happen more. And it's an issue of training, creativity, practice, reps, and time. For these players to develop their skills up to that level, everybody, you know, practices their 3D skills in these little, you know, uncontested drills.

So if you're a coach out there, I'd love to hear more about how you coach 3D skills. Because if you're doing it by uncontested skills, you are depriving your defenders an opportunity to develop their skills to tackle. And that's why they're behind. That's why they can't do it. We don't practice. every, or it's not sufficient to train dribbling skills when they're on the ground by never having defenders involved.

So why are we doing that with 3D skills?

Ernst, sometimes you are probably just pushing my button, so I'm just going to leave it. Amit, good to see you. Tom, looks like some better patience and control than you've seen in your matches with the under 16s. If an attacker does this, you can almost expect to stick bashing it through. Well, and that's something for you to deal with and something that you, if you call this appropriately and you communicate with players, you have conversations with coaches, you do all this work, you will help elevate the standards in your area.

And you know what, At under 16 level, the sticks are bashing through when the ball is on the ground too.

Um, Paul, if a defender hits a stick or waist height due to a missed 3D tackle, is that a free hit or a PC? Depends. Was it reckless as the result? You take all the other things into [Mic bleed] Samantha, you always tell the lads who ask if you can tackle it clean, have a go, just don't bash the stick. And Scott, the attackers still need to keep it safe and go around defenders, absolutely, so the defenders can do their jobs as long as they're ready to tackle, making it very difficult for attackers to progress even without 3D.

Yep, absolutely there. And I think this is what you and I agreed on. We agreed that it was drainable. I'm not sure if, if our other two friends really bought into all of that on the live stream. I will add that link in the description if you're watching this on replay. Um, if any of the mods can, you know, dig that out quickly and put it in the live chat, that would be much appreciated and I'll put it up as a card.

Uh, yeah, PCs and cards, they all get it, says Tom. It's mostly just frustration because the other is showing off. Oh, I can't. Don't testosterone me today. Just don't. I [Mic bleed] But they all understand. Yeah. That's super fair. I can't deal. I cannot deal today. Not today, you say, not today. Okay, no pull, so I'm not going to go to the pull screen.

Isn't that coincidental? 1 14, holy smokes, I thought, oh, I'm not even going to fill up my Keely yard. Here's a good clip. I love this. Advantage out of fence.

Waller. Oh, onto the foot of Calvert. Shame, because that approach play from Great Britain, excellent there. Jack Waller immediately got the ball in the middle of the pitch, looking forward. Facing forward, wanting to play forwards. Yeah, well dealt with that press on.

It's not going to the next scene, but I got this. Okay. Hi. I wanted to point this out because it's a nice example of effectively and correctly playing advantage out of defense. It is more difficult to do because generally, even though possession can be clear when a defender has recovered the ball, is now an attacker, but is deep in their defensive half, defensive 23 perhaps, even in their circle, and they have possession, but do they have opportunity?

And what I love about this advantage here is an understanding. So the ball has popped up and you can see the umpire has seen this. They are signaling advantage. They know. So well done Aidan. And There is all kinds. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 attackers here, and there's a whole bunch of defenders. There's 6 defenders, 5 on 6, and look at this space.

There is opportunity for this team. And part of your reading of the play and your anticipating this could be a stick obstruction, Ooh, I don't like the player's body position, I think this might go off their foot, is you're assessing various outlets. various things that a player might do if they were to recover the ball in that position.

And as we advance this forward, you can see this is good opportunity. Is it better than a free hit? Potentially, because there could be some outnumbered situations with a quick aerial. If somebody's out of position, we can't see the whole pitch. So we don't know what could possibly occur. But there, oops, but there might be that aerial.

involved. There could be another angle like this could go here and then you could have a square ball in across or you could have a deep angle or that could be an aerial. Who knows? There's a lot of great potentials that you can imagine even though we can't see the whole thing that come out of this and this is how you assess advantage coming out of defense.

is recognizing space, recognizing opportunity. Seeing, clear and solid possession, and then showing the players with your arm and potentially didn't hear it, but it could have happened. But I recommend using your voice to also say, play that, you've got it. My two words, go on. I am always saying go on, go on, go on.

Your style is going to be your style. Go Nuts for it.

And I think here that, um, yeah, the, the player has stopped the ball and I think they do so because they're actually expecting that the free hit is going to happen. And it's like, Oh, Oh, I can keep playing. Great. So he's got it both ways, which is awesome. Good work.

I don't know what to do about getting these in the right spot. Tom, you love the control most times of the international players who understands its advantage and to leave the ball alone. Absolutely. Scott, save yourself and colleague the words advantage over when it reaches a point that you won't be going back to the offence.

Scott, we have had this conversation. The advantage was used or spent even if they messed it [Mic bleed] Advantage is a decision that you make in the moment when the foul occurs. You do not make a habit. of going back. If you have screwed up and you misapplied advantage and it would be unfair for you to not go back the once or twice in the game that that happens, okay. But it is not a I'm gonna wait to see what happens and then I'm gonna go back.

Please be careful with your language there. I am working really hard to get everybody on the right page with advantage. It is a decision in the moment and you must make it by reading the play. And looking at what the options are, you make it in the moment and you go. And yes, it's on the players to do the best with that advantage [Mic bleed] And Paul taking over that for me. Samantha, these are the best advantages at lower levels, especially when they make that pass to the line. The player just runs almost half a field. Yep. Nice to hear. Yep. And always be vocal because the player with the ball in this particular instance, who recovers the ball after the foul, They've got the umpire behind them.

So your signal is great for everybody around. That's your arena umpiring. That is the coaches, the players who are on the bench, guy with his dog over at the fence. You are showing all of them that you saw the foul. Your voice is what indicates to the players who are on the ball, especially because at most levels, they're going to be looking down at the ball.

They're not looking at you. You are reassuring them. I saw the foul. You don't have to yell at me. You don't have to put up your hand. You are entitled to play. And that's why I say go on, because I'm actually telling the players, I am not going to be interrupting you. I'm not encouraging them. I'm not saying like, it's not that kind of go on, especially when I say it with my resting [Mic bleed] It is a continue, continue to play, go on, just fewer syllables. And play on is good too. Raise your hand. Absolutely.

Just Understand where your language was kind of going a little bit on the tangent that, um, wasn't really, wasn't really feeling confident in what was happening [Mic bleed] Okay. Fabulous. I enjoyed that. Thank you for the opportunity to bring that to your attention and get discussion about advantage. There's no such thing as a friend.

He makes what he was choosing that Jansen doesn't get hold of it back. It comes another chance. Just kidding, he needs to [Mic bleed] careful. Hendricks is running from distance and they need to be careful.

He's seen this and he's seen Hendricks reaction. So whatever else goes into the circle, it's hit [Mic bleed] teammate, disengaged umpire will have seen what's happened. We're going to do two things. Wait. Wait, yeah? I think there'll be a card for the late hit of the ball that causes danger. Okay, two yellow cards.

Yeah. For the late hit. And I'm going to give two yellow cards, and I'm going to explain it just now, yeah? Um, no, no, [Mic bleed] Two yellow cards. Because there's the yellow card for the late hit that causes danger. And there's the yellow card. And it's really actually simple. Felix, Felix, Felix, yeah. Okay. I'm not going to talk to [Mic bleed] guys.

Felix! Felix Dice! Please. It should be two yellow cards. So, clearly, what Duco does is not right. I want you to tell that. Clearly, what Felix does is not right. You're going to tell that. No, sorry, no. No, um, no. Uh, Alex, yeah? Clearly tell that. I'm not giving cards, but it's clearly a yellow card for both.

Normally, and now we're not going to do that because I don't want to see that on the picture. It's a free out. You tell, you tell, you go for it, yeah? He said, he's given two yellow cards. All this has happened is just a mess in here. This is in it, here is the late strike. The whistle had already gone, so that's a dangerous play.

Now look at Hendrix coming from distance. But this is after the whistle, that's dangerous, should be a card. But then it's the piling of Hendrix into the back of it. The answer is that I think he protected his teammates, so Jim, get them out, please. Yeah. I'm not convinced that shouldn't be two yellows. I understand the nature of the game, but I do think you've got to put your foot down for that kind of action.

No, no, no, you can't do anymore now, guys. Come on. You can't. You can't.

So this happened yesterday and has, uh, been pointed out, discussed on the socials already. I took in some comments on Reddit. And such, and this I'm in full spirit of disclosure. This is going to be a hard thing for me to talk about because I have, I have six core values that I put up on my website on the about page that helped guide me towards being the best FHumpires coach I can be.

And two of them are clashing here. One of them is that I have a core value of radical candor that I try to be clear, sincere, and straightforward with my feedback to umpires that I coach. And I consider that to be all of you, as well as the people who are part of the third team inside our memberships.

Everybody I happen upon, you know, out my travels, all that kind of thing. In this situation conflicts with one of my other core values, which is to not drag umpires. Everything has to be constructive and clear and I'm going to apologize right now because I feel as though I am not going to be able to serve both of those values to the extent that I should, but I'm going to, I'm going to try.

I'm going to do my best. The reason that I titled this section, there's no such thing as a friendly is because I have this conversation frequently [Mic bleed] in the server on [Mic bleed] streams and such where they say, I was umpiring a friendly. I was umpiring summer league. I was umpiring mixed hockey. I was umpiring a test match between this under 16 and this under 18 and blah blah blah.

I was umpiring a practice match, whatever you call it, and this thing happened and I didn't give cards.

And my response is always to say there is no such thing as a friendly.

The rules that we have in place in our game, I think. As much as I know about sportsball this and sportsball that, our rules are quite unique in that almost every single one of them is about safety.

And at the heart of it, when you strip all the things away, if we don't enforce the rules of the game. We are not keeping players safe. People say, Oh, well, it's just not the spirit of a summerly game or, or a friendly or anything to send players off. They're paying money to be there and we should keep them on the field.

What about the other 32 players?

Do they not pay their money and pay their time to be there and enjoy the best hockey that they can play? Do they not deserve to feel safe? Do they not deserve? For the game to be conducted fairly,

four weeks before Paris, should a Belgian player get pinged with a ball on a late shot and nothing be done about it that could have broken his foot? That is a safety issue. Should a player be able to run from the center line

into a melee and start grabbing people? And should that be allowed just to, like, okay?

When we are entrusted, as we are in every single game, to take care of player safety, we must do our jobs. Because it's not about the feelings of that one person that we are carding, or the two people that we're carding, or even the captain that comes to us and plays with us. Ah, the game doesn't need it!

You know what the game needs? Is for everybody to know that they are going to be safe. They can play without breakdowns. They can play without misconduct. Because that is what we are charged to do.

Take the word friendly and just chuck it out of your vocabulary. You are umpiring a match and every match is important in terms of safety and fairness, even if it's not important in terms of result. In this particular match, we were watching this in the watch party and I said, this has the feeling of a so called friendly.

The players are walking around giving zero fucks about what's happening. I said those words in the first half and you know what? This is gonna go wrong if the right measures aren't taken when things happen, like breakdown tackles, like misconduct. Because it's so easy to get lulled into the sense of, Oh, it's going to be okay.

Ah, they're all fine. They're fine because you're there. Not to be their friends, not to be the most popular person on the list. With a view to everybody, not the [Mic bleed] I was zero surprised that this happened in the first case. I was 100, 000 percent surprised at the result.

So what I want to emphasize for us all, and if you watch the rest of the game, there were consequences to this.

Were there fights? Was there murder on the pitch? No.

But the game's tenor absolutely changed. Hendrix went up and took a drag flick that was pretty out of control, up at the other end, immediately afterwards. Not okay. Not okay.

So when we are in this position, don't get lulled into false insecurity. You don't have to be all angry when you give these yellow cards and you know, it's like, hey, I just, I have to do my job. I need to show all these players that they can trust me, that I'm going to keep them safe.

That's it.

Um, go watch it and you make your own, uh, your own decisions about what you see. I know how I felt about it.

That's something I'll get into in the next segment. Um, the next part of this. You might change your style of umpiring slightly, but you believe that's the only ever to match the player's skills so that they're safe. Your principles are the same for all matches. Good.

Thank you, Samantha. You agree it's difficult to discuss. Yeah, it's worth watching the whole thing. It's worth watching the whole game. You have to watch the whole thing, and this is why we do watch parties. And for all of you who are part of the community, you're part of the third team, this is why I do those.

And it sometimes, nothing happens. But for all the times that I try to indicate to everybody, these are the signs we should be looking for. It's there. It's there. This is going to happen. Ten minutes. Set your clocks. We're going to see it. Bang, it happens ten minutes later. This is what we're working on, is our awareness, our anticipation, our understanding of what players need, even if they don't want it.

What do they need?

Can I play it again with Disengage the umpire, we'll see what I think there'll be a card for the late hit of the ball, which causes danger. Yeah. With a late hit, and I'm gonna give two yellow cards, and I'm gonna explain it just now, yeah? Um, no, no, [Mic bleed] a high ball. High, yeah. Two yellow cards. Because there's the yellow card.

Okay. The late hit. Easy, easy. I'm first, I'm first, I'm first talking, yeah? First. We'll go Felix, Felix, Felix, yeah. Okay? I'm not, but I'm gonna talk to [Mic bleed] yeah? Okay. Felix! Felix Dice! Please. [Mic bleed] It should be two yellow cards. So, clearly, what you could ask I want you to tell that. Clearly, what Felix does is not right.

You're going to tell No, sorry, no. No, um, no. Uh, Alex, yeah. Clearly tell him. I'm not giving cards, but it's clearly a yellow card for both. Normally, and now we're not going to do it because I don't want to see that on the pitch, yeah? It's a free out. You tell, you tell, you go for it. Yeah? He said he's giving zero cards.

Okay, so, Anika Hupp. Yes. [Mic bleed] That was clear enough and loud enough there.

However, now that we've gone through that part, that's not the part that got me really upset when I was watching [Mic bleed] What we have is a male umpire who walks over to his female colleague and says, this is what happened, this is what we're going to do. He then listens to the captain make an argument about not giving a card, and he says, This is what happened. I'm going to talk to the captains, walks away from his supporting, from the controlling umpire, from his colleague, takes the two captains away, and then changes his mind.

If you did not see this, if you do not see the problem in this, you are not paying attention. [Mic bleed] of all, that isn't teamwork. When you have to sort out these melees, our approach needs to be that we go to our colleague, And we may be the supporting umpire who's been able to see more of the things because we've kept more of a distance and we're not in the middle of it.

That is a great way to deal with the melody that one umpire might be closer to the action and be trying to avert or mitigate some of the worst things that are happening in the second umpire watches. When that is over the two of you get together and you discuss together what actions are going to be taken.

This is Rachel's Circle. And she is silenced in this moment from contributing anything to what happens here.

I am not okay with this. This, and I'm not saying this because Rachel's my friend. I barely know her. We've spoken a few times in person. That's about it.

But in this moment, I'm Rachel. If you're a female umpire, we are all Rachel's. We all know what this is like. To be treated as though we can't possibly handle. A heated temperamental situation with male players.

It's not okay. 91 percent of you who are watching this right now, statistically speaking, are male umpires. We need you to do better.

No.

I mean, sure, we can blame Rachel, but given that he just sort of walks over her and makes pronouncements. takes the players away, what's she gonna do? Walk up and say, no, that's not what's happening. It's my damn circle. I know that there should be two yellow cards. Off they go. How, how does that work out in terms of teamwork?

This entire audio exchange, both of those umpires know, the players know, everybody knows that it's going over the broadcast. How do you possibly manage out of that?

I, I,

Yes, but you can't ignore context. You can't ignore those things. And it doesn't matter if it was intentional. The optics are fucking terrible. And it sends all the signals, all the signals that we experience intentionally all the time.

Hi, Anna. You came in right at the best time. It's nice to see you. I think you might be new. Sorry. It's a very just, just, you know. I don't know. I don't know why things happened the way it did. I don't know what people were feeling in the moment. I know what I'm feeling. I know what I was feeling when I was watching this.

I know what I feel now when I see it again. I know what I've been feeling for the last 24 hours trying to decide how am I going to deal with this.

As a senior umpire with a junior umpire, your job is to empower, include, promote their experience, give them a voice. If they're going in the wrong direction, you help guide. Maybe at some point when safety, danger are the issue, and you have to take over, you [Mic bleed] Rupert, you do remember discussing a Masters game the last two years with supporting umpire took the player away and red carded that was justified doing both umpires dealing with multiple skirmishes. Yeah, there, there are nuances [Mic bleed] There are nuances about, you know, people being busy, about that sort of thing, but getting on the same page is a crucial step here.

And that's the thing, it's the optics of it. And we know at the level where things are being broadcast that optics are crucial. They are everything. In fact, let's not even talk about broadcast. Let's talk about the fact that if anybody is watching this without the benefit of TV, the optics are still present.

They're still there. They're not okay.

And what I appreciate about this statement is just the last. You look at this as a man, so you can't judge that part. You can't. You don't know what it's like.

When I got my First stab at getting assessed for the men's panel in England, separate panel from the women's panel. I was about four years in, I was a promising list, still promising list FIH umpire, and I got appointed to a match between Indian Gymkhana and somebody else. And everybody knows that Indian Gymkhana is a team of Indo British players.

And my phone, when those appointments were released, my phone lit up. Everybody was calling me. [Mic bleed] Okay. This is what you need [Mic bleed] I had scores of my male colleagues offering me completely unsolicited advice on how to deal with Indo British male players.

I grew up umpiring Indo Canadian male players in [Mic bleed] not my first rodeo.

And I had zero trepidation about walking into that situation and being able to do a good job. And in fact, I have tactics and techniques that y'all don't even know about, that I can use because I'm a [Mic bleed] And I use them because I will do by all means necessary. The game went fucking fantastic. They couldn't wait to have me back.

And the tees were great. This presumption that we need saving, that we need helping.

No teamwork. Good to see you, Viv. No partnership.

And this is something that you can empathize with. If you're not a female umpire, you can empathize when you've been completely overstepped and you've been silenced and how you feel in the moment. Because you know that [Mic bleed] a member of the team,

you have this fine line to walk. To not be the one that makes things worse because you overtly argue with your colleague. How do you manage that? How do you handle that? When the power dynamic is there, the finding the right tools is not easy. It's not this.

I agree.

And Anique, we've all been there, right? We've all been [Mic bleed] Taco, you've experienced being overruled like that and worse by a female umpire though. And yes, it can happen. There is. Gray and nuance and all that kind of stuff. I get it. But we're talking about a pattern of systemic behavior, predominant behavior. And this is an example that I've never seen it like [Mic bleed] So

what we need to take out of this is a new awareness that we don't want to be complacent, that teamwork needs to be our highest priority, that we have to go in with the full context of gender, sexuality. Ability, racial, religious, considerations. I know it's hard, but guess what? That's the job, is to do hard things.

So we need to keep all of those contexts in mind when we go into these interactions, and above all, the game is first. The players are first, and not just the safety of the players is first.

I hope that outlines everything. [Mic bleed] there's just no other way for me to have approached this and shared the depth of

the problem without sharing like this. Do I think Jonas is a bad person? Absolutely not. Do I think he made a mistake in the moment? Because, even though he came in with an appearance of authority, when players are having a melee on your pitch at the international level, it is hard. You are now under a microscope.

I have been there. I've been there a few times, and it is hard. And your, your, your stress levels go through the roof, your adrenaline, your heartbeat is going like this, because that shit's going down on your watch.

So I understand that this is a fairly challenging situation. This is for us to learn from. This is for us to go forward and be better from. Okay, um, thank you and

Please do watch on the replay that is going to end just about now, because I think that's all that I have to, uh, discuss. I appreciate that there are some of you in the chat who are continuing, debating some of the finer points. Another way that you can continue having this discussion is to come into the server and we can start a thread and ask FHU and talk more about it.

But

if I failed. in upholding either my radical candor or my no drag of umpires and I believe I did fail on both parts. Again, my apologies. I did the best that I could and let's keep moving forward. 10 more pro league games. Junior Pan Am Cup starts on July 2nd in Vancouver, Canada. European Under 21 Championships and then that little thing that they call the Paris Olympics.

If you are wondering about How you can get involved in all of this, join the third team. FHumpires dot, or actually you can just go to FHE3T dot com, and you can join in in the learnings. And even, luckily most games aren't like this. Emotionally fraught and difficult circumstances, usually for just learning, and it's great.

So, uh, if you have any questions about how this all works, come into the server again. It's free of charge and we will, we'll, we'll talk about it. I'll, I'll let everybody else talk about being on the 13th for you. Okay. Um, I, I really want to, to, uh, but I'm trying, um, Anik, you're in the server. You don't have to join again.

You don't have to join again. You just have to open up discord. So go to discord. com. Log in with your login. Okay, don't rejoin the invite. It's like if you didn't have a Facebook account and somebody said, come into a Facebook group, you need to set up a Facebook account, then you need to go. Do not accept the invite.

Do not try to follow the invite. If you are already in the server,

please, and go watch the whole game. Thank you for coming in. Sorry. It's already late. Thank you for everybody who's stuck around for all of this. And you're very welcome for the coaching, Scott. Appreciate it. Thank you, Matt. And thank you, Alistair. Um, your point earlier that I lost in the professor about studying the example, absolutely spot on as well.

So thank you for pointing that out. And I hope everybody saw that one time and now I can show. Thank you. Um, let's keep going. 10 more Pro League games and it's over. See you next week. Bye.

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