📅 Oct 25 19.00 GMT➡️ YouTube We’ll discuss how social media uses umpires for engagement farming, and how umpires pile on to the problem. There’s the dilemma of a team returning very late to the pitch after halftime, and we’ll talk strategies for players demonstrating their dissent through body language. We might talk about rule change […]
#TheDebrief: Mike McCartney
Umpire Notes:27.15: Q1 start28.45: 16 restart – drift too wide left? RH transfer opens up big gap, MM to play28.55: MM heavier whistle for def contact RH line halfway (first of game)30.55: MM retreating but turnover ball HW to IG top D then RH line break – positioning?31.25: Drawn to LH line / FH to IG33.20: […]
#TheDebrief: Ben Burton
🟢🟡🔴 🏑Transcript[00:00:00] Ben: I am just sort of chilling, like, basically at my work office, because I needed two screens so I could keep watching the rugby. Uh, so it all comes in, so we’ll come in.[00:00:12] Okay.[00:00:16] Keely: Now, alright, so, everybody who’s joining in, just so you know, the, um, there is no […]
Aerial Goals, Bizarre PC Defence, Is This First Shot at Goal a Hit? | #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 132
📅 Oct 18 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube It’s an All Socials Show! Thanks to all the fine humans out there who tagged and DMed me about these clips, this is for you. We’ve got a classic penalty corner first shot at goal and whether it’s a hit or not from the Hoofdklasse, and then a couple of […]
Sliding Tackles? Dangerous Shots at Goal, Intentional Aerial Infringements | Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 131
📅 Oct 11 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube The EHL KO16 is over, and I have questions. When is a slide tackle not a slide tackle? When is a shot at goal dangerous? When is an aerial infringement intentional? Bonus: spilling tea from the Hoofdklasse because they have some overflowing pots. Let’s get to some answers together in […]
#TheDebrief: Simon Milford
🟢🟡🔴 🏑Transcript20231009 Debrief | Simon Milford[00:00:00] Paul H: Makes it look like a nice, sandy, seaside pitch, then.[00:00:12] Keely: Okay. Alright.[00:00:16] So, I remember the feedback that, uh, we went over when I had the opportunity to watch you.[00:00:22] Simon: Mm hmm.[00:00:24] Keely: Not on this pitch. It looks, it looks the same, but it’s […]
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#TheDebrief: Mike MacDowell
📅 20230928Umpire Notes:🟢🟡🔴 🏑Transcript20230928 Debrief Mike MacDowell[00:00:00] Mike MacDowell – Pitch: Long.[00:00:12] James Rollins: Good there, 55. Gone five.[00:00:24] Mike MacDowell – Pitch: Right on the edge.[00:00:25] Keely: And who are you umpiring with? Mike?[00:00:27] Mike MacDowell: James Rollins.[00:00:39] Mike MacDowell – Pitch: No.[00:01:00] Long.[00:01:26] Long. There’s nothing there. There’s nothing there, fellas.[00:01:43] James Rollins: […]
Tough Tackles and Ask Me Anything | Field Hockey Umpiring | #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 130
📅 Sep 27 19.00 GMT➡️ YouTube The Hoofdklasse is back is so are IG reels with vertical clips and lots of unverifiable comments! Let’s figure out a couple of tackles from HDM v Pinoke together. Also, I really have been over-preparing for shows lately and want to breathe a bit so how about we do an […]
#TheDebrief: Joran van den Bosse
📅 20230925Umpire Notes:Q1:0:20: Late whistle for the free hit for no 5 metres at aerial (I missed it, my colleague made the call). Then played the ball after the whistle, without an intervention from us. Throughout the opening phase I struggled with positioning when I could stay more central without interfering with the play and […]
Umpiring Rhapsody Replay | Reading Hockey Club
➡️ YouTube Fresh off a nearly record-setting UK leg (just behind Beyoncé and Taylor Swift in ticket sales), this #WhatUpWednesday is a replay of the last stop of the Umpiring Rhapsody Tour at Reading Hockey Club. 00:00:00 Introduction by the amazing Ginette Tessier 00:03:19 Free Hit Management: Rolling Balls 00:03:29 ENGvAUS 2022 Commonwealth Games Semi-Final 00:10:52 […]
Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 129
📅 Sep 13 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube Remember that time at bandcamp when I had all those Euros clips and couldn’t get to them because of that little Gold Medal game thing? Let’s do them now because I’m only just back from the #UmpiringRhapsody Tour and ain’t nobody got time for brand-new material. Also, I’ll review my […]
Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 128
📅 Aug 30 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube If you somehow missed the drama that was the European Championship men’s final, I hereby challenge your life choices! We’re going to talk multi-layered decision-making, what it means for a goalkeeper to move their feet early on a penalty stroke, and just why video referrals are there. It takes a […]
#TheDebrief: Joep van Dijk
📅 20230828🟢🟡🔴 🏑Transcript[00:00:00] Keely: Did you make any notes as to anything in particular that you wanted to make sure that we cover? Or you just wanted to generally scan through?[00:00:25] Joep: Well, so, um, we’ve talked about the penalty corner and yellow card that happened in this game. Right. And then something similar, but […]
Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 127
📅 Aug 23 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube We’re halfway through #EHC2023 and we have SO much to cover! Dangerous shots at goal, because, obviously. Breakdown tackles and physicality galore, the ball hitting protective equipment, and is the end of goalkeepers moving early on penalty strokes? We spend 90 min highlighting the most interesting and thought-provoking scenarios from […]
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Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 126
📅 Aug 16 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube We’re looking at some key moments from the Men’s Asian Champions’ Trophy that just wrapped up in Chennai, including a goal off the body and a wicked yellow card advantage played to a goal. There’s an intriguing PC collision from the Oceania Cup Olympic qualifier series in Whangerei, a GK […]
Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 125
📅 Aug 2 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube Did you hear about a mysterious one-page doc on FIH letterhead announcing a potential rules trial for the penalty corner? Are you panicking because you don’t know what to do? Relax, we’ve got you covered. Join us for an in-depth exploration of what we know and more importantly, what we […]
Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 124
📅 July 5 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube This week, we’re living dangerously with a shot at goal and a 3D move. We have the secret formula to knowing when to add a card when you’ve already upgraded to a penalty corner. And: when is a tackler being shielded or is just breaking down play? It’s the end […]
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Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 123
📅 June 28 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube What’s up with all the dropped sticks? We’ll also roll through a few aerial scenarios, check out a ball played with the handle of the stick, and another first: PC equipment kicked back ON to the pitch. We’re in for another fast-paced episode so join us live to work that […]
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Live Q&A #WhatUpWednesday Ep. 122
📅 June 21 18.00 GMT➡️ YouTube Just about every thorny issue that can arise did in Pro League action this weekend…and that was just in the GBRvGER men’s game! We have so much to cover, including a ball hitting discarded protective equipment on the way to the goal, where is the free hit from on danger […]