SUPPORT FOR REFEREES

Every person responsible for a team and each and every spectator and player will respect the authority of the referee. This respect is essential to the proper play of the game, the development of our players and the retention of quality, experienced referees. Failure to respect the authority of the referee, sets a bad example for everyone else, especially the players and can rapidly lead into a hostile, negative environment where playing the game of soccer is no longer the focus of the activity. This is entirely inconsistent with the sportsmanship goals that the Tolland Soccer Club is not address the referee at all before, during and after a match.

This prohibition, its exceptions, and the penalties for violating it are as follows:

A . Persons Responsible for a Team
With the exception of responding to a communication initiated by a referee, making a substition, or pointing out an emergency safety issue during the play of a match, the persons responsible for a team should not say anything to a referee. Nor should they do anything that conveys in any way any critism of the referee. Coaches may as questions before the start of play or drect questions properly through their captains, but may not approach the referees at halftime or at the end of the match.

*Coaches, who have concerns about referee's officiating, may express those concerns orally in writing to the Tolland Soccer Club's Referee Assigner.  Coaches may not express those concerns to the referee.