loooooooooooong hot day.
good practice sevens refereeing.
Did too many games - 8 at final scorecard count. But I think im missing some - each scorecard was doing up to triple and quadruple duty.
Denton v. FW.
First morning game had a few penalties - offsides at penalty, not releasing tackled player, and zone violations.
Next game had scrum issues. One player would not get full binds - but i could not find in the laws where it required him to for sevens. caused instability...though he was a lot stronger than his opposition. stupid me.
Next game was a fun one, back and forth down the field close match between DARC and OU. OU put some distance at the end to win 21-12. Had an interesting law issue in this one - free kick and fifty. Player taps then attempts a "drop-goal." Drop goal went dead. Is it a 22 meter drop or a scrum option? was the "drop-kick" an attempted "drop-goal" or simply a kick going dead?
Quins v OU next. 5-0. Lots of issues with the scrums - Quins testing me in every way. Foot in, driving early, wheeling. Really slowed the game down with my resets and penalties at scrum time.
FW 14 - 5 Woodlands. This was a pool decider. FW pulled away with their stronger running style. Not much sevens on display here.
Quins v. Woodlands. Quins ran them ragged. Quins threw a punch on a scrum hold. I had complaints about this in other matches for the quins.
FW v. Woodlands rematch. FW had more injuries since - Woodlands won this one handily.
Cup Final - Shreveport v. Quins. The most challenging match of the day. Quins went up fast and early. Got a decision wrong on a kickoff. Knocked forward by quins - then knocked back by quins player in front - in sevens...opposition is pretty much always in position to take advantage. Slightly impeded on Shreveport player - but I thought he was clear for the try anyway. I disallowed one conversion kick for hte quins. They score behind one post, then kicked from behind the other - I yelled and yelled to stop him, no matter. Disallowed kick. Unfortunately this proved a deciding factor in a 28-26 decision. Shreveport tackled a quin as he was picking up the ball - quins lost it, Shreveport picked it up to dot down and convert for the lead. They took their time on the last kick - with my permission - with me saying there will be time for a kickoff. On the KO the quins got tackled into touch - game over. Fun one.
Most common penalty of the day was for the ball carrier not moving away from the ball. A couple tackler not releasing, multiple zone violations - but most common was the ball carrier not moving away form the ball - preventing an opposition player from playing the ball legally.
Overall - fun day, long day, but some great sevens reps were fit in.
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amazing, love to read this.
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