[EricH]

Originally Posted by JHSmentor

In any case, part of the game is figuring our how they make the calls and adjusting for them. Any sport is this way and this should be no exception.

Very true. I played soccer with my college soccer club and we played every team twice. Now there was one team that had fairly permissive refs at their home field. They still had a yellow card for rough play. I figured that they had a rude awakening the next week, when they came to our home field. I knew how the local refs called the games--rough play was not on their "easy on this" list! Sure enough, the other team drew three or four yellows during the game. They didn't adapt well enough. (The "local" refs for my club didn't play "no harm no foul", they played "foul is foul".)

Another set of refs liked using their cards. We soon learned not to say anything to them...even though we normally didn't.

So find out how the refs are going to call something, and then play so you don't get a penalty intentionally. But live with it if you do get a penalty.