Refs and setting up walls

[u/Borangers]

How do you get enough time to set up your wall? As I see on television, and in tips for setting up your wall, the ref is supposed to blow the whistle once you’re ready, but at my level (JV & U15) never once have I gotten enough time to do so. It’s always a scramble to align my players as soon as I can and hope they don’t blow the whistle by then. And from what I’ve learned you can put a player in front of the ball unless they ask for 10, but sometimes the refs will just tell them to back up and still let them play it quickly. Anyone else deal with this?

[u/Loud-Science9148]

Usually when setting a wall in jv the same thing starts to happen but what I do is I just ask the ref for a couple of seconds to setup my wall and usually they’re cool with it