Respect The Referee Weekend : Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:11 pm  

Wouldn't it be great if supporters after the game could lay the fault of the defeat at the players, coach etc and not the officials.

Time and time again we see people on here blaming the referee or even worse accusing them deliberately of favouring the opposition and so enough is enough.

I propose we have a respect the referee weekend, where we accept every decision they make.

Re: Respect The Referee Weekend : Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:23 pm  

No, I don't respect any of the officials because they make far too many mistakes considering it is their job to make the CORRECT decision yet half the time they couldn't make that if they had the rule book and a load of replays...

Re: Respect The Referee Weekend : Fri Jun 11, 2010 12:15 pm  

Are you a referee?

I do respect Referee's (well most of them anyway) and they have a difficult job to do, but are of course quite well paid to do it, especially those at Superleague level.

Surely if we can criticise players then we can justifiably criticise ref's, if we believe they've made mistakes!

Ref's are paid to do a job, just like players are and it's again us who pay their wages, so whilst I'm sure the vast majority of ref's don't deliberately make a wrong call, it's all part and parcel of the game to have a go at ref's!

So I for one won't be joining your plan to give ref's an easy ride.

Re: Respect The Referee Weekend : Fri Jun 11, 2010 1:15 pm  

smoked a large one have we ?

Re: Respect The Referee Weekend : Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:26 am  

In my book 'respect' is something that has to be earned.

Have our referrees..or the RFL as a whole, done anything over the past few years that is deserved of our respect???? After the openly fiddled Challenge Cup draw of a few years ago, the whole of the rugby league community are all too aware of how bent they can be, when it suits them....

So I think its a matter of tollerating them, rather than respecting them!