Maybe I'm alone in this but I don't think the standard of reffing is that bad. Refs make good calls and bad calls, and that's the way it's been since the game was invented, and, unless one day the game is reffed by robots, that's how it will always be. It is very rare that I come away from a game thinking the ref has spoiled the game, or cost my team the win. If you care about it so much then get your ar5e down to a refereeing course and have a go yourself. Protests and petitions are not only ridiculous but will achieve nothing.
Maybe I'm alone in this but I don't think the standard of reffing is that bad. Refs make good calls and bad calls, and that's the way it's been since the game was invented, and, unless one day the game is reffed by robots, that's how it will always be. It is very rare that I come away from a game thinking the ref has spoiled the game, or cost my team the win. If you care about it so much then get your ar5e down to a refereeing course and have a go yourself. Protests and petitions are not only ridiculous but will achieve nothing.
But no other sport has bad referring.......
......regards Kieron Gibbs, red carded for a handball committed by another black player.
Maybe I'm alone in this but I don't think the standard of reffing is that bad. Refs make good calls and bad calls, and that's the way it's been since the game was invented, and, unless one day the game is reffed by robots, that's how it will always be. It is very rare that I come away from a game thinking the ref has spoiled the game, or cost my team the win. If you care about it so much then get your ar5e down to a refereeing course and have a go yourself. Protests and petitions are not only ridiculous but will achieve nothing.
I agree, I think the refs are actually fairly decent.
The problem is the fans who love to complain about anything and everything. Even when their views are obviously wrong or biased, however, a large part of it is ignorance on the fans part which is large. If more people got themselves on a refereeing course or coaching course they may actually understand the rules properly and realise that the refs aren't all that bad.
Of course they get some calls wrong, some big ones too, but if anybody has ever tried refereeing a RL game (which I'm sure 99% of the moaners haven't) they would realise how hard it is. On the whole I think the refs do a good job but Rugby League fans just love to moan and be negative at every turn, nothing like a victim complex eh?
I agree, I think the refs are actually fairly decent.
The problem is the fans who love to complain about anything and everything. Even when their views are obviously wrong or biased, however, a large part of it is ignorance on the fans part which is large. If more people got themselves on a refereeing course or coaching course they may actually understand the rules properly and realise that the refs aren't all that bad.
Of course they get some calls wrong, some big ones too, but if anybody has ever tried refereeing a RL game (which I'm sure 99% of the moaners haven't) they would realise how hard it is. On the whole I think the refs do a good job but Rugby League fans just love to moan and be negative at every turn, nothing like a victim complex eh?
Player passes ball, hands facing backwards, ball drifts clearly forward in mid air......... cue clueless fans ''FORWARDDDDDDD, BOOOOOOOOOO, THE REFS BENT, ITS THE RFL, THEY LOVE THE BIG 4, BLAH BLAH BLAH''.
You go on any board after a defeat, and you can guarantee they'll be a thread kicking off about the ref.
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Player passes pall, hands facing backwards, ball drifts clearly forward in mid air......... cue clueless fans ''FORWARDDDDDDD, BOOOOOOOOOO, THE REFS BENT, ITS THE RFL, THEY LOVE THE BIG 4, BLAH BLAH BLAH''.
You go on any board after a defeat, and you can guarantee they'll be a thread kicking off about the ref.
was watching an nfl doco. on one of their teams and they used the term bomb to describe those long high passes from quaterback to running back and i think gibson took that idea, realized you cant throw the ball forward in RL and adapted it to a "bomb" kick we have
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You poor poor obsessed fat ex vichyballin potato thieving stoaway.
Player passes ball, hands facing backwards, ball drifts clearly forward in mid air......... cue clueless fans ''FORWARDDDDDDD, BOOOOOOOOOO, THE REFS BENT, ITS THE RFL, THEY LOVE THE BIG 4, BLAH BLAH BLAH''.
You go on any board after a defeat, and you can guarantee they'll be a thread kicking off about the ref.
Except London broncos board that is........it's hard to blame the ref when your average loss is down to shipping 50 points a game!
Some sets of fans do seem to be worse for it. Wakefield and huddersfield fans (not based on the recent incident) have always steemed to be quite abit worse for it, with sintellins fans the least guilty IMO.
I agree, I think the refs are actually fairly decent.
The problem is the fans who love to complain about anything and everything. Even when their views are obviously wrong or biased, however, a large part of it is ignorance on the fans part which is large. If more people got themselves on a refereeing course or coaching course they may actually understand the rules properly and realise that the refs aren't all that bad.
Of course they get some calls wrong, some big ones too, but if anybody has ever tried refereeing a RL game (which I'm sure 99% of the moaners haven't) they would realise how hard it is. On the whole I think the refs do a good job but Rugby League fans just love to moan and be negative at every turn, nothing like a victim complex eh?
I agree. I've done a tiny bit of reffing at very informal friendly kids games and it really does bring home how much the refs have to do and how many times you're effectively taking either an educated guess or sometimes a complete guess at what happened.
I do think there are ways that the refereeing can be improved, such things as a 2 refs system, more full time refs, better training and development for refs, better pay for refs etc
But that would require more money for the RFL to spend. Something which certain club chairmen aren't keen on.
As a Chelsea fan I know what it's like to have a manager who scares refs so much that most refs are naturally scared to give decisions against us. That accounts for the more decisions going for us than going against us.
But there are also referees who have pretty much gone out of their way to screw us over (Graham poll and Chris Foy). There has also been times when we weren't the bigger side and the referees were clearly influenced by who the bigger side were (nearly every time we've faced Barca).
As a Leeds Rhinos fan, I thought that Bentham was pretty blatant in the last quarter of the game in displaying his bias towards the bigger club. If Saints had been the ones who took that drop goal, I'm not totally convinced that he'd have been ruling it out.
On the drop goal, I'm undecided. On the pen for interference near the touchline I think the ref was probably right. On the pen for interference under the posts I think the ref was completely wrong. The fact that all three decisions went the way of the bigger club???
On the red card I think the ref was 100% correct. But how many times have we seen refs not sending off players when they've deserved it. Are you sure that a Saints player would have been getting the red card for that, because I'm not.
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Some sets of fans do seem to be worse for it. Wakefield and huddersfield fans (not based on the recent incident) have always steemed to be quite abit worse for it, with sintellins fans the least guilty IMO.
Bradford fans love a good shout of forward too whenever I've been there!
St Helens fans probably don't because we've got to have a good old moan at our team over the past few years, I'm sure every club has their sections, but ours has been somewhat deflected after the come down from success!
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