Quote: tvoc "In your opinion of course. Needless to say it's not one I share.
The second on field official flitting in and out of the tackle area like a demented flea adds nothing to the spectacle or the speed of the game that a competent official couldn't achieve on his own.
The RFL should arrange meetings during the close season between the referees controller, referees, professional coaches and even any interested CEO's with spare time on their hands, thrash out a plan of how the laws will be interpreted during the following season.
If possible through the media, internet, trade papers, early match day programmes etc publicise the directives and then hope enough fans are able to take on board the collective will of the game and how it should be played and presented to the public.'"
Obviously not just my opinion of course, as the NRL did exactly that.
The phrases "frightened of change" and "stuck in the dark ages" come to light with what you put.
The game's changed, embrace it and move on with it. Everybody keeps saying we are so far behind the Aussies. The speeding up of the game in Australia due to their been two refs, is only going to take them further away, unless we match what they have done.
I can see why you would want to stick with one ref, but I can't see any logical reason why anyone would say one good ref would ref a game better than two refs. Unless of course neither of those two refs knew the rules.
