Quote: Robbo "another concern is that usually, after maybe a few similar offences a referee would bring the captain in and give a warning to try and cut it out. but in this sort of situation, the team wont get that warning and won't particularly know what it is they need to cut out.
Like you say, a certain hand signal by the ref might help highlight what is going on. It also sounded like they had the refs mic connected up to the stadium speakers so people in the stadium could hear what was being said, although it was difficult to hear on tv.
From what I saw this morning, it worked out ok simply because they have one referee concentrating on the ruck so everything gets seen, in superleague with only one referee a lot of things go unnoticed which is why I think we could struggle to implement it over here.'"
If there are persistent offences, then the ref can give a full penalty and stop the game to talk to players.
Not sure about the ref being microphoned up! MOOOOOOOVE!!!!!