Quote: Paul Thexton "It's very, very rare that I've been to watch a game and come home convinced that the ref got it wrong, to then be proven correct on watching the replay on TV. The majority of the time the officials actually get it right, it's the arrogant big headed berks in the terraces who are mostly wrong. The most difficult aspect for the refs is the forward pass, and the only way you could be sure of getting that right every single time would be to have the depth perception of a falcon. Maybe we should be having a word with scientists to see if they can genetically modify our officials so that they have the additional fovea that birds of prey have!'"
the forward pass is indeed a tricky one to get right and I have every sympathy with the poor old hard done ref but maybe if he instructed his TJs to be more proactive , like Messers Roby and Child in the CC Final then their decisions would be more credible and even correct !
Some refs ask the TJs to help with certain decisions and others don't it would seem