The big problem is Referee Transparency. We have seen over this weekend some shocking decisions with Carnleys 'try' and Taia's ability to stay on the pitch despite taking O'Briens head off. Nathan Brown has spoken out about the incident but he will end up with a bigger fine than Taia whilst Sandercock refused to comment knowing how much it will hit his pay packet. Something needs to change because the refs are influencing the game far too much.

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It was implied.



Heh heh, another one that can't debate without throwing insults around. Shame that, I was enjoying having decent debate with someone who I thought seemed to be an okay poster, well, until I seen some of your postings on other topics. You like starting a lot of conflict, don't you......





Well, that's up to them. I'm just replying to the posts that are addressed directly to me. And if they are doing that, why are you not pulling them up on it too?



Indeed I did. I believe it was in response to you saying that coaches can give constructive criticism about referees but there are restrictions on WHERE they can say it.

If you want me to back down so that you can update your excel spreadsheet with all the people you feel you have "bested" on an internet forum, why don't you just ask me mate? I probably won't, but at least you will have gone through the "correct channels"...

Then you misunderstood.



You felt insulted by that?
Looking back, your first contribution to this thread was "Oh shut up, you tart." albeit to a poster who is a bit of a cock. You later made reference to a coach discussion referees with his budgie. Would anyone think you an okay poster reading those posts?


Because it takes too long to go pull up every post, and as you'll have seen, some posters can't even answer clear questions.


Thanks for the clarification.


Why would think I think this is that important?



So, after all this, what do you feel about how and where coaches should criticise officials?

Nah, I really didn't.



Nope, I thought it was mildly amusing which surprised me as I didn't think you had any humour in you. Good on ya pal!



Well, at least we agree on something. As I'm sure hundreds of others do on here too. Though I wouldn't say "a bit".



Hypothetical scenario. I could have chosen something else, but some budgies respond to speech so I thought I would include it. Do you have pets? If you do, do you speak to them? I can imagine a lot of people do.



One of your internet forum "pet peeves" I guess. I can imagine you have a lot of them.....



It was my pleasure.



Did you miss a word out there? Question sounds a bit off. If the word was "you", then I would think that it's very important for you to best people in forum combat. If the think word was duplicated, then who really knows what you think....



After all what, Ritchie? The conflict? The budgie talk? The misunderstandings? I mean, if it's really truly that important to you, what answer would you like me to give?

Awarding a try that was clearly not a try. Therefore not doing his job correctly. If I didn't do my job correctly I would be punished.

Has it ever crossed your mind that the refs do their job for the love of the game?

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