Referees or coaches

Quote: knockersbumpMKII "Sorry but you're wrong, the players/coaches HAVE to adapt or be penalised out the game.
it is exactly the same with motorists, penalise instead of just telling because the latter simply means they'll carry on doing it because they think they can get away with it.
If you do something wrong and are penalised, you're less likely to do it again.
The coaches need to be told that refs will not instruct, they will just penalise if the players are infringing until the players stop infringing.

Referees 'coaching' you might get a free flowing game to a degree but as we see because players push things all the time (as told/trained to by their coaches) so often the games don't flow even with leniency which most fans complain about. By not referee coaching you force the players to take responsibility for their own actions, you essentially model the players to act in a way that you want them to, same as with motoring (except police don't hence why we still have tens of thousands of KSIs every year)

it's basic human psychology.'"

Would be interesting to test this theory in a game to see what happens.

Play a trial game, and have the ref not be allowed to speak during play. See what happens. I honestly would intrigued to see if you have a penalty-fest (because players aren't learning fun their errors) or if they take more care "just in case."