Quote: Pemps "Correct.
I'm loathed to use football as a comparison but look at the way football players speak to officials now. This wasn't the case 30 years ago. It needs to be stamped on fast. The fact that players were warned throughout the half and then Joel does it when we've got the penalty is just dumb. MM will have bollocked him at halftime and rightly so.
It's creeping into the game more and more. Wellens, Eastmond, Maguire, Smith, Sam, Joel, Hudson, Briers.... they all do it and we moan about it when it's a Saints player. I watch my lad playing both rugby and football and the difference is there at under 7s. the way officials are treated at football matches by the parents can be disgusting at times yet at the rugby some people, the ones who have played, always address the referee as sir.'"
Agreed.
The respect that's usually shown to the officials by the players has always been exemplary in the past and we should go back to it. As a fan, there's nothing that annoys me more than when we give away penalties and easy yards because of people mouthing off to the ref.
We do have a couple of players who are too quick to talk back to the ref, but Ganson's way of dealing with it is spot on for me, players should learn pretty quickly that he's brave enough to send them off if they step out of line.
