Quote: sergeant pepper "But you all just stick up for each other. One of my best mates is actually a ref and the arguments as get into are unreal because he takes the same 'whataboutism' approach.
Do you not think it's unfair (& apply this to every level of the game) that refs up and down the country and across sports are ruining games? If I have a bad game at the weekend, I have to sit in the changing room with my mates and look them in the eye, knowing I've let then down. That never happens with a ref, in all my years of playing, I've never had a ref walk into the sheds and say sorry or that they f-up. It's sickening, especially in the big games. Finals lost etc because a ref has dropped a clanger, but won't say sorry.
Make the club's pay into a pot that has to be spent on funding ex pros to become refs. I shudder to think what our club paid for the work on that cr@ppy badge etc. Improving the standard of refs should be the number 1 priority, because it's the biggest issue. Once again tho it's the old "we're broke" line. Same excuse for letting Covid make a mockery of the season. Same excuse for a low SC limit etc. Yet there's fat cat directors at the RFL doing a bad job and getting paid for it.'"
If you honestly think refs up and down the country across sports are ruining games then I'd suggest it's down to one of two things:
1. You don't understand certain decisions/agree with the rules the clubs voted for and just assume the ref is incompetent (I've seen instances of this from you on here, even when faced with meticulous explanation).
Or 2. The standards you expect have proven to be unachievable by humans doing their best in however many years you have been watching/playing the sport.
The level of scrutiny in the pro and semi pro game is unbelievable. The match officials spend a hell of a lot more time reviewing each match than the clubs involved do. A match official will be dropped for one bad decision in one game, unlike a player who will generally have to be poor for a sustained period and even then may keep his spot. If you think the officials don't care then you're miles off the mark there too. Maybe at amateur level where there is little scrutiny and there are some bad apples, but not at pro or semi pro level. Everyone at that level is going out to do their best and feels bad if they drop a clanger.
Does your best mate know you think he is a cancer to the game?
. You mean shifting the goal posts to cover up this week's clanger? We've said it before and others agree - one week it's all about player safety, the next it's about ignoring someone taking a blow to the head. The second a boot hit Marshalls head, the match should have been stopped. Just like it did when Phibiln went down when Isa bumped him off. 
