IF AND WHEN OUR COACH GOES

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I would want the refs to pull up every offence players will soon get the message,
No they wouldn't. The fans and players would just get incredibly frustrated and would most likely commit even more fouls or technical errors because of this. Punishment does not always equal better discipline. It can often cause more if there's too much as people just think "what's the point".

A referee could probably pull up a technicality on every play. How boring a game would that be?

Quote: Beverley red "what rankles with me is that they seem to randomly pick which rule to apply, we are obssesed with speeding the game up, Why are they penalising a hand on the ball in the ruck but hardly ever for not playing the ball correctly? they penalise the slightest touch of the head yet never offside on the goal line, hardly ever see a forward pass but a ball droped is nearly always a knock on even if it never travels forward. We even had a ref not penalising a foul when a player was high tackled when scoring (8 point try) yet anywhere else on the pitch it would have been a penalty. Who is telling refs to ignore certain rules?'"
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We don't know why referees pull certain things up unless we ask them. It's usually a case of repeat offences/warnings on certain things (you often hear the ref say "next time it's a penalty"icon_wink.gif.
Forward passes can be a nightmare to spot, and you've also got to factor in momentum (which fans will pick and choose when it applies to suit their team of course). Referees aren't supermen. They can't see everything!

Referee errors tend to even themselves out over the course of the season. It's part of sport to play the ref. the one thing I hate is when someone constantly blames the ref for their shortcomings. It's that passing off of responsibility that hinders development. There are some coaches that do it more than others, and if agree with a lot of your fans when they say Sandercock does it a lot. Sends out the complete wrong message to the players (ie "well we can always find an excuse for losing that doesn't mean we weren't good enough"icon_wink.gif.