ThePrinter wrote:
Whilst a delightful work based tale it's a completely ridiculous comparison. Are you employed to spot and hear all work colleagues crimes? Doesn't sound like it.
As an employee I was under strict instructions to report any suspicions of theft to my employee, as we all were. By knowing of theft and refusing to report it I could have been found complicit about it.
Just as me and my friend heard him allude to stealing things, it was also possible that someone else could have overheard and reported the conversation.
Me and my friend could have also been sacked.
Silverwood is paid and expected to spot all misdemeanours whether physical or verbal. That Child didn't act too at the time then the "they both just forgot at the time but remembered several hours after the game" is without doubt the most ridiculous claim I seen put forward about this whole saga and you're not the only one to come up with such stubborn daftness.
You've reffed many games of SL rugby?
I think refs see and hear tonnes of things that they quickly ignore because they are under such massive pressure. IMO refs will hear threats of violence all the time that they have to forget because someone else has made a break and is going to score.
I'm not a fan of Silverwood, or any ref. A ref's a ref and part of their job is to take about whenever they make a decision against my team. But Silverwood is one of the top refs in SL and deserves the benefit of the doubt as much as anyone.
If he's made an error in any way then he should be given a proper hearing, not the abuse he is getting.
If all the people throwing abuse at Silverwood can do better than they should STFU and take his job. I've never tried reffing, but I doubt if I put in ten years at it I'd come close to matching Silverwood. And I happen to think I know a fair amount about RL.
So I don't want Silverwood to be given mindless and incorrect abuse any more than I want Zak to receive it. We are all RL people, we should effing well act like it.
