Grimmy wrote:
Classy. Is it any wonder we're losing match officials hand over fist?
Nothing to do with being classy or not and I'd argue it's another example of you guys having your heads in the sand. It's like that Principal Skinner meme of "Am I out of touch? No it's the children who are wrong". There's zero ownership of the fact that the attitudes and arrogance of some refs are playing a part in this. When you have a captain at a big club telling a ref he's not too important to be spoken to, you know there's an attitude problem.
If you listen to some refs talk then they paint themselves like some little old lady who gets mugged on the street, completely innocent and without blame.
I will say however that, without a shadow of a doubt tho, the biggest issue here are the larger lout chavs who can't hold their beer. They've crossed a line and should be banned.