Re: GAME ON : Catalan Dragons v Hull FC - 17:00:00 : Mon Jun 24, 2019 11:59 am
Him wrote:
Spot on MMJ. I was just going to post similar. Also Union refs do “coach” teams if we’re going to use that term. They actively tell players they’re offside, to keep retreating from a kick through, to either get out of the ruck or stay where they are out of the way etc.
At amateur level I’ve had refs call me mate, it’s not altered my opinion of him at all. It’s the referees decisions that define him not that term. Personally I think it shows he can have a good relationship with most players.
These players are adults, not children. If you speak to them like school children then you’ll get the disdain and disregard a lot of school children have for their teacher.
I think our refs are too much like that anyway. You can see sometimes when a ref has had to make a 50/50 call that he can’t have been certain yet he tells the players that so and so definitely dropped it or it was definitely ripped out. All that does is get players backs up who saw different from a different angle. Just say “from what I saw it looked like he dropped it”. No player can actually argue with that. Treat them like adults.
Also worth mentioning that the NRL refs regularly call players mate and they are regularly lauded on here as being better than ours.
At amateur level I’ve had refs call me mate, it’s not altered my opinion of him at all. It’s the referees decisions that define him not that term. Personally I think it shows he can have a good relationship with most players.
These players are adults, not children. If you speak to them like school children then you’ll get the disdain and disregard a lot of school children have for their teacher.
I think our refs are too much like that anyway. You can see sometimes when a ref has had to make a 50/50 call that he can’t have been certain yet he tells the players that so and so definitely dropped it or it was definitely ripped out. All that does is get players backs up who saw different from a different angle. Just say “from what I saw it looked like he dropped it”. No player can actually argue with that. Treat them like adults.
Also worth mentioning that the NRL refs regularly call players mate and they are regularly lauded on here as being better than ours.
Well said mate.