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Respect has been done to death mate even at Sunday league games the abuse many referee's get should not be tolerated, it's OK players wearing an armband with respect on their shirt it means nothing, and until the FL back referee's for taking a hard stance nothing will change.

 

I am all in favour of ref respect but for the professional game even the fourth tier standards have to rise last year was bad enough with some horrendous decisions but so far this year the standard has been appalling. In our case the refs are falling over themselves to say our crowds don’t intimidate them

 

Don't foul
Stay onside
Put the ball in the back of the net

F@ck the ref!

Win the game!

 

The 'disallowed goal' was nothing to do with evening it up, that opportunity was given by a moment of madness from BRE. I still can't believe there are some who thought it wasn't a red. As i said before the 'goal' was really the only big decision he got wrong, players running to the ref like that needs to be stopped like in Rugby where only the captain gets to discuss things with the ref.

 

How do you get them up to standard without letting them officiate? You can't teach real life in a classroom.

 

I would have to disagree. It happened right in front of me. It was a foul and cynical at that.

 

Wtf? Jeez that is appalling!!

 

I actually thought he was ok yesterday except for the goal incident which I cant get my head around. It is about time a card was shown for grabbing people who have gone past you, by going past the defender they open the game up as other defenders are pulled out of position yet by grabbing them and just conceding a free kick means everyone gets back in place to stifle the attack. We all moan about teams using any method to slow down the game/take the momentum out so by issuing a yellow helps to keep the game moving.

 

Take a look at this penalty, Northampton were given yesterday. How on earth? Ridiculous officiating.

About 20 seconds in.

 

Sorry Park he really wasn't that bad. Both sending offs were correct, he was also correct regarding stopping the game for head injuries despite how frustrating it is. Yes he got a couple of decisions wrong but what ref doesn't?

 

Respect has to be earned these refs are not used to refing in frontofbig crowds and over compensation. They've been very poor

 

Our sending off was correct theirs wasn't

 

Agree the standard has been appalling.

Do they tier the refs like the leagues? So some refs generally stay in the Champ and some stay in L2? or could they be assigned anywhere in the FL?

 

The first yellow he received wasn’t warranted it was nothing

 

Well the referee had a different opinion and he's the man in charge.

 

I'd say it is possibly worse in the Premiership than our league but IMO it is not relevant which league they get hassled and abused in, it is not acceptable and it does nothing to tell the younger fans it's the correct way of going about things, very similar to the police are not respected in this day and age.

 

As I say I agree but don’t allow these wannabes out on the field until they are up to standard

 

They could use ex pros for a start or recruit with better knowledge and understanding

 

Can't disagree with regards the no goal both he and his linesman looked like they'd given a goal the linesman was actually running back to the center circle, very poor decision whoever made it but yes the referee and the linesman were quite happy to give the goal originally.

 

of what? certainly not the laws of the game