Amateur referees poor knowledge of The Laws Of The Game

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Brian the Postman wrote:
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swannsong wrote: Not sure if things have become much worse , but in my 4-5 years of refereeing I only ever felt 'unsafe' or threatened at one game.
Really? You must be f'n tough.
It's also probably pretty easy when you give all the decisions to the homesides.
Not tough at all...just never really felt unsafe apart from the one game.
Brian the Postman wrote: It's also probably pretty easy when you give all the decisions to the homesides.
Not sure what your comment means Brian...did I referee your games between 1996-2000 ?
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Spent two nights in hospital after being attacked by spectators. Not once did the league phone me to discuss the incident or how I was.

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I only felt threatened once. At the end of the game, I asked the club marshals to escort me from the field of play.

Some interesting thoughts on referees from Brian Clough:
https://youtu.be/4PA8q5Q-kTg

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absolutely appalled wrote:3 - There is a limited budget [/u][/i]for assessors, and limited pool of assessors, to improve the knowledge and skills of referees. It is quite possible that nobody finds out about these mistakes as there is nobody there on the day.

So in summary, if you are unhappy with the standard of refereeing tell the league and ask for these things

1 - raise referee pay rates so the SAASL can poach the better referees from other associations
2 - encourage people who think referees are terrible to step up and show they are better.
3 - Ask for more money to be made available for referee assessment and development
4 - tell those around you to stop being d!ckheads and make sure that the referee feels safe by controlling the crowd and your coach

Limited budget? 1.5 million in the bank a limited budget these days? you must be a rich fella if you consider that "limited" - id say its nearly unlimited

Having said that I agree with all of your points , especially the 4th one its very embarrassing how people treat the refs. its one thing to question a ref but some of what goes on is absolutely appalling . Granted the refs don't make it easy sometimes , for example we had a ref this season in the As (not a club ref one from the saasl) call half time after 30 minutes (there was no fighting or anything he just thought it was half time) thankfully he was being assessed and we got called back on about 5 minutes later after the assessor went onto the field to discuss wtf the ref was doing.


Re the budget. The SAASL gives an allowance each year to the referees association to fund assessments.
Anyone wants to join - www.saasra.org

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