Quote Originally Posted by monz6 View Post
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/39...e-poll/?cs=306

Can see the news reports heading into the final round already! "Team A needs to beat team B and hope that Team D beats team C so they leaps above team C into fourth. Alternatively they can make it in if a 13 year old youth league player from team C's club swears at a ref on a different day at a different venue"
I have no issue with this, and I'm a Jaffas fan.

Yes you can say we need higher quality match officials, but there is a lot of work going on behind the scenes to do this. However, as with footballers, higher quality match officials take time to develope, just like players. Having people drop out because they're being constantly sworn at or threatened, increases the amount of time it takes. Imagine if half the players from the junior npl ranks drop out each year. If that happens over 5 years, suddenly you're down to about 3% of those who started. And if the quality of the players at the start are the best available, that doesn't leave a high quality group of players.