Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
Great here is Captain Save A Ref on another high horse rant any time someone makes any comment on the standard of officiating or whether a call was right or wrong or whatever in he comes to save the day and save the honour of referees every where

It one thing that holds referees back

Insecurity

Just as those officials to weak to deal with the abuse of the players and spectators pack it in and give it away suffer from insecurity issues

No one said referees have it easy but until they man up and can take some criticism and grow a pair and learn to handle their role then the same shit will keep happening

Dissent from the players is controllable by the cards in your pocket

Grow a pair and use them

Refs having issues with players is down to their inadequacy

Refs having problems with spectators ??

Your not there to make ****s happy

Apply the rules based on what you see and grow a pair
See the problem is I'm not referring to the 20+ year olds that are socially reasonably equipped and able to understand the frustration of people. By the time referees reach the NPL they are well accustomed to this verbal abuse.

I'm referring to the 14 year olds that start refereeing. I'm referring the roughly 50-100 new referees that sign up each year to become a refereee. I'm referring the referees that give it up before they reach seniors, the referees that refuse to move into NNSW state league referees branch, the referees that are happy to referee park soccer. They get turned off it. I had people stop me in the car park to tell me I was a disgrace because I pulled his 12 year old son up for a hand ball. I was able to laugh that off and move on. But I've seen/heard of teams surrounding referee cars preventing them from leaving.

If you bothered to read somebody else's opinion, you'd see I gave 2 ways to increase the quality that we get at NPL level.
1. Training, which can only do so much. Despite all the courses etc some referees will be unable to improve.
2. Increase the pool to choose from.

I then brainstormed ideas to increase the pool, or to at least retain referees. And that starts when they are 14, 15, 16, 17. Frankly, your "grow some balls and man up" comments don't really work for those referees that have given it a go to see what it's like. It's far easier to say, screw dealing with this abuse, than it is to persevere through it.

Yeh, you can say that to the current NPL referees, they are there because they don't really care what people think.

But, your losing 100s of potentially good referees too soon due to abuse. They are the facts.