Quote Originally Posted by MFKS View Post
We are losing 100s of potentially good refs??

What does this mean??


We are actually just losing the weak ones early on


No one has said referees have it easy
If you are signing up to be a referee whether you are 14 24 34 or 44 you know what the score is

Your not going to be popular and your going to cop some abuse

If you are unaware of this you are not naive but for want of a better phrase living in a delusion

Now one of the reasons we losing so many referees is because we as society are quite happy to cuddle people with the everyone wins a prize bull shit so people grow up insecure and need reassurance from others

These 14 year old refs quit because they are not used to or capable of dealing with a few choice words because they are not made to deal with shit not going there way in life

That a society issue


As for your ideas on more training??

**** me


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Just revenue raising and does **** all in reality

You can train some of these refs 5 days a week for 8 hours a day and they be just as shit in a year's time
The reason we are losing so many referees is because of people like you and your attitude who have no balls to give refereeing a go and so many ill disciplined players and coaches who do little other than encourage players to break the rules and react poorly when they get caught.
Maybe if more players took up refereeing they would finally actually learn the rules and then teams would be happier with player/referees.Since so many players already try to referee games you should all be happy.