Quote Originally Posted by Izzy View Post
Obviously the 'ref dept' needs funding to survive, but I would question why it is not funded by the users of the service (players/parents via rego fees) rather than the providers of the service.

I will agreeably disagree with others on this one. It fails the pub test for me.
Who do you think pays the referee fees?

If you don’t think that northern or the inter-district boards taking 10% of the appointed referee fees passes, then they’ll just drop the fees that refs get by 10% and charge the clubs that admin fee