2013 Zone League 2 Thread

[outsider]

Outsider, another allage refs related question:

In round 1 of this year, Westlakes All Age & Westlakes First grade played at the same time at Rathmines Oval. Allage had a ref and two linesmen, and first grade had no refs or linesmen. Before the game Allage were happy for first grade to have not only one, but two of their refs as first grade were the priority. We asked the refs if one or two of them could ref firsts instead of allage, and the answer was that they were more than happy to but were not allowed to do so & they would get in heaps of trouble if they did it - even if they didn't tell the federation(s) that it happened. Were they really not allowed to do that, even just one of them?

I would assume that the referees doing all age were appointed by Macquarie Referees Association for whom they referee every week and therefore that is their obligation.They would in all probability be dealt with by their management committee for not fulfilling their appointments if they opted to do the Westlakes first grade game and rightly so.The junior football branches are entitled to have the appointed referees do their games and if their referees wanted to referee senior football they would join the senior referees and make themselves available for senior games.
Would the senior clubs be happy if one of their referees was taken away to referee junior games just because no referee turned up for the all age games-i think not.