Why so defensive AW82?? I think he was clearly stating that other coaches in the league have done this on numerous occasions. And to be honest I don't understand your point? Suburbs are performing so well with the players the have, the majority of them under 21 years old. Surely the league has to look at the refereeing as a whole, and see how these issues can be sorted out. Is it giving players a yellow as soon as they swear at the ref? But if the referee makes a piss poor decision, the coaches need to be able to raise an issue without swearing their nut off.
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I thought I deleted my comment as wanted to expand but ran out of time.
What I was trying to say that is that the clubs are responsible for appointing their coaching staff and sometimes do not appear to support their own coaches at times. Suburbs have been one better clubs, if not the best for developing young player, and always look to play attacking football.
If you look back in the tread I have highlighted poor refereeing this season.
It is clear that those in charge, (either Fed Board numbers or Club Board members) are not around the parks week in week out to see the standard of refereeing.
I have been at two games this season were PFL coaches have been sent from the dug out an in both case I think the root cause was some very poor decisions by officials that lead to coaches nutting off that ended in the sending offs, in one game this lead to two goals being scored that effected the final out come of the game, as this point must say I do not condone ref abuse.
But just like players officials get thing wrong and in same cases this means goals are scored or not scored, but it appears there is no process for clubs to highlight any refereeing concerns, I not talking about just sagging off refs.
The story in Nelson paper is saying the unless certain coaches go then the refs would withdraw their services, what would happen if a club(s) said they did not want a certain ref involved in their games.
The story quoted Mike Coggan , Mainland CEO follows
There were only 70 or 80 referees in the federation and about 16,000 players, meaning the quality varied, but it was important that referees were not subjected to abuse.
As already stated agreed that refs should not be abused but they are saying that the quality is varied so how or when is this being addressed.
AllWhites822011-07-20 19:07:38