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I am not condoning "how some referees are currently treated" but they do leave themselves open for a certain type of criticism, ie, the 2010 LSF final, the 2010 All Ireland SF semi final, and more recently the the Tipp/Mayo sf. Those are just three examples of many. There was adjudicator(s) put in situ a few years ago to be overseen by Pierce Freeney at the time for big games in HQ to access the referee's performance so imo that should partly answer your question regarding who should have the final say. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2909 - 26/08/2016 10:53:52 1906234 Link 0 |
Is there a culture of keeping linesmen in their box? Why do they routinely say so little about stuff that goes on under their noses, even with half the crowd loudly pointing this out to them? Are they generally only supposed to speak when a ref speaks to them? essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 26/08/2016 11:20:40 1906261 Link 0 |
again why dont ye all go out and try refereeing a game? at the end of the day lads and lasses NO REF NO GAME. time to get real here we watch a game on tele so we see slow mows and slower mows at least 10 times over especially when its controversial. the referee gets a milli second and more so than often they are correct. and please dont give me this shite they are there because they are supposed to be the best at their job that so everyone makes a mistake at some stage, how many on this site has actually tried being a ref and how many are still at it?? i could be the best referee tonight and the worst the tomorrow the joys of it even though you do everything the same but just because the result goes against your team the ref gets the blunt of it nothing about the team being poor or the sideline get thecalls wrong NO wait a minute the ref was against us gave us nothing during the game come on be honest who on here would continue to give up their time to do it??? Bet this wont get posted or even someone agreeing if it does ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 28/08/2016 16:39:11 1906946 Link 0 |
Totally agree, ref today got majority of decisions right in real time, easy to slag them off after watching replays of all the angles.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2151 - 28/08/2016 20:51:06 1907138 Link 0 |
If Kerry had scored a few points the start of the second half they would have won. sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2897 - 28/08/2016 21:01:49 1907147 Link 1 |
How would paying Refs make them better- makes no sense. Look at soccer and see all the bad decisions by paying refs. Making rules easy to interpret would be a start instead of adding on stupid rules like the black card. How are you to know some ones intentions? There are many poor Refs just as their are many poor footballers some at county level who are clueless when it comes to tackle. Many players pull the jersey or hand of the opposition- surely that is intentional but sometimes goes un-noticed. Most of the spectators who attend county matches do not know the rules-complete opposite to most people who attend club matches. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 28/08/2016 22:09:16 1907199 Link 0 |
How would paying Refs make them better- makes no sense. Look at soccer and see all the bad decisions by paying refs. Making rules easy to interpret would be a start instead of adding on stupid rules like the black card. How are you to know some ones intentions? There are many poor Refs just as their are many poor footballers some at county level who are clueless when it comes to tackle. Many players pull the jersey or hand of the opposition- surely that is intentional but sometimes goes un-noticed. ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 29/08/2016 08:38:35 1907286 Link 0 |
Honestly thought ref and his whole team were v good yesterday. Only mistake was giving Philly McMahon a yellow for abusing the umpire after the first goal. That is a black card offence tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1134 - 29/08/2016 09:45:38 1907340 Link 0 |
Mayo deserve to win an All Ireland too.
JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 29/08/2016 10:00:24 1907361 Link 0 |
Paying the refs wont exactly make them better but if the best referees are training and preparing to ref on a full time basis they will improve. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 29/08/2016 10:26:06 1907390 Link 0 |
Ref was brilliant yesterday and the main reason we seen the best game in a long long time. He might not have followed the rules completely but one thing for sure was he was consistent towards both teams. IMO both the Crowley incident and When McMahon got taken out were both frees but thankfully the ref let them go like other incidents and this resulted in a very high intensity game with hard hitting and made the game. longballin (Roscommon) - Posts: 91 - 29/08/2016 10:56:23 1907416 Link 0 |
In effect you are saying that the black card will give referees much more respect- such nonsense and what have you been watching all your life. Since when did paying people make them better? ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 29/08/2016 11:20:14 1907443 Link 0 |
Gaelic games, football in particular have always been steeped in contraversory and it's not going to change, the Kerry/Dublin game is no exception, imo, the best team (Dublin) won on the day no doubt about that, but it could so easily have been Kerry no doubt about that either, that's how close it was and a questionable call one way or the other can influence the outcome at the final whistle. I am not going to go down the road of passing comment on the referee's performance last Sunday. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2909 - 30/08/2016 18:57:03 1908302 Link 0 |
Maybe we should scrap the rule book altogether. Not much point having it if refs ignore it.
neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 30/08/2016 19:43:09 1908331 Link 1 |