Yesterday, University game.
Normal pre match chat. Tell captains they need to control discipline, so we won't be having any appealing or shouting out or trying to ref the game. Everything comes through them. They of course agree.
A university team playing in Purple
2nd minute appealing from gobby scrum half. I remind captain what we spoke about.
4th minute "He's got his hands on ref". Penalty
I then tell captain to get a grip
6th minute "What about the offside ref?"
Yellow card
12th minute another yellow for an appeal and hands in the air......
Was this the point where I should have binned the captain?
The Green Team opposition wised up straight away with the captain telling me "Everything alright sir?" We are keeping our discipline aren't we? They were as clean as a whistle, I have reffed them several times before.
Result was that Green hammered Purple despite being well below them in skill and league position. At least three of their trys came from penalties for dissent.
There was quite a bit more chat and the Purple captain just didn't get it.
A good lesson for me, but as always was there anything else I could have done?
Normal pre match chat. Tell captains they need to control discipline, so we won't be having any appealing or shouting out or trying to ref the game. Everything comes through them. They of course agree.
A university team playing in Purple
2nd minute appealing from gobby scrum half. I remind captain what we spoke about.
4th minute "He's got his hands on ref". Penalty
I then tell captain to get a grip
6th minute "What about the offside ref?"
Yellow card
12th minute another yellow for an appeal and hands in the air......
Was this the point where I should have binned the captain?
The Green Team opposition wised up straight away with the captain telling me "Everything alright sir?" We are keeping our discipline aren't we? They were as clean as a whistle, I have reffed them several times before.
Result was that Green hammered Purple despite being well below them in skill and league position. At least three of their trys came from penalties for dissent.
There was quite a bit more chat and the Purple captain just didn't get it.
A good lesson for me, but as always was there anything else I could have done?