Feel free to ignore this, it's more here for me to get off my chest!! :deadhorse::wtf:
We played away yesterday and had a F*&&*&* awful experience with the ref.
He was bad, wrong and dangerous is some many ways we can't even begin to count;
wrong.
there, I feel better now :biggrin:
starting to chill,
Dave.
We played away yesterday and had a F*&&*&* awful experience with the ref.
He was bad, wrong and dangerous is some many ways we can't even begin to count;
wrong.
- KO went over the try line + dotted down, 5m scrum given to receiving team. (WRONG receiving team has an option of retake or scrum at half way).
- Said scrum was ~2m!
- Penalty given against us for not releasing; the BC had the ball in his grasp on the ground but no other opposition player on their feet was even close enough to touch the ball!
- Penalty given, we FK to gain ground, he restarted with a scum! This was also so close to the touch line that I could reach out and touch it! Wrong on 2 counts.
- Ball cleared straight into touch, again a scrum restart. In fact I don't think he used a FP for the who game and when required they were never 5m from touch or try lines.
- Squeezeball; a coach and I stepped onto the field when we saw this, fortunately there were no other players around or trying to ruck over so a broken neck was avoided. He didn't seem to know it was an offense....
- Great tackle from one of our guys floored the BC and who ended up on his knees, he blow for a high tackle or dangerous tackle or perhaps an injury, he was vague but they ended up with a penalty.
- Bias bias bias, we got called for plenty of offside penalties which is fine because most of them were. did they, did they F*** as like. Handling on the ground, help yourself. High tackle/scrag tackle, not a problem. Don't get me wrong, being neutral can be tough but he wasn't even in the same country.
- I've only just gotten started....
- At all points in the game we had confused/crying/angry kids to contend with, there was no point is telling them you have to respect the refs ETC because you'd look like a complete muppet.
- Words were had but with there so many issues it was a million miles away from a quick chat to clarify a few details.
- Afterwards we just walked away, words would have been too heated to generate any light.
- As of this week I travel with kit in the car just in case. We're also wondering about protocol surrounding replacing the ref but that's for the HC to sort out with the opposition.
- I need to back myself more and step in, this is just a confidence thing from somebody who's only 3 months in.
- They were clever and set up a shortish but narrow pitch which was great for them, lots of big slow country lads.
- There's a return fixture later in the year, we're so looking forward to playing them again with the real laws and on a full sized pitch. The lads will be well up for it, they still remember games or particular players from several years back so these guys don't stand a chance.
- We still won :biggrin:
- I now have a great base line of what not to do. He didn't know the laws, was biased and dangerous.
there, I feel better now :biggrin:
starting to chill,
Dave.