madflyhalf
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I'm quite curious on the current referees situation in TRC.
Suppose you're a member of SA/AUS/NZ team.
- In september your team receives "new rules" or new ways of interpretation, and you start the pre-season training under those aspects.
- You start and play the whole Super Rugby realizing the referees are actually implementing those rules and you HAVE TO adapt your game to them.
- Also you tend to adapt your game to the typical sh refs too, that allow a quicker game, with low count of penalties and stoppage
Everything is pretty fine until TRC.
Here comes northern referees!
In the first match you play the penalty count is 27!
In the fourth match again 27 an so on!
On the other side of the Tasman anything is granted at the breakdown, after the halftime break the Wallabies adapted their bd play to the mess Barnes (the northern one, obviously the worse of the 2).
The pace is slower, the games are boring and absolutely not fitted to these players!
So the questions raise, where are the southern referees?
Why let them refereing the whole season and relegate them to the touchline?
Joubert, Walsh, Peyper and even Glen Jackson (despite his lack of experience compared to the other) are currently the best referees in the world, by meter used, consistency and capacity to the game to flow constantly with the lesser interruption!
You can put also Mark Lawrence who has retired from test rugby last year, among those!
And again, what's the point of instructing players to play under determinate circumstances for 8 month and then switch back to an old fashioned, boring and useless rugby?
I remember when I made the referee class here in Italy (teached by the 2 best refs in my province), the first line they pronounced was: "Blow your whistle as little as possible! Either you're refereeing youngsters or senior clubs, make them play without interruption as much as possible!"
I really don't think the style of southern refs, with key and clear early penalties awarded in the match, clarifying the rules and how to play, while keeping the penalties count low, makes any crime by the end of the match!
Or it does?! :mellow::huh:
Suppose you're a member of SA/AUS/NZ team.
- In september your team receives "new rules" or new ways of interpretation, and you start the pre-season training under those aspects.
- You start and play the whole Super Rugby realizing the referees are actually implementing those rules and you HAVE TO adapt your game to them.
- Also you tend to adapt your game to the typical sh refs too, that allow a quicker game, with low count of penalties and stoppage
Everything is pretty fine until TRC.
Here comes northern referees!
In the first match you play the penalty count is 27!
In the fourth match again 27 an so on!
On the other side of the Tasman anything is granted at the breakdown, after the halftime break the Wallabies adapted their bd play to the mess Barnes (the northern one, obviously the worse of the 2).
The pace is slower, the games are boring and absolutely not fitted to these players!
So the questions raise, where are the southern referees?
Why let them refereing the whole season and relegate them to the touchline?
Joubert, Walsh, Peyper and even Glen Jackson (despite his lack of experience compared to the other) are currently the best referees in the world, by meter used, consistency and capacity to the game to flow constantly with the lesser interruption!
You can put also Mark Lawrence who has retired from test rugby last year, among those!
And again, what's the point of instructing players to play under determinate circumstances for 8 month and then switch back to an old fashioned, boring and useless rugby?
I remember when I made the referee class here in Italy (teached by the 2 best refs in my province), the first line they pronounced was: "Blow your whistle as little as possible! Either you're refereeing youngsters or senior clubs, make them play without interruption as much as possible!"
I really don't think the style of southern refs, with key and clear early penalties awarded in the match, clarifying the rules and how to play, while keeping the penalties count low, makes any crime by the end of the match!
Or it does?! :mellow::huh:
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