tad rhino:

the people to blame, in all.sports, are the referees themselves. they all indulge players.
as someone who reffed at a good level dialogue is good. you need conversations. but it has to be done in the right way.
only the refs can change things

leeds owl:



I agree entirely. But the problem is that it ain’t gonna happen. I don’t want to see my team disadvantaged by playing fairly when the officials are being coached and manipulated by opposition players. That is a surefire way to lose more games than you should be doing. Something that has become more prevalent and should be stamped on by the weak refs is players coaching the ref to watch certain opposition players and there supposed offences. More and more I am hearing refs replying to players moaning by saying “I’ll keep an eye on that”  or “I’ll have a look next time”. Eh ! Who’s reffing the game for Gods sake ? Certain teams and certain players are sowing the seeds in the refs mind to unfairly focus on opposition players and their supposed offences. Refs are just going along with it. The only reply to players coaching a ref should be “go away l’m the ref” rather than agreeing to target certain players for extra scrutiny. All of the problems on field are the ref’s and governing body’s fault. They obviously aren’t going to sort it so why disadvantage yourself by meekly hanging back and not having your say ?

YosemiteSam:



I don't quite know how to break this to you, but....