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How bad are hurling Referees?

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  • #32
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭threeball


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Linesmen aren't referees. By the time it takes him to spot the foul and then contact the ref and for the ref to blow the whistle even though he hasn't seen the foul the game will have moved on and will become too stop start.

    If there are two referees one officiates one half of the pitch and the other the remaining half. They don't leave their half
    The rules don't change you just have refereeing from close to where ever the ball is. The game will be the same.

    You are talking about slowing down the game and adding some officials who can stop the match.

    2 referees won't slow the game down. There will just be a ref closer to the ball. Always up with the action.


    There are plenty of rules in AFL and the ball moves quickly and the pitch is wider. Two referees make sense.

    With the speed of the ball and the level of athlete that modern players are how is a 40 something year old ref supposed to keep up? There are bound to be poor decisions

    Two different opinions in a game like that doesn't work. You even see it in the international rules. It doesn't work there either.

    One lad has a habit of pulling for one thing, the other lad pulling for another. Players always cry out for consistency. You wouldn't even get that every time the ball crossed the half way line if there were two refs.


  • #33
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    threeball wrote: »
    Two different opinions in a game like that doesn't work. You even see it in the international rules. It doesn't work there either.

    One lad has a habit of pulling for one thing, the other lad pulling for another. Players always cry out for consistency. You wouldn't even get that every time the ball crossed the half way line if there were two refs.

    That's a good point. Both referees would have to be very similar in what they deem a foul.

    What is the problem with the reffing lately.
    Is it that the referee is missing fouls because hes too far away or is it that the wrong calls are being made when the ref is close to the ball


  • #34
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭threeball


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    That's a good point. Both referees would have to be very similar in what they deem a foul.

    What is the problem with the reffing lately.
    Is it that the referee is missing fouls because hes too far away or is it that the wrong calls are being made when the ref is close to the ball

    It's extremely fast and very hard to be in the right position all the time plus they're under pressure to let the game flow. If every foul in hurling was pulled there wouldn't be 20 seconds continuous play. Then we'd see real complaining. Lads getting hurls clattered off their chest and arms when solo running. Blatant fouls but let go.

    The only one that really pi$$es me off if blatant over carrying


  • #35
    cson
    Registered Users Posts: 14,397 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Eoin McDevitt (of Second Captains) tweeted it that hurling needs a professional foul red card. That was scandalous in the first half in Croker yesterday.


  • #36
    Gentleman Off The Pitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Gentleman Off The Pitch


    cson wrote: »
    Eoin McDevitt (of Second Captains) tweeted it that hurling needs a professional foul red card. That was scandalous in the first half in Croker yesterday.

    Which incident are you referring to?


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  • #37
    Blueshoe
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Blueshoe


    threeball wrote: »
    It's extremely fast and very hard to be in the right position all the time plus they're under pressure to let the game flow. If every foul in hurling was pulled there wouldn't be 20 seconds continuous play. Then we'd see real complaining. Lads getting hurls clattered off their chest and arms when solo running. Blatant fouls but let go.

    The only one that really pi$$es me off if blatant over carrying

    Agreed.
    Is it fair say that referees can't be on top of everything on the pitch and are under pressure to keep a game flowing.

    Ie they can't keep everyone happy


  • #38
    threeball
    Registered Users Posts: 7,908 ✭✭✭threeball


    Blueshoe wrote: »
    Agreed.
    Is it fair say that referees can't be on top of everything on the pitch and are under pressure to keep a game flowing.

    Ie they can't keep everyone happy

    Yes I'd say that's the case. One lad watching wants to let a game flow and let players bate the sh1te out of each other then goes mental when he sees a dodgy Handpass. Another the exact opposite. I think in general it's not as bad as we like to think but there's opinions from everywhere these days and it heightens the sense of the ref making a bollox of it. Stuff we didn't even see ourselves until some lad points it out on boards or Twitter.

    A small bit of help from the other officials would go along way. Take away time keeping too.


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