The Referee (All Referees)

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888patino

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So many times this season... It's 2022 and we still have incompetent, unfit, out of shape referees overseeing our games. I pay to go to the games to watch football, not some clown that can't wait to blow his whistle and make the game all about himself. In my opinion refs should be held responsible for the decisions made during games, by explaining their decisions in an interview after the game. Last night for example was ruined by some awful decisions, and Hull player's wasting time which wasn't dealt with. However it's pointless complaining as the FA and EFL are clueless.
 
ItsGrimUpNorth said:
Last night cannot be blamed on the referee I’m afraid.
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I agree. The majority of the players have to take the blame for last night as they were probably too busy thinking about Saturday. But how many times do we come away from the game complaining about refs poor decisions, shouldn't be the case.
 
888patino said:
So many times this season... It's 2022 and we still have incompetent, unfit, out of shape referees overseeing our games. I pay to go to the games to watch football, not some clown that can't wait to blow his whistle and make the game all about himself. In my opinion refs should be held responsible for the decisions made during games, by explaining their decisions in an interview after the game. Last night for example was ruined by some awful decisions, and Hull player's wasting time which wasn't dealt with. However it's pointless complaining as the FA and EFL are clueless.
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There, you've just answered your own post with your last sentence.

BTW don't put last nights performance down to the ref, the result was all of BFC's doing.
 
Saturday's referee had a disaster of a second half.

Last night's, less of an issue and had nothing to do with the result.

He also played 3 minutes in the first half and 8 minutes in the second of added on time - their time wasting was accounted for - and let's be honest, we didn't play like we were ever going to get a spell of pressure that they were disrupting.
 
A few strange decisions and yep whistle happy but the decisions were pretty much right. The only one that I didn't understand the logic of was when Madine [?] fouled their player but the ball was pretty much already on the way to the keepers hands but he blew and gave them a free kick.
 
ref last night in my mind was inconsistent, the french lad for hull did two deliberate pull backs early on clear yellow card offences, gave a free kick for both, but then booked one of theirs for a nothing challenge, and then couple of players for kicking the ball away. Pulled up a bunch of fifty fifties, and let go some more cynical challenges, which i think encourages players to keep making cynical and / or over the top challenges with the potential for it to escalate.

I can understand a certain amount of inconsistency from ref to ref and game to game, but not to the level it is and the inconsistency in game is truly atrocious
 
Not sure what can be done about it tbh, it’s not like there’s a queue of young, fit, good referees waiting in the wings. I agree they should be held more accountable but it’s a hard enough job as it is and they’ll just end up quitting and then what?
 
I do have some sympathy for refs in general. Having to follow daft rule changes that do nothing to help the game.

It's not really possible to let refs be themselves any more, although one or two do show some sense every now and then with things like playing advantage then bringing it back if nothing develops, or going back to speak to an offender after the move's finished.

But they're also bound by some daft laws about things you get a booking, injury treatment etc. Not all their fault, if players stopped doing some of the things that those rules were inadvisedly brought in to combat, then they wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.

I would only want ex pro's in charge, who've only just come out of the situations themselves, and know when a word's sufficient, or when a player's faking etc. Unfortunately there's no point in that because the daft rules, that make them robots to an extent, still exist. A ref shouldn't be a robot, he should be able to use his own opinion and act accordingly.

So IMHO the root of the problem lies, as often is the case, with the game's authorities.
 
CGP1 said:
I do have some sympathy for refs in general. Having to follow daft rule changes that do nothing to help the game.

It's not really possible to let refs be themselves any more, although one or two do show some sense every now and then with things like playing advantage then bringing it back if nothing develops, or going back to speak to an offender after the move's finished.

But they're also bound by some daft laws about things you get a booking, injury treatment etc. Not all their fault, if players stopped doing some of the things that those rules were inadvisedly brought in to combat, then they wouldn't have been necessary in the first place.

I would only want ex pro's in charge, who've only just come out of the situations themselves, and know when a word's sufficient, or when a player's faking etc. Unfortunately there's no point in that because the daft rules, that make them robots to an extent, still exist. A ref shouldn't be a robot, he should be able to use his own opinion and act accordingly.

So IMHO the root of the problem lies, as often is the case, with the game's authorities.
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the authorities are quite obviously picking a certain type of ref,
 
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