BurgoShark
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I’m fully supportive of refs making mistakes when they are learning. I would never, ever yell at a ref, and would only ever approach them to shake their hand and thank them for the game. I expect them to get half a dozen calls wrong either way, and am very understanding and tolerant of this.I once saw a ref give the scrum feed to the blatantly wrong team off an infringement. Crowd were going off at him about it.
Next stoppage in play he held up hand to crowd and shouted out 'sorry I did get that last scrum wrong, don't know what I was thinking, I made a mistake'
People make mistakes especially at the lower grade levels but it's not that hard to own up to it. The league can't bury their heads in the sand about it though. If the league won't pay attention these guys who are willing to ref will keep making mistakes and get abused out of the role... or even worse, make the NRL
My issues are primarily player safety, and that the league sometimes assigns us referees that are from the home team (they are supposed to all be neutral).
I can deal with a hundred fudged knock-on calls in a season. I have zero patience for refs ignoring blatantly dangerous play.