whall15
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With the appointment of Archer and Cecchin I was thinking that perhaps it is time to have professional referees.
It happens in Europe and instead of having a five-day a week job referees train to (supposedly) become better referees.
The main negative I see is cost, because I'd have no idea how much the NRL would have to pay referees to give up their daytime job to become referees.
If we had professional referees for a start we wouldn't see a police prosecutor and a commercial manager refereeing the Grand Final, also rather entertainingly Ben Cummins is an amusement machine operator.
It happens in Europe and instead of having a five-day a week job referees train to (supposedly) become better referees.
The main negative I see is cost, because I'd have no idea how much the NRL would have to pay referees to give up their daytime job to become referees.
If we had professional referees for a start we wouldn't see a police prosecutor and a commercial manager refereeing the Grand Final, also rather entertainingly Ben Cummins is an amusement machine operator.