'Simply not good enough': Annesley tells refs to lift their game

[T-Boon]

Ok thanks

SMBs

 

[Meth]

SMBs

Cool. We all understand what kind of mind we’re dealing with here, thanks

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

SMBs

Cool story, you should franchise it.

 

[T-Boon]

Cool story, you should franchise it.

Like, whatevre

 

[T-Boon]

Cool. We all understand what kind of mind we’re dealing with here, thanks

A Beautiful Mind or A Simple Mind?

 

[forby]

Statistically that is absolute rubbish lol.

Why?
It statistically doesnt add up that you can be approx 50% with nearly all the refs, but have one you are less than 25% with!

 

[AJB1102]

Why?
It statistically doesnt add up that you can be approx 50% with nearly all the refs, but have one you are less than 25% with!

Does that account for the many different refereeing combos? Games aren't reffed by just 1 person anymore.

 

[forby]

This is one that is always a lead ref. He makes all the major decisions.

 

[Springs09]

A ref blamer ? Lol

Blokes ( and now ladies) do a shit job, they should be called out.

Refs have a responsibility to get things correct on a consistent basis.

It's hard enough to beat the opposing 17 players, without having to beat 2 incompetent fools as well.

So you do it then you dumbass.

Expecting a referee to be 100% correct on all occasions is like expecting a player to never drop the ball or miss a tackle.

And I can tell by personal experience it's a lot easier to catch a f**king ball than it is to try and see everything on a footy field.

In 95% of cases every idiot whinger has no idea if the call was wrong or not until they watch it at super slow motion from three different angles.

 

[Springs09]

Wildly ridiculous inconsistency is worse for the game than any specific referee decision.

You dont see it in Canterbury Cup, or the local A grade....why do we see it in the NRL ?

Yes you f**king do

 

[Springs09]

I'll never understand rusted on fans who claim something "cost them the game".

Unless it was the last call of the game and the siren had already gone (and even then, WTF was your side doing to not be leading already, why did countless errors not cost you the game etc?) then it didn't cost you the game, just that try.

Knowing the Warriors they would've dropped the kickoff and Eels scored again.

You don't understand. My team didn't drop any balls, didn't do anything stupid, didn't blow any tries, didn't stand offside once, didn't miss any tackles and made every single decision perfectly. It was the 2 poor split-second decisions by the referees that cost us the entire game.

 

[mave]

So you do it then you dumbass.

Expecting a referee to be 100% correct on all occasions is like expecting a player to never drop the ball or miss a tackle.

Dumbass...nice way to engage.
I dont referee the footy, but I do spend an awful lot of time on Saturday and Sunday mornings and afternoons standing behind a set of stumps in summer.

I dont expect 100% correct on all occasions. Never have , and never will.

Consistency is all people want. It really isnt that hard. Given these refs are well paid, full time professionals, I also expect a good percentage of their calls to be correct. Consistently correct.

I personally feel that there is zero consistency during matches, let alone week to week, or shock horror, over the course of a whole season.
That is what pisses people off.

 

[mave]

Yes you f**king do

I watch a bit of A grade on the coast, and I couldnt tell you the last time I saw a wildly skewed penalty count, and certainly not favouring the one side regularly.
Maybe it happens? But not in my experience.

 

[Meth]

So you do it then you dumbass.

Expecting a referee to be 100% correct on all occasions is like expecting a player to never drop the ball or miss a tackle.

Such a dumb argument.

These aren’t weekend volunteers. They are professionals. We don’t expect perfection, we expect competency. And we are right to, as they are to expect it from me in my job.

 

[Vee]

Yes you f**king do

You just don't get 15 super slo-mo replays to highlight them.

 

[Timmah]

You just don't get 15 super slo-mo replays to highlight them.

Or commentators who aren't always up with the rules, or three days of media afterwards doubling down on the rubbish.

 

[Springs09]

Such a dumb argument.

These aren’t weekend volunteers. They are professionals. We don’t expect perfection, we expect competency. And we are right to, as they are to expect it from me in my job.

They are competent. And you are absolutely expecting perfection. They make a couple errors every game and you whinge non-stop. Seriously, do you think there are 'competent' referees just hiding out somewhere in the bush? The reason they make mistakes is because it's a f**king hard job and no one wants to do it.

 

[Springs09]

I watch a bit of A grade on the coast, and I couldnt tell you the last time I saw a wildly skewed penalty count, and certainly not favouring the one side regularly.
Maybe it happens? But not in my experience.

I run 2 competitions in the Riverina, as well as play in and referee in them, and I see rubbish refereeing and skewed penalty counts every week. I get rubbished for my refereeing as well. I got sent an anonymous letter the other week accusing me of cheating. I don't want to do the job, I do it because if I don't then my mates don't get a game. There's maybe 12 refs in the area for 20+ games. Some of them are over 60. If you haven't experienced inconsistent reffing in local footy then you haven't experienced much local footy.

When I'm playing, the refs are inconsistent. When I'm reffing, I'm inconsistent. I know I am because there's no way to be in every position at once on the field while trying to watch 3 different things that happen in a fraction of a second.

This conspiracy bullshit just makes NRL supporters look like morons. f**k off with it already.

 

[Frailty]

The only thing consistent is fans in every sport thinking they have the worst officials in professional sport.

I don't like how some rules are interpreted, I don't like the need to go to the video ref every time a try is scored in a corner, I don't like how sometimes a tackler holding the ball is penalised and other times it isn't. But I do know that at the end of the 80 minutes, the better team has won the game and it isn't because of the officials.

 

[mave]

This conspiracy bullshit just makes NRL supporters look like morons. f**k off with it already.

Where have I said anything about a conspiracy. The NRL could not organize a root in a brothel without f**king it up somehow.

I said that they were wildly inconsistent. And a fair bit of the time incompetent.

As professionals, they simply need to do better.

Edit to add* kudos to you for reffing in the Riverina. My gripe is not, and has never been with grade refs.

NRL professionals are refereeing a completely different sport, or so it seems most of the time, by their own (and the games) making.