Whinge all you like about the refs, but there are two incontrovertible facts you need to realise.
1 - without refs, there is no f**king game. 34 blokes standing around waiting for a whistle that never comes.
2 - There is bugger all incentive to become a ref. "Become a referree! Spend 10 years earning the right to be abused, ignored and publicly harrassed, all so you can get paid less than a 18 year old that struggles to spell his own name"
The NRL needs to crack down on how the refs are treated by players and the media. You have Gooses like Gould constantly putting sh*t on them; he can't even get commentary right but he can tirade and rant about people trying to make split second decisions that they know will be moaned about by thousands of people for weeks. He thinks he's so hot, why doesn't he get his ticket. Oh, too fat and too old, and waaaaay too well paid.
Refs are setup to fail, unless a game is adjudicated perfectly, someone is going to whinge about their performance.
