Standard of Refs

[guevara]

If that is the cream of the crop we are f#*cked!  Both QF Today saw shockingly poor officiating! In the first game the Ref clearly hadn't a clue what the advantage rule was & continually awarded pretty poor soft frees. His saving grace was the gulf in class!

Conor Lane has been brutal!  McGeeney might well give off but as a neutral Armagh have got away with a fair bit & that black card just looked like a decision by a man than never played the game!

Our standard is absolutely shocking!

[JoG2]

If that is the cream of the crop we are f#*cked!  Both QF Today saw shockingly poor officiating! In the first game the Ref clearly hadn't a clue what the advantage rule was & continually awarded pretty poor soft frees. His saving grace was the gulf in class!

Conor Lane has been brutal!  McGeeney might well give off but as a neutral Armagh have got away with a fair bit & that black card just looked like a decision by a man than never played the game!

Our standard is absolutely shocking!

Would that not tell you the game is too hard ref?

[guevara]

If that is the cream of the crop we are f#*cked!  Both QF Today saw shockingly poor officiating! In the first game the Ref clearly hadn't a clue what the advantage rule was & continually awarded pretty poor soft frees. His saving grace was the gulf in class!

Conor Lane has been brutal!  McGeeney might well give off but as a neutral Armagh have got away with a fair bit & that black card just looked like a decision by a man than never played the game!

Our standard is absolutely shocking!

Would that not tell you the game is too hard ref?

If you are suggesting that decisions like that black card are hard to call then you are deluded!

Tight games are decided by small margins. Brutal Refs like Lane or Cawley never seem.to get demoted or punished for sub-standard performances.

[mrdeeds]

If you give a black card you have to be 100 percent you saw something. There was nothing there.

[JoG2]

If that is the cream of the crop we are f#*cked!  Both QF Today saw shockingly poor officiating! In the first game the Ref clearly hadn't a clue what the advantage rule was & continually awarded pretty poor soft frees. His saving grace was the gulf in class!

Conor Lane has been brutal!  McGeeney might well give off but as a neutral Armagh have got away with a fair bit & that black card just looked like a decision by a man than never played the game!

Our standard is absolutely shocking!

Would that not tell you the game is too hard ref?

If you are suggesting that decisions like that black card are hard to call then you are deluded!

Tight games are decided by small margins. Brutal Refs like Lane or Cawley never seem.to get demoted or punished for sub-standard performances.

Take the ref course and give it a go sure

[J70]

Get yourselves out there lads. Put your money where your big mouths are.

[guevara]

So you can't call out shite Refs now unless you've done  a Referee course? Wise up! They are brutal !
Maybe instead of anyone that criticises Refs being asked if they have done a course. Maybe there should be an onus on Refs to have played the game.

Common sense goes out the window sometimes.

[Armagh18]

If you give a black card you have to be 100 percent you saw something. There was nothing there.

agreed. Terrible decision. Was accidental.

[JoG2]

So you can't call out shite Refs now unless you've done  a Referee course? Wise up! They are brutal !
Maybe instead of anyone that criticises Refs being asked if they have done a course. Maybe there should be an onus on Refs to have played the game.

Common sense goes out the window sometimes.

Every single person on the pitch will make mistakes inc refs. Let me know how the course goes, I take you're an ex player?

[Brendan]

So you can't call out shite Refs now unless you've done  a Referee course? Wise up! They are brutal !
Maybe instead of anyone that criticises Refs being asked if they have done a course. Maybe there should be an onus on Refs to have played the game.

Common sense goes out the window sometimes.

And why would former players put themselves forward when they've witnessed the abuse first hand. Bigger issue is the farce of hawkeye, how many times now is that it has completely shit itself

[J70]

Its very easy to go online or to stand on the sideline throwing abuse at a referee. Between that and the on field abuse and assaults its small wonder it is hard to find people to volunteer their time and effort to do it.

I feel bad for them. They've huge ground to cover, looking through a crowd of players at times, and they get one look in real time, whereas as the armchair wonders get the benefit of umpteen slow motion replays from all angles. Its a no-win, thankless job.

Nothing stopping these mouthy idiots doing the course, pulling on the jersey and showing us how easy it is.

[mrdeeds]

So you can't call out shite Refs now unless you've done  a Referee course? Wise up! They are brutal !
Maybe instead of anyone that criticises Refs being asked if they have done a course. Maybe there should be an onus on Refs to have played the game.

Common sense goes out the window sometimes.

Every single person on the pitch will make mistakes inc refs. Let me know how the course goes, I take you're an ex player?

Mistakes are acceptable. But when you give a black or red it's because you 100 percent saw something. Today that black is the worst call I've ever saw from an official. That includes Sludden. His angle he may have seen Joe kick ball before the line but today no matter what angle he had he could not 100 percent of saw a deliberate trip or pull down.

[imtommygunn]

It was bad but nothing tops the sludden one.

[Rossfan]

As a notice in a GAA Club I'm familiar with says
"Before you complain have you volunteered?""

[befair]

Yeh, blame the ref......