One Referee

[Bruce Pickett]

This is a real 50:50 vote amongst the whole league community. I'm learning toward 1 ref.

[bondi.boy]

Refs Association is lodging a complaint to the Fair Work Commission about refs losing their jobs as refs or something.

[Kelvin Johnson]

As a former referee I much prefer the one ref system, I don't want to hear 50 people in my ear.
It's also ammunition for Nick to come back and have another shot at the NRL about not counting the first two rounds. It's a completely different comp with different rules.

[bondi.boy]

As a former referee I much prefer the one ref system, I don't want to hear 50 people in my ear.
It's also ammunition for Nick to come back and have another shot at the NRL about not counting the first two rounds. It's a completely different comp with different rules.

With points counting towards the premiership carried over from a cancelled comp with 2 referees.

[zac]

i hope the refs are planning how to deal with it if they lose their industrial action. in theory it should be easy enough to make changes. the only real dif will be that the players will be less coached by the refs - the 2nd ref can't tell them when they're infringing. the linesmen are all miced up and can let the ref know what's going on. linesmen don't do much - they'll now be taking on the role of the 2nd ref but doing it from a distance.

[NorthChook]

Will be interesting how much Robbo utilises Verrills with this rules change with his quick scoots

[bondi.boy]

i hope the refs are planning how to deal with it if they lose their industrial action. in theory it should be easy enough to make changes. the only real dif will be that the players will be less coached by the refs - the 2nd ref can't tell them when they're infringing. the linesmen are all miced up and can let the ref know what's going on. linesmen don't do much - they'll now be taking on the role of the 2nd ref but doing it from a distance.

Refs seem very determined.
All Dr V had to do was restart the old comp, and run it thru into Nov.
Now look what's happened...mayhem and foolishness!

No refs, no games.
Sack the striking refs, no games.
Tricky isn't it?

The chairman of Professional Rugby League Match Officials, Silvio Del Vecchio, said the referees' union is confident the rule will be eventually overturned.

"We are determined that on the 28th of May the quality of our game as we know it will be retained by being officiated under the current model that has been tested and successful for more than a decade," Del Vecchio said in a statement.

"It is in the best interests of the safety of players and the integrity of the game itself."

[Random Rooster]

1 thing that would help refs , if networks stopped showing 22 slow motion replays of any given incident. replay it once at normal speed move on. commentators should also move on compare channel 9s coverage of 6 again with fox commentary. fox moved on , channel made a mountain from a molehill.

This is about right. If you expect 1 ref to police both the ruck and the 10 metres then you cant have all these replays pick up on what the ref will miss-because its going to be a fair bit.

Everyone forgot about how we went through the bunker having to tip off the ref whether it was a penalty or not when a player lost the ball in a tackle or rising to play the ball after being tackled.

Nobody liked how often a ref got it wrong with replays showing either a hand on the ball-or the player just dropping the ball cold for no reason but still receiving a penalty.The answer? Refs could be tipped off by a video ref after a replay. Problem with that is the video ref couldn't reverse an incorrect penalty that was given by the on field ref .....or the tip off by the video ref would come as late as a just before a scrum was being forced.

So from here it was determined the pace of the game was too fast for 1 ref to patrol the 10 metres and also the ruck...and we moved to 2 refs. Now we go back to 1 without addressing the reason we moved to 2 refs

[Bondicigar]

Melbourne games will still have 2 refs. I'm sure cam smith will help out where he can, he can police the ruck while hes hanging around dummy half.

[bondi.boy]

This is about right. If you expect 1 ref to police both the ruck and the 10 metres then you cant have all these replays pick up on what the ref will miss-because its going to be a fair bit.

Everyone forgot about how we went through the bunker having to tip off the ref whether it was a penalty or not when a player lost the ball in a tackle or rising to play the ball after being tackled.

Nobody liked how often a ref got it wrong with replays showing either a hand on the ball-or the player just dropping the ball cold for no reason but still receiving a penalty.The answer? Refs could be tipped off by a video ref after a replay. Problem with that is the video ref couldn't reverse an incorrect penalty that was given by the on field ref .....or the tip off by the video ref would come as late as a just before a scrum was being forced.

So from here it was determined the pace of the game was too fast for 1 ref to patrol the 10 metres and also the ruck...and we moved to 2 refs. Now we go back to 1 without addressing the reason we moved to 2 refs

IMAGINE...if the Roosters win a game on a wrong decision by this one ref?

[Mad_Rabid_Rooster]

As aaid before, I think, on balance, going back to one is the right thing to do. The officials just need to utilise the technology that they have at their disposal more selectively and effectively, that's all.

[bondi.boy]

melbourne games will still have 2 refs. I'm sure cam smith will help out where he can, he can police the ruck while hes hanging around dummy half.

lol

[Bondicigar]

IMAGINE...if the Roosters win a game on a wrong decision by this one ref?

It's easy to blame the ref on a bad call.
never mind the 20 missed tackles , the 6 dumb piggy back penaltys and 10 dropped balls....
haha
yep that 1 crucial call lost us the game

[mattyh]

It's easy to blame the ref on a bad call.
never mind the 20 missed tackles , the 6 dumb piggy back penaltys and 10 dropped balls....
haha
yep that 1 crucial call lost us the game

nailed it...9 times out of 10 you lose because the other team was better, and you made dumb mistakes, 1 out of 1000 it is the refs fault

[bondi.boy]

Game was better under one ref

Some players, at their home grounds, seemingly only had to 'look' at the ball in the in-goal to be given a try.

I initially thought one ref would be good, to save money...then, like someone else posted, I remembered exactly why we went to 2 refs, cameras everywhere, and the bunker.