No Junior Referees

[SP999]

Why no referees showing up to Juniors games??

[romarios shin]

probably a shortage due to ego driven abusive coaches and supporters, who wants all that grief for $50 a game.

[SP999]

probably a shortage due to ego driven abusive coaches and supporters, who wants all that grief for $50 a game.

Is that the real reason or disorganisation by those allocating the referees?

Pay them more if it will entice them to show up.

It's easy enough to ignore poorly behaved coaches/spectators e.g. see Enrico in action - he ignores all complaints and used to send coaches over the fence

[romarios shin]

its a high probability that is the reason, disorganization from those in charge would definitely play a part though. its not easy for a young referee to ignore abuse from the sidelines, there definitely needs to be a shift in attitude towards the Referee, especially in junior football. everyone is at fault for that, federation, clubs, players and supporters.

[C U Next Saturday]

probably a shortage due to ego driven abusive coaches and supporters, who wants all that grief for $50 a game.

Is that the real reason or disorganisation by those allocating the referees?

Pay them more if it will entice them to show up.

It's easy enough to ignore poorly behaved coaches/spectators e.g. see Enrico in action - he ignores all complaints and used to send coaches over the fence

How about clubs being more responsible on the behaviour of their supporters / player parents ... just paying the refs more isn't going to solve the problem ....

[paul merson]

I am deliberately an extremely poor ref at training so my boys are used to bad decisions

[nathanburns15]

FSA now looking after refs for SAASL (who just had 2 rounds of cup games). I reckon there just isn't enough for the amount of games needing to be covered. Only going to get worse I think

[Rookie]

would love to know the stats on how many games yesterday did not have officiating referees

[Guest1233]

My child’s team has had a ref for 1 out of the last 4 weeks.

[Rookie]

2 clubs I know off didn't get one offical ref for all JPL/JSL games on Sunday

[convert34]

Would you let your 14 year old ref these games.

[Rookie]

Would you let your 14 year old ref these games.

Yep, harden them up for what life will be like, oh hang on a minute life has changed/changing for the worse in front of ours

[BeNatural]

Would you let your 14 year old ref these games.

Yep, harden them up for what life will be like, oh hang on a minute life has changed/changing for the worse in front of ours

No 14 year old kid deserves to be abused and yelled at junior games.

Never was acceptable back in the day, and is not acceptable today.

I watched an Aussie Rules game on the past weekend with my nephew playing, and i was amazed at u14 level how good the parents were, the umpires looked 16 years old, and you could see they made mistakes, but the parents were great.

[Rookie]

Would you let your 14 year old ref these games.

Yep, harden them up for what life will be like, oh hang on a minute life has changed/changing for the worse in front of ours

No 14 year old kid deserves to be abused and yelled at junior games.

Never was acceptable back in the day, and is not acceptable today.

I watched an Aussie Rules game on the past weekend with my nephew playing, and i was amazed at u14 level how good the parents were, the umpires looked 16 years old, and you could see they made mistakes, but the parents were great.

That is not what i heard from a fellow worker on the weekend, an U9 game turned nasty and this guy was the coach for one of those teams and he had to reign in a few of his parents, this is not just isolated to soccer

[convert34]

It's the same in all codes, there was a punch up in u14s cricket between parents. The problem comes from halfwits like rookie that havnt played any sport and wont to blame the refs or umps because there kids are crap.

[Rookie]

It's the same in all codes, there was a punch up in u14s cricket between parents. The problem comes from halfwits like rookie that havnt played any sport and wont to blame the refs or umps because there kids are crap.

Wow wee convert you sound like a right COCKHEAD

[The Stig]

Would you let your 14 year old ref these games.

That's his decision.