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When Daniel Anderson was appointed referees coach I thought it was about time that someone with his knowledge was appointed to the position.
Ohh how wrong was I? This season we have already seen farcical refereeing and strange interpretations used by the officials.
The banning of the shoulder charge was ridiculous and isn’t even policed properly.
Now we have a coach, Ricky Stuart, who pointed out the obvious problems in the officiating ranks.
He was slapped with a $10,000 fine.
Something definitely needed to be said, particularly about referee Jason Robinson, as Tigers coach Mick Potter also had issues with the way that Robinson refereed last week.
Now, my issue with refereeing, and this has been going on for a long time now, is consistency. Commonly during a game one team will be penalised for something, when the opposition do the exact same thing, they are not.
Stuart never said his players were angels and did nothing wrong. He questioned whether one team can be that ill-disciplined and the other be completely in the right.
I have always held the belief that the NRL referees are far too sheltered. Occasionally during a season you may see a referee dropped due to a mistake that he made that caused a huge uproar. Rarely do you see a referee who puts in a poor performance actually dropped.
Put simply, if I’m at work and my performance isn’t up to scratch I will be told by workmates and boss to do a better job and improve. That doesn’t seem to be happening to the referees.
The NRL hierarchy put all the responsibility on the players. It’s always the players’ fault and never the referees’. I find that pretty hard to believe.
I think it’s time that the referees are asked to better explain their decisions to the media. Not have Daniel Anderson or the referees boss issue a statement that really answers nothing.
It’s time that the referees are held to account because they seem to be one of the few professions where if they under-perform they are not reprimanded.
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