Abuse of Referees

No judge is responsible for a referee getting a smack during an under 17s game. Get a grip here

There is a section of our society who know the judges and courts are soft on crime so they can attack people on the streets etc.

You can hit guards even these days and you dont go to jail , our soft on crime courts have got people used to little or no repercussions for attacking anyone be that referees , guards or your next door neighbor.

I did referee and I did it for free. Mayb the money attracts the bad referees?

It has been suggested by some posters on this thread that some referees are useless and deserve to be abused and/ or assaulted.

Some referees may be useless. This does not justify direct action by players or managers.

I'm not a fan of rugby, but they have got the refereeing right. Why don't GAA and soccer follow their lead - they don't even have to invent a system.

This, in a nutshell. Toerag behavior being excused, Happens in other sports where officials are abused, and folks far too reluctant to call this out as disgraceful.

Look at recent Wimby final. That toerag, Kyrgios and his behavour duing the match. Not a wimper from the commentary to call him out on it, or to defend the officials.

Just on this incident: I haven't read through the thread. What has been verified?

Imagine thinking that €50 to referee a game is a nice little earner, just how moronic do you have to be to think that?

Give up your evenings to go out in all sorts of weather and take abuse from all sides for the princely sum of what, €16 an hour?

As money making schemes go it isn't exactly the most efficient that I have ever heard of.

LOL, "no malice".

Would hate to see what consider "with malice" to be....

Every ref in the country should take the weekend off, soccer included. Give fools who act like baby infants on the sideline something to think about.

Seven games a week ie schools and the league matches for several I know is not to be sneezed at. Some of these are very good referees but as I said it’s a nice little earner for a few who are poor enough.l

You seem to have missed the point, its not exactly as simple as "referee 7 games and get €350".

Referee 7 games, at varying times you have no flexibility on, outside in all weather, taking abuse from both sides constantly.

As part time jobs go that is a really, really **** one, there are far easier and less stressful ways to earn money than that.

Ah ya poor wee lad. Are you not getting your way?

He doesn't know what you're talking about. Nobody does. He said bringing up the money is victim blaming and you said look in the mirror. So, are you saying he's blaming the victim somehow? It's nothing about him not getting his way. It's you trying to weasel out of making a fool of yourself by trying to be clever. And failing.

A local ref perspective

Another who cannot see connections.

Right.

Anyone who assaults a referee should be dealt with in the harshest way.

But my point that bad refereeing is a symptom of crowd and individual anger stands. There are many instances of this but maybe the one that sticks out the most was the 2010 Leinster Final when the referee allowed what many described as a try in the last minute when Meath beat Louth.

The crowd were extremely angry and the referee was jostled by the players and assaulted by a supporter. It was wrong but you also have to look at the reasons/symptoms of the anger. If you don’t deal with that then it is likely to be repeated. You can jail the aggressor but it will happen again and again until you also train referees properly. No referee will ever get everything right, I know, but there are those I see regularly who rarely get a lot right. I often hear supporters even of county teams saying “ that referee never gives us fair play” but are they entitled to assault him? Definitely not and again should be dealt with by the courts. Should more training be given to referees? Definitely.

If we've too many referees in Meath, our county board seem to be unaware of it, considering they're always reporting a shortage of refs;

Clubs without referees will lose home advantage in adult and underage games - HoganStand

All refs do a qualification course and yearly refresher courses. Any rule changes are communicated before each competition and their are plenty of seminars and YouTube courses.

A much bigger issue is that many players, mentors and spectators don't know the rules. They also have very little understanding of the reality of the rules in actual game play.

But at the end of the day attacking anyone for doing a volunteer role is awful. Be it verbal or particularly physical. As was pointed out, that abuse wouldn't be accepted in any workplace

Anyone who cannot control their emotions in a sporting context needs a serious reality check and should be nowhere near juvenile teams.

There needs to be far more than thaat though. The seminars need to be monthly and higher ranked/rated refs should meet more than that. Discussing rules, look at clips from inter county games etc.

Many players, coaches, spectators dont know the rules so how do you change that?

More fool me for engaging with a troll but I'm currently in a twitter argument with some w*nker who said the ref faked it.