Abuse of Referees

Mental? Why ? Well that shows you that he tried his best to regain control and finish the match.

He sent off a player .

The easy thing would be abandon the game due to the conduct of players and 'mentors' (a bit of an irony that they are called that)

1 man on his own trying to control 30 teenagers with hurleys, obviously theres no way he felt he could control them without the players themselves helping him , so to speak.

Obviously he felt asking the management teams to control their players would be of no benefit?

Sorry, thought you meant the ref was mental todo that.

Going by the report the player was sent off before the ref pulled them all in , so maybe the reporter has the "all 30 players in " bit wrong? And it should be 29 players ?

so would you apply a similar media reporting ban on all club and intercounty minor/u17/u19 games............?

Different at those because it’s accepted when signing up for them. Even at that, you don’t see much media coverage for minor club

The borderline media voyeurism when talking about schools matches is too much imo

I don't see how it being his opinion or a generally held opinion matters, he's just saying I'm his opinion it's not healthy to have that level of scrutiny on the schools game. I agree with him, the Harty in particular is completely overblown. It's gone the way of the leinster senior cup in rugby.

BUT! it's worth noting that the LSC doesn't have a problem with disrespect for referees so the level of attention it gets in media is no excuse for growing inability to control people on the field or the sideline. The biggest problems with people abusing refs seem to happen at lower club levels instead of higher levels like inter county, so there doesn't seem to be a correlation between how much media scrutiny there is and how much abuse refs have to put up with. So to me it's not a relevant issue.

Personally I think there's a need for training courses for managers and coaches, especially at underage, to emphasize that promoting respect for officials is one of your main jobs as a mentor, as important as teaching skills of the game. Kids should be taught that responding to refs at all is not done unless you're captain. Then any breaches of that are the responsibility of the mentor himself because fostering respect it's his job.

On the other side of it, you need to require refs to explain their decisions clearly, as in rugby, to the captain or manager, maybe at half time and fill time or whatever. And if the gaa is actually serious about all this, which I don't think they are, they can't keep undermining the refs by overturning decisions on appeal, and lifting bans on lads who have abused refs. If the gaa won't respect their refs it's very rich of them demanding everyone else do it.

coaches/mentors should not need to be trained /taught not to abuse officials/opposing players managers…😡 a properly ‘rared’ person should know how to behave irrespective of the situation they are in and in particular when around children/juvenile players……we are in the situation with officials /refs as too many moronic/ret@rded trainers/mentors grew up hearing their own coaches/mentors/parents siblings etc roaring abuse/spitting bile at officials and the cycle inevitably continues……those questioning why this behaviour continues just need to look in the mirror a bit more often…😡😡 and clubs need to grow a pair of b@la and turf out/ban the mouthy yobs

People shouldn't need to be trained to have manners, but clearly they do need it, so I'm not sure what your point is there. Saying "those questioning why this behaviour continues just need to look in the mirror a bit more often" is weird. Are you saying that if you ask why people are abusing refs, then the abuse of refs is your fault? That's mental.

Funny enough you are demonstrating exactly the behaviour that we are calling into question here - "moronic, retarded mentors"....if someone on the sideline was to call a referee those words I can imagine what the reaction would be.

Really ?!? 🙄

I can't for the life of me understand how anyone would become a referee. I was at the Eire Og v Kerins ORahillys game yesterday and the abuse the referee and his assistants got going down the tunnel after the game from Kerins O'Rahillys supporters (now it was only 3 or 4 middle aged loud mouth clowns) was horrible.

O Rahillys won the game, if they had lost you would have had to fear for the reffs safety and there was only a point in the game. The reffs crime was sending off David Moran on 2 yellows, those supporters would be better off questioning an experienced inter county player like Moran for acting foolishly when he was already on a yellow and giving the reff little choice but to send him off.

Down to a weekend on appeal.