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Originally Posted by Chris Hibner
One thing I want to mention in regard to my previous posts in this thread: I think that the referees in Michigan do an outstanding job. I've watched the videos of a lot of matches from Southfield and I must say that Gary Voshol and his crew did a lot better job than I would've done. There were a few match videos that I watched that I was actually shocked at how well they did given the events of the match.
My issue is that the game this year and the current setup are flawed. Individuals are rarely to blame when errors begin to arise - you have to ask the 5 whys and figure out the real cause. It's almost always a systemic reason.
There were a number of great suggestions in this thread. I hope that some are implemented. |
Agreed...none of my criticisms are on the refs themselves. They all are doing the best they can, but they are being put in a near impossible situation with too much to try and keep track of. There are a lot of situations where the end of play is seen and a call is made that seems correct to the ref, but when the entire play is taken into account it may not be. It's like in hockey when the retaliator (sp?) often is the one to get the penalty instead of the instigator.