Quote reffy="reffy"The laws need updating to cover what is actually happening in various aspects of the game. The play the ball is the current area of ridicule, the referees should have the discretion to punish the real offenders in the situation, they are regularly ignoring the ball carrier moving off the mark and penalising the defender. =#80BF00They must be following an instruction to penalise the defender.'"
Then that contradicts the laws of the game, hence inconsistency. Then again if the laws of the game are obsolete and instruction takes precedence over those laws! What laws is the sport following?
Quote reffy="Bullseye"To be fair to refs the PTB is such a mess you can penalise both ball carrier and defender a lot of the time. On Sunday there were many cases of the ball carrier deliberately locking in a defender or moving off the mark and the defender deliberately lying in the way to slow things down. All sides are guilty of it.
=#80BF00I’m not really sure what you do about it other than adopt the two refs system. Trouble is we haven’t enough refs to do that over here.'"
What laws of the game do new up and coming Referees have to follow? Laws of the game or instruction that contradicts those laws?
Yes, all sides are guilty of it. Its something that has been created and manipulated, but now we have Refs following instruction, not the laws of the game.
How can you complain about Refs/ Officials when the laws of the game have never been updated/adapted to todays modern game?