Consistency of officials language terminology

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Wigan_forever1985
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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My Favourite call is "MOVE", what good does that bloody do?, who should move?, attacker move?, defender move?, one of my gripes aswell is when ref's say "leave him!" to defenders when the attacker is still pushing forward.
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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Big Steve wrote:Shouting PLAY ..... could either be play on or play the ball.

Shouting HELD it's obvious that the tackle has been made.

Waving your hands in the air to seemingly indicate 'get up' could easily be taken as 'get up and play the ball' or get up and carry on'. As far as I know, an encouraging wave of your hand isn't a standard sign for play the ball is it?

Why award a pen for an obvious mistake/confusion when there are far more serious (and advantageous to the offending team) things that should be penalised.
Correct. For a situation where it's just confusion, as that was, he should just be made to move back and play it. A penalty should only be when the player deliberately moves forward.
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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GeoffN wrote:
Big Steve wrote:Shouting PLAY ..... could either be play on or play the ball.

Shouting HELD it's obvious that the tackle has been made.

Waving your hands in the air to seemingly indicate 'get up' could easily be taken as 'get up and play the ball' or get up and carry on'. As far as I know, an encouraging wave of your hand isn't a standard sign for play the ball is it?

Why award a pen for an obvious mistake/confusion when there are far more serious (and advantageous to the offending team) things that should be penalised.
Correct. For a situation where it's just confusion, as that was, he should just be made to move back and play it. A penalty should only be when the player deliberately moves forward.
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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Especially Mr Thaler, who seems to be OFF form at the moment.

Maybe that is why he is only Reserve Referee on Sunday in the Saints game?

Maybe Cummings HAS looked reviewed his performance last Friday night and said, "you're dropped to reserve referee this Weekend Ben".
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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turf wrote:Especially Mr Thaler, who seems to be OFF form at the moment.
You just said on another thread that you liked him!

Perhaps this is an indication of the consistency we can expect from you in the coming season!! :lol: :lol:
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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If i was honest about the refereeing standards these days since they beacame fulltime professionals ( i laugh with derision)

I do not think the standards of referring have advanced any in over 40 odd years i have been watching our great game

Referees make mistakes just as we all do from time to time

But referees make more of them
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Re: Consistency of officials language terminology

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Kittwazzer wrote:
turf wrote:Especially Mr Thaler, who seems to be OFF form at the moment.
You just said on another thread that you liked him!

Perhaps this is an indication of the consistency we can expect from you in the coming season!! :lol: :lol:
I said that I LIKED the Ben "Stevie Wonder Thaler comment by you.
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