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Message: [QUOTE="Thelmus, post: 2854354, member: 8988"] Penalties, sin bins and send offs are all in the same basket of a referee taking a direct influence in the game. Calling forward passes and knock ons, foot/ball in touch etc. are also there to a lesser degree. As others have said we've punished our officials that much that they are getting gun shy. Every time, no matter how blatant or obvious a call is, someone is going blow up about as it is against their team. This is part and parcel of a referee's lot, until the likes of Gould etc get involved. They devote tv time or column inches to it and it becomes the major blight of the game. How many inches or TV spaces is given to forward passes: none. We want our cake and to eat it too. Let the refs ref. Let the head of refs make his calls about refs without interference, and have no refs dropped from officiating until seasons end. Every ref earns his salary, be it in 1st grade or NSW cup/ qld cup. [/QUOTE]

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