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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2437876, member: 1764"] Yes, he still deserves respect, even the guy with the mistake in your oztag game. Because without referees we have no sport. Attacking and confronting referees verbally never ever gets a good result. On one occasion I had an incident like that. Guy lost the ball backwards, teammate in front picked it up and ran through a gap to score, I penalised him for being offside. All the players blew up, I explained my decision, they argued that being a knock back meant he couldn't be offside. I said "that's what I've ruled, tap here, get on with the game". After the game the captain shook my hand, and again raised the issue. He asked about the ruling, again going through it step by step. My response? "I'll be honest, I ****ed up. I got it wrong". The match was a draw. Did he blow up? No. He laughed and said "ah well, at least you admit it", shook my hand again and it was done with. For one thing, social oztag is just that. It's social. Players are generally low skill, referees are hard to come by and get paid a pittance just for doing so. You'll get mistakes, you'll get overreactions by players, referees, it happens. When you're copping heat from multiple players over a decision you're not going to just change your mind, and if players keep going at you then yes, you're going to threaten to escalate it. From the sounds of it, it, like mine, was a bad call. So what? Yes, you do still absolutely have to show the referee respect. Even Matt Cecchin after blunder upon blunder in the Roosters-Broncos game still deserved to be treated with respect by the players. In the NRL if you make blunders that monumental you'll get dropped, as was shown. In Oztag, generally they're flat out getting enough referees to cover the game, so the best you can hope for is that the referee will self appraise and/or seek advice from other referees about how he handled the situation. I know that's what I did whenever I had a situation where I made a tough call and it resulted in a lot of heat. I think the only time a referee forfeits his right to respect is when he uses offensive language or behaviour towards a player. [/QUOTE]

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