Did you get much abuse?
Very little from the players. I told one mentor to “shut the fuck up” which wasn’t language becoming but I was getting tired of his lip at that stage. I also advanced a free 13m X 2 for his abuse, which probably isn’t strictly right, but 🤷
I spent the last 15 mins thinking it was going alright and wanting it to finish before something bad happened.
Neither side wanted a water break interestingly, so we didn’t bother.
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Proper order
I’ve been asked to referee again on Saturday morning. It’s a final 
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They’ll ate you without salt
I have a bad feeling it was all too quiet in the last game.
What on earth am I thinking?
I got a text “can you referee at ten on Saturday. A final?”
“No it’s too early”
“Grand, we’ll go at 10.15 so”
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Finished. Not overly bad, just an uneasy affair. I don’t enjoy refereeing at all really. I like the fresh air and the exercise, and I like watching the game but basically nobody likes you, which isn’t too bad, but you know you get a call wrong here and there, and it was a final so both teams desperately wanted to win. One side got away out in front, like about 2-8 to 1-1 at half time, but the other side came at them and only lost by a point. The closer it got, the higher the stakes, the more anxious you get trying to referee. I called a free wrong with hindsight for a lass playing the ball on the ground. She told me it was a “fucking scandal” so I gave her a yellow, which wasn’t really fair thinking back, but it quietened the abuse on the pitch down. Some Maor Uisce type came up at the water break and said I wasn’t refereeing both teams the same. I told him I was quite happy to fuck off home if he didn’t like it.
You’d genuinely want your head examined being a ref. How anyone could possibly want to referee a big championship match is beyond me completely.
I also didn’t realise until too late that the ball had to be out of play for the water break.
Ah well. You live and learn **
**Not to answer your phone
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You refereed that all wrong. Running around there like a blue arsed fly.
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He was right about the decision, but I sometimes wonder what on earth umpires do be at.
He was watching very closely to see if it went into the net, unawares obviously that it would be in the net if it did.
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I’d say he’s a Johnny Murphy type ref.
Somehow flying under the radar is this chump Vera Pauw whose team haven’t won a game in 15 months and has fallen out with one of her best players and into the bargain behaving like a 15 year old in a cat fight.
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Fair play Flatty. A completely thankless task but they wouldn’t be able to go ahead with their games unless someone did it, you’re a sound man.
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id hardly say under the radar as the whole issue has been heavily reported in both the times and RTE.
but pauw seems uttely unsuited to the role
only seeing that now. He missed the bouncing the ball twice at the start of the passage of play, so fuck it, he may as well go the whole hog and be wrong twice.
We had a match on Saturday and the was a throw in just before half time. Ref threw it up real high and awkward, and a third player came flying in, took it over the other two and was bearing down on goal. Ref blew half time before he got the shot off, knowing he fucked up and shouldnt have let it play on when the player went up as the third man for the throw in. One way to solve the problem!
Women’s rugby league there on Sky Sports. It’s like the exercise yard in Prisoner Cell Block H
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