Quality of officiating (4 Viewers)

chiefdave said:

Would probably help if they occasionally admitted to getting it wrong. Was watching a ice hockey game this week. Ref blew, realised he'd messed up. Went and apologies to both coaches and restarted with the equivalent of a dropped ball. You'd never see that in football.

Agree that players need to be sorted as well. Think it could pretty easily be solved. Start at the top and have every game reviewed. Start dishing out automatic bans for any dives etc and they'd soon cut it out. Same with chatting to the ref all the time. Make that a yellow and anyone trying to get a player carded a red. You might have a chaotic couple of weeks but it would soon be cut out.

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Otis said:

In American Football the coaches are allowed two red challenge flags. if their appeal is successful they retain their two appeals (or however many are left). If the ruling stands they go down to one challenge (or zero if only one left) and they are charged a time out.

It would have to be modified for football, but something along those sorts of lines could at least be looked at. How it would work in practise I'm not so sure.

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