Thursday, December 21, 2006
strictly come refereeing
on sunday i realised something. (hurray, enlightenment!)
in our (volleyball) league in switzerland everyone complains that at our level it's ridiculous that the refs are so strict with regard to lifting and doubles. in the referee course we are actually taught to be a whole lot stricter than anyone ever is. but we're all in agreement that it's a joke and the people in charge of the refs should be ashamed of themselves.
however, i have now seen what happens when the refs don't come down hard on that stuff. the league here has a very similar level to the one i play in in switzerland. overall it might even be slightly better. but the volleying is absolutely crap. everyone is constantly lifting the ball or doing doubles. we've got a setter who does one clean volley out of every ten... it's kind of distracting cause i wince every time and expect the ref to call it when i should be going to hit the ball... on sunday the ref called her on a couple of her sets. it was fair enough, they were absolutely horrible. but during the time-out the others told her just to carry on, her sets were fine! what planet are they living on?! it was true that the ref was a biased ****, but he was right to call them. of course he should also have called a lot of the others' ones as well. that kind of proved that he did hear chris slagging him off when we got there, chris hadn't realised that jenny had her window open... ;-)
anyway, i will never complain about the ref being too strict with regard to lifting and doubles again. it's horrible when everything counts!
the other lot that refereed were quite ridiculous, too. they insisted we go round the court on the correct side when we swapped sides. but they didn't call any lifts or doubles. and the one girl came so far over our side that she trod on my foot (!!!) and they completely missed it!!! wtf do they think the second referee is for??? oh wait, they had the second referee who thought it was her job to contradict the line judge and the first ref and insist she was right no matter what... ah well.
in our (volleyball) league in switzerland everyone complains that at our level it's ridiculous that the refs are so strict with regard to lifting and doubles. in the referee course we are actually taught to be a whole lot stricter than anyone ever is. but we're all in agreement that it's a joke and the people in charge of the refs should be ashamed of themselves.
however, i have now seen what happens when the refs don't come down hard on that stuff. the league here has a very similar level to the one i play in in switzerland. overall it might even be slightly better. but the volleying is absolutely crap. everyone is constantly lifting the ball or doing doubles. we've got a setter who does one clean volley out of every ten... it's kind of distracting cause i wince every time and expect the ref to call it when i should be going to hit the ball... on sunday the ref called her on a couple of her sets. it was fair enough, they were absolutely horrible. but during the time-out the others told her just to carry on, her sets were fine! what planet are they living on?! it was true that the ref was a biased ****, but he was right to call them. of course he should also have called a lot of the others' ones as well. that kind of proved that he did hear chris slagging him off when we got there, chris hadn't realised that jenny had her window open... ;-)
anyway, i will never complain about the ref being too strict with regard to lifting and doubles again. it's horrible when everything counts!
the other lot that refereed were quite ridiculous, too. they insisted we go round the court on the correct side when we swapped sides. but they didn't call any lifts or doubles. and the one girl came so far over our side that she trod on my foot (!!!) and they completely missed it!!! wtf do they think the second referee is for??? oh wait, they had the second referee who thought it was her job to contradict the line judge and the first ref and insist she was right no matter what... ah well.
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