Gaz G said:
I think they are all daft to be honest. Why has it taken till today for this to be announced? This league is fast becoming a joke!!!
No mate it's been a joke for a good few years now.
The biggest travesties to come out of last weekends match - 1) The disproportionate adjudication of penalties by Dean "The Anti-Devil" Smith - the perception is that he only seems to penalise Devils infringements - and 2) the sad fact that the paying public will have to endure Dean "The Anti-Devil" Smith's inept refereeing again during the season.
How in a fracas like happened last weekend - can you only end up with 2 Hull players getting banned and 4 Devils players - Yes there was fault on both sides but it wasn't just 2 Hull players getting involved. Had Mr Smith applied any degree of common sense, he would have sent the two players off the ice at different times hence avoiding the upgrading of the incident from Match penalties to the Travesty Charges - Suggest Mr Smith go out and buy a dictionary and get someone to read out the definition of travesty to him.
I will accept that the games must have referees - without them you have no game
Yes the refereeing standard in the Elite league is not as good as everyone would like it to be, and No they don't get paid huge amounts for what they do.
However there is a valid argument that until such time as teams protest at the inconsistencies in refereeing decisions from match to match, or even within the same game, then the game we all love so much, will simply beome a sad joke.