Well on Monday you should get on the phone to BSA and offer your services to Gibson as a Referee Coach because quite obviously you have all the answers. I'm sure with such amazing insight you will be welcomed with open arms.

If truth hurts - so sorry but this is not little girls and boys league! This is our top state league and when we try to promote it and then the game gets killed by refs what do you expect.

We are trying to get players over here and when the imports talk - it's the # 1 thing - the refs. Shouldn't it be other players?

BSA need to step up their game in game review vs how many flop warnings and T's the ref can get and laugh about after their game. Play back video says a hole lot! Players have to take criticism on their game - why not refs. You do a good job - you get told. When you do a crap job - there's someone else looking for a game - trust me - they are there waiting for their opportunity.

Yes because the pool of PL referees in Adelaide is exhaustive, there are 50 league quality referees just waiting for an appointment. If you have the solution then put your hand up to help, better still ref yourself. But dont come onto a forum anonymously the day after round 1 (when you probably lost) and just complain. It gives you zero credibility.

Try watching a big v game. Won't find many with barely competent refs who know the game.

Who were the referees at Pasadena.....

Pasedena womens game always had the possibility of going sour. 2 probable top 4 teams with a rookie 1st gamer and a senior crew chief who isnt very solid. You would have to say very poor rostering

No one is saying they shouldnt be open to criticism, but there is a difference between criticism and abuse.

The zero tolerance policy at the lower level is because parents cant control themselves at junior sport. How anyone can think they have the right to swear at and abuse referees (generally just kids) for making an error at the junior level is beyond me.

But the OP came out the day after round 1 and just looked like a sore loser, needed someone to blame.

If you dont like how things are done complain to BSA. Do it the right way, go threw your club and formally complain. But coming on a website being abusive is not the way to make a point or affect change.

But someone mentioned earlier, no referees, no game. If the basketball community (actually any junior sporting community) continue to abuse referees why would any kid want to take it up? No kid wants to go to work to be sworn at, intimidated and humiliated in public by adults. Why would they.

So by all means criticise referees for poor performance, but with the limited pool in SA you might want to start doing it constructively because once you lose them you will never get them back. In addition the "depth chart" for referees isnt much deeper than a paddling pool.

Those getting defensive need to understand the complaint better.

No one is hating on those referees who are willing to get out on the court. Those referees who have persevered through the abuse, the system, the lack of support and education to still referee at Premier League level.

The frustration is with the League, BSA, Referee Coaches and Educators ho have failed to prepare them for the standard of game they are now needed to manage.

Refereeing at all levels for most sports is a flaw. One that very few have the willingness to solve.

Refereeing at all levels of most sports is a flaw. One that very few have the willingness to EVEN HAVE A GO AT.

But no the answer to solving the flaw is gems like this - "If you can't do the job that you're paid to do then go back to Junior District!"

Looks like a fair level of hate to me.

Because some of the referees on PL games aren't ready.

That's not the referees fault. They do the games they're given.

Sporting bodies need to do better, invest more. Spend more money and employ the right people. And be patient and let that have flow on effects from grassroots to the top.

But they cut corners, cut funding, use the same people who have failed for 30 years.

And the end result is what we have now.

The first issue is that "some" PL refs walk around like their sh_t don't stink. They ref a bad game and their not even accountable for it.

The second issue is the ref coach will sit in the stand with his video going - watching a bad game go to hell and during the breaks - SAY ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!

Review the game later? Please some refs are so up themselves cause they think they are on panel they don't need to and it doesn't get enforced.

It's FIBA's fault for making all the BS regulations going on. FIBA is more concerned about a players shirt being tucked in 50 times a game vs showing up and making sure the calls being called are correct. What's priority here?

When your a ref - Own it - if you make a mistake we know you are human - the issue here is when they strut around thinking they are the best thing since sliced bread and no one has the balls to say anything. Cop out!

Yes some refs are put in the higher levels too quick and that's BSA's fault. They've been screwing up this now for a few years. Who's running the show? Hmmmm it's certainly not the one with the title.

Just call it like it is. Own it and make it your best job each and every time. Your out there to make a difference. There are other refs that want to be inspired by you - not by your foolish self consumed ways. It's not just about the players - refs are inspiring too - but OWN It.

Each week and no one has the balls to say it - it's substandard and all the players are finding it hard to play between the inconsistency between the different refs.

If you honestly need to continue to defend the consistent bad/no calls - the bad/no communication - then there is no resolution. Isn't this why there is a ref coach or do they just sit there and do NOTHING! Make them earn their money!

Well said. We have the exact same problem in the NBL.