I am not a ref but have noticed that since the Anti Harrassment policy has come in their seems to be far less abuse and complaints (in general).

My only concern is that without (acceptable) complaints by coaches etc the more junior umpires think that they are making correct calls when they are not. I'm not sure if much is being done in the way of feedback and evaluation but it is a critical part of referee development. I know it is hard to have people watching all the time but maybe it could be as simple as pairing senior umps with younger ones (I know this is done to some degree - big problem is the lack of experienced umpires) to give them ongoing feedback throughout the game and afterwards, or even an evaluation form to be filled in by coaches (these would need to be screened by someone first). This sort of feedback allows umpires to reflect on their performances after a game and continually improve.

Bullshit.

Umpires in charge at the moment are not providing shadowing or immediate feed back to young refs.80% of there time should be spent on this.
They spend far too much time on their asses watching.

Its just like coaching!
They need feedback at the time and correction at the time.
This is not happening , dont be suprised that there is no improvement!!
I watched the sapsasa last week and the junior umps were in no way given direction during the day.
If there was a day for education of officiala that was it!!
Lip service only.IMO

That's because they have to umpire games themselves. The UIC at Pasadena had to do 4 straight on Sunday. He was exhausted. Why were numbers of refs (and quality refs) down this year and hence the standard when the Champs were spread over 2 weekends?

One reff at Morphet Vale in a late game had a huge ego problem. On a real power trip. His offsider was great but also embaressed by his partner. Give the power trip a rest and just umpire the same for both teams.

There is stuff happening with ref development, there was a program on the weekend before ANZAC day that involved a Level 1, 2 and referee coaches course on the one weekend. I reckon there was close to 80 in the level 1 course and about 10 in the coaches course but not sure about the level 2 course. As an innocent by stander I thought it was quite a good number of level 1 refs of course it will take them a while to get up to state champ levels, but they have to start somewhere.

The Process...The Process!!!

I ref and also am UIC once a week at Hillcrest. I was told that the money we paid to register as refs with was to go towards ongoing ref support once a month at various stadiums. This is yet to happen but I know the people in charge have been busy with other commitments. But the sooner the better! I have quite a few junior refs that need more ongoing support then I can give them. And to #81677, I give 100% to the juniors that I have on Saturdays. I dont go into other rooms to sit on my arse ever.......I am always where they can see me...I offer support, encourgement, help them to understand what they could do better or try different, and to go over rules etc. with them. I am not there for money but to see an eventual improvement in the kids that truly want to do better and go further. As for the SAPSASA, I also did that at Hillcrest, I thought that the kids did a great job. We received many good comments from the schools on the days.

I thought the idea of three refs in the gfs was an awesome one. We could have 2 refs to do the game and the third could just run up and down and be abused by the coach we kill two birds with one stone. Everybodys happy.

#81752
Wayville was appauling!

Umps at Port Adelaide were at their usual standard of appalling. It seems all the drop kicks umpire there!!!!

Oh as that coach that was tech happy ejected that 1st weekend how i wish i could say something in response......

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How can you even suggest that BSA did nothing to put the best out there. 2/3 of the ABA referees all did games. Nathan Wieland and Andrew Filmer not good enough??? I guess Nathan Durant must be a lemon as well. It would appear that outside of the Weeks and Tsakalos types who have put in their time and maybe can be excused, all of the senior referee's made a big contribution to both weekends.

Surely people must get sick of ignorance dictating what is written on these forums.