Comments on rules / refs I sent to NA Hardcourt

Players need to start actually being a little bit more conscious of each other, and paying a lot more respect to the people that they spend so much time in the company of. For a group of people who spend so fucking long talking about rules, it's amazing just how quickly certain people are able to forget them along with their friendships, or simply decide that the rules don't apply to them in any given situation. Usually you'll find that those exact same people are the first to cite the rules if, in their view, any of the banned acts are perpetrated against them.

Here's our problem -

As we've now decided to use refs for all competitive games, players are relying on them to make all the calls and are shirking responsibilities themselves. Instead of policing their own play and making sure their team is fair and plays by the rules, players seem to try to get away with whatever they can until the ref calls them.

We had additional rules for Saturday's tourney due to safety reasons, yet players weren't happy to take them on board and still needed warnings to stick to them and even argued when called on them.
The teams that played were supposed to be the top 8 in London, but out of the 24 players who took to the court I can name at least 12 who's grasp of the league rules appeared to be non existent (if you're reading this, smugly thinking you're not on that list of 12, then you're probably right at the top).

The players need to step up, make some decisions about how they want to be reffed, decide on some rules and then fucking stick to them.