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@Greasy_Slag
I honestly don't think you will come to an outcome on this, take football, Rugby and ref'd team sport with established rules and professional members. there isn't a game that passes without poor decisions and shades of grey.
You increase the roll of a referee you put the decision making into the hands of that person and take responsibility of actions away from team members.
I have played competetive football without referees and had fewer problems than with a ref. there is a greater sense of injustice when an impartial person is involved, without you resolve the issues between you
The Ref should mediate not dictate and encourage free flowing play.
He/she should only step in on constant offenders and pull them up with warnings and then sin bin them if it occurs again, then violence met with removal from the court and banning (1/2 matches)
So i guess the penalties for the extreme actions need to be in place first. once teams start losing games down to their lack of on court players they will have to change their tactics