National Series 2011

That is a fair point Bill. We (cosmic) all goal reffed but didn't take on full reffing responsibility.
I'll be honest here and say the reason I don't ref is because I don't feel too confident in that position. But then again, I'm sure I could make a few decent decisions...

Reffing is something I just don't like to do. Of course I appreciate anyone who steps up.
I don't want my team singled out for the wrong reasons though. It's not being avoided because we can't be bothered ok.

It's good to discuss these things. We'll all help out a bit more in future like all teams should.

The only reason I have decided that this is the way forward is because in a one day tournament with few non-playing refs, it becomes a real burden to ref, if only a few step forward. A number of refs, myself included, ended up reffing either right before or right after they played.

It's simply not fair to those players, and those teams, to let them do all the reffing. In a multi-day tournament, it's not quite such a pain, as you can ref knowing that you aren't playing that day, or at least not until much later on.

Saturday each ref averaged 9 games each. If every team had put forward a ref, the average would have been 3 games each.

I totally appreciate that it's intimidating to ref - I get intimidated - but at the end of the day it's only bike polo. The players that are getting bent out of shape, and disputing calls days after the game has finished are making fools of themselves.