National Series 2011

My plan is to use one of the teams that is on deck to ref. These teams will have already been whipped to "in the hole" on the previous game, so should be around. Also makes scheduling a lot, lot easier.

And then theyll complain that the other team had time for a last minute team talk and they didnt. For real. I watched that happen on saturday when someone was reffing.

I think people about to play are in some ways the last ones who should be reffing, because theyre thinking about the game ahead, not the one theyre watching..

Tough. We need refs, and this is the simplest way to get them.

I would just like to bring this up again, as I really am against this rule. I understand the problem, and the desire for a solution, but Bill's idea is not the solution. I had never heard of it until one night it was brought out at the pub, after the NS had begun, and it was mentioned that you would have to conform to it to take part in NS events in future.

Can someone, other than Bill (no offence), confirm that this is now law? James Aufbruch? Jono? whoever is actually going to drop the hammer on this?