Assessors putting refs under too much pressure

It may not have been great hurling in this club final yesterday but the weather had a lot to do with that.

A small memo here to all our hurling referees — please start calling these games as ye see them and forget about the assessor in the stands?

I saw one of those guys in Pearse Stadium lately, up there in the comfort of the press-box in his suit and tie making decisions at his ease on how the man down on the field was doing under pressure.