Call time on out-of-touch refs

WHEN, oh when, is the GAA going to do something about the standard of inter-county refereeing?

Call time on out-of-touch refs

Let’s not try to be diplomatic here, or understanding, or any of the other nonsense usually used to explain away yet another bad performance by the man in the middle. The standard, in both hurling and football, is abysmal.

I saw two games this weekend in the All-Ireland qualifiers, one hurling, one football. In both games, the referee seemed to be working from his own highly-personalised rule-book.

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