NSW AAGPS 2025 (banter and commentary)

[MoneyScrummer]

Now that rugby is ove! Whos your basketball picks!?

 

[Jakeburner65]

Great job to all teams this season and all the boys who put the time in and gave it a red hot go. Small sidenote but in the final game between View & Joeys I am curious how you can have a Joey's old boy refereeing 1st's games for his alma mater. Some of the View boys had been quite vocally disappointed with the refereeing (which is in no way to say View deserved the win that day) but I don't understand how there can be a notion of impartiality if referees can referee 1st's games for their own school. I am not entirely sure how they pick the referees for these matches but would be curious to know if anyone is familiar with the system.

Wow. If that is true, that's absolute madness and actually really sad at the same time.

Makes you wonder why there was no injury time, not a single second, despite the game being literally riddled by injuries. View threatening, scoreboard clock hits zero, whistle immediately blown. It really surprised me at the time. You would expect 5 or more minutes in a situation like that..

And a few of the other decisions like Joeys pretty much not releasing a tackle all day. Scored a try off it.

If true, very disappointing if just for appearances.

 

[Choc&blue]

Referees in the Joeys AAGPS 1-3 games are appointed independently by the Sydney West Referee association. The schools have no say on who they want. My own wife is a part of this and has been refereeing game that do not involve Joeys. Often she is out at Kings. For home games at Joeys you will find some refs doing up to 3 games. These refs come from staff, supporters and parents who hold a legitimate accreditation.

I was intrigued by the referee’s one-eyed performance in a recent King‘s thirds game recently. The penalty count favoured the home team so much I thought he only had one arm. So alarmed was I, I asked some of the King’s reserves if he was a teacher. They said he had a son there. Nevertheless, the visitors narrowly won.

 

[twister29]

Referees also don’t have x ray vision… And also are pretty good blokes on the whole… Seems that when you win a prem you forget that…

 

[Jakeburner65]

Referees also don’t have x ray vision… And also are pretty good blokes on the whole… Seems that when you win a prem you forget that…

I'm sure he's a great bloke. And completely understandable that he didn't want to delay the victory drinks at the three H's by dragging the match out...

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

He had a good game I thought. The game was back and forth and allowed to breath.

Have to feel for Rugby refs when they need to interpret a rule book that makes Finnegans Wake look like a scratch and sniff. Rugby has too much riding on how refs read the game themselves. I don't really know how you fix it but as long as the School Boys game and generally the Club game stays away from the pro officiating style I think we can all live with it.

 

[Where's the beef]

I thought the 1st ref at Joeys was excellent. The game flowed and he was consistent. Sides generally complain about the breakdown when they are well beaten at it as was the case last Saturday. The jackal had to be actively stealing the ball to get the benefit, it went both ways. I hate that the rule book is not clear, but all I ask from the ref is that he is consistent in the interpretation.

The clock stops at Joeys when the ref calls for it to stop. Thats why you don't have injury time. Normally at Joeys the clock stops at 2m and then its up to the ref, but that has changed this year.

I don't care where the ref came from or what school he attended, A good ref, is a good ref. He was a good ref.

In 2nd's, I felt view were denied a try from a cross field kick, that to me looked fine, but again, I thought the ref had a good game and allowed the boys to play.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

I thought the 1st ref at Joeys was excellent. The game flowed and he was consistent. Sides generally complain about the breakdown when they are well beaten at it as was the case last Saturday. The jackal had to be actively stealing the ball to get the benefit, it went both ways. I hate that the rule book is not clear, but all I ask from the ref is that he is consistent in the interpretation.

The clock stops at Joeys when the ref calls for it to stop. Thats why you don't have injury time. Normally at Joeys the clock stops at 2m and then its up to the ref, but that has changed this year.

I don't care where the ref came from or what school he attended, A good ref, is a good ref. He was a good ref.

In 2nd's, I felt view were denied a try from a cross field kick, that to me looked fine, but again, I thought the ref had a good game and allowed the boys to play.

Was a brilliant kick and called play that seemed a reaction call which I also think was fine but so be it. Not going to go do this path again after a great season.