Mavs should not be in district ball fullstop - this is further evidence that they can't cut the mustard.

When are BSA gonna start treating this competition like a business and make the clubs that continually drag the standard down cut the mustard or get out.

Same can be said for Southern, Centrals, Woodville - Lets just get 6 strong clubs and cut all the crap and travelling. The kids that want to play serious ball will go to other clubs and play if these woftam clubs were no longer in the comp.

i think maybe coaches should refuse to play the game stating duty of care as games that are played with one ref are usally alot rougher and more out of control. by forcing games to be replayed will make bsa take their finger out and do something to resolve the problem. there alot of quality refs doing seniors only maybe they should be given games to do or not recieve abl games on the weekend

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Not having a go at the ump or umps - just the fact that the club obviously cannot get reserve or spare umps so need the help to do so. Why is it that it does not happen at the more organised clubs.

The young lass in question deserves credit for doing the game by herself.

What do you think JC my man

Imagine travelling from Morphetvale to Gawler, and to be told the game is off because there is only one ref.

That is a very good way to kill the sport.

We do not want to chase people away from our sport.

If you are talking about the "organised clubs" I will assume Sturt would be in that mix

at games friday night at westminster (sturt home game) there was only 1 ref for a few games.

surely you dont think sturt should be out of district basketball?

Maybe coaches (or parents) could help out by calling the bench side sidelines (similar to soccer) so the lone ref could focus on getting from wing to wing and be in better position to call the game

#10604, did you offer to help her out then?

UIC for Mt Barker is overseas for a couple of weeks. He is usually also reffing 3-4 games on top of that.

It is not the clubs repsonsibility to provide umpires for their stadiums, it is BSA.
The vibe is that referees cant be bothered going out to Mt Barker. It was hard enough finding a UIC in the first place, let alone refs to ref there once a fortnight.
Everytime I go there, the refs are running solos. Apprently it's at least one match per week, but sometimes up to four matches.

Considering it is only 20 minutes from the city, why dont more refs want to go there? (Considering many spend more time in transit driving across the city from home to other stadiums anyway)

(#122410)One ump is better than none. It would be a brave team that refuses to play because of a "duty of care issue" with a solo ump, given the fees for forfeting a game these days.IMO this duty of care crap gets to pushed to much these days and would be a mis use of terms in this case.

(#10604)
Imagine if you had got to Mt Barker and there were no refs for the match. now that would be a joke.

Agreed (#122761)!

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I think you'll find all of the other stadiums have problems with refs pulling out at the last minute too. However, who can be bothered driving out to Mt Barker (as opposed to down the road) to ref after being called up half an hour before the game starts.

The refs are contracted and/or organised by BSA. As i said, it's a BSA issue, not the clubs.