Nice sour grapes you have there.

No kidding me 3, Morphetvale was bad, for finals BSA really needs to mix up all the refs from all the stadiums.

Coached and saw a few games at Mars on Saturday, was impressed with the officiating. Alot of them young refs aswell

Not sour grapes - had the same experience - is there any formal complaint system about referees not being up to standard. They are getting paid so therefore should provide a standard of service, which they did not!

Good we won and I thought we were hard done by

I believe that come finals time all rosters should be done Centrally and umpires moved around from Stadium to Stadium. Teams have to travel why not the refs move to the next closest stadium.

I believe that looking at M/Vale which had both Under 12 Boys and Girls Friday Night and there was two junior refs umpiring together. Should not happen get a senior on the game to keep a cool head and not get caught up in the adrenalin as easily as the kids did.

The other court had a Junior with a Senior which was a smart move as the Senior carried the Junior who didn't seem up to the games the Junior Ref was on but it didn't advantage or disadvantage either side as the Senior covered for there partner well.

What do you call a Junior ref- the 3 at MV are all Level 1's. Is it better to have green shirts on the finals as we had to put up with at Pas on sat? There are many parents who want to blame everyone else when they lose- human nature i guess but give the refs a break.

These does it dosen't matter what Level you are anyone can do whatever course they want and we need umpiring numbers so kids are being fast tracked quicker than what they are ready for, but with the shortage of refs in the age group 20-30 these kids under 20 are being rushed through.

The two young refs at M/Vale Friday Night on Court 3 were up to doing the games they did but in my opinion they should have been with a more senior ref (someone in that over 20 age group) to help them adjust up a cog for the intensity of finals and the added pressure of sudden death games.

Green shirts umpiring Saturday morning finals is a difficult one as some are up to it but others arn't. I don't see it as a problem if they had a lot older ref with them to control the game. Possibly in my opinion Green shirts shouldn't do finals but umpires don't grow on trees.

I would say the green shirt refs are being used as they are cheaper for BSA to use than older more experienced ref's who most likely are starting to demand too much money. This way BSA is able to still cash in on games for a whole weekend and save costs on umpiring. They probably are not too fussed on the standards or who is up to it, but some people do need their chances. There should be something of a response system where coaches can write down what they thought of the officiating, but their comment must be included with the result of that game too, to negate any negativity from a major loss.

So when an umpire hits 20 hes/she automatically know how to umpire better? Just because they are an older ref does not always mean they are better. Iv pleyed plenty of games were ive had younger umpires and they were fine quite often better than alot of the older ones.

I didn't say they were bad at Morphettvale others said that I said that they cant have an influence on the results.Only 5 teams from sothern got thru to this week .I saw the great effort of the U12 Girls for Southern. They had their coach Quit at the start of the season and when Ian took over he did not know any of those girls at all .Great effort that.One of the Great performances this year .I would like to have my daughter play under a dedicated coach like him WELL DONE IAN.

too bad Ian could not get them up today Maybe Next season.