RefRyanAus
Member
Hi, I am finding this a difficult issue of judgement and would like some advice from more experienced referees about when to intervene.
On the weekend I had a game in wet conditions with a number of poorly timed slide tackles that missed balls (and thankfully) players. The players who were targeted by these tackles did not have to take any kind of evasive action (e.g. jumping legs, etc). The tacklers just managed to miss the play all together. On these occasions the players were sometimes not in full control of their bodies and sometimes using what I would judge to be excessive force and thus a connection / collision could quietly easily have led to a serious injury and a call of SFP.
Despite warning a couple of players on the run about the risks involved in their poor tackling technique I do wonder whether I need to be more proactive in pulling these up?
What is your threshold for these kinds of situations where no contact is made and how big a weight do you place on the absence of any contact?
On the weekend I had a game in wet conditions with a number of poorly timed slide tackles that missed balls (and thankfully) players. The players who were targeted by these tackles did not have to take any kind of evasive action (e.g. jumping legs, etc). The tacklers just managed to miss the play all together. On these occasions the players were sometimes not in full control of their bodies and sometimes using what I would judge to be excessive force and thus a connection / collision could quietly easily have led to a serious injury and a call of SFP.
Despite warning a couple of players on the run about the risks involved in their poor tackling technique I do wonder whether I need to be more proactive in pulling these up?
What is your threshold for these kinds of situations where no contact is made and how big a weight do you place on the absence of any contact?