Originally Posted by
Quietman
Lads sometimes the rubbish spoken in this forum!! One would think that our referees are absolutely incompetant. Firstly Pearoso27, referees get a match fee of €24, €30 for a premier game, they then get an Urban allowance of €18. So for a local game where the referee doesn't travel far its €42 and €48 for a premier game. If the referee travels over 25 mile round trip he drops the Urban allowance and charges .72cent per mile...I think!! So really for a guy giving up his Sunday, putting fuel in his car and getting something to eat on the road, it's very little. Give the guys a break, theres so few referees at the moment Tommy Lewis has his work cut out trying to organize fixtures. Although I think he could be at fault for puting Frieberg on the Town game this weekend again, I mean he drinks with the Town lads every week.
And Hooper, they are not untouchable, I believe they have an Assessor, who is Ex League of Ireland, so well experienced. Also Mckell has gone to LOI as far as I know. Haven't seen him around the league much recently. It's not always there fault lads!!! Apart from the top four in the premier division It's a fairly poor quality league in Tipp so what are we looking for, world class referees in a crappy league. I dont think so, we have average Junior referees in an average/poor league