NRL players and officials have been put on notice to address both their on-field interactions and post-game criticism of match officials with growing concerns about the capacity for their actions to “incite” poor behaviour among fans.
Too many ugly incidents in Sunday’s match controlled by rookie referee Kasey Badger moved the NRL a send a strong warning.
But Annesley said the issue of referee attacks was not “gender specific” and that everyone involved in the game had to more readily “accept” mistakes would be made and were simply “part of the game”. “They make mistakes because they are human. We somehow have this expectation that NRL referees get everything right. They can’t get it all right to everyone’s satisfaction. There needs to be some degree of acceptance to that.
“It doesn’t only happen to female referees. Kasey Badger, she’s a rookie referee, and players will try and test rookie referee regardless of gender,” he said.
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