{"id":5019,"date":"2020-12-04T03:01:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5019"},"modified":"2020-12-04T06:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T06:16:30","slug":"referees-ignored-as-nrl-makes-big-2021-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5019","title":{"rendered":"Referees ignored as NRL makes big 2021 call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\" title=\"NRL\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NRL<\/a> has decided to retain the one-referee system in 2021 &#8211; and the men in the middle aren&#x27;t happy.<\/p>\n<p>NRL boss Andrew Abdo told the referees about the decision last night, despite protests from the whistle-blowers that the system places too much pressure on their shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>NRL supremo <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/peter-vlandys\" title=\"Peter V&#x27;landys\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter V&#x27;landys<\/a> cut the on-field referees back from two to one after the COVID-19 break, largely as a cost-cutting measure.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3aa316f2-042d-42ac-92ba-d0624bafdc72\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3aa316f2-042d-42ac-92ba-d0624bafdc72\" alt=\"NRL referee Gerard Sutton\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The NRL canvassed opinions from referees, coaches and players in recent weeks to evaluate the best refereeing model.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the coaches and players voted for the single ref, while the refs themselves went for the old two-referee model.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s disappointing but a lot of the decisions these days come down to dollars and cents, which is understandable,&quot; one leading referee told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Having a single ref means more pressure and it will also cost a lot of the part-timers in our group their jobs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6159907225001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2020\/05\/291314\/pickerImage.jpg\" alt=\"Gould&#x27;s passionate plea to referees\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckaq3c5ev002u0ip2g5ugucf8\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The NRL has decided to retain the one-referee system in 2021 &#8211; and the men in the middle aren&#x27;t happy. NRL boss Andrew Abdo told <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5019\" title=\"Referees ignored as NRL makes big 2021 call\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5019\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}