From a ref's point of view, I have no problem with wiping, playing on, hiding hits etc. BUT, what does piss me off hugely is the gun cheats. Why? Yeah the sport is now played at warp speed, but so what? Remember when ramping was first introduced, at 15bps? All those players out there who proudly claimed they could easily rip 22bps+ from their gats, were actually shown up as bloody liars who'd been using cheat boards all along. As it turns out, 15bps was eventually deemed too fast and cap rates reduced, allowing play to open up more. It makes me piss my sides when you think back to all the braggards who had the fingers of an angel, jeez their wives must have been grinning like Cheshire cats
. They were all shown up as lousy cheats and nothing more. In the States we even caught a VERY famous player who insisted on using such crap in his gun each and every single point, but we caught him every single point too and his team mates benched him, cos they got sooooo pissed off with his actions that they were shipping points faster than Usain Bolt, due to it being the days of a 10 minute gross penalty. But he at least showed us respect for having the nous to approach him and actually pull his gun for it. Until some small technological miracle takes place then designer cheats are gonna be sooo hard to catch, the proof being that they are pre designed to simply stop after a set time of kicking in.
As for wiping, it happens and although I'd prefer it if no facker wiped, the sad matter is that everybody has done it...EVERYBODY. Well maybe except Biscuit, cos I know just how vicious Tracy Paint could be hahaha. All I ask as a ref of some considerable experience is if you get caught, please don't question my parentage, or slander me with ridiculous comments that I am averse to fellating farm animals. Just show me the respect for being in the right place at the right time and catching you in the act. And if I don't catch you, then dude...you are the prime example of what a man is, you the man!!! But bearing this in mind, I caught a player wipe a coupla years back and duly pulled the 3-4-1. When his teammates screamed why, I calmly pointed to the offending guy and just said "ask him". Ironic though that the verbal player bragged about losing at least 3 hits on my field (despite only playing the 1 game there and it being the first 30 seconds of game time!!), so I praised him and then told him that the 1 wipe I did catch actually ruined his team's whole season and cost them quite a bit in prizes for their efforts. So, before you try it,just ask yourself if it's really worth it, 9 times out of 10 it isn't and you're only playing for a glorified paper weight.
As for the comment about maybe sponsors taking a stand, there was a team playing in the PA who were actually told by their sponsor to argue every decision and penalty. Why I don't know, cos all that will do is instantly get you playing against a team AND the refs every time you show up to a field. It's stupid and counter productive cos you just earn a rep as a bunch of cocks, no matter how good a player you are. It would be great if sponsors outed such rectal matter, but sadly they do turn a blind eye. Now I'm not blowing smoke up their ass, but the ONLY company I could ever see doing what is right is our very own Planet Eclipse, genuine to a man,or woman and always say it like it is
