Has anyone got contact details for Jabba? I'd like to thank him for how well he reffed on the Friday of Div 2, but also ask about a ruling that the rule book (if you can call it that) seems to not cover.
Jabba, reffing the D2 field, I think not!
The ultimate in that field was a prick, he tried to get Ricardo & I to remove stickers from our goggles until I pointed out that Ricardo's goggles were Orange (I4 Tiger Stripe) and that we weren't players so therefore there was little chance of anybody mistaking them for a hit and calling us out, or of us peeling them off to conceal a hit.
The 'Team' refs on that field seemed to be slow to understand what they were supposed to do and slow to react to players with hits, yet despite this both Division 1 teams reffing the event received maximum points. I didn't see any real issues with 'Team' refs on other fields though.
Overall, I struggle to see where else the MS could hold a "London" event with flat(ish) grass fields, the accessibility and local infrastructure necessary without the cost of staging the event sky-rocketing. Basildon/Billericay may not be everybody's dream location, but it does the job and given that the weather was truly awful in other parts of the UK at the time the MS got off extremely lightly with a couple of showers and som gusts of wind.
The biggest issue was the delays on Friday evening meaning that the GB game was played after sunset and without floodlighting.
