Steve
Originally posted by Nick Brockdorff
I do not agree the new type of fields are more difficult to ref..... but rather that they expose the refs that are inactive and do not move to stay ahead of the game.
Yes.... I know... it's annoying as hell that the players have started to move around, rather than sitting in the same bunker for 7 minutes shooting one way 
Tough break... but refs just have to learn to move a little bit, and everything will be fine
That has to be the biggest crock of manure I've ever seen you write.
The plain truth is many, if not most, of the field designs so far this year have been a flight of someone's fancy and haven't really contributed much to anything except served some kind of novelty effect. On the contrary many of the fields have got in the way of good officiating, have encouraged wiping and playing on and have made it virtually impossible to properly cover reffing-wise, even with greater-than-usual-numbers of refs.
Many have also been harder than usual to video record.
Good field design, such as the NPPL tend to have, cover all the bases at once: attractive, fun-to-play, offer interesting new challenges for teams and are open for the cameras and refs.
Simply put, like many others have said, there have been far too many props.
