The ref discussion is a big issue in bikepolo. I think we need to support refs and stop asking everyone to ref since some people (myself included) really can’t do it. I have many reasons for it and I don’t want to be forced to do anything I feel I can’t do.
This is the 2nd year with RBP that we offer to pay travel fees, food and hosting to refs so we can have people to do this. This year, no one answered our call so players (Dodi, Samir and Quentin) offered their time to do it. They did a solid job all along the tournament and some people helped them a bit, which was really nice. Thanks again to all those who helped on this.
So :
- I am pro “support your ref” and am totally ok to know that a part of my registrations fees go to their train ticket or anything.
- I think not all players can ref because of their own good reasons.
- I’m anti “you play, then you ref” because of these two previous points and because not everyone is able to do everyhing.
- The best solution to me would be to have people who just ref and don’t play (at least the tournament they’re reffing) like we see in many sports. But yes, that’s easy for me to say as I don’t want to ref. Yet, I know some people love this.