[monkey hanger]

Think one thing that refs have improved on is their physical fitness that has been pushed so much by the powers at the top instead of man management. We can all remember the tubby looking refs of the past who rarely kept up with play but never missed much and were more able to sort out situations before they actually occured. They had feelings for a game and not just a knowledge of the laws of the game they could recite backwards. As for the linesmen, there duties should be written in stone and not to the whim of the ref in charge.