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Marty
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Date Posted: 18:26:41 06/12/02 Wed
In reply to:
Becks
's message, "Those who can do, those who can't..." on 00:19:56 06/07/02 Fri
Hmmm,
My grandad use to say to me “Lad once people lower themselves personal attacks in a debate you can be sure that they have little more to back them up. They feel threatened and vulnerable all they can do is try to beat you by belittling you, stand strong though son as you are about to see a monster turn into a worm”
I’m feeling somewhat aggrieved at what appears to be a personal attack on a forum that I believed to be a place where members could feel free to voice their opinions. I do believe that sometime ago this precedent was set by the “webslave”, I guess a different person must have taken on that role otherwise the hypocrisy would be terribly embarrassing. I’m even more concerned at how my name is emblazoned in pink at the beginning of the article giving a feeling of calm serenity and inexperienced naivety. Sorry Toot’s you got me all wrong.
I will however take this opportunity to defend myself. For starters it is correct that I have not ‘completed’ any “respectable” refereeing qualifications. I do believe that in 2000 I achieved approximately only 90% in the “Official NZCPA referees examination” and that’s the extent of my understanding. However having never been practically assessed by an assessor I would never claim to have a sound knowledge of the rules of New Zealand Canoe Polo. Having only been involved in the sport for a relatively short length of time my understanding of the rules is very self centred. I have admittedly only attended one World Championship Campaign during which time I only managed to get to four or five referees briefings. Even though ICF rules were governing these were only pre World Championship competitions so i’m sure the official briefing was quite different. So I admit that I lack suitable qualification to debate this topic at all really. As everyone should know “if you don’t have the piece of paper that says you can, then you can’t”.
But then I remember my grandad (what a wise old man) he’d say “there will always be people who say “you can’t!”,,, just ignore them”.
So here is some more of my opinion:
“Had you experienced a Referees briefing at a recent World Champsionship, you would know that practically every country has a different opinion on how certain rules should be interpretated. More than half of the clarifications at the last world championships were contested without all parties agreeing.”
I query this paragraph. If practically every country couldn’t agree on the interpretation of the same set of words. Why would you change the words? Will this not lead us even further from a worthy interpretation? Rather than arguing amongst ourselves about “their” rules we argue about “ours”. I’m not sure about others but this seems self defeating to me. It was quite clear to me as a mere player at the most recent National Competition that interpretations by “qualified” referees of the New Zealand Canoe Polo rules are exceptionally varied. It appeared that kayak tackling was not allowed by one referee, another believed that a player upside down, out of the playing area had more rights than a player attempting to play the ball in the playing area and one of our highest qualified referees, both nationally and internationally, believed that a player defending a player in the act of shooting the ball inside the six meter had every right to hit the ball with his paddle, even though it was still in the shooters hand. This happened right in front of her. The problem with at least two of these decisions is that they occurred on more than one occasion, giving the impression that rather than an over site (which I accept happens), these are interpretations. How do we give our teams that play internationally a chance when we play different rules that 15-20 “qualified” referees can’t interpret the same way? In every sport interpretations of the words of the rules vary especially from country to country. However if you change the words you are setting yourself up to never agree with anyone.
Cheers Marty
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