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The Courier-Mail: Referees losing control [25aug03]. I've been saying this since last year (the TV can hear me, you see - it passes along all my comments to the ref). I suspect it has something to do with inconsistent judgements, refs becoming better known, plus it looks like all the hard calls go off field to a guy with TV replays. Then there's the touch judges having radio contact, which lets them have more of a say (used to be they only got a say when the ref asked/looked for it). Ultimately the players must just feel like the ref on the ground with them doesn't have the authority that they used to.
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