GAA: it was just a regular referees meeting
May 30, 2014
Rule will only be successful if players and referees are prepared to implement it.
After high-profile officiating errors in the opening weekends of the SFC, the 16-strong elite football championship panel of refs were summoned to Headquarters two weeks earlier than had been planned, but Milton says it was just a regular get-together and that nobody was reprimanded:
"There have been some issues and they would have been addressed," he is quoted in The Irish Examiner. "When teams sit down to have meetings with their manager and there are errors made on the field of play, it is no different. Referees approach their game in exactly the same way.
"RTE were outside on the night and you'd swear it was the end of the world.
"It was a regular referees meeting that was brought forward because it was felt it was timely to look at this issue and get feedback from the referees in the application of the black card, from the commencement of the championship.
"As with any new initiative, we would monitor it closely and seek feedback from the people asked to implement it." Tweet
