RESPECT - A Message From The Umpire's Advisor

I spend too much time talking with umpires about the best way to deal with players who after the game can't keep their opinions to themselves and worse still captains, who in their "team huddles" express their opinions that are demeaning about the umpires performance and refusing to shake the umpires hand after the game. If your team is in the bottom half of the ladder, you should be looking at your own team performances and not blaming the umpires. Over the whole season you have had many umpires and they all can't have cost you so many games.

The loser in this is the players and the SMCA competition as a whole. Umpires feel frustrated, disappointed, undervalued and leave. This requires the whole process to start again of trying to attract umpires, training and gaining experience etc.  

RESPECT is a small word, but it means so much.

 

Ray Howe

Umpire's Advisor