When have you ever had a referee who has come into the changing room and in the pre-match brief said the following things?
- Feel free to dissent and abuse me all you want.
- I'm going to let all high and late tackles go.
- If you cheat, I won't penalise you.
- Don't pass forwards.
You're grown ups. Learn how to play a referee. You have to be pretty thick to not use your brain cell and realise "the referee won't allow you to get away with deliberately offending in your own 22, and he won't warn". I would agree that at Y3 most players don't actually know what they're doing, so there may be an argument about how you can deliberately offend when you don't know what you're doing, but that is a moot point for this discussion.
You moan about the current referees, wanting Premiership level ones. Yet when one referees to those high standards you all moan. You deliberately knock on in your own 22, yellow card. You slow the ball down at a tackle 5m out, yellow card. Offside in your own 22 to nullify the 5 on 2 overlap; yellow card. It's not difficult.
Sounds like you had a referee who actually has good standards, and some big balls to actually carry it through. He should be applauded.
Funnily enough, there are different types of yellow card. Only one of which may actually require a warning; repeat offences.
