Fucking useless officiating again by A-League refs. Dunno why I even bother any more.
To be fair, there are useless refs at every level, as we only know too well from the last game Liverpool played, but yeah, theirs are pretty bad. It seems every single week the outcome of one game or another is dependant on a referee, and that is far too frequent. Whilst their are bad descisions in, pretty much every league and cup, you don't see them anywhere near as frequently in other competitions. It isn't just Australia that has the problem though, the MLS has a similar issue.
Both because of the recent improvement in overall quality with a faster speed of play, with Australia specifically, I think its because the refs are only part time (which is only really suited to Conference level at the highest) but its now a fully professional league and played to a decent (roughly league 2/better teams league 1) standard, so the refs simply cannot keep up with play anymore.
They (Aus and NZ) need to make them full time, but they need training, so maybe an exchange deal with us (England) or another English speaking country with a decent league and standard of refereeing (like Norway or Denmark or Holland say?) for a year or two till they have enough refs that are trained, experienced and have good feedback at that level?
I don't think it will happen soon sadly, the FFA are busy with the World Cup campaign and setting up the All Australia cup thing next year, and the Asain cup thing in 2015, and I don't think they can do more than one big thing at once.