Source: Team_Talk
Dallas: No extra pressure on refs
However, Dallas claims Steve Conroy has come under unfair criticism over his performance in Saturday's goalless draw between Kilmarnock and Rangers.
Conroy sent off Rangers midfielder Pedro Mendes and Killie counterpart Manuel Pascali for second bookable offences, and booked seven other players.
Rangers manager Walter Smith argued the Portuguese midfielder's late challenges were not "malicious" while Pascali was twice booked for pulling shirts.
Gers captain David Weir claimed referees were under too much pressure from the SFA, but Dallas claims players have the responsibility to learn from their first warning.
"Sometimes when the game doesn't live up to expectations, then the attention turns elsewhere and at the weekend we saw the attention switch towards the referee," the SFA's head of referees development said.
"Unfortunately, Steve Conroy has come under unfair criticism in my opinion.
"I watched the game live and there is always room for improvement, there are one or two issues in the game that we will talk to the referee about to try and improve him for his next performance.
"But overall we're happy at the level of referee decision-making at this stage of the season, considering that this time last year all we were doing is talking about referees."
Each manager and captain from the Scottish Premier League attended a pre-season meeting where Dallas talked them through the guidelines handed out to officials.
But Dallas told BBC Scotland: "There were no special instructions to tell referees to give more yellow cards or red cards.
"I think the players can do a lot more to help themselves. When a player is delivered a yellow card, the word 'caution' means be careful.
"If they persist in that behaviour then they will receive another caution."
