Last night’s referee

[Punk Blade]

Best refereeing performance we’ll see all season. Firm, fair, tried to keep the game flowing, no decisions I could honestly disagree with AND a properly contested drop ball.

Turns out it isn’t that difficult. Why they hire a roster of incompetent clowns and cheats remains a mystery.

 

[Lmaobob]

Defender pulled Fleck back in first half and didn't give an advantage

When play went out he was looking around as the fans wanted him to speak with the player but seemed to forget who it was

 

[sitwell]

Best refereeing performance we’ll see all season. Firm, fair, tried to keep the game flowing, no decisions I could honestly disagree with AND a properly contested drop ball.

Turns out it isn’t that difficult. Why they hire a roster of incompetent clowns and cheats remains a mystery.

His card record is pretty good ,17 in 6 games I think but 7 of those in the first game. Best for a while but he bounced the ball too hard for the dropball

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Best refereeing performance we’ll see all season. Firm, fair, tried to keep the game flowing, no decisions I could honestly disagree with AND a properly contested drop ball.

Turns out it isn’t that difficult. Why they hire a roster of incompetent clowns and cheats remains a mystery.

Absolutely spot on and it's what I said to the folks alongside me during the game last night. I thought he was excellent. He played advantage rather than blowing up for fouls all the time, he didn't miss a thing all night, and that's the first time I've seen a "drop ball" situation, contested in the way it is supposed to be, in the last 10 years or more! I hate all this, ..."look, I'll drop it here, you just kick it back there" arrangement. No. That's not how drop balls are supposed to be done (young 'uns might not know this?). It's supposed to be two players on their toes, trying to kick it before the other one does. And that's what we got last night.

Comes to summat though when the highlight of the game was the referee's performance eh?

 

[Punk Blade]

Defender pulled Fleck back in first half and didn't give an advantage

When play went out he was looking around as the fans wanted him to speak with the player but seemed to forget who it was

If I’m thinking of the same incident he signalled a clear advantage and I saw him have a quick word with the culprit when the ball went out.

 

[Lmaobob]

If I’m thinking of the same incident he signalled a clear advantage and I saw him have a quick word with the culprit when the ball went out.

I never saw his arms go up in the air and he just looked around and then allowed us to take the throw. Ball went out in the South Stand

 

[Carlton Blade]

I thought he gave us every 50/50 decision. He's welcome back anytime

 

[sufcboy95]

Defender pulled Fleck back in first half and didn't give an advantage

When play went out he was looking around as the fans wanted him to speak with the player but seemed to forget who it was

To be fair, one of our players went straight through one of theirs towards end and he didn’t book him

 

[Grecian2000]

Spot on OP.
Saved his worst decision until well into injury time when he denied them as obvious a corner as you'll ever see.
Great to see a ref who hasn't got his cards on permanent stand by.
Got no future I'm afraid!

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Only Ref who has actually got a Father ,that i have seen at the lane since Roger Kirkpatrick .

 

[Northyorksblade]

Brum fans were funny when MoM contenders were announced. They'd been giving the lino on John Street side stick first half. Then second half a lot of decisions went their way. So their shout of lino for MoM made me smile.

 

[Baaaaaaa Blades]

Agree completely with the OP , a referee who did his job very well and with minimal fuss or getting the attention on him !! Sadly a very rare breed !

 

[S8blade]

The sign of a good referee is when you dont notice him/her... i thought he was decent last night ..credit where its due.

 

[Bannerman]

Agree, he should have got the man of the match award!

Speaking of which, is anyone else as irritated as me about the whole ' man of the match ' thing as I am?

If anyone scores, no matter what the rest of their contribution was like they're a contender.

Last night I thought the two keepers had excellent games, especially their man, the chuff!

 

[boo radley]

Not bad but Naive with regard to time wasting again. Take the incident with the drink break. Now come on, tell me that type of thing does not frustrate you. Some of you even accept it as part of the game and nothing should be done about it.
Me, never. We pay to watch players play football not to time waste.

 

[Booker4]

I thought he was man of the match last night - sadly!

 

[IOM Blade]

I thought he gave us every 50/50 decision. He's welcome back anytime

Thought the same. Had a homer ref against a winless side and still fecked it up!

 

[wizadry]

To be fair, one of our players went straight through one of theirs towards end and he didn’t book him

It was a shocking tackle from Baldock? coming across aswell, how that went unpunished I’ll never know.

Overall though, the Ref had a good game.

 

[sufcboy95]

It was a shocking tackle from Baldock? coming across aswell, how that went unpunished I’ll never know.

Overall though, the Ref had a good game.

Yes that’s the one. Amazed he didn’t get a yellow

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Best refereeing performance we’ll see all season. Firm, fair, tried to keep the game flowing, no decisions I could honestly disagree with AND a properly contested drop ball.

Turns out it isn’t that difficult. Why they hire a roster of incompetent clowns and cheats remains a mystery.

Complete cunt, he missed several clear penalties for us and kept waving play on every time after their players avoided JOC's attempts to put them in the stand. Did he forget his whistle?

 

[JohnDenver]

Refs should look good when there’s little for them to do. It’s a bit like giving our centre half man of the match after we beat a non league side at home.

 

[Uncle mick]

He was ok except for making our wall 14 or 15 yards away from the ball on the free kick that hit the post

 

[nopigfansintown]

He could've booked a couple of theirs for persistent fouling first half . He then could've evened it up second half when we were stopping counter attacks by dragging people down. The Baldock one looked a nailed on yellow. He was consistent and unfussy so no complaits from me. That's all you can ask.