Honestly felt like an attention seeking performance at times. Like he was feeding off the frustration
What a comforting and motivating thing it must be for a team to realise that however cynical they are with their fouls the referee is not going to book you, and yet your opponents will be booked for everyone of theirs. This ref must’ve thought that by applying the advantage rule it negated the need to show a yellow card. Another incompetent and inconsistent refereeing performance. Some of the other decisions were unbelievable
It's the first time I've ever seen a team caught offside and the opposition allowed to take the free kick two yards over the half way line. "Spectacularly awful" would still be being kind to him.
Problem with these anti referee threads is that there's one for every game. In some games this season the referee has been particularly good, not just OK but actually good, yet we still gott a thread moaning about him. It appears the ref tonight was particularly bad, but any complaints lose all impact because there are complaints every single game.
I'm normally one to give the refs the benefit of the doubt, but this was an absolute stinker. He got just about everything wrong - I don't think it was bias he just had no idea and no control over the game. I particularly enjoyed my 10 y/o daughter turning round after the Vale goal and saying "I'm surprised the ref hasn't gone to celebrate with them." His decisions didn't cost us the game though - Duffs did.
No one has said the ref cost us the game - not one person has blamed him for the points dropped We would have had exactly the same comments had we hung on and won he was one of the worst I have seen in a long time which is why the mass pile on
Lose impact on who? I regularly bang on about referees not treating both teams equally, and yet again this was in abundance tonight. The officials are as much as a talking point in a game of football as most other aspects nowadays. Incidentally, when I refereed I considered no mention of me as a positive and that I’d done at least ok. Making mistakes are not the issue, or even having a bad game now and then, but not treating both sides equally is indefensible, and in my book cheating
Rubbish, not blamed the ref for the result at all. Same as I didn’t blame the poor ref for the result at Hillsbro
I’m always really reluctant to have a go at refs, but this one tonight was atrocious. If he was just a bad ref I could accept it more, because he’d be bad for both teams. But the sheer inconsistency was astounding. When you see a performance that one sided, you’re starting to edge into cheating territory
You have to remember that as shocking as we think Championship refs are, guys like him tonight aren't deemed good enough for that level.
It beggar's belief that the guy was even appointed to this game - it's his first season and he's only done 4 League 2 games. We saw this coming even before kick-off. If we'd won 5-0 he'd still have been a very, very, very, terrible ref. Unfortunately, we at Oakwell give these refs an all too easy ride imho - not one unified chant to bring it home to him.
It's not often that I criticise referees, but I've already mentioned him 3 times, in 3 different threads, since I got back home. I can live with bad decisions, I can accept that we're all human and entitled to make mistakes. But I can also honestly say that if I had to watch games refereed to that standard every week, I'd give up the sport altogether.