Ref Watch .... AFC Wimbledon A

[Mick]

Last refwatch of the year and one of the shortest - no not the referee, the write up !

As we look to maintain our unbeaten record at AFC Wimbledon (4 wins and 2 draws), the referee for tomorrow's match will be John Busby, from South Oxfordshire, refereeing his fourth Southend match in this, his second season as a League referee.

He has been fast-tracked through the system (not always a good sign) spending just one season at Conference level before being promoted at the beginning of last season.

His first Southend match went well with early goals from Ranger and Leonard giving us a 2-0 victory at Coventry back in March this year. The only card was a yellow shown to one of theirs.

His second Southend match, earlier this season, also had only one card - this time a red for McGlashan at Wigan in our 3-0 defeat.

The third was the low key Checkatrade match at Peterborough when we lost 2-0. Demetriou picked up a yellow along with three of theirs.

So far this season he has refereed 28 matches producing a below average 74 yellow cards and 4 red cards. He has yet to have a cardless Football League match.

He visited Roots Hall last season as Fourth Official in the Scunthorpe match and was an Assistant Referee the year before, again at home to Scunthorpe.

Assistants are Graham Kane, a citizen (repeated for those who missed it previously) from Ditchling, near Brighton and first year "lino" Sam Lewis from Bedfordshire. Fourth Official will be Ian Fissenden from Gravesend.

 

[Mick]

Well, my first viewing of Mr Busby and I thought he did just fine. Wasn't fooled by a few early collapses by players, both teams, and generally let what football there was flow. He seemed very willing to talk to the players, amicably, about his decisions. Bench side lino had three close out of play calls and got two of them wrong compounding one with a poor foul decision but despite this the officials were at least the second best of the three teams on display.

 

[manor15]

He has yet to have a cardless Football League match.

He has now, hasn't he?

Thought he did a good job on the whole and the lack of comment on his display would seem to agree.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Thought he did a good job on the whole and the lack of comment on his display would seem to agree.

Plus I wasn't there :smiles:

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

No complaints about the referee yesterday at all. Even Brown couldn't blame the ref yesterday.

 

[Mick]

Plus I wasn't there :smiles:

I was unlucky in the ballot for seats...........

..... I got one!