Refree for next Tuesday is...

[The Turpinator]

Keith Stroud of Dorset.

Here is a link to see his performance so far this season:

Rate The Ref

What do we think?

 

[Shrimp in a Kilt]

HHmmm. Sounds OK, no reds but a fair few yellows, and only three pens all season. He will therefore have a 'mare on Tuesday, hand out a brace of reds to the disbelieving and innocent Maher and Bart, and we will lose to the two subsequent dodgy pens, thereby obviating the necessity for the annual and time honoured ritual of poking the ball past our own keeper.

 

[Matty the Shrimper]

Im dissapointed by PGMO (Professional Game Match Officials) for appointing a referee that has only refereed 5 games on the Football League this year. I was really expecting a Select Group referee for a massive game like this a.l.a. Graham Barber vs Swansea (Home) last season.
I have nothing against Stroud but I'd rather have a ref that I know will be of real quality for a game like this.

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (Matty the Shrimper @ Dec. 01 2004,23:02)]Im dissapointed by PGMO (Professional Game Match Officials) for appointing a referee that has only refereed 5 games on the Football League this year. I was really expecting a Select Group referee for a massive game like this a.l.a. Graham Barber vs Swansea (Home) last season.
I have nothing against Stroud but I'd rather have a ref that I know will be of real quality for a game like this.

Hardly massive. Fourth vs Eighth. Every season there are around 56 such matches in Div 2 and a Select Group official at each one is not realistic. (Anyway Graham Barber never refereed well when he dropped down, appearing to think we'd all come to see him.)

Orient-Southend games have no great history for problems on the pitch (cue mayhem!) - well not since the days of Paul Roberts.

 

[Technician]

His ratings actually look quite reasonable! I think we can almost guarantee Maher will get a booking though, as he seems to be quite free with handing out yellow cards.

 

[Matty the Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Mick @ Dec. 02 2004,00:37)]

Quote[/b] (Matty the Shrimper @ Dec. 01 2004,23:02)]Im dissapointed by PGMO (Professional Game Match Officials) for appointing a referee that has only refereed 5 games on the Football League this year. I was really expecting a Select Group referee for a massive game like this a.l.a. Graham Barber vs Swansea (Home) last season.
I have nothing against Stroud but I'd rather have a ref that I know will be of real quality for a game like this.

Hardly massive. Fourth vs Eighth. Every season there are around 56 such matches in Div 2 and a Select Group official at each one is not realistic. (Anyway Graham Barber never refereed well when he dropped down, appearing to think we'd all come to see him.)

Orient-Southend games have no great history for problems on the pitch (cue mayhem!) - well not since the days of Paul Roberts.

4th vs 8th.
Local(ish) derby
Possible crowd problems with supporters being in wrong sections with can often spill over onto the field of play.

Graham Barber was brilliant vs Swansea. He was on the spot of everything and clearly 'up for it.' Look at Matt Messias vs Northampton for a ref who wasn't 'up for it.'

 

[steveh1510]

Quote[/b] (Matty the Shrimper @ Dec. 01 2004,23:02)]Im dissapointed by PGMO (Professional Game Match Officials) for appointing a referee that has only refereed 5 games on the Football League this year. I was really expecting a Select Group referee for a massive game like this a.l.a. Graham Barber vs Swansea (Home) last season.
I have nothing against Stroud but I'd rather have a ref that I know will be of real quality for a game like this.

Apparently Pierluigi Collina was busy, he is said to be gutted at missing out on such a big game saying it would have been 'the highlight of my career'.

 

[Ron Manager]

I've always thought that when we've had a 'top' ref do one of our games they have been poor. Maybe they are like first team players playing in the reserves and just go through the motions as in their eyes it's not a 'proper' game.

 

[Mick]

Talking of rate the ref, it is interesting, but not surprising, to see that Mick Fletcher's last 6 matches have ALL been statistically below average.

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ Dec. 02 2004,12:34)]I've always thought that when we've had a 'top' ref do one of our games they have been poor. Maybe they are like first team players playing in the reserves and just go through the motions as in their eyes it's not a 'proper' game.

- I think there is much truth in that.

 

[West Country Shrimper]

We had Paul Durkin once, for one of our games. I thought he did really well. And we still won the game, I think

 

[Alex]

Quote[/b] (West Country Shrimper @ Dec. 02 2004,12:49)]We had Paul Durkin once, for one of our games. I thought he did really well. And we still won the game, I think

thought it was paul alcock

 

[West Country Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Alex @ Dec. 02 2004,16:43)]

Quote[/b] (West Country Shrimper @ Dec. 02 2004,12:49)]We had Paul Durkin once, for one of our games. I thought he did really well. And we still won the game, I think

thought it was paul alcock

Im sure it was Durkin, the ginger one.

It was against Mansfield a few seasons back if i remember correctly.

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

Is it true the linesman is a bit of totty?

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

If it's W.Toms, then yes.

 

[Southend Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (BILLERICAY BLUE @ Dec. 02 2004,16:11)]If it's W.Toms, then yes.

Who?

The officials running the line are:
Jon Beadle (Kent) &
Alison Chapman (Berks) who is also a UEFA listed referee.

 

[sufcintheprem]

We did have Alcock for a game. Remember he sent off the keeper for two counts of dissent and the keeper proceeded to kick the ball in to the face of a samll boy sat in the crowd, breaking his jaw in the process.

Definitely a bad day at the office for the 'keeper. Think it was Cheltenham or Macc. Can't be sure which.

 

[sufcintheprem]

Quote[/b] (The Artful Shrimper @ Dec. 02 2004,16:50)]Is it true the linesman is a bit of totty?

Depends which way you're inclined. There's always the other ref's assistante

Story looks a bit dodgy though!!!

 

[BoyWonder2]

So the linesman is a lineslady if you will.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

Quote[/b] (Southend Shrimp @ Dec. 02 2004,17:52)]

Quote[/b] (BILLERICAY BLUE @ Dec. 02 2004,16:11)]If it's W.Toms, then yes.

Who?  

The officials running the line are:
Jon Beadle (Kent) &
Alison Chapman (Berks) who is also a UEFA listed referee.

Well, as he didn't give a name, the only female ref I knew of is Wendy Toms, so if the linesman had been listed as W.Toms, I was helping out.