Mick
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Our last, and only previous, visit to Damson Park was a miserable 2-0 defeat, cards aplenty. Not the players’ finest hour and even less so for our Chairman. Hopefully this one will be better on both counts.
After the naivity of last Saturday’s referee, we have an official with a whole lot more experience and nearly 50 National League games to his name. This Saturday's match will be refereed by Chief Petty Officer Scott Jackson from Bridgwater, Somerset who has served in the Navy for the last 18 years, the last half of which has been in a shore-based job at Plymouth. His role in the Navy is currently that of a Social Worker and he is doing a Masters degree in Ethics at Exeter University.
He is in his fourth season as a National League level referee, with a total of 48 matches refereed producing 150 yellows and 6 reds – pretty average stats. This season’s match was the Wrexham v Eastleigh game with 4 yellows.
This will be his second Southend match having taken charge of our narrow defeat at Torquay last season. Yellows for Ralph, Ogogo and Atkinson (and one of theirs) and I don’t think there were too many complaints.
His only previous match at Solihull was right at the end of last season for their 3-0 home win over Bromley.
Assisting will be Stuart Richardson from Nottingham and Stuart Kane from Saltash, the latter is Cornwall FA’s Referee Workforce Officer, whatever that means.
Fourth Official is Harry Tarrant from Towcester.
After the naivity of last Saturday’s referee, we have an official with a whole lot more experience and nearly 50 National League games to his name. This Saturday's match will be refereed by Chief Petty Officer Scott Jackson from Bridgwater, Somerset who has served in the Navy for the last 18 years, the last half of which has been in a shore-based job at Plymouth. His role in the Navy is currently that of a Social Worker and he is doing a Masters degree in Ethics at Exeter University.
He is in his fourth season as a National League level referee, with a total of 48 matches refereed producing 150 yellows and 6 reds – pretty average stats. This season’s match was the Wrexham v Eastleigh game with 4 yellows.
This will be his second Southend match having taken charge of our narrow defeat at Torquay last season. Yellows for Ralph, Ogogo and Atkinson (and one of theirs) and I don’t think there were too many complaints.
His only previous match at Solihull was right at the end of last season for their 3-0 home win over Bromley.
Assisting will be Stuart Richardson from Nottingham and Stuart Kane from Saltash, the latter is Cornwall FA’s Referee Workforce Officer, whatever that means.
Fourth Official is Harry Tarrant from Towcester.