Rate the Ref v Cheltenham - Scott Oldham

[Lundan Cabbie]

At the moment his average mark is 2.45 out of ten yet he gave Argyle well over 25 free kicks. How many of those did he get wrong. 75% as his mark is suggesting?

The man was truly terrible.

Surely there's action to be taken against players that persistently foul.

EVERY time we threatened, BOOT. It was so obvious, that plank was useless.

A complete idiot.

I agree that there seems to a low card count for the number of offences. Doyle-Hayes and Varney's names popped up a lot on the Live Text stream for giving away free kicks and maybe had he booked them earlier, the message may have got through to the Cheltenham players. However, your "complete idiot" was still giving free kicks for these offences so he couldn't have been that incompetent after all. He is still on a learning curve and his game management will improve with experience but at the end of the day, a free kick is the correct punishment for a foul and this lad was delivering on that front most of the time. To give him one's (and some want zeros) suggests he got nearly EVERYTHING wrong which clearly wasn't the case.

 

[Bristol Rich]

At the moment his average mark is 2.45 out of ten yet he gave Argyle well over 25 free kicks. How many of those did he get wrong. 75% as his mark is suggesting?

The man was truly terrible.

Surely there's action to be taken against players that persistently foul.

EVERY time we threatened, BOOT. It was so obvious, that plank was useless.

A complete idiot.

I agree that there seems to a low card count for the number of offences. Doyle-Hayes and Varney's names popped up a lot on the Live Text stream for giving away free kicks and maybe had he booked them earlier, the message may have got through to the Cheltenham players. However, your "complete idiot" was still giving free kicks for these offences so he couldn't have been that incompetent after all. He is still on a learning curve and his game management will improve with experience but at the end of the day, a free kick is the correct punishment for a foul and this lad was delivering on that front most of the time. To give him one's (and some want zeros) suggests he got nearly EVERYTHING wrong which clearly wasn't the case.

He had no control of the game and the Cheltenham players were clearly taking the P*** out of him. So the scoring is pretty spot on.

 

[Mark58]

I was toying with a zero but then thought he deserved a 1 for displaying excellent posture and an inestimable self confidence despite his clear lack of ability as a football referee.

#selfdelusional

 

[hermangelmet]

Don’t forget that if the ref decides it’s a “hostile atmosphere” players don’t have to leave by nearest exit but are directed to the halfway line.

The referee created the hostile environment.

 

[Welwyn Pilgrim]

I posted on the match thread at half time he was the most inept ref I’d seen in 50 plus years...

I’d love to see the assessors report on his performance....

What a complete embarrassment to the EFL league of referees

 

[Charles Plym]

Supports Exeter apparently and it showed. .

I think you have made that up , he is from Lancashire and supports Blackpool.
Still crap though

 

[justanotherfan]

https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2019/4 ... ugh-end-of


Interesting read, lot of parallels.

 

[up the line]

Its getting to the point where I cant justify £23 to see an afternoon's entertainment completely overshadowed by the incompetence of the officials. Today was the worst of the season.

Even allowing for the blatant penalty and the dubiously disallowed goal, there were several bookable offences committed on Mayor in the first half but the defenders got the chance to commit further, attack ending fouls in the second half because they'd been let off in the first half.

 

[Devongreenowl]

Don’t forget that if the ref decides it’s a “hostile atmosphere” players don’t have to leave by nearest exit but are directed to the halfway line.

The referee created the hostile environment.

Hostile environment? I thought the support today was poor. Yes, the most vocal they got was when they sang 'poo referee' for about twenty seconds. The atmosphere was rubbish today, even when Argyle threatened to over run them in the first half. The supporters should play their part and make it a VERY hostile place for the opposition players, not just the bloody referee. There are grounds where the hostility of the support can send opposition players into their shells. HP isn’t one of them unfortunately. The Cheltenham players deserved hostility for their niggling fouls, but the crowd didn’t come up with the goods today, that’s for sure.

 

[Army green]

Do referees get assessed? Or do they just get away with being totally incompetent like that muppet today?

 

[djg145]

It was a substitution - the injured players was going off but they subbed him - the little guy came on for him - so the Ref was WRONG.

The clock was already stopped because of the injury, therefore there was no need to send him off at the nearest point to prevent any time wasting

Sorry have you been watching Rugby - there is NO clock to stop in football - injury time is upto the discression of the Ref.

Rules state that a player being Substituted must now leave at the nearest exit.

 

[JimC]

No, the watch doesn't "stop", but the ref does keep track and adds that amount of time on at the end. A normal sub is part of the game and usually the token 30 seconds is added on, but if he has already stopped the game for an injury then the sub isn't part of the game like a normal substitution and is included in the time added on for the injury

 

[JimC]

Also just seen a video of the disallowed goal. It's soft, but he does make the run in holding the defenders arm, so can see why the ref disallowed it.

 

[r4h4al]

He was all right. He's probably only getting low scores because we lost.

 

[foreigner]

Don’t forget that if the ref decides it’s a “hostile atmosphere” players don’t have to leave by nearest exit but are directed to the halfway line.

The referee created the hostile environment.

Hostile environment? I thought the support today was poor. Yes, the most vocal they got was when they sang 'poo referee' for about twenty seconds. The atmosphere was rubbish today, even when Argyle threatened to over run them in the first half. The supporters should play their part and make it a VERY hostile place for the opposition players, not just the bloody referee. There are grounds where the hostility of the support can send opposition players into their shells. HP isn’t one of them unfortunately. The Cheltenham players deserved hostility for their niggling fouls, but the crowd didn’t come up with the goods today, that’s for sure.

There hasn't been for a long time Owl. I despair of my football club and it's sad little notices everywhere in Xtr colours.