Can't we judge him after the southport game? He might have improved his refing. We don't have any say on the choice of referee so we have to put up with it
Last night I thought that was one of the worst performances by a ref this season. But thinking about it he got the key decisions right by law. The 2 sending-offs were justified, but I think he could have prevented the sending-offs with better man-management. The penalty seemed to be the correct decision, though the assistant didn't flag for the penalty when he had the best view(but he might have communicated with the ref in another way). He played a good advantage in the first half after a foul on an Alty player which we could scored from. Though also in the first half he should cautioned the southport player when he brought down Nicky Clee after he when clear of him. He also made many strange decisions in the game which seemed to wind-up everyone.
Hopefully Mr Joyce will get promoted to the football league list so we don't have to put up with again. If he is the referee development officer for Northumberland then God help us all if he is teaching the future refs from the North East.