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Would it not have been quicker to ask Jamie Davidson's guys to wander over and have a word?
Maybe even take a machine or two?

Quote from: Mrs Warbouys on June 17, 2021, 06:12:11 PM

They’ve been moved on, and met up with loads of others on Broadheath central, but will be off there soon as the court papers arrive so we need to be careful

The performance of last night's referee was one of the best I've seen at this level. You can nitpick all you like about this player should have been booked or he missed a foul at some point, but there were two hugely-important decisions that had a massive influence on the game, and he got both spot-on. Refs are often praised for playing advantage when it's actually an obvious thing to do, but last night's wasn't. It was quite a bad foul, for one thing, which could easily have prompted a hasty whistle, and, in addition, I didn't think the advantage was all that apparent to begin with. Tom Peers was confronted by a couple of defenders and, for a moment at least, didn't particularly seem to have the ball completely under control. Again, the whistle could easily have gone, but it didn't, and we know what happened next. For the penalty that wasn't, he had to be in a good enough position to judge and be able to make his mind up in a split-second on first viewing in real time. Up on the gantry, we were able to confirm he'd got that one right as well, though only after we'd had the benefit of a replay on the TV screen. You can pick on free-kicks he may have missed, but we're talking about two decisions that had to be right or we'd have lost. In fact, just one wrong, and it would have cost us the game. He got both right, and I think that's why Shaun Densmore went up to him all smiles at the end and delivered what looked very much like a heartfelt well done.