What an absolutely ridiculous appointment for such a high pressure game,do we have any reasonable action we can take to ask for them to change the official? We need an experienced ref for this fixture not a jumped up kid that likes to be the star of the show.....
Put simply Pete - NO.
Once a situation is reached where a Club can attempt to influence which official is or isn't appointed to one of their fixtures then the game is over.
Also, if we objected to each Referee with whose decisions we may have disagreed then we'd never have a Referee again
Incidentally I am advised that we may not have to fulminate against Mr Joyce for much longer as he is under consideration for promotion to the National List. His marks, I believe, have been very good as have his performances on the FL Line