2 poor referees in a week

mmmm. conspiracy theory...

charltonman2016 said:

So Linington on Wednesday who has sent boywer off and donohue Saturday who has sent boywer off!!!  Good job Lee is in the stands!!! 😂 😂 😂 

With our track record with crap officials one of them will probably accuse Lord Bowyer of instructing his staff to abuse them and show him a red-and-blue-striped card, banishing him to the hell that is Selhurst.

soapboxsam said:

doronron said:

At least there an improvement on last year's lot 

Afraid not doronron.
James Linington was poor in the two homes games he did last season at the valley. 
The Peterborough match where he was the only person who thought Lewis Page fouled the forward in the box which resulted in a defeat and another game we won when he disallowed a goal from a corner when a defender knocked his own keeper. Many other strange decisions in both matches.

The ref on Saturday was whistle happy but he played the advantage rule well and i assume he got the JFC booking correct as I couldn't see it clearly ?

The JFC booking was harsh. I didn't think he dived but nor was it a pen; it looked to me like Jake lost his balance after being on the end of a number of challenges during his charge into the box.

That's how I called it at the time and I haven't seen any footage of the incident.

Saturday's ref seemed to give plenty to Derby but not to Charlton ... although that may be me wearing my Addick-tinted glasses again!

Over all I think the standard at home games has been pretty good this season with most of them keen to try and let the game flow. On Saturday the ref ignored a lot of Derby's tragic attempts to con him after losing possession. Haven't seen any replay of the JFC "dive" but I trusted his judgement based on his general handling of the game. There are going to be a few victims of misjudgements with these offences but if that's what it takes to stop the constant diving for penalties, I'll accept those. 

Haven't been to many aways this term but the guy at Reading was laughable, somehow being swayed by a home crowd that barely created a whisper. Even he at least gave us our pen.

The Bowyer incident v Brum was clearly badly dealt with but at some point we're probably going to have to accept that they're not all wrong - he was no saint as a player and does like to get in their ears; I've heard his discussions with officials even in friendlies! Again, I'll take that if it contributes to his incredible success. 

Should be titled 23 poor referees in a season!

charltonman2016 said:

Matt Donohue who has already taken charge of 3 games this season (Barnsley and West brom away) (Birmingham at home)  will be our referee once again on Saturday at QPR. Everyone put your money on a manager or a player to be sent off. Loves a red card and giving naby sarr soft penalties 😂😂😂

Hopefully he can tell the players apart this time

Does highlight the growing lack of Professional Referees within the top leagues

Few years ago it would have been crazy to have had an official more than once a season let alone four times

We got our first foul after 19 minutes. He literally gave them everything until then.

I think I've only seen us have maybe 3 decent refs all season which is even more worrying!

ForeverAddickted said:

Good old Keith Stroud in charge on Boxing Day

EFL paying us back for Roland's latest rant surely!!

The football equivalent of a couple of bits of coal in your Christmas stocking instead of a shiny new Play Station (other gaming consoles are available).

Bit remarkable really... Currently writing the preview for tomorrow

Referee will be Peter Bankes - Has taken charge of one other Charlton game this season: Charlton v Swansea!!

As a reminder this is the bloke that Bowyer questioned about being mates with Steve Cooper!!