Mick
Life President
Well here goes, hopefully the last refwatch for a few months.
I often start of with a summary of our record against the opposition; I won't bother on this occasion.
Anyway, the referee in charge of Saturday's big match is fourth year official, James Adcock a 30 year old PE teacher from Long Eaton in Nottinghamshire.
This will be his fourth Southend match and first one away from Roots Hall.
I'm tempted not to mention it, but the first one was what we hoped would be the final match of the season 2011/12 against Macclesfield at home. We won and he cautioned Timlin and a couple of theirs.
More recently, he refereed 2012/13's dire 0-0 against York. He did rather well and there were no cards.
Then, a match which will be bettered remembered, our 4-1 Cup win against Millwall last year when, again, he did rather well. Three cautions apiece and a red for them (White, Leonard and Atkinson were our yellows).
He refereed the Conference Play Off final a few years ago between AFC Wimbledon and Luton in front of nearly 20,000 supporters. In his first ever League match, a Development (trial) appointment, he sent off three players (2 from Maccs, 1 from Wycombe) in stoppage time.
He is highly rated and tipped to progress to the Premiership. As a result he is getting loads of Championship appointments and his yellow card count is average with 115 yellows from 36 games. Reds are a bit high with 9, but he gets quite a lot of key matches.
His assistants are Martin Coy from Durham and one time barman and now News Editor from Northwich, James Wilson. Neil Sharp from Hartlepool stands by as 4th official.
I often start of with a summary of our record against the opposition; I won't bother on this occasion.
Anyway, the referee in charge of Saturday's big match is fourth year official, James Adcock a 30 year old PE teacher from Long Eaton in Nottinghamshire.
This will be his fourth Southend match and first one away from Roots Hall.
I'm tempted not to mention it, but the first one was what we hoped would be the final match of the season 2011/12 against Macclesfield at home. We won and he cautioned Timlin and a couple of theirs.
More recently, he refereed 2012/13's dire 0-0 against York. He did rather well and there were no cards.
Then, a match which will be bettered remembered, our 4-1 Cup win against Millwall last year when, again, he did rather well. Three cautions apiece and a red for them (White, Leonard and Atkinson were our yellows).
He refereed the Conference Play Off final a few years ago between AFC Wimbledon and Luton in front of nearly 20,000 supporters. In his first ever League match, a Development (trial) appointment, he sent off three players (2 from Maccs, 1 from Wycombe) in stoppage time.
He is highly rated and tipped to progress to the Premiership. As a result he is getting loads of Championship appointments and his yellow card count is average with 115 yellows from 36 games. Reds are a bit high with 9, but he gets quite a lot of key matches.
His assistants are Martin Coy from Durham and one time barman and now News Editor from Northwich, James Wilson. Neil Sharp from Hartlepool stands by as 4th official.
