Mick
Life President
Tomorrow's referee is Graham Scott from Abingdon in Oxfordshire. He is in his 5th season as a Football League referee and makes his fifth visit to Roots Hall. (It would be his sixth, but the second didn't happen due to the appropriately Antarctic weather at the time.)
The first visit was the home JPT defeat by Orient in 2008/9. He has since done an away match at Gillingham - the Easter defeat in 2009/10 and then, more recently, last season's home game against Morecambe (a red card for Jevons and 2 yellows for them). Next he oversaw our abject performance in the home debacle against Bradford City. Finally we had our first win with him when we, and he, breezed through last season's 3-0 home win over Barnet. That was the match of course when Mohsni scored a hat-trick in about 20 minutes !! Whatever happened to him?
After Tuesday's decidedly average, or worse, performance from Attwell we have a strong referee who is tipped to make it to the upper echelons of refereeing. He is getting good appointments including televised games and his once high card count has dropped to average this season with 75 yellows and 4 reds from 27 games.
Certainly when I've seen him he has seemed a little over eager to reach for his cards, but his decisions were more right than wrong. He is an official I would always prefer to see doing our home matches.
We havent lost at home to Northampton for about 10 years; in fact it was a match when the wretched JJ Ross sent off Kevin Maher. Although the last two matches against Northampton have produced 13 goals, don't expect as much entertainment as we had in that great 4-4 draw back in '86.
Assisting Mr Scott will be David Rock, a qualified coach in many sports from Hertford and Paul Harris from Maidstone. Mike Blackledge from Peterborough is 4th Official.
Elsewhere in the refereeing world, Keith Hill who we all thought we'd seen the back off, has returned from Japan and referees his first come-back League match at Cheltenham - lucky them.
The first visit was the home JPT defeat by Orient in 2008/9. He has since done an away match at Gillingham - the Easter defeat in 2009/10 and then, more recently, last season's home game against Morecambe (a red card for Jevons and 2 yellows for them). Next he oversaw our abject performance in the home debacle against Bradford City. Finally we had our first win with him when we, and he, breezed through last season's 3-0 home win over Barnet. That was the match of course when Mohsni scored a hat-trick in about 20 minutes !! Whatever happened to him?
After Tuesday's decidedly average, or worse, performance from Attwell we have a strong referee who is tipped to make it to the upper echelons of refereeing. He is getting good appointments including televised games and his once high card count has dropped to average this season with 75 yellows and 4 reds from 27 games.
Certainly when I've seen him he has seemed a little over eager to reach for his cards, but his decisions were more right than wrong. He is an official I would always prefer to see doing our home matches.
We havent lost at home to Northampton for about 10 years; in fact it was a match when the wretched JJ Ross sent off Kevin Maher. Although the last two matches against Northampton have produced 13 goals, don't expect as much entertainment as we had in that great 4-4 draw back in '86.
Assisting Mr Scott will be David Rock, a qualified coach in many sports from Hertford and Paul Harris from Maidstone. Mike Blackledge from Peterborough is 4th Official.
Elsewhere in the refereeing world, Keith Hill who we all thought we'd seen the back off, has returned from Japan and referees his first come-back League match at Cheltenham - lucky them.
