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Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:39 pm

I have always said this vote is on a scale of one to ten.

Have to change it for this referee. Zero is an option and that's what I'm voting.

It's arguably the worst refereeing performance I have ever seen.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:41 pm

Can we put a -10 thought he was atrocious and really put our players at risk today,

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:42 pm

Awful.

Missed 3 red cards of which 2 were blatent.

Missed several fouls both ways.

Missed 2nd yellows in two occaisions for professional fouls.

Stopped a very dangerous Stockport attack being in the total wrong position and back to play.

Shite.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:42 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:I have always said this vote is on a scale of one to ten.

Have to change it for this referee. Zero is an option and that's what I'm voting.

It's arguably the worst refereeing performance I have ever seen.


Seen better refs at Welsh League divison 3 level

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:51 pm

A big fat zero, gutless ref

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:52 pm

This was a scarily bad performance from a so called professional referee. They got away with some awful challenges and it was obviously a game that was way above his level of ability. :evil: :evil: :evil:

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 2:54 pm

I have to agree. I rarely post but that was one of the worst refereeing performances I have seen in a long long time. Truly awful. Just hope the Salech injury is not as bad as it looks.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:00 pm

Just posted on the BBC HYS comments section, so far out of his depth. After the Salach injury he looked like a rabbit in car head lights at night. Too many wrong decisions to note, but I have as a club we make a complaint to the FL. And if there was a referee's assessor there today, I'd wan to see the report if I was BBM.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:00 pm

Ridiculous ref.
Minus 50

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:02 pm

I gave him 2,purely as high as that for stopping play when they were breaking and the ball hit him and he stopped play when he should have let it carry on as they were in possession, could have been trouble for City if he let it carry on. 9 on

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:03 pm

Zero, an absolute disgrace today, TWO deliberate elbows, one puts salech out for a while and the other on wintle, couldn't wait to card our players either

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:06 pm

worcester_ccfc wrote:I have always said this vote is on a scale of one to ten.

Have to change it for this referee. Zero is an option and that's what I'm voting.

It's arguably the worst refereeing performance I have ever seen.

This was beyond any reasonable doubt, the most disgracefully inept, seemingly bias, confusing refereeing performance to date; and we’ve had a few poor ones!

My mate Rob, a high level referee in his time, suggested it was one of those games the referee is having such a mare, he can’t wait to blow the final whistle!

Stockport’s ‘agitator-in-chief’, no.33 Hills, took more than full advantage and had the referee in his pocket all game! :oops:

Sadly, I’m not sure this absolute disgrace to his profession has the ‘wherewithal’ to appreciate the levels to which he stooped in this game! :banghead:

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:10 pm

Ten for fulfilling his " who's the wanker" in the black so well.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:14 pm

Should not be paid. Him and his 2 numpties

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:26 pm

Worst ref of the season.

Lost the game in the first 10 minutes.

If he is not suspended after this the no one will be.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:33 pm

Sky put the highlights up,left the salech injury out of it, no surprises there

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:45 pm

Definitely a zero didn't have a clue worst ref we've had this season and we've had a few!!!

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:46 pm

I am not one for complaining about refs, but he ruined the game.

He decided he was going let a bit go, Stockport were physical, grabbing and grappling at every encounter and he was happy with it until Salech's injury, then he lost and guessed every decision.

The Wintle elbow was as clear an elbow as i have ever seen. He either saw it and a red or never and no card, how that was a yellow was beyond normal refereeing. He lost the game and wanted out.

I think this may be his highest game he'll be given. That was appalling

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:48 pm

I was just thinking during the game. I don't watch a great deal of league one football outside of Cardiff games but do all clubs get stung with this sort of dog shit refereeing or do they save them especially for us? Poor from start to finish, only reason he stopped for Salech injury was that the Stockport players were shouting

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:13 pm

Some one has given him a 10 - must be a Jack on here :banghead:

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:05 pm

Thanks for adding a zero.

The ref needs to be investigated and relegated to the non leagues.

It wasn't just a bad performance with wrong decisions, his decisions endangered our players.

The Salech incident I can forgive, every defender uses their elbows to create space for heading clearances and it was unfortunate the way he fell on Salech.

The elbow on Wintle however was assault, how the referee missed that was a mystery.

The ref seemed to book our player for every mistimed challenge, even if it was an innocuous trip.

When a Stockport player blatently tripped our player when running through, he didn't card them.

The way the game was reffed and what the ref allowed the Stockport players to get away with allowed the game to get out of control with Stockport continually assaulting our players.

I read Pieluigi Collina's book and he said he booked a player early on in a big game because the game started fiesty. Collina commanded authority with the booking, telling the players to calm down.

We needed a strong ref to manage the game and to manage the Stockport players. This ref spectacularly failed to do that, allowing Stockport to get away with everything.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:17 pm

Zero is too kind for this clown. The worst ref I've seen in my 40 years.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:24 pm

D.A.C. wrote:Zero is too kind for this clown. The worst ref I've seen in my 40 years.


I just realized you wouldn't have been around for the Wales v Yugoslavia game when people wanted to get at the ref he was so bad & damn does that make me feel old. :old: :old: :old:

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:32 pm

worst referee since we played in the premier league.
league 1 refs are definitely worse than championship refs.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:45 pm

Welshman in CA wrote:
D.A.C. wrote:Zero is too kind for this clown. The worst ref I've seen in my 40 years.


I just realized you wouldn't have been around for the Wales v Yugoslavia game when people wanted to get at the ref he was so bad & damn does that make me feel old. :old: :old: :old:


That was brought up today with the older lads funny enough.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 6:18 pm

he's lucky to get zero

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 6:18 pm

The worse ref i have seen at the stadium for many a year,
completely ruined the game, cardiff should complain and get a review of it ,that ref is a liability to players safety absolutly shocking ,That defender was out to cancel salec out of the game at all costs and he succeeded.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 6:19 pm

Honest to god if I had a gun I would of shot that f*cking ref right in the head , A lot of us were really wanting to run on the pitch at the inept f*cking clown

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 6:20 pm

So far out of his depth he needed a lifeboat to stop from drowning.

Clueless and completely inept. Should be ashamed to receive any payment for that "performance".

Par for the course in this division unfortunately.

Re: Referee rating today

Sat Jan 24, 2026 7:26 pm

Absolute disgrace, shouldn't be refereeing in the football league based on what was witnessed today