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Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:16 pm

Thought the ref yesterday was by the far the best we've had this season. Shows the gulf in class between championship and premiership with officials as well as players.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 3:42 pm

hotwings wrote:Thought the ref yesterday was by the far the best we've had this season. Shows the gulf in class between championship and premiership with officials as well as players.

Agreed he had a good game :ayatollah:

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 6:02 pm

hotwings wrote:Thought the ref yesterday was by the far the best we've had this season. Shows the gulf in class between championship and premiership with officials as well as players.


I would give him 9 out of 10, he let the game flow, good example was our goal, when their player went down along with one of ours, he knew he wasn't badly injured and let the game carry on. He was very clam and collected and both sets of players respected him for this, Just wish we could have him every week majority of our Refs at the CCS have been below par :ayatollah:

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:01 pm

Top ref,by far the best all season.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:31 pm

Yep, started a thread on it yesterday, and had plenty of replies all agreeing. Top class performance, old school as f**k.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:39 pm

Played 3 advantages in first 20 mins, makes such a difference when it's obvious players respected him and were having a laugh & joke with him

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:42 pm

Awesome referee......feel a bit better there are refs like him about.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:49 pm

He was fantastic yesterday. Was surprised to see him, in all honesty - what with him being a regular PL man.

How many Championship games has he worked on this season?

:ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah: :ayatollah:

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 7:51 pm

Valley Lad wrote:Played 3 advantages in first 20 mins, makes such a difference when it's obvious players respected him and were having a laugh & joke with him


His advantage playing is first class fair play, like a rugby referee. Lets it go and then if no real advantage pulls it back.

They fast track fools like Michael Oliver and send Halsey down to the championship. The FA are idiotic on times.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:28 pm

agree, different class compared to the joker we had who let palace foul us like there was no tommorow :ayatollah:

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:38 pm

A very good ref, imho. May be the club [supporters] should have an award for best reff of the year.

Re: Mark Halsey

Sun Dec 30, 2012 11:07 pm

If a ref gets one good review on here you know hes had a good game :lol: :ayatollah:

Re: Mark Halsey

Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:59 am

I said at the time just how different the ref was against Millwall to the prick who ruined the game versus Palace.

The first guy whistled at everything and could work out who was conning him (Conway, mostly!) and made the game stop - start. I didn't realise it was Halsey but you could see he was 'managing' the game not just whistling at everything.

Probably the best performance of the day!

Re: Mark Halsey

Mon Dec 31, 2012 9:14 am

Definitely had a good game, and always has been a great ref, others could learn a thing or two off of him the way he plays advantage.

Saw him chatting to the people in the disabled area at the front of the ninian stand, seems like quite a good guy too!