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Author Topic: EFL Cup [Carabao Cup] - 2022/2023  (Read 23570 times)

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Re: EFL Cup [Carabao Cup] - 2022/2023
« Reply #105 on: Thu 16 Feb 2023 16:08 »
Quite surprising to see Coote’s name, as I would’ve predicted Hooper or Madley before him, but good luck to him and his team!

Hooper has had an excellent season so can maybe feel a little disheartened, but I also think he shouldn’t worry too much. He is 40 years old (if Google is correct), and I think it’s safe to say he won’t become a FIFA listed referee after not making the latest list. This means he can hopefully just keep going about his business and picking up good/excellent appointments in the PL, and become someone they can rely on for some of the big games.

Of course anything can happen in football and you want to be given the finals whilst you’re in good form and as soon as possible, however based on this season, Hooper is destined for both EFL and FA Cup Final, and hopefully he can go on for many years, so he will have the chances to get finals in the future.

Also, I thought there might be an outside chance for Scott to get this game, only because I’m (perhaps wrongly) assuming he may retire at the season’s end, although his league appointments certainly wouldn’t match being given a final.

Once more, good luck to Coote.

It is an interesting one about wanting to get a final as soon as possible. You certainly won't want to be way beyond your peak and of course there is always the risk of injury/major loss of form/circumstances going against you etc.

But I guess if you went back to 2014 or 2015 you'd probably say Anthony Taylor or Michael Oliver were better referees at that stage than Lee Probert/Jon Moss who refereed those finals. But I think you could say Taylor/Oliver clearly were not at their peak yet and had a lot of potential for further development and so I think it was reasonable to give them a few more years until 2017 and 2018 respectively when they both refereed their relevant cup finals well.

I certainly think that Madley has the potential for further growth as he builds up his experience and hopefully that will be true of Hooper too, especially given how much he seems to have improved over the last year or two. That's why my gut instinct is this was perhaps a year or two too early for both of them.
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