If we are chiming in personal impressions: I recall well his performance in the Newport vs. Forest Green playoff semifinal in 2019 - he stepped from fourth officials duty to take charge (appointed ref was injured iirc) and unfortunately he made a big mess of the game. He 'bottled' (and this is a fair to term to use) an early RC to a Newport player for DOGSO, before later wrongly awarding them a penalty. He had other troubles too. Understandable to not be fully mentally ready for such a key fixture at short notice, but still, he was verrryyy poor on that evening (enough to stay very clearly in my mind!).
Would that match so clearly in your mind be Newport's semi-final with Mansfield or Forest Green's one with Tranmere ? 
Hahahahaha - yes indeed, my mistake. I watched all five playoff matches from League 2 that season, so excuse my error!
From just memory (already proven to be faulty
):
Breakspear: in principle good style but many things went wrong in this match for the replacement ref -
1) bottled DOGSO RC early, yellow given
2) really weird incident where an attacking freekick was cancelled at least a minute after it given (wall set up etc), offside restart
3) completely wrong penalty given
4) too lenient approach, then he tried to slow the game down at the end with warnings when players wanted to get on with it(!!)
Ilderton: simply faultless and excellent performance in normal difficulty game (also thx to him!), quite correct SYC for tactical foul; actually this experienced ref's last game ever, he went out at the top!
Busby: incredibly lenient foul recognition which both teams accepted without dissent, but the game got out of control as a consequence; one correctly given RC but I recalled that more should have followed, not a good performance
Salisbury: very good performance with appropriately strict disciplinary measures; reminds me of top Daniel Siebert, Salisbury jr. is a very big talent IMO
Joyce: not my favourite kind of refereeing (not consistent disciplinary choices, too many verbal warnings) but I'm sure that FA/PGMOL would have been very happy overall
but then he missed clear penalty to Newport at ≈88' (assistant flagged for later offside, ref panicked and went with offside, was clear foul) and they rejected his performance; if not for this mistake, I'm certain he'd have gotten SG2....
A real mixed bag!
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