A game that needed a strong referee, got one who struggled throughout - random foul detection & sanctions, no control/authority and it ended up with players taking it into their own hands.
In the first 10 mins, he gave a corner wrongly to Stoke when 10-15 yards from play, only for an assistant to tell him to reverse his decision to the correct one from the other side of the pitch. That set the tone.
Too many times West Brom players nudged or backed into a Stoke player when they were in mid air. This resulted in an injury to Hoever, which looked like a winding from a heavy landing, soon ran it off. But there was a serious injury to Ben Wilmot, who landed on his neck/head. Wilmot down but Woolmer strolled over casually before waving the medical team on - a few mins later they were gesturing for a stretcher for Woolmer to be wagging his finger at them. The stretcher was eventually allowed on and Wilmot carried off with oxygen. Still waiting for assessment at hospital.
Woolmer lost the plot from there giving soft free-kicks for minimal contact then missing obvious heavy challenges. And did very little about the time-wasting that saw him decide to show Ben Pearson a second yellow for a) taking it into his own hands by throwing the ball at Furlong twice, who just let it hit him and bounce back to delay the restart - no sanctions for Furlong's actions & b) dissent.
It's the third time I've seen him this year and they've all been below par but this one was seriously concerning as he was endangering the safety of the players with some of his decision making, or at times, lack of it. He struggles to get around the pitch and is too far from incidents.
The fact the managers described him as the pantomime villain and Alex Neil saying "one of the worst refereeing performances in senior football" summed up it.
Good luck to the Exeter and Derby players on Tuesday night, you'll need it if he's as inept as he was today.