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« on: Today at 01:40 pm »
Something we also need to consider is if these quality referees get promoted to SG1, they will need replacing as well. I think Duckworth, Reeves, Finnie and Corlett are all in the mix considering they have all been given Championship games this season.
Do any EFL supporters have anyone who they think they should be promoted? I don’t tend to watch L1/2 so I won’t make too much of a comment.
Good point. Based on appointments received I would say that the names you mention are indeed current favourites for SG2. I also think Jacob Miles is somewhere on the radar and perhaps Ben Speedie though I think his star has somewhat waned recently
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« on: Today at 10:55 am »
Some SG2 seem to get promoted to SG1 relatively quickly; others seem to be knocking on the door for ages before they are finally admitted. I would cite the example of Sam Barrott in the former category and Tim Robinson in the latter.
I would say the front runners for promotion to SG1 at the moment ( and I put them in some sort of merit order ) are Farai Hallam, Andrew Kitchen, Tom Kirk and Matt Donohue. Maybe Josh Smith is one of those who has been knocking on the door and will get his promotion but I think the fact that he hasn't been appointed to a Premiership fixture yet this season doesn't bode particularly well. Although he has had injury problems I would have thought that the authorities have seen enough of Josh Smith by now to make an informed decision as to whether they want him in SG1 and it appears, up to now at any rate, that they don't.
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« on: Thu 26 Feb 2026 14:53 »
Still no Sam Allison in the appointments … thought he was the next big thing?
I think that ship has well and truly sailed, he’s found closer to league one than the Premier League now. Probably 10 SG2 officials in front of him now.
On his day Sam Allison is a great referee; the trouble is his days don't come round often enough. I have some sympathy with him; at a much lower level the same could ( and indeed was ) said about me. The difference possibly is that I was never really looking to climb very high up the refereeing ladder.
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« on: Thu 19 Feb 2026 22:49 »
Richard Eley's a new one for me. What can you tell me about him?
His match, Bolton Wanderers v Blackpool would, years ago, have been one of the huge fixtures in the old top Division. Sic transit gloria mundi
And would have attracted SG1 or SG2 attention…
I'm not really sure how matches were allotted in the 1940s and 1950s, there seemed to be a spread of top fixtures among a much wider group of referees than there is now, though I would have thought a game of this magnitude would have been given to a well established referee.
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« on: Thu 19 Feb 2026 19:53 »
Richard Eley's a new one for me. What can you tell me about him?
His match, Bolton Wanderers v Blackpool would, years ago, have been one of the huge fixtures in the old top Division. Sic transit gloria mundi
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« on: Thu 19 Feb 2026 19:47 »
I hope you're better soon.
Concussion can often lead to a spell of feinting I'll get my coat
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« on: Thu 19 Feb 2026 15:54 »
Darren Drysdale, a solid enough referee on his day, has been on the National List ( or whatever it's called these days ) since 2004. This must be a record. I believe he is the only current serving referee who appears in Upton which was published in 2005. Drysdale has been involved in one or two very controversial incidents in his career but his longevity is remarkable and to be celebrated.
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« on: Wed 18 Feb 2026 16:35 »
There’s no winning in these situations for me. If you call games off early, it saves travel but in some cases you just can’t tell how playable the pitch is. Or the weather that causes the postponement might not hit until the afternoon of the match. As another poster notes, the match official might have been working or had other commitments and couldn’t attend until matchday.
If you call off every game that is predicted to have bad enough weather, you’ll end up with major fixture congestion. I know some clubs at National League level hardly have a Tuesday free until the end of the season now.
Sometimes things are just unfortunate and have to be accepted as bad luck.
Easy win in this situation ....... play the game.
Both teams and managers wanted to play. Coverage of the training session, which the crowd were invited to stay and watch showed a perfectly playable pitch. No groundsman would allow his pitch to be trashed for a training session if it was really waterlogged. Some referees are far to precious about the state of their pitches. Yes, I know a challenging pitch sometimes makes for a more difficult game to referee. Tough ... get on with it.
Yes I agree there is too much erring on the side of caution and the default position is to play the game if at all possible. One day of course there will be a sliding tackle on a very wet pitch and a player gets his leg badly broken. Who is to blame ? Why the referee of course for such a terrible and reckless decision to let the game go ahead in dangerous conditions. Damned if you do and damned if you don't but of course every referee knows that is part of the territory of officiating. It's amazing though how those most vocal in wanting a match to go ahead are the biggest moaners if one of their players gets injured.
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« on: Tue 17 Feb 2026 17:29 »
I watched this match on TV, as an Ipswich Town supporter not really knowing which team I wanted to win or whether a draw would be best. Only the fullness of time will reveal that. Thomas Bramall is a referee whose style I like though I have to say that once or twice during the first half I thought he should have acted in a more assertive way and make it visibly clear ( I'm sure he did with his voice ) that he was putting up with no nonsense. However, it turned out that he refereed the match very well.
The pundit, Dowie was it, clearly had an anti-referee bias and was spouting ludicrous nonsense. At one point the even tried to defend the clear handball and say it shouldn't be a penalty. Whatever decision Bramall gave, Dowie deliberately chose to take a contrary view. Pathetic; he's not a tenth as good a pundit as Bramall is a referee and once of twice the match commentator was somewhat embarrassed by his drivel.
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« on: Thu 12 Feb 2026 08:10 »
He had a dear brother, young Vaux,
With curly and lustrous blond locks;
They'd many a fight
As to what was the right
Way to speak their name with true vox.
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« on: Wed 11 Feb 2026 22:56 »
I once had a colleague called Vaux
And was he a stickler ? O lawks !
So proud of his name
He'd not 'play the game'
When introduced wrongly at talks.
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« on: Wed 11 Feb 2026 22:45 »
I once had a colleague called Vaux and he pronounced it the 'forks' way though he wasn't a Yorkshireman but from the Home Counties
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« on: Tue 10 Feb 2026 19:30 »
Graham Scott has said on TalkSport how he felt very sorry and very sympathetic towards Pawson and how Pawson would’ve hated every second of that. I think most referees agree with this how he would’ve hated having to send someone off instead of giving a goal and all of them logistics involved in that decision, but Scott rightly mentioned how he had no choice, which was also correct.
It’s nice to see Scott sort of giving some insights into refereeing post-retirement.
He seems to be a very good refereeing commentator and makes remarks in a dignified, logical and calm manner.
Hackett take note!
Graham Scott is courteous and a gentleman. His professional life outside football was to do with editing magazine publications so he is comfortable with and proficient using the written word.
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« on: Sun 08 Feb 2026 21:48 »
Let us know if and when you get home safely JCFC
From the lips (fingertips?) of a less charitable person (me, for example) I might have been tempted to view this request as a sardonic dig at my habit of boring you with irrelevant travel details. Gayle, however, seems a genuinely good-hearted soul, so I shall take it at face value.
The timings and seat reservations worked perfectly to plan. It was not the most enjoyable of journeys though, the seats on the replacement coach having impossibly little legroom. As ever, the weekend cross-country service was woefully overcrowded, with the aisles solidly packed with people standing from Birmingham to Sheffield.
Back in Brighouse at 17.35, I somehow forgot my way home for a while, Richard Oastler providing me with Pasta Alfredo and a pint of Acorn's oddly named Decades 60s.
I read it as a genuine and solicitous enquiry from bmb, a concern for others' welfare is to be expected from that quarter. Were it to be written by me then it would not be unreasonable to doubt motive but not from this source. The vagaries of timetables, itineraries and travel arrangements contribute greatly to the enjoyment of reading Pyramid Patrol and I'm sure are overwhelmingly received in the spirit in which they are offered.
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« on: Thu 05 Feb 2026 11:48 »
TTFL, I speak only for myself and not, of course, for JCFC but your use of the term "literary" is indeed generous and "fine" is simply inaccurate !
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