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Fri 11th Sep 2020
Watford FC (First Team) v MIDDLESBROUGH (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Stroud, Keith
Assistant Referee: Lugg, Nigel
Assistant Referee: Cooper, Ian
Fourth Official: Smith, Joshua

Sat 12th Sep 2020
AFC Bournemouth (First Team) v Blackburn Rovers FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Ward, Gavin
Assistant Referee: Kane, Graham
Assistant Referee: Gill, Bhupinder
Fourth Official: Waters, Adrian

Barnsley FC (First Team) v Luton Town (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Gillett, Jarred
Assistant Referee: Aspinall, Natalie
Assistant Referee: Hodskinson, Paul
Fourth Official: Webb, David

Birmingham City F C (First Team) v Brentford FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Harrington, Tony
Assistant Referee: Hudson, Shaun
Assistant Referee: Dermott, Philip
Fourth Official: Salisbury, Michael

Bristol City (First Team) v Coventry City FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Brooks, John
Assistant Referee: Greenhalgh, Nick
Assistant Referee: Howson, Akil
Fourth Official: Crysell, Adam

Cardiff City FC (First Team) v Sheffield Wednesday FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Madley, Andrew
Assistant Referee: Lennard, Harry
Assistant Referee: Smart, Edward
Fourth Official: Pottage, Mark

Derby County FC (First Team) v Reading FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Bond, Darren
Assistant Referee: Russell, Mark
Assistant Referee: Byrne, George
Fourth Official: Langford, Oliver

Huddersfield Town FC (First Team) v Norwich City FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Eltringham, Geoff
Assistant Referee: Merchant, Robert
Assistant Referee: Taylor, Craig
Fourth Official: Doughty, Leigh

Millwall FC (First Team) v Stoke City FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Simpson, Jeremy
Assistant Referee: Hyde, Robert
Assistant Referee: Fitch-Jackson, Carl
Fourth Official: Whitestone, Dean

Preston North End FC (First Team) v Swansea City FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Jones, Robert
Assistant Referee: Holmes, Adrian
Assistant Referee: Mainwaring, James
Fourth Official: Wild, Richard

Queens Park Rangers FC (First Team) v Nottingham Forest F.C. (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Robinson, Tim
Assistant Referee: Fox, Andrew
Assistant Referee: Venamore, Lee
Fourth Official: Lewis, Sam  Lugg, Nigel

Wycombe Wanderers FC (First Team) v Rotherham United FC (First Team)
Football League Championship    
Referee: Linington, James
Assistant Referee: Smith, Wade
Assistant Referee: Jones, Matthew
Fourth Official: Donohue, Matthew

Disappointing to see Stroud get the opener after the play-off game last season.

The SG2 list has half been updated for the new season - https://www.efl.com/clubs-and-competitions/match-officials/select-group-two-officials/select-group-2-match-officials/

I say half because the new people have been added but Jones/England are still on the list - their attempts at doing it alphabetically aren't fully successful either! How hard can it be to put a list of names together?!

James Adcock isn't on it.

As per last season, James Linington is still not listed.

Also the last part of Michael Salisbury's profile is a copy and paste effort from Josh Smith.

Instead of starting a thread on a specific referee which probably no one has seen as it isn't live on sky/bt, probably best to just add a comment about the relevant SG2 game in the weekly appointments.

Geoff Eltringham (Huddersfield v Norwich) missed two fairly clear penalties,oh for VAR! which after the game he apologised to the Norwich manager for missing and also failing to give Cantwell a red (only a yellow) for leading with his elbow, thankfully no VAR!

It's so good to be back in the Championship!

Are you sure that your friends are not conflating the two ex-FL referees' named Singh?  In my experience (I worked with both) Jarnail was much better than his namesake.

Are you sure that your friends are not conflating the two ex-FL referees' named Singh?  In my experience (I worked with both) Jarnail was much better than his namesake.

Yes we know them apart. Jarnail saved all his dreadful games for Dean Court - it was not a happy ground for him.

Unusual incident at Pride Park.  The first time the ball went out of play at the start of the second half Darren Bond went over to talk to his fourth official Ollie Langford as Derby had brought on a substitute at half time without informing the officials.  The player, Nathan Byrne, was duly summoned and cautioned. Byrne was making his debut for Derby having joined from Wigan a few days earlier so received a yellow card in the first minute of his debut for the club.

I have seen a comment on line saying the yellow card was incorrect in law but I am not certain if that is correct.

Quote from: Game of Throw Ins on Mon 14 Sep 2020 10:36

Unusual incident at Pride Park.  The first time the ball went out of play at the start of the second half Darren Bond went over to talk to his fourth official Ollie Langford as Derby had brought on a substitute at half time without informing the officials.  The player, Nathan Byrne, was duly summoned and cautioned. Byrne was making his debut for Derby having joined from Wigan a few days earlier so received a yellow card in the first minute of his debut for the club.

I have seen a comment on line saying the yellow card was incorrect in law but I am not certain if that is correct.

The yellow card was incorrect:

Law 3.5
If a substitution is made during the half-time interval or before extra time, the procedure must be completed before the match restarts.  If the referee is not informed, the named substitute may continue to play, no disciplinary action is taken and the matter is reported to the appropriate authorities.

Oh dear, very bad for a professional referee to be getting that wrong!