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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Rate the Ref => Topic started by: The Red Baron on October 14, 2025, 04:50:21 pm

Title: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: The Red Baron on October 14, 2025, 04:50:21 pm
Referee: John Busby.
Assistants: Mark Russell and Matthew McGrath.
4th official: Dean Watson.
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: RobTheRover on October 15, 2025, 05:01:42 pm
He's reffed us 10 times and a mixed bag results wise.

4 wins
3 draws
3 defeats.

He doesn't look too card happy on our past record of games with him.
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: Hickleton Rover on October 18, 2025, 07:18:17 pm
I can't remember him having such a bad game in his past games involving us, but my God today he made ED THE DUCK look like a decent referee
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: Filo on October 18, 2025, 07:22:27 pm
Northampton goal offside but thats down to the lino, Middleton should have got a red card
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: drfchound on October 18, 2025, 07:25:48 pm
Incredibly poor ref today.
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: Champagne Super Rovers on October 18, 2025, 09:00:25 pm
I keep thinking we can't get any worse but then another humpty comes along and proves me wrong.  As a set of 3 officials I can't remember seeing any as bad.
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: idler on October 18, 2025, 09:01:33 pm
They also took a first half corner that went out by more than a ball width and curled back into play. The west stand lino stood at the corner flag just looked on and ignored it. He wasn’t too hot with his offsides a couple of times as well.
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: Donnywolf on October 18, 2025, 09:33:41 pm
The whole lot of them were pathetic but as I have said before MANY times,  the Players do not and did not help

However Busby was incompetent at best

And once again I say lets please please please lets have 30 timed minutes in each half and lose 80.pc of the s**t we endure EVERY SINGLE GAME
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: Dagenham Rover on October 18, 2025, 11:03:24 pm
Quote from: idler on October 18, 2025, 09:01:33 pm
They also took a first half corner that went out by more than a ball width and curled back into play. The west stand lino stood at the corner flag just looked on and ignored it. He wasn’t too hot with his offsides a couple of times as well.


It was well out and I sit exactly in line.
 I got the impression he's another ref that tells his linesmen I will make the decision
Title: Re: Rovers vs Northampton Town- 18/10/2025- John Busby
Post by: roversdude on October 18, 2025, 11:58:59 pm
Unfortunately (again) the least I can give him is zero
We were poor in the second half so not an excuse for losing but this team of officials mined some new depths of inadequacy. Their first goal looked a mile offside then the Lino seemed to make up his own version of the offside rule.
As my learned friend commented it was almost like busby had impeded the refs view of things