Cheltenham Town vs. Rovers- 5/4/2025- Carl Brook

[The Red Baron]

Referee: Carl Brook.
Assistants: Harley Hetherington & Declan O'Shea.
4th official: Matthew Russell.

[The Red Baron]

Bump

[donnyguy]

The ref from the 4-2 home win against Barrow- with the pitch invasion.

[Filo]

Zero from me, just because he is a member of the Don’t give Rovers a Penalty Club

[drfchound]

I thought he was okay.
In his favour was the sending off, it had to be following the tackle that brought about the second yellow but we know that refs are sometimes loath to give those second bookings.
Against him though was not giving a pen for the foul on Street.
Overall he seemed to be in control of the game.

[Donnywolf]

As above a plus and a minus . The sending off actually benefitted us (eventually) but we were so close to pointing to the Penalty and saying we wuzz robbed weren't we ?

I would like to see what Rate the Ref marks on CTFC Forum looked like

I'll give him 2 for having the B***s to produce the Second Yellow as joking apart it was in the context of what had gone before a deffo Yellow Card , in fact many Refs would have been reaching for a straight Ref

One observation .... I have advocated a Ref in each half for ages and perhaps this bloke would have benefitted. He looked an out of condition , one paced behind play kind of Ref trying to keep up with on average speedy , young honed athletes and was constantly way behind play

[idler]

As above a plus and a minus . The sending off actually benefitted us (eventually) but we were so close to pointing to the Penalty and saying we wuzz robbed weren't we ?

I would like to see what Rate the Ref marks on CTFC Forum looked like

I'll give him 2 for having the B***s to produce the Second Yellow as joking apart it was in the context of what had gone before a deffo Yellow Card , in fact many Refs would have been reaching for a straight Ref

One observation .... I have advocated a Ref in each half for ages and perhaps this bloke would have benefitted. He looked an out of condition , one paced behind play kind of Ref trying to keep up with on average speedy , young honed athletes and was constantly way behind play

Two refs would only work if they had exactly the same view on things. Imagine one ref dishing cards out for fun and the other letting almost everything go? It would be chaos.