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Yep, like yesterday's ref, yet silence š¤
The referee
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He was excellent yesterday. As were his linesman
Apart from the weird refusal to make players take set pieces from where the ball went out or foul occurred he was barely noticeable
Yes, agree with this Ref had a good game and witnessing the previous game with the Lady Ref, it would appear to be as important for them to be a good team. Her linesman on the Finney was really poor and absolutely no help to her.
Yesterdays seemed a good team, although in retrospect i don't think that there were any contentious decisions to give.
I bet they hope every game is as easy.
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Perhaps it should have more to do with performance than demographics? Seems to work better.
Not sure if it does work this way but you would presume that an inexperienced Ref would have experienced linesmen/assistants and vice versa.
You couldnāt make it up.
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I agree, daft init!
The game is well over a hundred years old and its taken this long to realise that someone from the other 50% is actually capable of reffing at top level.
They should be embarrased that theyre only now, in2024, inducting the first female ref into the hall of fame.
Her performance at Deepdale was laughable. Thats all Iām going on. I knew youād think this is a great achievement earned completely on merit and not box tickery.
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there could only ever be one first ever female ref, in the prem, im not sure how thats box ticking.
She was no worse than some of the refs we see and better than a whole lot of them.
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Box tickery?
Superdrug sells cream that should sort that out.
Superdrug sells cream that should sort that out.
She is right near the bottom of the long list of turgid referees weāve had.
Yes there could only be one first female premier league referee, but how on earth did Rebecca get to be that one. Certainly not through her ability. She couldnāt keep up with a championship game. Sheās no chance at all in the premier league.
I respect your stance on all things feminism Phil, but please give it a rest on this one. She was utterly garbage.
Sudocrem never lets me down š
reading comments from fans of other clubs it seems it wasn't a 1 off where she had a bad game, it seems she's the same most weeks, I'm all for giving women a chance if they're good enough, but she does seem to just be ticking a box at the moment and not there on ability
She was no worse than some of the Refs, equally, she was no better.
Not sure if that's the right criteria, to be as bad as a lot of the Men.
It does have to be said though, that in the recent game at Deepdale her linesman on the Finney side was absolutely useless, and gave her no help whatsoever.
when your team is going through a period of turgid football or your team just cannot score it becomes easy to direct your frustration at the officials, this year has seen a succession of shite linesmen giving any ref no support.
Sounds like a Linux command.
Not just the losers though @billymac.
This is the only way itāll get better. When the winning teams complain.
I am not really bothered but I do feel the misogynists pile in on this and just show themselves up for the arseholes they really are.
Not sure what you mean there. This thread is full of people comparing her to the male refs as a referee not a woman. She was shocking, she couldnāt keep up with a championship game when we were playing sideways and backwards.
Sian Massey should be inducted. Sheās done far more than Rachel and performed much better.
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100% agree with this