Ref Watch 01/02/25: Championship - OUFC V Bristol City

[Northstandboy]

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How was Oliver Langford's performance?​

 

[SamLongSlidingTackle]

How was Oliver Langford's performance?​

s**t!

 

[Essexyellows]

Its a poor 4 from me.

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Four minutes added time is genuinely one of the most disgraceful things I’ve ever seen from a referee at an Oxford match. Four. Minutes. Four.

Four yellow cards. A red card. A goal. Multiple substitutions. A huge amount of time wasting.

Six minutes would have been an absolute minimum. Seven or eight wouldn’t have been unreasonable.

Four is almost a joke. He may as well have added zero.

 

[BrockBuster]

Maybe the worst of the season for me. Just seemed clueless and made it about him.

 

[Northernyellow]

1/10. The 1 was for wearing the right kit. Should have stopped their endless time wasting. He was also over fussy and inconsistent

 

[TobyDavis34]

My first zero. Objectively Greg Leigh was lucky to stay on in the first half, and the Red v Vaulks probably wasn’t.

But then, the added time, the loss of control of the game, the decision with Helik that cost us the equaliser… so so so much wrong.

Useless

 

[chuckbert]

2/10 his decisions changed the shape of the game more than the actions of the players.

 

[BicesterU]

Utterly useless. Can’t believe he’ll go home tonight and think he’s had anything but a shocker. Summed up by booking someone for time-wasting after 93 minutes, which was both 45 minutes too late, and completely inconsequential at that stage if the game.

Two cynical trips on Dembele within in the first few minutes that were nailed on yellows if they’d been 25 minutes into the game.

Desperate to get involved when he didn’t need to, and refused to get involved when he should’ve.

Hope someone has let his tyres down.

 

[Northstandboy]

Manning also said he had a poor game for both teams.

4 mins for 2 reds, 2 goals and loads of subs + wasting!

 

[Berliner]

All been said above. Second red was OK, but apart from that he got every major decision (and many less major) wrong and had no control of the game at any stage.

 

[Steve Gilbert]

He was shocking and that says something when he sent 2 of their players off.
An embarrassing performance for a Championship ref.

 

[QR]

He ruined what could have been a far more entertaining game with his inconsistent and plainly wrong decisions.

Rodrigues clearly had his shirt pulled on the edge of their box which would have give a great goal scoring opportunity - nothing given. Helik challenge on their player- freekick given leading to their goal.

Numerous examples of time wasting a run of substitutions and he only adds 4 minutes.

Put simply the ref shouldn't be a factor in the result and he was.

 

[Oxford57]

Just awful, I gave him 1 as he managed to get to the ground

 

[Foley]

Very poor.
Incredibly inconsistent and 4 minutes added on was ridiculous.
Bristol City did make the game difficult to referee.
3 fouls in the first 2 minutes really set out their stall. Add their diving and clutching their heads....

 

[chromeyellow]

I can't see how anyone can be complaining about the first red. Out of control, off the ground, could have caused serious injury

 

[Foley]

I can't see how anyone can be complaining about the first red. Out of control, off the ground, could have caused serious injury

Manning suggested that these days it is probably a red.

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Can I just point out:

This was a game which had two goals, six yellow cards, two red cards, eight corners and five substitution windows, lots of time wasting and even a yellow card specifically for time wasting.

There was a total of 5 added minutes across the whole game. Five. The ref added on a total of five minutes for the time lost for that.

 

[matt3009]

all we ask for is consistency, unfortunately we got someone who was consistently bad!, didn't think the first red was a red, yellow at best and seeing it again wouldn't changer that opinion, 2nd red was all about who go there first, no issues with that, but the whole time wasting and added time, or lack thereof was baffling, probably an over generous 4

 

[Pgyellow]

He had no control because his decisions were so arbitrary and caused most of the problems thereafter. Terrible terrible refereeing. The players had no confidence in him and therefore constantly pushed their luck. The time wasting was horrendous and allowed to just get worse and worse.

 

[Andy Stroud]

What happened to the time wasting initiative where we were playing 10+ minutes because EVERY attempt at slowing the game down was taken into account?
Are the TV schedules to blame?

 

[Wicko]

Worst of the season and given that’s a fairly low bar to start with, a shockingly bad performance. I thought he got the first red right but very little else. The time added on in both halves was laughable or would have been if it wasn’t to our detriment.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Very substandard. He got a lot wrong, including the corner to us at the end, and was very inconsistent (yet again). But it was the timekeeping that really stood out. He wasn't bothered about trying to stop time wasting and also abject at counting if he really thought one minute and four minutes were what was actually wasted. I have no idea if the first sending off was correct or not, but the second one was - that bloke had been trying to get a second yellow ever since his first!

 

[Marked Ox]

Imo, the worst Ref of the season. I gave him 1 as he turned up (unfortunately).

Agreed with Liam Manning who said he was awful for both teams. What was a foul changed minute to minute, as was what a yellow card was given for. His inconsistent decision making, imo, made the game more dangerous for players as they didn't know what was and wasn't acceptable.

His blindness to time wasting was utterly embarrassing; Luke McNally took the p**s because the Ref let him. PK spent far more time down injured after the incident with the 1st yellow card alone than the 1 minute 1st half injury time; and then you'd have to add in the hubbub around the Red Card.

Beyond awful.

 

[Pgyellow]

I'm sure we've had issues with this chap before!

 

[Sarge]

An absolutely shocking excuse for a match official - at any level - His assistants were poor too. His time management was beyond a joke. 2 from me

 

[Jster]

Agree with Manning about the ref - extremely poor.

 

[SouthOxonOx]

Dreadful

 

[Steve Gilbert]

My issue is that the game had a bit of bite to it and it made a nice change in modern football to have 2 teams going toe to toe, the problem was that he had no idea how to control it and got petty by giving the silly non fouls as fouls and didn’t punish the actual fouls. Their left back rightly got sent off but should have gone a fair time before he did.
Let the teams play it out, don’t give fouls for the slightest touch and just give fouls for the big, obvious fouls. It allows the game to flow more and also gives supporters more of an entertaining game.

 

[headingtonoldboy]

It was the time added on ( or lack of it) that really angered me. 6 minutes at least would have been appropriate.