25/4/21 ABERDEEN (A) KEVIN CLANCY. Still wallowing in pride after that superb team performance & in such circumstance couldn't give a monkey's about the ref. However...Clancy started off fine but the longer the game went on the poorer he got I thought. Similar to Celtic in the 0-0 game at Tannadice last month he was fine for a half & then started booking at random, 7 that day, 6 on Sunday, 4 of them ours, Harkes' one very harsh. A stand-out stat tho is that we fouled 31 times which is enormous (they conceded 10) but it didn't seem like that. Sounds like we were breaking up play all over the pitch but how come cos we were so fluent too. In fairness I thought he could have booked Butcher one foul earlier & wonder how Jeando kept his name out of the book. Anyway no reds (MM saw to that), no controversy over pens (tho tug on Lawrence late on, you've seen them given) so all-in-all he deserves no more than an incosistent 6/10

6/10
Side note on foul he gave which lead to Edwards goal ........ jeez Clark's good wi' a dead ball.

8/5/21 HIBS (N) BOBBY MADDEN. Much made of their offside goal & rightly so even tho it probably wasn't the difference between losing & drawing, we deprived ourselves to a certain extent. Glad it was a yard offside cos there was no was it or wasn't it, it was just a howler by the assistant. Not Basher's fault obviously, he's one of our better refs with much European experience. But can call him to task over Butcher's very early booking, thon was a legal tackle, it was the whole ball that saw some studs, not the diving & squealing Boyle. He also booked Robson & Edwards & just Porteous for them. And when Porteous later in the 2nd half kicked the ball away at his conceding a free kick you saw our players reminding the ref he'd already been booked. And Hibs, the longer the game went on, were good at the annoying kicking the ball away without punishment. There was an average number of fouls (24), equally conceded. Obviously the assistant gets **** all, I mean it's not that hard, I hope he suffered retribution, are they taken to task?. Biggest niggle wasn't Madden but he's getting just 6/10.

15/5/21 ST. MIRREN (A) EUAN ANDERSON. First time we'd had him this season. He's 38 and has ref'd 25 games this season, mostly in the Prem, some C'ship. He's also 4th Official'd in Europe (which sounds like a bit of a jolly) a few times so maybe heading for FIFA classification. Main talking point was him sending off Jamie Robson. I would not have been shouting for a red if it was the other way out. But refs like nothing better than a lunge, especially if a stud is involved. Funny our only other red this season was Nick Walsh's on Pawlett v Livi at home in Feb & as I recall it was a very similar challenge. Anderson booked two of us & one of them & awarded just 19 fouls. I really think a yellow would have been more than enough, Robson is very tenacious but not malicious. So I'm giving Euan Anderson a niggardly 6/10 for the last refwatch of the season.

Wow !  Good work CA.
Are we appealing ?
How long do we have to appeal ?

As you say CA Reckless = Yellow
Notwithstanding which application of a wee bit nous you'd think would have told ref there was no malice there.  
St Mirren guy should have been given an Oscar.

So since starting REFWATCH on 27th January we played 18 games with 13 different refs.
Kevin Clancy ref'd us 3 games.
Don Robertson 2.
Nick Walsh 2
Bobby Madden 2
John Beaton, Gavin Duncan, Grant Irvine, David Munro, Greg Aitken, Steven McLean, Alan Muir, David Dickinson, Euan Anderson all once.
Lowest mark awarded over the 18 games was a miserable 2/10, the highest mark a perfect 10/10.
So JOHN BEATON, don't darken our doorstep again.
And STEVEN McLEAN, you're welcome anytime.
The relevant games - Beaton v St Mirren at Tannadice 27th Jan, we lost 5-1. It was 1-0 them on 40 mins but before half time Beaton had awarded not one but two farcical penalties.
Steven McLean's finest hour and a half was our Sc Cup tie v Partick at Tannadice on April 3rd. He had an excellent game, good decisions, not over-fussy with fouls or bookings, good body language, allround he was effective without being showy.
Runer-up for the wooden spoon was Gavin Duncan with a 5/10 for Hibs at home (0-2).
2nd place for the golden whistle was shared between Greg Aitken (Aberdeen home) & Bobby Madden (Accies away). Both got 9s out of 10.
Btw Clancy's 3 times refing us ended up with three 7s which was indeed  the average mark awarded  over the 18 games.

It's maybe worth remembering in the overall scheme of things that refing is not an easy job & if you do it well you are doing well. I mean what are you meant do when you're given 2.5 seconds to assess a 50/50 penalty decision?

REFWATCH will be back in July with further scrutiny over the men in the middle.

 

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Just when you thoight REFWATCH had left the building...

NO Scottish refs were selected for the Euros.
This despite Willie Collum being on the UEFA Elite list & Bobby Madden & John Beaton in the category below.
Last Scottish ref to officiate at a major tournament was Collum at the 2016 Euros but he wasn't used after the group stages.

So maybe they are sh!te! Or is it because UEFA doesn't rate the SPFL very highly?

Btw there are just two English refs selected. I think one was doing the fateful Denmark v Finland game last night.

That referee in tonight's semi Italy v Spain was absolutely brilliant. He was in total command, unflustered, he let the game go making it very watchable. Our Scottish game would have had about 20 more petty fouls awarded. Did you notice he never let a medical man on the pitch in 120 minutes, he knew when the players were faking & was telling them to just get up, you're not getting the trainer on. What a breath of fresh air, our refs should watch that game again & again & take it in. Well done Mr German ref, I hope you get the final too, that performance deserves it.