Refwatch....SHEFFIELD UNITED (A)

[higher]

REF....ANDRE MARRINER
Asst 1..D.Babski
Asst 2..R.Pollock
4th official..P.Joslin
Match delegate...L Ashurst
PGMO....S.Lodge

A rookie as a select ref but he`s been on the block for a while.
Andre qualified as a referee in 1992 and was promoted to Football League assistant referee in 2000 and three years later he was promoted to the referees list. Andre refereed the Conference Play-Off final between Dagenham&Redbridge and Doncaster and was Fourth Official at the FA Youth Cup Final in 2003.He was the first ref to officiate at the new Emirates stadium and Geoff Winter rates him as "one with a big future" for what thats worth.

Rate the ref ratings (out of 5):Pretty good.
Communication 3.08
Consistency 3.31
Control 3.24
Fairness 3.10
Fitness 3.54
Flow 3.31
Positioning 3.30

Disciplinary actions for last year:
Penalty 5 ave time 39 min
Red Card 8 ave time 71 min
Yellow Card 73 ave time 54 min

Other royal appointments include:
27/11/2004 READING 1 Wigan 1 http://www.royals.org/matdoc/271104.html
Strap..help!

[Memories Of India]

....I`ll update later when ive stretched the dog..

Say what you mean Higher.

[Alan Partridge]

....I`ll update later when ive stretched the dog..

Say what you mean Higher.

That's an erotic night in for Spacey.

[Mr Angry]

Weve been appointed ANDRE MARRINER new kid on the select block. He reffed a 1-1 draw with Wigwam at the madhouse a while back. I`m sure he sent off Kavagner or something like that in one game I`ll update later when ive stretched the dog..

I think he was the ref when we beat Cardiff and it was in that game that Kavanagh got the red for a 2 foot lunge into Sid.

[M4 Junction 11]

Weve been appointed ANDRE MARRINER new kid on the select block. He reffed a 1-1 draw with Wigwam at the madhouse a while back. I`m sure he sent off Kavagner or something like that in one game I`ll update later when ive stretched the dog..

I think he was the ref when we beat Cardiff and it was in that game that Kavanagh got the red for a 2 foot lunge into Sid.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Weve been appointed ANDRE MARRINER new kid on the select block. He reffed a 1-1 draw with Wigwam at the madhouse a while back. I`m sure he sent off Kavagner or something like that in one game I`ll update later when ive stretched the dog..

I think he was the ref when we beat Cardiff and it was in that game that Kavanagh got the red for a 2 foot lunge into Sid.

Thats not against us !

[higher]

OK dog streched.The thongs we do for love eh! Anyway updated. Go hard urzz!!

[M4 Junction 11]

Definately need to GO HARD against the Blades!

[strap]

REF....ANDRE MARRINER
Other royal appointments include:
27/11/2004 READING 1 Wigan 1 http://www.royals.org/matdoc/271104.html
Strap..help!

Sorry mate, that's all I have too.

[higher]

Cheers strap.
I think the Kavanagh sending of was by Eddie Evans come to think about it. A couple of Sheff utd sendings off would send Colin into a psychotic spin but hey whats new!

[Compo's Hat]

And he'll be moaning that we haven't got a top referee again

[Platypuss]

I thought he was rather bloddy good.

Dunno where the extra time came from, though.

[NottsRoyal]

I thought he was rather bloddy good.

Dunno where the extra time came from, though.

I thought the ref was good. But where the hell did they get that linesman from.

[rabidbee]

I thought he was rather bloddy good.

Dunno where the extra time came from, though.

Yeah, I was impressed. Played good advantage, allowed the game to flow, didn't give out stupid cards, very communicative with the players, supervised a Reading win, all good...

Agree about the extra time, which ended up being over five minutes by my watch - no injuries, and only four subs (two were before the 2nd kick-off). Should be more like two minutes, no?

[PieEater]

I thought he was OK, but he let far too many jumps with leading elbows go. Akinbyi in particular jumps does not get near the ball and falls on the deck to claim a foul.

Maybe Higher can explain the rules when Unsworth deliberately caught the ball between his legs and sat on it to stop Lita getting it.

The ref gave a drop ball which I guess is the right decision if it just happens, but there was definite intent from Unsworth not to let go of the ball as he knew Lita would get it. And it that is OK, is it similarly OK to just dive on the ball and smother it like a keeper as long as it doesnt touch your hands?

[higher]

Marriner must have viewed the incident with Unsworth effectively sitting on the ball as non deliberate and that the ball was deemed "dead" and that a just restart was via the drop ball.
Had he deemed it to be obstruction then he could have restarted via an indirect free kick affording a nice little scramble concluding with a Doyle diving header at the far post and Warnock running on the pitch in a veritable state of psychotic frenzy and we could "of" all slapped our collective thighs as he`s frogged marched off the pitch by glum looking stewards.

[Royal Rother]

I thought he was excellent.

Refreshing to say I hardly noticed him. Never once blew up unnecessarily (that I can remember). Mind you, it was played in a very good spirit really. (Compared to most games anyway.)

Refreshing all round.