Referee Ollie Yates: Vendetta Against Home Sides?

TBF he was shite. MK just had to fall over to get a free kick. Good job Payne is shit at free kicks though or we could have had some damage tonight.

Then book Smallwood for time wasting when we are 4 up! Don't these clowns actually think before they act?

 

The yellow cards for remonstrating with the linesman for Cook then one of their players gives the ref an ear full and he waves him away!!!
Totally biased all game.

 

Tbf to him, Cook kicked the ball away

 

The one to Smallwood was comedy gold. Who time wasters when your 4 nil up ref?

 

That was an easy one, Cook should have known better with a card happy ref.

 

He couldn't wait to book McDonald.

 

Normally impartial to referees as they have a difficult job, but Ollie Yates’s performance took the biscuit. Worst ref I’ve seen at VP for some time, probably since Jeremy Simpson at home to Swindon last year

 

It's only really games 1, 7 and 9 that would need looking at. The rest are pretty equal, Jon, to be fair.

 

Would be interesting to compare it against other referees performances

 

Definitely up there with one of the worst ref performances I have seen. Even the MK players were getting pissed off with him in the second half, as every time he blew the whistle it disrupted any kind of rhythm they were trying to regain. Yet another example of the atrociously poor quality of officiating in the lower leagues. Erratic, inconsistent, frustrating, and unacceptable

I'm just glad we won comfortably, because it means we can all piss & moan about how poor the ref was without being accused of sour grapes!

 

It was the complete opposite of a dirty, niggly game. On that pitch all he had to do was let the game flow rather than try and intervene at every opportunity. Smallwoods card oh my , that was an appalling decision.

 

Smallwood is out for 2 games now... 10th booking.

 

I was worried that might be the case.

 

Just coming into a bit of form and we lose him. From memory I think a few of those bookings were for dissent. I like a bit of passion but we need to be smarter than that

 

Gilly drop into his role and Richards return to left wing back? ( If he’s permitted under the concussion protocols) or worst case Rides back.

 

I am not sure its a vendetta more of he was not very good...

 

Last 9 games? Was that number picked just to get the Wrexham match in rather than start of the season or a nice round number?