New PL referees

[Ripley]

4 refs have been promoted to "Select Group". Jarred Gillett, Tony Harrington, Michael Salisbury and John Brooks.

Gillett is the most interesting. First Australian to referee in this country and has done 2 seasons in the Championship. Already has a FIFA badge and used to being miked into the PA from the A-League. The video of him reffing his last A-League match is really good.

Doesn't look like anybody has been dropped or even retired. Deano is still on the list at 53. Atkinson, Marriner and Moss still around.

EDIT: The name of Lee Mason is missing from the list. How sad.

Edited August 8, 2021 by Ripley

[kop205]

2 hours ago, Ripley said:

4 refs have been promoted to "Select Group". Jarred Gillett, Tony Harrington, Michael Salisbury and John Brooks.

Gillett is the most interesting. First Australian to referee in this country

I bet he was born in Whalley Range

[Jarg Armani]

I like the sound of that Aussie, I reckon he’ll be on ours. Studied at John Moores didn’t he?

[Ripley]

1 hour ago, Jarg Armani said:

I like the sound of that Aussie, I reckon he’ll be on ours. Studied at John Moores didn’t he?

Edit of his last A-League match. Whole game is available

 

[Earl Hafler]

That's encouraging

[Cobs]

Just on Sky right now is a re-run of the League Cup final of 2010 when this happened 

 

Dowd gives the pen but doesn’t even book Vidic. Staggering.

 

Ferguson had so many of these f***ers in his pocket

[Tommok]

On 21/12/2022 at 10:26, Cobs said:

Just on Sky right now is a re-run of the League Cup final of 2010 when this happened 

 

Dowd gives the pen but doesn’t even book Vidic. Staggering.

 

Ferguson had so many of these f***ers in his pocket

For a brilliant defender, he made some dreadful tackles/decisions at times did Vidic. 

Torres got in his head regularly. 

[Cobs]

Just now, Tommok said:

For a brilliant defender, he made some dreadful tackles/decisions at times did Vidic. 

Torres got in his head regularly. 

he was good with the game in front of him - turned like an artic lorry

in short - over-rated.

[PaulMcC186]

3 minutes ago, Cobs said:

he was good with the game in front of him - turned like an artic lorry

in short - over-rated.

Could be describing Hyypia there. And Hyypia was brilliant.

[Cobs]

2 minutes ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Could be describing Hyypia there. And Hyypia was brilliant.

i'd imagine if you looked up best ever PL CBs - our Sami wouldn't get a mention

[PaulMcC186]

2 minutes ago, Cobs said:

i'd imagine if you looked up best ever PL CBs - our Sami wouldn't get a mention

Gerrard said Hyypia was up there with Nesta and Cannavaro in terms of how good he was. But he pretended to think Joe Cole was like Messi too.

Edited December 22, 2022 by PaulMcC186

[Cobs]

4 minutes ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Gerrard said Hyypia was up there with Nesta and Cannavaro in terms of how good he was. But he pretended to think Joe Cole was like Messi too.

yeah - generally you can take such utterances with a pinch of salt. It's to goto of manc fans when they want to assert Scholes as being better than Lampard/Gerrard.

 

just did a google of PLs best CBS - there are loads of these type articles about

https://www.sportbible.com/football/best-premier-league-centre-backs-of-all-time-20211011 = No Sami (Bruce is 10th ffs), Vidic is 7th

https://khelnow.com/football/top-10-premier-league-centre-backs-all-time - no Sami (Bruce is 8th, ffffs), Vidic is 4th

https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/The-10-Best-Centre-Backs-in-Premier-League-History = no Sami, Vidic 6th

https://www.squawka.com/en/greatest-centre-backs-in-premier-league-history-john-terry-van-dijk/ = Sami 13th, Vidic 5th

https://www.90min.com/posts/top-30-premier-league-centre-backs-of-all-time-ranked = Sami 18th (behind Colin Hendry !!!) Vidic 5th (Virgil 9th  ) 

[Nebraska Red]

And another thread goes askew. From PL referees to the non appreciation of Sami Hyppia. At least it's the same sport.

[Hassony]

2 hours ago, PaulMcC186 said:

Gerrard said Hyypia was up there with Nesta and Cannavaro in terms of how good he was. But he pretended to think Joe Cole was like Messi too.

Remember a Keegan's article about CBs talking about top 3 at the time  being Sami, Campbell and Ferdinand,  and his first choice was Sami

 

2 hours ago, Cobs said:

yeah - generally you can take such utterances with a pinch of salt. It's to goto of manc fans when they want to assert Scholes as being better than Lampard/Gerrard.

 

just did a google of PLs best CBS - there are loads of these type articles about

https://www.sportbible.com/football/best-premier-league-centre-backs-of-all-time-20211011 = No Sami (Bruce is 10th ffs), Vidic is 7th

https://khelnow.com/football/top-10-premier-league-centre-backs-all-time - no Sami (Bruce is 8th, ffffs), Vidic is 4th

https://howtheyplay.com/team-sports/The-10-Best-Centre-Backs-in-Premier-League-History = no Sami, Vidic 6th

https://www.squawka.com/en/greatest-centre-backs-in-premier-league-history-john-terry-van-dijk/ = Sami 13th, Vidic 5th

https://www.90min.com/posts/top-30-premier-league-centre-backs-of-all-time-ranked = Sami 18th (behind Colin Hendry !!!) Vidic 5th (Virgil 9th  ) 

Definitely should be top 10, lack of league title counts against him 

I'd say he's 4th in the premiership for us, with Virgil, Matip and Carragher ahead of him 

Edited December 22, 2022 by Hassony

[Cobs]

Keegan’s endorsement about defenders only coming second to Ardiles…

[Nebraska Red]

Amazed at the lack of any love for Razor Ruddock.

[Cobs]

30 minutes ago, Nebraska Red said:

Amazed at the lack of any love for Razor Ruddock.

Try and keep things on topic, NR. Ffs

[muleskinner]

Howard Webb is planning to recruit ex players in to the reffing ranks.

[Hassony]

1 hour ago, muleskinner said:

Howard Webb is planning to recruit ex players in to the reffing ranks.

Should get that Polish ref who did the WC final 

Don't know why they don't look at recruiting the best refs from abroad, I'm sure many would jump at the chance 

[PaulMcC186]

28 minutes ago, Hassony said:

Should get that Polish ref who did the WC final 

Don't know why they don't look at recruiting the best refs from abroad, I'm sure many would jump at the chance 

Loads would love to come to England and get paid far more than they do now.

[Cobs]

2 hours ago, muleskinner said:

Howard Webb is planning to recruit ex players in to the reffing ranks.

All from Man Utd

[Nebraska Red]

46 minutes ago, Cobs said:

All from Man Utd

Vidic in line to be the "last man in defense" specialist.

Rooney to look after politeness and decorum when speaking to officials.

Edited December 23, 2022 by Nebraska Red

[DanWM]

9 hours ago, muleskinner said:

Howard Webb is planning to recruit ex players in to the reffing ranks.

He's being interviewed on radio 5 at the minute, quite interesting. Sounds as though he wants to make the emphasis on it only being used for 'clear and obvious errors'

[Nebraska Red]

44 minutes ago, DanWM said:

He's being interviewed on radio 5 at the minute, quite interesting. Sounds as though he wants to make the emphasis on it only being used for 'clear and obvious errors'

I presume you're taking about VAR.

[DanWM]

1 minute ago, Nebraska Red said:

I presume you're taking about VAR.

Yes, it was quite an interesting q & a on what he wanted to do with VAR. Assuming this is what we can expect to see going forward