REFEREE RATINGS FOR 2001-2002
A quick listing of the referees Saints have in their
competitive games this season along with an average rating out of 10 and
description of the various cock-ups they made. Suggestions for suitable
awards to the best/ worst of the season and any additional ratings to
refvote@grange.demon.co.uk.
Last Seasons Inagural Votes are available for perusal
for 1997-98, 1998-99,
1999-2000 and 2000-01
Current
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Match Details +
Total Ratings
Craig ThomsonBack
to Ref League Table
- 12/05/02 Saints v Hibs37 (6 votes)-
Denied us a decent penalty and saw some dodgy offside decisions but
ironically one of the best refs of the season with plenty of advantage
played and a willingness to spot minor infringements.
Mike RitchieBack
to Ref League Table
- 27/04/02 - Arabs v Saints 13 (3
votes)- If this is the future of refereeing God help us. Worst
haircut ever and unable to spot diving, balls being thrown away or
dissent - all by the home side naturally. Strangely booked a Saints
player for one challenge though.
Bobby Orr
(Kilbarchan) - Back to Ref League Table
- 29/12/01 - TFOD v Saints 29 (5
votes) - Fairly good game despite letting Konterman and Ricksen
away with plenty of fouls. Tried to let the game flow though and did
book Cannigia for diving
- 20/04/02 - Saints v Killie 5 (3
votes) - Absolue nightmare. Failed to send Marshall off for the
penalty or book McLaren for blatantly throwing the ball away whilst
seemingly more than happy to penalise us for any 50-50 decision.
John Rowbotham
(Kirkcaldy) - Back to Ref League Table
- 27/10/01 - Pars v Saints 18 (3
votes) - Quiet afternoon for the follicaly challenged one with
little controversy in the game.
- 10/11/01 - Killie v Saints 22 (4
votes) - Another good game with a willingness to let the play
flow for both sides.
- 26/12/01 - Well v Saints 11 (4
votes) - Nightmare. Possibly correct with the red cards but
failed to give us any protection whatsoever from the hacks in amber.
- 02/03/02 - Hibs v Saints 37 (9
votes) - Crap. Sent off Parker, possibly fairly but failed to
book Murray for gesturing to the Saints fans or de la Cruz for diving
early on.
- 13/04/02 - Saints v Dundee 7 (2
votes)- Didn't book anyone but some strange decisions. Still not
the worst we've seen.
Kenny Clark
(Paisley) - Back to Ref League Table
- 11/08/01 - Saints v Arabs 34 (6
votes) - A fairly decent game even if he did turn down our
penalty claim. Some strange bookings handed out with a lack of
punishment for whingeing gits meaning that Tubby Miller got to stay on
the park.
- 08/01/02 Saints v Aberdeen (Cup) 10
(2 votes) - Not a bad game but if he'd learn to spot handballs
and give the decision at the time it might help. Rightly booked Pope for
diving but let Winters and Dadi's offences go.
- 06/04/02 Well v Saints 10 (4 votes)
- Absolutelty dire - he might think it's an end of season game but the
challenges that Adams and Hammel were allowed to get away with were
nothing short of disgusting.
Alan Freeland
(Sheepville) - Back to Ref League Table
- 09/10/01 Arabs v Saints 7 (3 votes)
- Poor decisions re handballs and denied Saints a stonewaller of a
penalty.
- 24/11/01 Saints v Killie 16 (8
votes) - Absolutely dire - when are refs going to punish dissent
etc in a consistent manner. Yards being stolen at throw-ins and free
kicks, diving, handball, shoves etc - it was all on show today.
- 12/01/02 Saints v Pars 20 (5 votes)
- Turned down a good Saints penalty claim and failed to red card the
Pars player for fouling Pope but not too bad a game.
- 23/03/02 Hearts v Saints 18 (6
votes) - OK gave us a penalty correctly but why was Severin not
red-carded? Failed to punish Fuller early enough but at least didn't
fall for his diving too often.
Dougie McDonald
(Edinburgh)- Back to Ref League Table
- 25/08/01 -Saints v Aberdeen 10 (5
votes) - Total disgrace - unable to let the game flow, failed to
punish several fouls and the word advantage isn't in his vocabulary.
- 23/09/01 - Hibs v Saints 8 (2 votes)
- Little to do but some strange fouls given. Not that we cared.
- 03/11/01 - Saints v Celtic 17 (17
votes) - Totally shite. Failed to red card players for diving or
raising hands and can't tell the time.
- 09/03/02 - Saints v Motherwell 9 (7
votes) - Worst one ever. A soft penalty, plenty of cards dished
out to the Saints players but Corrigan, Hammel and Ready got away with
murder whilst Ferrere was allowed to dive all over the place. This man
is not liked.
John Rowbotham
(Kirkcaldy) - Back to Ref League Table
- 27/10/01 - Pars v Saints 18 (3
votes) - Quiet afternoon for the follicaly challenged one with
little controversy in the game.
- 10/11/01 - Killie v Saints 22 (4
votes) - Another good game with a willingness to let the play
flow for both sides.
- 26/12/01 - Well v Saints 11 (4
votes) - Nightmare. Possibly correct with the red cards but
failed to give us any protection whatsoever from the hacks in amber.
- 02/03/02 - Hibs v Saints 37 (9
votes) - Crap. Sent off Parker, possibly fairly but failed to
book Murray for gesturing to the Saints fans or de la Cruz for diving
early on.
Charlie
Richmond- Back to Ref League Table
- 16/02/02 - Saints v Livvy 33 (9
votes) - Didn't book anyone but had a pretty poor game with a
tendency to ignore the handballs and fouls from Livvy and a couple of
assistants who had a strange interpretation of the offside rule.
David Somers
(Cumbernauld) - Back to Ref League Table
- 17/11/01 - United v Saints 16 (6
votes) - Total inability to control the game in the 2nd half.
Dods sending off was fair enough but Thompson wasn't punished for the
elbow in the throat just before hand and both Thompson and Miller were
allowed to dive unpunished.
- 06/03/02 - Saints v TFOD 5 (3 votes)
- Easily as bad as we remembered. Flo dives twice without a booking,
Dasovic gets booked for his first tackle whilst Craporuso and Spuman get
away with murder.
Ian Fyfe
(Linlithgow) - Back to Ref League Table
- 18/08/01 - Killie v Saints7 (2
votes) - Amazingly didn't red card anyone but let Killie away
with some bad challenges whilst the timewasting of Marshall went
unpunished...as usual.
- 09/02/02 - Scumdee v Saints 17 (4
votes) - God he was poor. Fell victim to the con tricks and
timewasting from Scumdee whilst booking Kiegan for a challenge but
letting similar Scumdee ones go unpunished. Almost lost control of the
game in the 2nd half and looked totally lost.
Willie Young
(Clarkston) - Back to Ref League Table
- 08/09/01 -Scumdee v Saints 40 (7
votes) - Gave us the penalty but managed to interfere with play
himself twice Still refused to give into the BadFella's diving antics
although a refusal to punish it kept the Saints fans unhappy. Not the
worst ref though.
- 26/09/01 - Clyde v Saints 26 (5
votes)- Gave us 2 penalties which is a miracle in itself but also
managed to keep the game flowing and kept control. Not helped by a
couple of dire linesmen.
- 02/01/02 - Saints v Hearts 7 (2
votes) - Useless. Can't make up his mind whether or not to punish
diving and showed a really weird interpretation of the offside rule.
- 02/02/02 - Saintsv Aberdeen 25 (6
votes) - Dire, totally dire. Refused to book Aberdeen players for
diving and thuggery but any comment from a Saints player saw the cards
come out. Lost control of the game midway through the 2nd half.
John Underhill
(Edinburgh) - Back to Ref League Table
- 01/12/01 - Aberdeen v Saints. 9 (2
votes) - Not a bad game with only one booking but there was
little to get really excited about. Not helped by some poor linesmen
though and let Bisconti away with some heavy challenges early on.
- 22/01/02 - Saints v Dundee Utd 0 (0
votes) - I missed the game but by all accounts he had a decent
match.
Kevin Toner
(Gourock) - Back to Ref League Table
- 04/08/01 - Saints v Pars38 (10
votes) - Not a bad game overall but turned down our penalty claim
and let the Pars away with GBH on Benito.
- 22/12/01 - Saints v Hibs 10 (2
votes) - Decent game although allowed Colgan away with heaps of
timewasting. Let the play flow as much as possible though.
- 19/01/02 -Celtic v Saints 19 (4
votes) - Failed to book any divers but at least he spotted they
were diving. Kept the game flowing.
Mike McCurry
(Wegieland) - Back to Ref League Table
- 28/07/01 - Celtic v Saints 26 (6
votes) - Not a dirty game by any means but somehow we still ended
up with 2 bookings including Rachid for complaining about Lamberts
handball. Still what did we expect?
- 15/12/01 - Livvy v Saints 13 (9
votes) - Nightmare with continual penalising of Saints players
whilst letting Livvy get away with diving all over the place.
Stuart Dougal
(Burnside) - Back to Ref League Table
- 15/09/01 - Saints v Livvy24 (7
votes) - Didn't red card the Livingston player when he was last
man and took far too long to take any action against some of the tackles
going in. Had a fairly easy game of it though.
- 21/10/01 - Saints v TFOD 7 (6 votes)
- Refused Saints a couple of good penalty claims and didnt red card
Konterman who was last man. At least the game went on though.
- 08/12/01 - Saints v Dundee 29 (6
votes) - Not a bad game and didn't book anyone but suffered from
linesmen apparently totally unfamiliar with the offside rule.
Tom Brown
(Edinburgh) - Back to Ref League Table
- 13/10/01 Hearts v Saints 20 (5
votes) - Nothing too contentious in a pretty dour game. Failed to
dish out any cards though and was pretty lenient with some of the Jambo
diving.
Hugh Dallas
(Motherwell) - Back to Ref League Table
- 25/09/01 - Saints v Motherwell 40 (8
votes) - Not too bad a game but helped by some crap linesmen.
Failed to book Nicholas for leaving the field of play when Well scored
their winner but a pretty quiet day.
Garry Mitchell
(Arbroath)Back to Ref League Table
Stuart Dougal
(Burnside) - Back to Ref League Table
Eric
Martindale (Wegieland) - Back to Ref League
Table
Sent off Weir and McCluskey in the pre-season friendly so expect cards.
John Fleming
(Glasgow) - Back to Ref League Table
George Clyde
- Back to Ref League Table
John Young
(Thornliebank) - Back to Ref League Table
Graeme Alison
(Dumfries) - Back to Ref League Table
Dougie Smith
(Troon) - Back to Ref League Table
Martin Clark
(Edinburgh) - Back to Ref League Table