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       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: TVOS
       Date: April 22, 2024, 2:25 pm
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       --- Quote from: TheThingFromLewes link ---
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       > [quote author=TVOS link=topic=5943.msg78759#msg78759
       date=1713806815]
       > Is Stroud going by boat?
       >
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       Has he officiated at Barrow before? Perhaps a farewell match at
       a ground he’s not been to?
       [/quote]
       He'll probably have to get Carlisle in as well, then, as I don't
       think he's been there.
       #Post#: 78851--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: elbee94
       Date: April 24, 2024, 8:07 am
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       Confirmed now that Lewis Smith’s game in Colchester will be live
       on sky this weekend.
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       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: Ryanellis
       Date: April 24, 2024, 9:23 am
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       --- Quote from: elbee94 link ---
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       > Confirmed now that Lewis Smith’s game in Colchester will be
       live on sky this weekend.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Not surprised to be honest.
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       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: MKRef
       Date: April 24, 2024, 1:36 pm
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       Has anybody heard if any officials are bowing out after this
       weekend?
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       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: Acme Thunderer
       Date: April 26, 2024, 10:53 am
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       --- Quote from: MKRef link ---
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       > Has anybody heard if any officials are bowing out after this
       weekend?
       >
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       Not that I've heard of but do please post if you hear anything
       definite and I can update my database of final games, thank you.
       #Post#: 78964--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: Ernie1777
       Date: April 26, 2024, 7:21 pm
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       Alan clayton bowed out last week
       #Post#: 78976--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: dave26
       Date: April 27, 2024, 8:28 am
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       I believe Robert Madley went off injured in the Peterborough vs
       Bolton match.  I wonder if he will recover to regain his place
       on the PL list as he seems to be injury prone since his return
       #Post#: 79027--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: OwdReds
       Date: April 28, 2024, 3:05 am
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       Milton Keynes Dons FC (First Team) v Sutton United FC (First
       Team)
       Football League 2
       Referee: Parsons, Thomas
       Assistant Referee: Simpson, Joe
       Assistant Referee: Crowhurst, Leigh
       Fourth Official: Hallam, Farai
       I was prevailed upon by by son's ex to take younger grandson to
       this as it was kids for a quid but we got plenty of goals to
       watch. The officiating team were in black and Mr Parsons seemed
       happy to let the game flow and to keep his cards in his pocket
       allowing a couple of challenges in the first half to go
       unpunished where other referees might have shown yellow. I did
       wonder if he was in holiday mood, being the last match of the
       season. MK were two up at half time, the deficit being reduced
       to one shortly after the interval. Yellow was produced for the
       first time on 55 minutes, the Sutton No. 15 removing an
       attackers standing foot as he was preparing to shoot from just
       outside the box. There was a flurry of activity around the hour
       mark with MK restoring their goal lead, promptly reduced again
       to one again in Sutton's next attack. Almost immediately, MK
       thought they had scored again only to discover the assistant's
       flag correctly raised for offside. At this point, something
       happened which I, and I don't think Mr Parsons saw. He seemed to
       be alerted via coms before summoning the MK 5 and Sutton 42 to
       receive yellow cards. Further goals were exchanged and on 83
       minutes Sutton thought they had equalised only to have their joy
       cut short for an incident in a crowded penalty area. There
       didn't seem to be much argument although I couldn't see what had
       caused the goal to be disallowed. From the time Sutton reduced
       the deficit to 4-3, there was distinct time wasting by the MK
       goalkeeper with no sanction which made what happened in the 6th
       minute of stoppage time strange. Sutton had equalised in the
       first of the 6 additional minutes and both sides were pushing
       for a winner. The MK 9 made a lung bursting effort but just
       failed to get to the ball before it went out of play and kicked
       the ball away in frustration. He correctly received a yellow
       card but it felt out of keeping with what had gone on before.
       All in all though, good end of season entertainment and a decent
       showing from the officials in what was not a particularly
       challenging match for them.
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       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: elbee94
       Date: April 28, 2024, 3:30 am
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       Similar story to the above for Lewis Smith and team yesterday in
       front of the cameras for Colchester vs Crewe. Not a particularly
       eventful game for him to manage, but kept things ticking along
       as needed with a few clear cautions. I was worried about his
       inexperience with such a crucial match for both sides, but
       credit to him, he looked fully confident and capable in the
       middle. He seemed to take quite a hands off approach, not being
       too firm with addressing timewasting or positions of the throw
       in takers for example, but that style was fine for this
       particular game.
       Any result in the end didn’t matter for either team and whilst I
       thought Colchester deserved to come away with the win, maybe
       that late Crewe equaliser will be a bit of a boost for the
       playoffs. Best of luck to our Alex supporters over the next few
       weeks and happy to see my U’s back for another season in the
       fourth tier!
       #Post#: 79033--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Final League Matches – Sat 27th APR 2024
   DIR By: Ryanellis
       Date: April 28, 2024, 4:00 am
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       --- Quote from: elbee94 link ---
       >
       > Similar story to the above for Lewis Smith and team yesterday
       in front of the cameras for Colchester vs Crewe. Not a
       particularly eventful game for him to manage, but kept things
       ticking along as needed with a few clear cautions. I was worried
       about his inexperience with such a crucial match for both sides,
       but credit to him, he looked fully confident and capable in the
       middle. He seemed to take quite a hands off approach, not being
       too firm with addressing timewasting or positions of the throw
       in takers for example, but that style was fine for this
       particular game.
       >
       > Any result in the end didn’t matter for either team and whilst
       I thought Colchester deserved to come away with the win, maybe
       that late Crewe equaliser will be a bit of a boost for the
       playoffs. Best of luck to our Alex supporters over the next few
       weeks and happy to see my U’s back for another season in the
       fourth tier!
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       I was in that away end and my god, I was checking my phone every
       30 seconds to see the Barrow score. If they scored again and we
       didn’t, we would’ve been out of the play offs! So it really was
       a sigh of relief when we scored and I can even see myself on TV
       😂
       Onto the game - Lewis was excellent imo. As you said, looked
       confident and in control. He got every KMI correct albeit there
       wasn’t many!
       Congratulations to Colchester on staying up. As I said to my
       parents, Colchester are a club that I never hear trouble from
       and are a family club with a good youth academy (I believe) like
       us so for you to go down would’ve been very unfair.
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