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Matt Donohue / Declan Brown - Norwich v Charlton
DIR By: carrowman
Date: December 27, 2025, 3:00 am
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Very uninspiring performance from Matt Donuhue, hoping for
better from potential premier league aspirator. Failed to play
an obvious advantage which he then had to apologise by putting
his hands up. Opted to play safe and give a defensive freekick
from a corner, when the defender was the initial perpetrator,
and the main gripe, lack of a signal, almost seemed to be
waiting for whoever went for the ball, just didn't want to make
a decision.
However, he wasn't the worst performer. Declan Brown, a new name
for me, I assume a National League official. Now I have no
experience of electronic boards, I was in the era of just
holding up numbered cards! and I assume EFL boards are different
to NL boards but I think he needs to go on a course. 1
substitution made with board up but no numbers visible, lucky
the player knew he was coming off. Declan seemed to struggle
with the holding of both paper and board, put board up then
quickly down to give paper to assistant and then took an age to
put up the numbers for second sub. I assume although fairly
inexperienced? he would still have significant input into the
added time. I am also a sad person who likes to estimate how
much time is going to be added on. With a half that included a
goal, five substitutions, and time wasting from a team only 1
up, I was expecting/hoping there to be 5 but to be only 3 was
shockingly under. Glad my team was winning!
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Re: Matt Donohue / Declan Brown - Norwich v Charlton
DIR By: Beacon
Date: December 27, 2025, 11:12 am
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This was a very fair synopsis. I was at the game and was
perplexed by his lack of signalling - quite odd tbh. The lack of
advantage was poor, but everyone makes that error from time to
time. I was surprised by the 3 mins - I thought 6, and in those
three minutes there was normal timewasting. (I am a Norwich
supporter so it benefitted my team, but wrong). I also felt he
did not deal with persistent infringement. Not very good I am
afraid.
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