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Andy Hall has been confirmed as the ref: http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1805790,00.html (http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10341~1805790,00.html)

If you think you remember his name, it's because he's the ref that gave a penalty against Jerel Ifil for high foot last season against Hartlepool http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/search/4152120.Swindon_Town_0_Hartlepool_1/ (http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/search/4152120.Swindon_Town_0_Hartlepool_1/)

Oh dear.

I've always thought him to be one of the better ones tbh. I'll never get over that cunt Lee Mason's performance at Leeds 2 years ago, the worst display I've ever seen and in the last few weeks I see him on MOTD doing Premiership stuff, baffling.

That Leeds game was terrible. I don't think anything quite compares with Mr Danson's effort in our match against Luton though!

That Singhs always been a bit of a fucker as well.

And the one v Rovers a couple of years back, when Ifil and the Tit got sent off?

That was Andy D'Urso I think.

Danson when we played Luton was the worst reffing I've ever seen. I think it was the only game i've ever watched where you knew both sets of fans were baffled and had no idea what way the ref wanted the score to be. I think it was also the first time i've wanted to kill a ref.

The only time I've ever seen a player sent off for playing keepie-up

Thats the fucker, cheers

He owes us one.

I hope he knows this.

That was the game where my 'mate' was the lino, needless to say I still aint really spoke to him since!

I've always thought Darren Deadman to be a useless cunt.

This will be a test.  Im coming with my 6 year old daughter .  And possibly my 7 year old nephew as well.

If he's a shit ref and I manage to get through the match without letting out a stream of invective in front of them wait for the explosion back in 'nam on Saturday night!

A few season's back my old man and I took my (then) 12 year old step-sister to a few games (my memory fails me as to which ones).  A couple of these were shocking performances from both our boys and the ref - the list of "what's a...?" questions she asked her mum later that evening was quite worrying...

Actually it was Rob Styles.With the mistakes that he made last season, i can't believe that
Stuart Atwell is now a fully fledged Premiership referee.

It was Styles...complete nob. Prem refs should stay where they are, fucking up the that Div and leave ours alone.  I think Attwell may also have been a Prem ref last season.

Hall did something horrible at the weekend...can't remember what...I'll do a bit of research.

In fact it was the Cardiff v Newcastle game weekend previous...he didn't give Cardiff a couple of stone wallers, and generally got decisions wrong...remember thinking who's this cunt, didn't realise he was the HPool idiot.

I have no idea who half these referees are or remember their performance. They're all bastards in black in my opinion.

That decision against Hartlepool last season was terrible to say the least. Hopefully he remembers it coming back here and does us a favour.

regarding Atwell.

Didnt we have him for a home game last season and he was really good?

It's the particularly bad ones that tend to stick in my mind...step forward A Hall and R Styles...sadly, the good ones go unnoticed, which arguably IS the sign of a good referee

I remember Steve Bennett doing a good job when we played Rovers away. Apart from that, Premiership refs tend to be just as bad as the rest. And perhaps worse, given that they seem to referee slightly differently to FL refs

Yes, I dont recall who we were playing but Atwell obviously does have a bit of a name these days so I remember paying close attention and he was one of the best Ive seen at the CG for a long time.

That didnt stop the Adver using the "calamity ref" headline in the match report though because we scored a goal that should have been disallowed for offside. (It was a shocking decision, miles offside)

Very unfair on Atwell though as it was the linesman who made the cock-up.

Edited to add, I remember the game now, it was Hereford.
http://www.truststfc.co.uk/news_item.php?id=1297 (http://www.truststfc.co.uk/news_item.php?id=1297)

Ah yes, the Cox tap in! Even Coxy couldn't believe it counted!

The lesser-spotted "effective short-corner" routine even made an appearance.

So basically he's got a bit of a NorthEast fetish. Good job we're playing Wycombe then

For the older members let me give you Kelvin Morton v Leicester away x 2.

Andy De Arso at Wycombe a few seasons back was special!

I have a certain dislike towards bennet because he called a game off at the last minute at colchester a good few seasons back which left colchester and swindon bewildered when the pitch was playable,according to colchester sources at the time he had broken down on the way to the game and got soaked while waiting for the RAC,at the time we was in decent form and they had Karl Duigud missing.I think the rearranged game ended 1-1 with reddy scoring ours.

Fair play to colchester tho they gave us vouchers for free entry for the rearranged game.

We won the rearranged game 1-0  I think.

Indeed it was you're spot on ben.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/match/234082

I remember the goal (I think). Big hoof from Mildenhall, bouned through, Reddy got on the end of it and slotted it in.

I hadn't made the late postponed game but went to the rearranged fixture on the coach. Still got a free ticket in which was nice.