That’s the rule I think though.He wasn’t terrible but I think he suffered from what all refs are at the moment..
Players going down and getting the game stopped too frequently… if the ref needs to stop a game the player should be made to go off regardless of the trainer coming on and wait a min of 30 secs…
They are held off if they go off with the trainer but these casual drops to the floor getting the game paused without a trainer and the ref gets them up and play goes on.. giving them a chance to get back into position…That’s the rule I think though.
As he did tell a few to get up as well
He found his flag in the 2nd half. Firmly in his back pocket 1st half.Shame the same cant be said about the linesman east stand side
His only fault was not adding enough injury time on, 5 mins after the subs and blatant time wasting wasn’t enough.The ref was excellent today