Mark Bartley is considering filming his team’s matches after becoming fed up at the amount of decisions that have gone against his players this season.

The Marlow boss was left aggrieved on Saturday when defender Dan Hicks was shown a straight red card for denying a goal scoring opportunity – despite the official having earlier given nothing in a similar situation when striker Lee Barney was through on goal.

Opponents Bedford Town profited from their numerical advantage to cancel out Barney’s opener and claim a 1-1 draw, leaving Bartley to contemplate taking drastic action following what he labelled as a “joke” of a decision.

“They get assessed but you have to hope that the assessor is there on that day,” he said. “The assessor can be there on that day and think he’s made a mistake, but it still won’t get overturned.

“It’s pointless unless you can get video evidence and at our level not many games are recorded. It’s a difficult thing, but something that I’m looking into for next year – whether we can get something done in terms of recording the game because this is happening too often to me.

“They’re making these big mistakes and they’re not being held accountable so I think it’s time to do something about it.”

The Blues boss also revealed that the referee told him after the game that he made a mistake by sending Hicks off, a decision which Bartley feels cost his team victory.

It was Marlow’s fourth draw in six matches and left them 12th in Southern One Central ahead of their final fixture of the campaign against St Ives at Oak Tree Road on Saturday.

Bartley said: “At the end of the game I wasn’t too disappointed with my players I was just disappointed that I’ve come away from there feeling that if we’d have had a consistent referee we probably would have got three points on Saturday, so I was a bit disappointed from that perspective.

“Referees are able to make these kind of howlers and then go away afterwards, sit down, have their sandwiches and tea in the board room and then shoot off.

“It’s cost us a couple of points on Saturday, and it’s cost Dan Hicks a couple of games at the beginning of next season.”

Better news for Bartley came in the shape of forward Barney, whose opening goal on Saturday was his 23rd in the league this season placing him second in the goal scoring charts.

It’s a remarkable return for a player who had been out of the game for a year before Marlow came calling in the summer.

“Previously he’d been in the Maidenhead set-up and he’d been on loan to Beaconsfield a few years ago, but he’d been in Australia for a year so he hadn’t really played,” said Bartley.

“We got him back and he’s got into the swing of things. He’s a natural goal scorer.

“I spoke to him in the summer, he came across, he was looking good and he’s done really well. Since he’s come in he’s hit the ground running, worked really hard and earned the opportunities and goals that he’s got. You can’t knock him at all.”