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But that all changed later in the season when we went to Crewe for a league game that was lost 4-2. He allowed a Crewe goal following a blatant foul but we fought back to draw level through Graham Branch.
Then Kaye took over and awarded Crewe two penalties within two minutes just before half time. One was fair enough, the second was clearly not a foul. Both were scored.
But he evened it up in the second half by giving the Clarets two within two minutes although we missed the first of them with John Mullin's effort saved, Paul Cook scored the second.
Even the last goal from Crewe had some controversy and led to a Supporters' Club official chasing the assistant referee down the touchline. But that was one correct decision and the goal rightly stood.
In a game of so many bad decisions it is no surprise that the cards came out and Kevin Ball, Paul Cook and Paul Weller all received yellow cards.
Last season he refereed what was perhaps the most boring game of the season, the 0-0 draw away to the former Football League club Wimbledon. The bookings probably provided us with the most excitement all afternoon and he booked Alan Moore, Bally and Graham Branch along with one Wimbledon player.
This season he is averaging around two and a half yellow cards per game. There have been 58 yellow and 3 red cards in 24 games. A total of 21 of the yellow cards have gone to home team players and 37 to away team players with 19 of the last 21 having gone to away team players.
As long as we can keep him away from dodgy penalty decisions I don't expect to have too bad a game with this referee.