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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 21:48:26 GMT
Possibly the most bewildering performance by a referee that I have ever seen. Seemed very reluctant to get a card out for some very robust challenges and then booked Steve Watt for colliding with James Rogers, an then only a yellow for their player's clear elbow in the back of JPs head. Some very strange decisions against both teams including the decision to award us a free kick for a back pass, OK I know the linesman gave it but the ref can overrule him. Don't know what anyone else thinks but he seemed completely out of his depth to me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 22:00:20 GMT
Very inconsistent, and didn't seem to be up with play a lot of the time.
It seemed to be a very physical game at times (mostly them, although we had our moments) - players taking advantage of a poor ref, or ref looking poor because players were going a bit OTT?
Overall this season, I've not been impressed by refs or linesmen. I think that the football has improved a lot at this level (comparing it to the old Conference in the London Road days), but the standard of the officials hasn't kept pace. I hope it's better in the Conf South, but I fear it won't be.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 22:00:20 GMT
I'm not sure he was the most bewildering referee ever but he was certainly erratic. The backpass decision seemed particularly harsh as the fullback, Saker, seemed to be at full stretch to get anything on the ball. I guess the keeper should have been morre alert and kicked it but even so. We restored justice by making a complete hash of it anyway
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 22:21:43 GMT
I'm not sure he was the most bewildering referee ever but he was certainly erratic. The backpass decision seemed particularly harsh as the fullback, Saker, seemed to be at full stretch to get anything on the ball. I guess the keeper should have been morre alert and kicked it but even so. We restored justice by making a complete hash of it anyway That whole incident was bizarre. For a start, from my position - just right of the goal at the Town End - the ball didn't seem to be over the line when the keeper caught it anyway (he certainly thought he was within his area). And then, when our players placed the ball for the kick, they put it down inside his area! Ref was very poor on the ten yards too. I know it's never ten yards, but this looked more like five - and their players were moving forward before he'd even turned his back. The quicker we have the 'shaving foam' line at all levels of football, the better. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 22:54:56 GMT
He didn't give hand ball, he gave an indirect free kick for the keeper handling a back pass, hence the free kick inside the penalty area.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2014 23:31:08 GMT
i would say yes it was a free kick as the player did seem to control the ball and the keeper caught it rather than just clearing it. agree about the 10 yards. counted his steps and he took 9 but small ones at that. the ref let the game get niggley by allowing the bad fouls in the first 10 mins and just keep talking to there players instead of getting a card out
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2014 1:40:03 GMT
He didn't give hand ball, he gave an indirect free kick for the keeper handling a back pass, hence the free kick inside the penalty area. Ta. That makes more sense. The keeper was pretty pissed off! |
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