Referee Analysis Bristol City (1 Viewer)

[Johhny Blue]

Not great but will go easy on him because we won.
Played some good advantages.
Wouldn’t let James challenge for the drop ball. Not sure of the current rule but I miss the old drop balls and the yellows that often followed
Palmer / Kelly. Thought Palmer could have easily been given a red and Kelly was unlucky to get a yellow even though he initiated the after the play handbags
The ref seemed flustered for a few minutes after this and made some strange calls including missing a blatant foul on O’Hare
The Bristol yellow for dissent. Not sure if they wanted a pen or a corner and it’s hard to know what the conversation was. Good to see a ref clamp down on this.
The penalty. Good decision though if it had been against us I’m sure the majority would have claimed it was a dive.
Ref seemed to take a lot of strange positions and made a lot of his calls from some distance
Overall rating 6

 

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[Evo1883]

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[Evo1883]

Not great but will go easy on him because we won.
Played some good advantages.
Wouldn’t let James challenge for the drop ball. Not sure of the current rule but I miss the old drop balls and the yellows that often followed
Palmer / Kelly. Thought Palmer could have easily been given a red and Kelly was unlucky to get a yellow even though he initiated the after the play handbags
The ref seemed flustered for a few minutes after this and made some strange calls including missing a blatant foul on O’Hare
The Bristol yellow for dissent. Not sure if they wanted a pen or a corner and it’s hard to know what the conversation was. Good to see a ref clamp down on this.
The penalty. Good decision though if it had been against us I’m sure the majority would have claimed it was a dive.
Ref seemed to take a lot of strange positions and made a lot of his calls from some distance
Overall rating 6

Fair assessment

 

[Johhny Blue]

FuCk SaKe WhO CarEs ABoUt ThE FuCkINg ReF

Referees are people too

 

[Hobo]

I thought the ref had a good game and tried to play it advatange when he could.

Two yellows for the handbags was right call in my book.

 

[SAJ]

Not great but will go easy on him because we won.
Played some good advantages.
Wouldn’t let James challenge for the drop ball. Not sure of the current rule but I miss the old drop balls and the yellows that often followed
Palmer / Kelly. Thought Palmer could have easily been given a red and Kelly was unlucky to get a yellow even though he initiated the after the play handbags
The ref seemed flustered for a few minutes after this and made some strange calls including missing a blatant foul on O’Hare
The Bristol yellow for dissent. Not sure if they wanted a pen or a corner and it’s hard to know what the conversation was. Good to see a ref clamp down on this.
The penalty. Good decision though if it had been against us I’m sure the majority would have claimed it was a dive.
Ref seemed to take a lot of strange positions and made a lot of his calls from some distance
Overall rating 6

You haven’t been able to contest a drop ball for 2 years now. The rules of the game were changed in 2019 so you can hardly criticise him for playing to the rules.

 

[Johhny Blue]

You haven’t been able to contest a drop ball for 2 years now. The rules of the game were changed in 2019 so you can hardly criticise him for playing to the rules.

I wasn’t.
I don’t know the wording of the current rule

 

[Cov kid 55]

He was ok, nothing more, nothing less, and to be fair, I don’t think we’ve had a truly bad ref for a while - perhaps Cardiff away? Their guy could/should have gone for pushing Kelly over in a quite aggressive manner. If it had been one of our players sent off for that, whilst being disappointed, we’d have probably said ‘he gave the ref a decision to make’. With the penalty, we’ve seen them given and seen them denied, my instinct is that we were fortunate there, but God knows we deserved a decision to go in our favour. Agree with 6/10.

 

[Frostie]

He was ok, nothing more, nothing less, and to be fair, I don’t think we’ve had a truly bad ref for a while - perhaps Cardiff away? Their guy could/should have gone for pushing Kelly over in a quite aggressive manner. If it had been one of our players sent off for that, whilst being disappointed, we’d have probably said ‘he gave the ref a decision to make’. With the penalty, we’ve seen them given and seen them denied, my instinct is that we were fortunate there, but God knows we deserved a decision to go in our favour. Agree with 6/10.

Thought the ref made quite a few odd decisions throughout but the penalty is an absolute stone waller, the player conceding it didn't even contest it.

 

[SAJ]

I wasn’t.
I don’t know the wording of the current rule

What were you saying then when you put Wouldn’t let James challenge for a drop ball? That sounds to me a criticism.

 

[Johhny Blue]

What were you saying then when you put Wouldn’t let James challenge for a drop ball? That sounds to me a criticism.

I meant I wasn’t criticizing him for playing to the rules. I was FIFA certified back in the day but have mentioned a few times on these threads that I’m not up on many current changes and always ready to be educated.