Today's ref (1 Viewer)

[DionDublinsJockstrap]

Taken charge of 4 Premiership fixtures this season - are they having a laff!

Relentless fouling by Walsall in first half. There would have been three or four Walsall bookings in first half if this had been a Premiership match

Baylis gets yellow for accidently falling over.

Walsall player gets yellow card for going through

Misses a clear cut foul against Walsall - from my position looked outside the box

Failed to take action against there number 16 for the most disgraceful crowd incitement after the final whistle - he did see it I watched him and he just walked off

 

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[Nick]

Did their player get booked for celebrating with somebody from the crowd as Thomas did?

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Nope

 

[no_loyalty]

He was OK for the first 35-40 minutes, he then lost control and got progressively worse.

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

He was fucking shite. End of thread.

 

[Nick]

He needed 2 footing.

There was one where Willis went to kick the ball, their player swiped his kicking foot and him and the lino just stood there.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Glad it wasn't just me. Thomas got hit throat high by the defender in the second half and the ref just waved play on. The lino missed the ball go out of play twice that I saw, and was behind play for several balls in the first half when Walsall attacked, missing at least one blatant offside. Unimpressive stuff all round, and I would still have written this had we won. P.S. If that No 16 had been 5 to ten yards nearer our fans at the end, it would have got nasty (and it was boiling anyway. Even mild mannered me was raging at no-one in particular

 

[Adge]

I never like to criticise officials (I’m sure you already know!) but it was a very mixed bag from him today.

 

[Nick]

I never like to criticise officials (I’m sure you already know!) but it was a very mixed bag from him today.

Dog shit and cat shit?

 

[luwalla]

To be fair he missed things both ways , id say his shitness about evened itself out

 

[sw88]

Problem when officials make the premiership, they don’t know how to ref Lower league games. Different kind of game totally and they struggle! But like I said in the match thread it doesn’t matter whether they come up to our league or down, they are shite!

 

[eastwoodsdustman]

Usually they’re a lot less tolerant of tackles. The idiot yesterday let them get away with murder. No wonder he seems to be working his way down the leagues.

 

[lordy_87]

What did their player do to our fans at the end? Didn't see it

 

[Pete in Portugal]

It's a tough thing to do well, but the ref. was gob-shite yesterday.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

What did their player do to our fans at the end? Didn't see it

Didn't see the whole of it, but if it's the guy I'm thinking of, he was smirking and staring out the City support and was bang out of order. Go celebrate with your own fans - fine (nobody has a problem with that, but to face up to away fans (when they don't even know who the player's name is) and effectively tryand take the p*ss out of them was way out of line. If he had been getting stick off us all game, I could have perhaps forgiven him, but it was a pathetic gesture that wound a lot of people up. Number 16 (and having been reminded of the incident, I'm off to google who the player was - and cross him off my Christmas card list) Bet he's had some abuse on twitter.

Edit: Morgan Ferrier (ex - Boreham Wood, gangsta wannabe)

 

[Adge]

Didn't see the whole of it, but if it's the guy I'm thinking of, he was smirking and staring out the City support and was bang out of order. Go celebrate with your own fans - fine (nobody has a problem with that, but to face up to away fans (when they don't even know who the player's name is) and effectively tryand take the p*ss out of them was way out of line. If he had been getting stick off us all game, I could have perhaps forgiven him, but it was a pathetic gesture that wound a lot of people up. Number 16 (and having been reminded of the incident, I'm off to google who the player was - and cross him off my Christmas card list) Bet he's had some abuse on twitter.

Edit: Morgan Ferrier (ex - Boreham Wood, gangsta wannabe)

That’s just sour grapes from our fans at the end I’m afraid-he/they were getting it during the match aswell.
If that’s the case was Luke Thomas out of order when he scored and shushed the fans in front of the Walsall fans and again in the corner?

 

[Adge]

This is the problem, if we performed like that at work, week in week out ( and they do ) we would be sacked.

But it seems that the FA go at their way to protect them , the referees get paid good money to do the job .

Is it asking to much to have a bit of consistency .

I love this one that gets rolled out every week. It is impossible to get consistency. That would mean every referee who has seen let’s say the same incident during a game would always give the same thing. Of course they wouldn’t and this would never happen as sometimes it’s “on the opinion of the referee” and every referee is not a robot. They referee the game how they see it which doesn’t usually fit in with the bias that supporters want toward their team.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

That’s just sour grapes from our fans at the end I’m afraid-he/they were getting it during the match aswell.
If that’s the case was Luke Thomas out of order when he scored and shushed the fans in front of the Walsall fans and again in the corner?

Don't like the shushing thing from players (no need unless the player has been getting dogs abuse), but their No 16"s mocking wasn't in response to anything that I was aware of?

 

[Adge]

Yeah it was-I heard it throughout the game-and at Cook aswell.

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

I love this one that gets rolled out every week. It is impossible to get consistency. That would mean every referee who has seen let’s say the same incident during a game would always give the same thing. Of course they wouldn’t and this would never happen as sometimes it’s “on the opinion of the referee” and every referee is not a robot. They referee the game how they see it which doesn’t usually fit in with the bias that supporters want toward their team.

If it's "on the opinion of the referee " why are they introducing VAR , may i suggest it's to help the referee to cut out the inconsistency, for all of the officials.



So referees will become robots.

 

[Sky Blue Harry H]

Yeah it was-I heard it throughout the game-and at Cook aswell.

In which case, fair enough, but still a lack of class by the player.

 

[Nick]

I love this one that gets rolled out every week. It is impossible to get consistency. That would mean every referee who has seen let’s say the same incident during a game would always give the same thing. Of course they wouldn’t and this would never happen as sometimes it’s “on the opinion of the referee” and every referee is not a robot. They referee the game how they see it which doesn’t usually fit in with the bias that supporters want toward their team.

It is consistency in applying the rules.

Take Luke Thomas scoring against Walsall in the cup, he runs to our fans and stands there. They run on the pitch and he gets booked.

Leahy scores against us, actively calls fans to come onto the pitch to celebrate with him and nothing.

We see far too many in the lower leagues who are shocking. Linos just as bad when they miss things a few yards away.

 

[Warwickhunt]

It is consistency in applying the rules.

Take Luke Thomas scoring against Walsall in the cup, he runs to our fans and stands there. They run on the pitch and he gets booked.

Leahy scores against us, actively calls fans to come onto the pitch to celebrate with him and nothing.

We see far too many in the lower leagues who are shocking. Linos just as bad when they miss things a few yards away.

why do we think they miss them Nick? you only have to see playbacks on TV and you see most of the officials see and ignore things if you ask me

 

[Nick]

why do we think they miss them Nick? you only have to see playbacks on TV and you see most of the officials see and ignore things if you ask me

No idea, some of the time it's baffling.

Linos who wait to see what the ref decides before they flag, even though they were closer and had a better view.

 

[Adge]

If it's "on the opinion of the referee " why are they introducing VAR , may i suggest it's to help the referee to cut out the inconsistency, for all of the officials.



So referees will become robots.

VAR is for “matter of fact”. A bit like when goal line technology was introduced to see if the ball was over the line.

 

[Nick]

VAR is for “matter of fact”. A bit like when goal line technology was introduced to see if the ball was over the line.

A matter of fact would help make an opinion though.