It's like we've never been away from the Championship. Immediately get a team of biased officials, demonstrating total inconsistency throughout. Some of the decisions today were a joke, and it's testament to the team that we still won the game. My favourite one was Woodrow (I think) getting rugby tackled at one point, which was naturally given as a Fulham free kick. Hopefully we get a better run of the green going forward, but I won't be holding my breath that it improves.
Agree that they weren’t as incompetent as last season’s. However, I agree with the OP that they were biased against us. Loads went their way.
Couldn't make the game today (so can't really comment on the refs performance) but it's interesting how both sets of fans see it. Some complaints from Fulham fans on twitter that we were playing the ref, time wasting and quite cynical.
Dunno who the ref was. It wasn't the young Australian guy unless he has aged twenty years and lost all his hair.
The ref did ok. Tried to keep the game flowing, used his cards sensibly and got most decisions correct. The guy was not biased whatsoever
That's also how I saw it. Some went our way, others didn't. If he was so biased we could've conceded a penalty etc.. nah.
Agreed, the officials were very competent, and I particularly like the ref allowing some decent tussling shoulder to shoulder action without blowing up every 2 minutes. Some strong but fair tackles allowed. Booked Wilks for his walking off antics-as he had to do as we were blatantly timewasting, he also had a word in Thomas's ear as he walked off in reverse too Dog***? Nothing like in my opinion
He missed foul after foul on our players and then at one point he finally gave us a decision but brought the game back when we had a good advantage.
Apart from when 2 off their players took 1 of ours ou , yet 1 minute later we touch one of theirs and its a free kick... WTF!!!!