Whilst there’s some debate on here regarding whether or not 7+ mins extra time at the end was justified, can someone explain where he got 2mins from at conclusion of the first half? If he had blown up bang on 45mins I don’t think anyone would have queried it. Don’t know about Darren Bond, more like Basildon Bond!
I said the same at the end of the furst half, all refs would give 1 minute but it's probably splitting hairs. Agree with the last poster he showed more incompetence than anything more sinister, but as for welcoming him back, no NOO. He disrupted the game with too many fouls. Wouldnt lose sleep if we never saw him again.
Refs never give zero minutes even when it's 0-0 so we'd always get a minute anyway. We had a couple of goals and the celebrations went on a while. Seemed about right.
All the things you’ve listed there happen every single game though and they never put more than 5 up. Anything more than 6 is usually when there’s been a really bad injury. Consistency is nowhere with referees and that’s the **** thing for me. For the first goal, if you’re on about the ball out wide to Woodrow, it was nowhere near out of play.
Didnt see the ref at Shrewsbury give 10 minutes added time after their blatant timewasting, Dougall injury and daft sending off.
Err, yes it does. When 2 situations are treated differently then impartiality is called into question. Oh I know about refereeing I used to be one. I certainly had bad games, good games etc, but no team ever got a sympathy decision and I was always impartial. I heard lots of stories from refs/assistants in the pro game that would open your eyes about impartiality.
For what my opinion is worth, I found the ref fussy and yes there was a bit of inconsistency in his decisions. There were several midfield challenges where I couldn't see a foul either way but the whistle was blown. It's that sort of thing that frustrates me with modern football and refereeing, not every tackle/contact is a foul. But players don't help here either, sad to say. I thought the ball might have gone out of play in the build up to our first goal but I'm sat to the left side of the ponty end. The ref has got to go with his linesman on that, but there were occasions where he had made decisions (corner/goal-kick & throw in near corner flag near the end) before the linesman could have advised him. With Pinnock and their centre half's tackle on Brown, I thought yellow cards were right. The challenges "denied a clear goal scoring opportunity" but the ref, in his opinion, must have thought both players made an attempt to get the ball, hence the yellow card. Clearly we will all have our own view on that. Whilst it could be argued his booking of Mowatt was petty, Mowatt kicking the ball away was petty too.
The way we play doesn't help us with fussy refs. We are admirably trying to play passing football from the back with league one players and when we lose the ball work very hard to get it back. Before Dougal got injured he was picking up yellow cards regularly, and it's no coincidence that our last few games have seen us return to the competitive style that preceded the Charlton and Shrewsbury losses earlier in the season, and the cards are coming again.
My earlier post is wrong. If the ref had deemed the Charlton striker had "a clear goalscoring opportunity" then it would have been a red card (and arguably the same for the Charlton centre half who brought down Brown). Assume he saw both incidents as "promising attacks" for a yellow card.
Thought the Pinnock one was a foul, but he swung a foot at the ball and missed. I thought it was more clumsy than deliberate.
Yes mate, thought that at the time, that he'd sort of swung the wrong leg at it. More I think about it, the ref probably got it right, Pinnock has the pace to get back.
If memory serves me right. The bounce of the ball deceived everyone and Pinnock had to step across to stop their player going through on goal.
Haha! Wow, nearly 2 years ago I started this thread! Doesn't seem that long ago we played Charlton but seriously where has time gone?!