I genuinely think there is a conspiricy against us now. The whilste hadn't even finish sounding when it hits the net (watch highlights). Weirdly its happened in the last 2 games I've also played in. As a referee you are told to let see how things play out before pulling it back. Its one of the worst decisions I've seen.
It's just a fact that a good percentage of referees are 5hit, how many good / decent Ref's have we had this season. Not disrespecting individualst, but if you think Referees in league 1 are bad, you want to see the standard another 7 leagues lower, Northern Premier League. I've seen the highlights now, you are spot on, the Refereee had no intention of letting Barnsley score, lets just hope we are looked upon more favourably in the future.
If that incident had happened in the premier league would Var have been able to overturn it? I think they could and would but I’m not absolutely sure
In fairness, the referee yesterday on the balance of play probably gave us the lions share of borderline decisions. The clear foul on Bishop by Andersen for example being one. He just got the biggest call of the game wrong, and of course it went against us. The standard of officiating is abysmal, but it's not just for us.
VAR wouldn't have looked at that decision, it's outside of its remit. However, I do think if VAR was in operation, the referee may have been a bit more hesitant to blow his whistle, in the interest of letting the game flow. But who knows.
Play to the whistle unfortunately even though it sounds just before it hits the net. Terrible reffing that.
First half, probably yes. Second half, no way. The last 15 minute period he gave Portsmouth a free kick even if we were in their vicinity. The one on Andersen is the only one anyone can seem to remember as going our way. Not long after that Kane got fouled around our area and got nothing. Second half we should he was atrocious. In my opinion ofcourse
When you consider the delay in giving offsides in Prem games which amount to many seconds before the linesman has to put his flag up, then asking a referee to delay giving a foul for a couple of seconds is not asking much. A lot of refs would have let play continue, he didn't. Can't explain why. I'm not blaming him, it just happened, and had it been the other way round we'd have been happy.
Ref was just poor was looking on the Pompey Forum and one of their posters reckoned he favoured us first half them second and got a lot wrong for and against both teams.Hard to disagree with him, but it’s frustrating that the big game changing decisions all seem to be going against us at the minute
I don't think there's a conspiracy. speak to most clubs and they will say exactly the same, so there can't be a conspiracy against every club. I just think the standard of reffing is generally pretty poor. there's a few things that particularly irk me. 1) consistency 2) rules 3) ref accountability the inconsistency game after game is pretty woeful. game in game out we say the same thing. you see tackles going unpunished one second, then the same challenge getting carded a minute later. secondly, the laws of the game don't help. things like the ridiculous rule changes around offside, and the refusal to clamp down on 'gamesmanship'. finally though for me, the biggest issue, is the serious lack of accountability on the refs part. there just doesn't seem to be any. they're essentially bulletproof. players get carded, or dropped, for infractions and bad performances. managers and coaches lose their jobs, for bad performances. refs seem to see zero repercussion for bad performances, and any attempt to question the refs from clubs or players, often ends up with clubs being hauled over the coals in some way the no goal yesterday was one of the worst reffing decisions I've ever seen. his decision has directly denied us a perfectly good goal. you see the farcical situations in PL with VAR. play being stopped for 5 minutes while they c0ck about discussing things that happened 30 yards away, or whether a bootlace is offside. then in L1 you see this. literally a split second was all he had to wait. there really should be some form of recourse available. even if it's a formal apology. but I'm not holding my breath.
I’m blaming him it’s his job and he did it very badly. I can forgive not spotting fouls etc at he has to make a split second decision and players are known to dive. But to not look at a possible advantage in a move like that is just unacceptable
Woolmer has been bad all his career but he is still refereeing. The EFL say they are not allowed to say anything about individual incidents and some independent division pick the refs, but i think it is under their jurisdiction so the buck stops with them. Also they can't talk about individual cases but particularly this season isn't individual cases we could get a best selling book out of them