I’m sure the ref didn’t spend whole first half giving the ball away, or kick every free kick dead or into the keepers hands. I watched most of the 2 games thinking we were poor (especially both firsts half’s) not the ref
We weren’t at our best. But we lost by one goal on aggregate, and the free kick that ended in their second goal should have been our free kick
Maybe I was so disappointed with how absolutely crap we were I didn’t notice the ref. Or I can actually accept defeat without blaming the ref.
I thought we were clueless until about the 70th minute. Then we turned it on after the goal for ten minutes before running out of steam again. Over the course of the match I was surprised with our lack of efforts on goal baring in mind we were probably going to need three goals and in the end needed three goals to win.
Difficult to believe how you didn’t notice the string of poor decisions that went against us and how He fell for Swansea’s shithousery and time wasting tactics. I have accepted defeat and acknowledged we didn’t ‘t play as well as we can. I also don’t accept we were absolutely crap either. As far as goal scoring chances we edged it but they took theirs shame at least one of them came about by a another poor ref decision.
We didn’t win because we didn’t pkay well and didn’t take our decent chances . We lost because of poor officials that didn’t give an obvious off side and gave a free kick that shouldn’t have been or even been to us which resulted in their goal .
I agree it was a mixture of everything that contributed. There were factors but over two legs we weren't good enough.
We couldn't get into the game and part of the reason for that was opponents going to ground too easily and a whistle happy ref. We were very wasteful with the ball and our delivery into the box was nowhere near good enough...when we were allowed to complete an attack...admittedly. How much of it was down to being rattled, by attacks constantly being broken up by the referee, is open to debate.
