Has anyone mentioned the ref pulling back our quick throw in ?

Pulled it back because he took it from behind the advertising board on front of the east stand. Made us retake it allowing the Ipswich defenders to regroup !

However poor ref or not we wouldn’t have won that in a month of Sundays, good side that deserve to go up.

 

And pulling Jordan Williams back after being fouled when he was looking to break on the counter attack. I thought 'fair enough' as I thought he was going to book the Ipswich player. No, just another piece of incompetence on the refs part.

 

Yeah, I mentioned but was told the ref needed to see both feet on the ground when he threw it ?????

 

Taking kicks quickly does seem to be frowned upon nowadays .
It seems crazy that the offending side are being allowed to gather ranks before it can be taken

 

What about the one where the Ipswich player stole a good 5 yards from 2 throw uns down the West Stand side. A third throw in was awarded to us and Kitchen I believe was ordered back 5 yards before he took the throw, even though he was taking it from where the ball went out.

 

That's true

 

A particular favourite was in the second half their player had freedom to move a good 5 yards down the line for his throw, twice in succession. Nothing done.
We take one about 10 seconds later. Exactly the same thing. Told to move back and retake.

It’s hard not to draw conclusions about nefarious behaviour when you see **** like that ! My logical brain confirms that there would be no bias but bloody hell it pushes my emotional brain to its limits !

 

It's the marble floors and wood panelled rooms in the offices of power. It's been like that since Arsenal in 1918.

 

Yeah no complaints about the result. But it's not too much to ask for abit of consistency is it? He was so poor and inconsistent it made me think it was some conspiracy.

 

Me too. It's the 1918 committee.

 

Completely agree. The foam line was intended to stop the wall encroaching at free kicks. But an unintended consequence is that referee's insist the free kick isn't taken until he's drawn a line by the ball and one for the wall. The potential advantage of a quick free kick has been taken out of the equation altogether. That needs to be looked at imo and some balance found so that the advantage stays with the attacking team.

 

When that Leif Davis (number 3) committed his umpteenth foul in the first half the ref came over and in earshot of us in the East stand clearly told him, "one more and that's a booking".

Despite that being about ten more than the threshold he applied to booking our guys at least it was clear.

Lo and behold the teams come out for the second half, Davis commits the first foul, another blatant one, and nothing from the nincompoop ref.

 

Yea there was few things that rile.....Morsy (as we know) was consistently leaving his foot in .....I counted 3 poor persistent fouls (1st half), yet ref finally books him in the 2nd half for the assault on Thomas (L).
Thomas (B) was pulled for a throw in and had to go back further than where it went out (1ST half) yet as commented they knicked loads of meters every throw just about....baffling.

 

How can you expect the ref to remember what happened half an hour before ?

 

My favourite was when the ball went out of play and the ref spotted Phillips down injured. The ball wasn’t kicked out of play specifically cos of the injury and he hadn’t stopped the game whilst in play. The ref allowed the physio on and Phillips left the field, as per the rules. We had a throw in, behind the halfway line, where Phillips stood. The ref held his hand up to stop Phillips re entering play. He kept his hand up for several seconds, until Ipswich won the ball and carried it back past Phillips. It was at this point that the ref allowed Phillips back on, when he was then 10 yards behind play, giving Ipswich the advantage.

I get it that they have to leave the field of play, because they want to avoid players breaking up play with a fictitious injury, but Phillips didn’t break up play. He was treated when the ball went out of play naturally (that doesn’t seem the right word, but you know what I mean!), so why was he not waved straight back on, as players often are?

More to the the point, when is something going to be done about the latest trick that ‘injured’ players pull? You now get play stopped, usually when the opposition is attacking, because someone has gone down ‘injured’, but when the ref gets to the player he gets back to his feet and doesn’t need the physio. Therefore he doesn’t need to leave the pitch, thus creating a big advantage for the cheating player’s team, who instead of having to defend an attack on their goal are now able to kick the ball back to the opposition keeper.

Or what about players who go down ‘injured’ and are off the field of play, but roll back on to the pitch so they can stop the game to get treated? The FA needs to get an ex-player in to go through all the ways that modern players cheat, so that the rules can be amended accordingly. For example, why does the linesman always flag the most obvious dive that we see every match? Herbie Kane did it yesterday. The defending player gets in between the attacking player and the ball, stops running, so the attacking player cannot avoid running into the back of him and then falls over. It happens several times per game and the linesmen buy it every single time.

 

Nice reference. Twas ever thus.

 

There first goal the lad taking the long throw had one foot a good 2foot over line (foul throw) and then Ipswich kicked it out and got a corner. No, i don't think the ref was bent.