How Kettle is still in a job I do not know

Kettle is totally inept. Needs sending down to league 2. He's always controversial where ever he refs. Nothing at all wrong with Fosters goal. It was clean header and the goalkeeper got there late and collided with him.

 

I honestly believe disallowing the Fozzie goal was one of the few decisions he got Right.

 

why did he find is necessary to hold the second hal up so he could walk round the centre circle and say hey everyone look at me

thinks he is bigger than the game

 

Why?

Foster was first to the ball and the keeper came into him late. The keeper never got off the ground he was well beaten to the ball. There was no contact before Foster headed the ball.

 

According to the FA there are more than 50,000 referees in England - how come that useless fecker is refereeing one of the top twenty games in the country then?

 

If the FA really want their useless 'respect' campaign to be taken seriously they need to get rid of inept clowns like Kettle.

 

Precisely. Fans treat the respectable with respect and the contemptible with contempt.
Whilever the FA continue to send these clowns, reflexively defend their every decision - right or wrong - and punish those who dare to criticize, how will there ever be any respect?

 

Anyone feel that Davies handled just before Foster popped it in? I know Kettle missed that (if it was the case) but that's how it looked to me.

As for the free kick, it still took Alnwick allowing the ball to go through him for Ipswich to score.

The best of the three penalty shouts (can't recall who it was that had his legs scythed from under him) looked stonewall to me.

But referees have a thankless task. Of necessity, they are older and considerably less fit than those they are refereeing. They are expected to do the job with no more technology than existed in the 60's and 70's, despite the advances since that time. Their position, at the level of play, offers a worse viewpoint than we enjoy from the stands. And yet we think they should be infallible, and should never rule against our team.

When we play well we take matters out of the hands of the referee, and that's where we should focus.

 

When you score a perfectly good goal and only one man in the entire stadium thinks it should be disallowed then i'm sorry but playing well doesn't take matters out of the hands of the referee. Nor does it when perfectly good moves in the box are ended by a player giving away a foul only for the referee to allow their illegal move and wave play on. Or when the referee incorrectly gives a foul against you which is pumped forward and then the referee gives a second incorrect foul against you which results in a goal.

Sometimes a referee can be so bad that you simply cannot take matters out of his hands by playing well.

 

I don't think the ref got too much wrong today.

Not sure about the Foster/goalie one. And thought their free kick for the goal was harsh

But our goalie should have gobbled that shot.

Otherwise stop moaning ffs

Get a Stuart Pearce life!!

 

There is a reason why Trevor Kettle has a poor reputation as a referee

Its because he is controvertial in so many of his games. I can only assume he has friends in high places in the FA.

 

Re: There is a reason why Trevor Kettle has a poor reputation as a referee

Agreed. I've seen him on TV a few times and never seen him have a good game, he's always been the centre of attention.

 

Super Tyke, your reply implies that these are matters of fact ("a perfectly good goal"). The reality is that they are matters of opinion. In the final analysis, one man's opinion counts for everything (to quote the great Harold Hackney, "thee look in t'paper tomorrow lad, tha'll see whether it were a penalty"). The pass and finish which led to Dawson's goal were both impeccable, and not susceptible to the referee's opinion. Had we had two passages of play like that, we would have won. Simple.

A large proportion of play in professional football is however played at the edges, where physicality and determination meets the borders of foul play. Those incidents will always be susceptible to interpretation. I don't however believe that referees have malicious intent, or that they have a downer on particular teams. That's why I find it slightly irritating that some fans seek to bawl and bray at every decision that goes against us. They'd be better off watching wrestling!

 

I don't think that Kettle hates Barnsley or that he is biased. I simply think that he is utter ***** at his job and that for the good of the game he should have been removed from his position a long time ago.

For anyone thinking Kettle has 'a downer' on Barnsley, I refer them back to the rotherham game where he was absolutely awful but in our favour. Half their team and manager got sent off that day and he played about 6 hours extra time.

 

Nailed on and not even debatable.

 

Anyone get the feeling that orsenkaht is either


1. A ref

or

2. Trevor Kettle's love child?

Your second post in particular makes good reading, your immaculate utilisation of some of the finer words offered in the English language almost add weight to your argument.

Referees have a tough job. I don't question that.

But its wrong to suggest that fans on a forum cannot question the ability of a referee. It's not Trevor Kettle's integrity I question, I'm sure his ineptness is purely impartial. Just his ability.

The truth is maybe Mr Kettle got some decisions right that have been questioned on here. I accept that.

But it also has to be accepted that an inept refereeing performance was 100% predictable given who was appointed to officiate the match. I spoke to a fair few people re Mr Kettle before the match and heard a few mention him on the concourse under the east stand before kick off. The man is renowned for being out of his depth - something acknowledged before today's game.

It was also posted on this forum before the match that Kettle was the referee. There weren't many positive responses.

Referees will get things wrong, I can take that. What I can't swallow is a man who is clearly out of his depth, who has such a high opinion of himself he sees fit to make a football game more about himself than the players. A man who has a reputation for creating controversy with poor decision making, a man who was predicted to be diabolical BEFORE the game kicked off - being allowed to referee games at this high level.

At least he's consistent.