I cant believe people are moaning about the sendings off on Saturday. I didnt see the Austin one, but if he has raised his hands to someone and sent them flying then he should go. Whether it was retaliation or not, you just can not do it. As for Kay, I was amazed Rennie got so much stick for it. I sit about about 10 yards from the incident and I was appalled by Kay. The challenge was late, high and studs showing. He clearly caught the player at thigh height. That coupled with the fact he headbutted the player 1 minute before shows the guy has serious problems. Kay should get a hefty fine. Hes a liability and should have a spell in the reserves to bring him down to earth. The ref was extremely poor on Saturday, but he got those two decisions right for me.
Agree about Kay, but if you didn't see the Austin incident you can't say whether he got it right or not
Apparently there was little opposition against the sending off from the area in which you were sitting. Most people saw the incident.
The problem with the first is that Coppinger went in to Austins face with his elbow, Austin was fending hm off. Wouldn't have had a problem with it if they had both walked. Kay's was a joke - upper body barge, a yellow car and no more, we were looking directly down on that from East Upper. Problem is that Rennie somehow managed to not book a single player despite feet being left in, niggly fouls etc - I said before teh first sending off that he was going to lose it as he was letting far too much go.
How can you say he got both those decisions right if you didn't see the first one! All Austin did was turn around sharply as a result of Coppingers attack from behind. His momentum forced Coppinger over the wall because they were stood so close to it at the time. If it had happened on the field of play, it would have been laughable and a good referee probably wouldn't have waved any card at all, especially since his comment to the "assistant" was "What happened? I didn't see it". As for Kay's incident, I wasn't as close to that one but according to the highlights on TV, they appeared to come into contact with each other at around hip height and of course Coppinger did the dying swan act again. As I said in a previous post, Rennie was not close to the incident but had the Card in his hand almost before it happened.
What I said was about Austin was that you can not raise your hands to an opponent. It doesnt condone what coppinger did before, but Austin pushed the lad, and it was accidental. Kay did not collide with Coppinger. He lundged at him, and caught him with the studs. I was pretty much at ground level and he caught him very late. He very much deserved to go. Also around me everyone bar a hand full were not happy with the decision - but it was a right one.
no he didnt catch him with his stoods watch the video, his foot is pointing at the floor, he made contact with his hip
Kay kicked Coppinger at least 3 times and then a faint headbutt minutes before the silly challenge. He got away with those two incidents so fairs fair. Silly indesciplined tit. Coppinger made a tit out of both Aussie and Kay, wish we had him instead of Devaney & Wroe. Takes players on, accurate crosses into the box (2 assists).
RE: no he didnt catch him with his stoods Mmmmm, BFC not contesting the decisions..... So Ritchie and Co. agree with the sendings off, but not many fans.
The first one isn't on video That's the only reason the club are not appealing. It was a ridiculous decision, end of story. (N)
And if we had him then his disgraceful antics to get fellow professionals sent off would be acceptable I suppose. He is a disgrace to his profession. He and others like him should be weeded out and banned for life.
with austin's red card i thought it was ridiculous. coppinger's "momentum" apparently meant he flung himself with arms raised into austin's face...so austin fended him off and he fell straight over the barrier. as said before if both walked then no problem but austin was sent off for arguably just a bit of handbags. i was sitting right next to the kay incident and as soon as it happened i knew he was going to walk. but i still know that he didn't touch the diving ***** with his studs. it was a late tackle but kay turned away and coppinger just dived onto his back almost. i saw all of the other dirty niggles and the headbutt but donny weren't saints either. every header that barry went for he had a nice elbow in the neck to contest with. where was that linesman then? one of the reasons that ritchie won't appeal for the decisions is that it is only in very rare cirumstances that the FA will rescind red cards and austin's wasn't on TV.
Did I say that? Yes he did touch Coppinger. The ball went out for a throw in. There were a few verbals between Austin and Coppinger. Coppinger then turns round and cracks Austin in the face. Aussie then grapples with Coppinger (Hand Bags stuff). Coppinger then takes a few steps back not realising the wall is there and much to the amusement of everyone tumbles over the wall. Does that justify a red card for Austin and for Coppinger to get of scott free? A terrible decision.
Appealing .. Richie did not appeal to the austin sending off because they did not catch it when it was on the field so that is the only reason why they did not appeal agaist austin because the camera did not catch it .. but if they did they would certainly be appealing for the elbow in austins face.
