The end of match "time-wasting" thing

Sorry, this has probably been discussed to death but looking on some other club forums (not just Peterborough's), there is a suggestion that this amounted to match fixing.

I don't know how any one can suggest that, if anything it gave Peterborough even more chance to be in control of their own destiny and get an equaliser at Palace, if we'd have carried on playing normally and scored a winner they would have needed to win their game, and they were never gonna get two in such a short amount of time.

It was a massive gamble on our part and benefited them as much as us.

Is it really the type of thing I want to see from a Barnsley team? No not really, and over the years we've never been a team that goes out of the way to waste time so I think we were all a little bit uneasy about it as it happened and it didn't guarantee that we'd get what we wanted.

Other fans have suggested their team wouldn't have done the same in this situation - of course they would. You just don't see this happen often because you need both teams to be happy to do it and it takes some very rare circumstances for both teams to participate.

Anyway, I hope this situation never happens again, the emotions of yesterday really took it out of me, to the point where I haven't really been interested in watching/reading anything about the game until today.

 

it was no different than taking the ball into the corner and shielding it

ok so it was the last game of the season. But any amount of games throughout the season sees teams taking the ball to the opponents corner flag and shielding it, or the stoppage time subbing. Sorry it was a calculated risk. Had it been the other way around then they would have done the same I reckon.

 

The ball was in play. Huddersfield did not come and pressure the keeper. Nuff said. If they had we would have done something.

No rules were broken.

I can imagine the court case if the FA even dare try and suggest any wrong doing.

We gave it all during the game and so did huddersfield. No Match fixing went on at all! It could have easily swung either way.

 

No way was it match fixing, i fail to see how it's any different to holding the ball in the corner apart from the fact that huddersfield felt no need to close steele down. Like you say it was possibly of benefit to them more than us, although in theory we may have conceded if we didn't waste time also saving peterborough, it was a massive gamble that's for sure especially with the peterborough game not finished by that point.

Maybe it was a little unsporting, but match fixing it certainly wasn't, after all it wasn't our fault they choked and let in a third goal.

 

They should be more aggrieved about the free-kick decision that led to Palace's winner - scandalous. Never a free-kick in a million years. Not that I give a flying one or 'owt.

 

Would have been interesting to see how the game had gone if all both teams needed before the game was a draw to stay up - would probably have been a very slow tempo 0-0. I suppose any other team affected by it would have to accept that is how the fixtures fell and would do exactly the same themselves, as hard as that would be to accept.

I suppose if I was a Peterborough fan I would be angry this morning and looking for people to blame as well.

The three worse teams in the league did not go down, and it's not very often you can say that. People say the league table doesn't lie but this seasons Championship table definitely does with it taking some teams a while sort their sh*t out.

 

Good point - I think Peterborough could have been more aggrieved if their game had finished in defeat and they were hoping for a Huddersfield winner yet both teams had effectively stopped playing. I'd have been pretty pi$$ed off as a Peterborough fan if that had been the case.

 

I only saw the highlights this morning and yeah we definitely had a massive slice of luck with that situation.

 

Yeah that would have been more than understandable. I think huddersfield would rather p'boro go down as well due to comments made by p'boro's chairman about them, so that would have possibly made it worse had p'boro's game already ended as they would have thought hudds were not pressing steele on purpose to send them down as revenge.

I found nothing wrong with the situation tbh as it was risky, you couldn't "match fix" to determine the outcome of the league because peterborough could well have gone on and scored anyway therefore relegating us. There wouldn't have been any complaints had that happened, i'm sure we'd have just been the laughing stock of the country instead and we would be receiving endless "thank you" messages from peterborough fans.

 

Yeah that would have been more than understandable. I think huddersfield would rather p'boro go down as well due to comments made by p'boro's chairman about them, so that would have possibly made it worse had p'boro's game already ended as they would have thought hudds were not pressing steele on purpose to send them down as revenge.

I found nothing wrong with the situation tbh as it was risky, you couldn't "match fix" to determine the outcome of the league because peterborough could well have gone on and scored anyway therefore relegating us. There wouldn't have been any complaints had that happened, i'm sure we'd have just been the laughing stock of the country instead and we would be receiving endless "thank you" messages from peterborough fans.

 

sorry double post :redface:

 

Huddersfield were safe anyway due to Millwalls defeat by settling for a draw we took the risk as stated with Huddersfield only needing a draw at the start there was a good chance of it happening.

 

its just as legal as a player taking the ball to the oppositions corner flag and waiting for a challenge

 

Was a huge risk and found it strange as i have never seen anything like that happen while watching Town. Thankfully it paid off for both teams

 

I thought at the time a Huddersfield player was down with cramp until I realised that every other player just froze and didn't move a inch.