Winnall and Hourihane need to watch themselves

With the new FA directive on dissent and referee intimidation, both Sam and Conor will need to show more discipline if we're not to find ourselves a man light in the early games. They've both shown argumentative tendencies before, and both did so again yesterday. That's not to say they weren't wronged by some of the decisions (who was the referee, btw?) - they were. But discipline is required going into the league programme. In my experience it's quite hard to get booked in a friendly. The ref will usually say "if that were a league game..... etc".So Sam must have given some serious lip. It ain't worth it.

 

And Hammill. He's probably the worst culprit.

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Look how he was at WSM. Didn't even celebrate his wonderful goal because he wanted to carry on being arguementative. Didn't go yesterday but by the sounds of it he should have been sent off for the free kick that lead to their first goal and spent alot of the game whinging. Be no good to us if he picks up silly avoidable bookings.

 

Should have been sent off??
He should have been given a nailed on free kick befor the clueless clown gave Everton one for their opening goal. He was being pulled back and it was blatant.
What about someone actually sorting out the god awful refs we keep getting first.

 

Granted he was fouled but he is an experienced professional who should not see red when something goes against him. By giving away a needless free kick he gifted the opposition a scoring opportunity. The better class of opponent will gratefully except such chances and could be the difference between picking points up or coming away empty handed

 

If you look at Heckys presser.. he's well aware of it..

 

Absolutely, we're shocking at showing respect to the officials over insignificant decisions. The general way it goes is Winnall gets munk on, Hourihane comes over to double team the ref and they both get overly annoyed. As for Hammill... well... when he gets tackled (most of the time he deems unfairly) there's always an intake of breath as you don't know what's coming next, see Saturday. At least that's a decision that went our way (no red card), yes it should've been a foul previous but the game goes on and you can not jump in like that then continue having a go at the ref. Some discipline is needed and I've always thought, if you show the ref respect, correct decision or not, surely that would be reciprocated?

 

I think Adam Hammill has made himself a true Barnsley legend in the last 6 months. And I'm not using that term lightly, he's now right up there. However, he came very, very close to getting himself sent off at Wigan on the last day of the season. If he had would we be in the Championship right now? Probably not. Very, very fine lines and we can't afford to lose players of Hammill and Winnall's quality.