Match Thread

Quoted from MuddyWaters

It was a yellow card - you know that, how many tackles have we seen in League 2 worse than that go unpunished. Townsend made an absolutely meal of it and the weak, pathetic Jon Moss took the opportunity to punish the lower league club.

And that is your opinion.
Plenty of people will disagree.
However somebody posted earlier the reasons why a red was issued.

I'd like to think that a GTFC player wouldn't roll round like that after what was minimal contact.

Quoted from mimma

This is what I was getting at. VAR draws the refs attention to things he's missed or doesn't have a clear view. In this case he had a good view of it and was going to give a yellow card. Then the VAR ref steps in, in my view he is out of order because he is in effect overruling the ref and telling him to change his mind irrespective of his decision.

So now it is VAR the has the final say not the man in charge.

Surely the most important thing is that the right decision is reached how it is reached is irrelevant. Or do you want the wrong decisions providing they are in Grimsby Town's favour presumably

It was a red, how it was decided and all the shite being written on here about it (some twit has even hinted that the VAR team might have in some way been swayed by a gambling involvement FFS) is just detracting from a fantastic performance by our team, that's what matters now.

Quoted from Stadium

What do think he would have done if he had reviewed the tackle after been informed by VAR??
In my opinion it was a red card offence.

I honestly don’t know, you think it was a red but the whole humberside commentary thought not. I can see why he was sent off but could also see it being just a yellow. Fox did worse tackle early doors against Mansfiield and got nothing that’s the consistency factor and interpretation a ref puts on an incident.

I just believe it must be the match referee who makes the decision as we have all seen Graham Poll and Dermot Gallagher on sport shows disagreeing with refs decisions.

There should have been no VAR, or all games VAR. To pick out a handful of games from the 3rd round fixture list is member eyed at best.

Quoted from Ipswin

Surely the most important thing is that the right decision is reached how it is reached is irrelevant. Or do you want the wrong decisions providing they are in Grimsby Town's favour presumably

It was a red, how it was decided and all the shite being written on here about it (some twit has even hinted that the VAR team might have in some way been swayed by a gambling involvement FFS) is just detracting from a fantastic performance by our team, that's what matters now.

This.

I appreciate you're all working hard tonight, but don't understand why you want the VAR system to give you the answer you apparently want?

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I'd like to think that a GTFC player wouldn't roll round like that after what was minimal contact.

FFS how many times! How heavy the contact was is totally flipping irrelevant and the Palace player's reaction played no part in the decision. Should they only award reds when a player suffers a compound fracture?

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

I honestly don’t know, you think it was a red but the whole humberside commentary thought not. I can see why he was sent off but could also see it being just a yellow. Fox did worse tackle early doors against Mansfiield and got nothing that’s the consistency factor and interpretation a ref puts on an incident.

I just believe it must be the match referee who makes the decision as we have all seen Graham Poll and Dermot Gallagher on sport shows disagreeing with refs decisions.

Don't want to be critical here but the VAR personnel have far more information available than JT & AB.

I respect your opinion of the match official having the final say however when VAR is involved that's not going to be the case.

Quoted from Ipswin

FFS how many times! How heavy the contact was is totally flipping irrelevant and the Palace player's reaction played no part in the decision. Should they only award reds when a player suffers a compound fracture?

Why not just respect others have an opinion. Most of us accept it was not a ridiculous decision but want it made by the match referee after looking again at the incident. TV images can on occasions make tackles look better or worse and Atkinson was near the incident not like he was unsighted so the tv pictures may have confirmed his original deciding or persuaded him to upgrade to a red.