Just back

Quoted from TheultimateMariner

Cracking finish, from a cracking player. He looked like the only player on their team who might do something.
I was looking at the Northampton forum for their view of the game last night, and some people were saying they don’t think he’s good enough to start every game. I would happily take him here

Really?

They must have some cracking players in the wings then, because he was their stand out.

He's already scored three goals this season and but for him, they wouldn't have 4 points on the board.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

I wanted to check I was right to be fuming about it. Jan is a pro ref and gives the perfect answer but is doesn’t stop my ire. Ref simply got a massive call wrong and cheated us out of a chance for a winner.

https://twitter.com/dutchreferee/status/1556287869064515585?s=21&t=1dvroxsXlo-7nhJrpEV1ag

Surely in that situation if it's in the box and the attackers have it.. they should get to take a drop ball at the closest point outside the box but 5 yards back (example)

So where was the ball when the ref stopped play?

With this rule change unless the head injury is an obviously serious one and you can usually tell then surely the ref can afford to let the game continue for the 5 or 10 seconds needed for the potential goal scoring situation to play out . A mix of poor referring and another victory for health and safety brigade.

Quoted from 123614

So where was the ball when the ref stopped play?

MD had control of the ball at the time and I'm sure he was about yard outside the box at the time
What irks me is these poor refs are never accountable for their sub par performances and should a manager/player openly slate saud performance they get in hot water!...

Quoted from HerveJosse

With this rule change unless the head injury is an obviously serious one and you can usually tell then surely the ref can afford to let the game continue for the 5 or 10 seconds needed for the potential goal scoring situation to play out . A mix of poor referring and another victory for health and safety brigade.

Even in the unlikely event it is a serious head injury allowing a few seconds to see if a goal occurs would not make any difference.  It is just a cheats charter.

Exactly!

Quoted from mimma

If Crocombe tries to cover the far post and gets beaten at his near post you say he shouldn't have left a gap. He gave their player the hardest choice of having to be hard and accurate to score at the far post. Unfortunately he was both, and he hit it early before Crocombe could set himself. Hats off for a brilliant finish rather than any criticism of Crocombe

That may be true but that doesn't consider whether Crocombe should have closed Hoskins down making the goal a smaller target, as I feel like that made Hoskins' mind up to hit it early. As I said, not taking anything away from the striker, he took the opportunity presented to him with aplomb and Max is a cracking keeper generally. I did say it was probably overly nit-picking from someone whose only goalkeeping experience is a few Sunday league games between the sticks so take my critique seriously at your peril!

Another thing, not sure if this has been mentioned earlier, but there should have been about a dozen handball offences against their keeper as he wasn't releasing the ball from his hands until he was outside his area from the kicks he was taking. That was the fault of the lino though rather than the referee.

Anyone else notice the post on the match thread on the Northampton forum claiming they took 41,000 to the 97/98 playoff final?