Just back

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

And have to add all the players ran their hearts out so massive credit to them today

Indeed game for me on par with Wimbledon game
They had 3/ 4 big players with their No9 should have been at Twickenham

Quoted from Chrisblor

Tharme has his hand on the Sutton number 9's back. He does not at any point grab him around the waist and attempt to maneuver him:



If both players have their hands on each other and then one of them throws the other to the ground it's the one who has thrown a player to the ground who has committed a foul.

We are the ones in red by the way. Tharme is in front of the no.9 but has his arm round his back so how did it get there if he didn't put his arm around him, it also looks like he is trying to get his other arm around his neck. This sort of fouling goes on in every game and refs rarely give a foul if both players are holding onto each other.

Ref and Lino. Should be banned for life bringing  the game in to disrepute absolutely shocking penalty award  

TBF to the ref I didn’t think he did too bad a job . It’s a difficult task reffing a game in L2 when two teams are scrapping for their lives and kicking / smashing each other . However when you think that he over ruled the Lino for a free kick decision and then allowed himself to be coerced into a penalty decision and then in the final minutes let a blatant smash into Clifton ( I think ) and then blew final whistle when both on the deck you can’t really defend him .

Tharme was thrown to the ground going over the No. 9's leg. Like something from a Jackie Chan movie, let alone a football pitch. A pathetic piece of refereeing to somehow miss that when he was less than 10 yards from the incident and absolutely nobody in his eyerline to block his view. Got to take your chances but a dodgy penalty when your player is blatantly fouled is even more galling. I hope there was a referee's assessor there taking notes on the performances of the officials.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

TBF to the ref I didn’t think he did too bad a job . It’s a difficult task reffing a game in L2 when two teams are scrapping for their lives and kicking / smashing each other . However when you think that he over ruled the Lino for a free kick decision and then allowed himself to be coerced into a penalty decision and then in the final minutes let a blatant smash into Clifton ( I think ) and then blew final whistle when both on the deck you can’t really defend him .

I qualified as a ref in egg chasing and the principal is the same, you give what you see. I’m not convinced the ref today knew enough about the pro game & rules & thus he failed to do that.

I am not normally a member of the tin-foil-hat brigade, but goodness me that linesman was genuinely awful.  I've never seen a ref and a lino be so "in each other's face".  Weird.

Have to say, was some top quality "sushhing" from their player after he scored -

But why why why do fans (grown men) lose their mind so much that they want to try and climb over the fence and act like 11 year olds in a playground fight?  That was embarrasing at the end -

Red tick all you like, but there are middle-aged men acting like total retards in the stands.  At what point do people think that is even remotely in the boundaries of adult behaviour?  Pathetic.  Got to call this out when it happens.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I qualified as a ref in egg chasing and the principal is the same, you give what you see. I’m not convinced the ref today knew enough about the pro game & rules & thus he failed to do that.

Not totally disagreeing with you but if he’s got onto the league list he must have been assessed through the levels to gained the standard required to have become an EFL ref. He had a lot to deal with today in terms of physicality from both sides . I think he started to lose control after the penalty decision which he probably knew he’d messed up and just decided not to give another difficult decision and blew the final whistle.
He’s probably sitting at home mulling over his afternoon’s work with a glass of red thinking I’m going to be doing non league next season

If he hadn't blown for offside it could have been even worse

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Not totally disagreeing with you but if he’s got onto the league list he must have been assessed through the levels to gained the standard required to have become an EFL ref. He had a lot to deal with today in terms of physicality from both sides . I think he started to lose control after the penalty decision which he probably knew he’d messed up and just decided not to give another difficult decision and blew the final whistle.
He’s probably sitting at home mulling over his afternoon’s work with a glass of red thinking I’m going to be doing non league next season

I think that’s a dead balanced view, good post 👍

Maybe he was a bit to focused on the “needs of his team” rather than officiating the game.