Just back

I wasn’t aware of this ^^ . Does seem that experience in the man management of reffing does need some work. Overruling a Lino’s decision when the Lino was in a better position is something he most likely wouldn’t do again. I can understand the Lino’s frustration but that shouldn’t culminate in a personal disagreement leading to a really poor decision being made . I’d hope the assessor in the ground will be submitting a highly critical report of this .

Rather than be negative about 2 points dropped I personally thought the performance was superb. Even more so given that they’d allowed stampeding wildebeest have a holiday on the pitch. Still baffled by the decision to award the penalty but, I don’t want that to detract from what was a good all round performance by players, management and fans.

The back 3 seemed to have more confidence. But,  can’t think of one player that had a bad game and I’d imagine they feel as gutted as everyone else this morning. 5 points in a week am sure many would’ve been pleased with and the confidence starting to emerge is great to see.

Lastly, how great was it to see obikwu grab his first professional goal of his career.

Bring on the Franchise Bast@rds on Tuesday

Quoted from Yossarian

Yeah I didn;t like his comments about milkmen and teacher.  Lacked class.  I understand his frustration but that was out of order... I hope he apologizes for that at some point.

The ref / lino situation is a tough one because the game needs them and needs good ones, but then I was looking at the amount of bile and pure hatred from the fans 3 yards away from them thinking "who the hell would put up with this each weekend?"

The greater the frothing hate, the least likely to get decent refs.

No idea what the answer is, apart from not being a frothing, rabid fan.

To be fair, and I say this as not a huge Artell fan, I think he was just making the point about them not being professional when it comes to the footballing world. It wasn’t meant as a slight on the other professions.

Equally, if you’re a professional referee you can’t just turn up on a random morning to deliver milk and expect to do as good a job at doing it as a milkman of 30 years.

Just a note on the subject of refs.
At our level we really are in a excrement sandwich, this is mainly driven by the madness of VAR. That they have decided to have 3 additional active refs sat looking at monitors in a studio mean the pull upwards on the chain has been that bit harder. Refs have to be pushed up to fill the gap they leave and as such it’s clear that some aren’t ready, some might never be ready, but they miss much of the learning they get at lower level pro games such as Scunny and are expected to slot into a volatile EFL battle. It’s gonna fail on occasion as it did yesterday, where even if the ball did hit Rose’s arm, it was not handball under current ruling as it rolled off his head first.
So once again VAR is making footy that bit shitter.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

I wasn’t aware of this ^^ . Does seem that experience in the man management of reffing does need some work. Overruling a Lino’s decision when the Lino was in a better position is something he most likely wouldn’t do again. I can understand the Lino’s frustration but that shouldn’t culminate in a personal disagreement leading to a really poor decision being made . I’d hope the assessor in the ground will be submitting a highly critical report of this .

The ref was correct to overrule him. It wasnt a foul. Linos got the hump and behaved like a petulant little twit.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

Just a note on the subject of refs.
At our level we really are in a excrement sandwich, this is mainly driven by the madness of VAR. That they have decided to have 3 additional active refs sat looking at monitors in a studio mean the pull upwards on the chain has been that bit harder. Refs have to be pushed up to fill the gap they leave and as such it’s clear that some aren’t ready, some might never be ready, but they miss much of the learning they get at lower level pro games such as Scunny and are expected to slot into a volatile EFL battle. It’s gonna fail on occasion as it did yesterday, where even if the ball did hit Rose’s arm, it was not handball under current ruling as it rolled off his head first.
So once again VAR is making footy that bit shitter.

They also insist on having a top level ref as the 4th official, a job that in reality could be done by someone less qualified .

Five pages of bleating about the ref and the linesman .Yes it was a crap decision but hardly on a par with Marylin Monroes paid for hit on JFK in the conspiracy theory stakes.
Refs can’t get it right sat in a Var studio with endless replays.
It all balances out over the season
What I saw was two poor teams of which we were marginally the better slugging it out in something that rarely reflected the beautiful game .
We are a team which has tightened up considerably but has lost the ability to take chances and without Roses goals we would be stuffed particularly as Eisa doesn’t fit into this new style of play
Just get to the end of the season do enough to stay up and start again.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Five pages of bleating about the ref and the li seaman . Yes it was a crap decision by hardly on a par with Marlynn Monroes paid for hit on JFK in the conspiracy theory stakes.

I think that VA R might say that she died a year before him.  

Quoted from HerveJosse

Five pages of bleating about the ref and the li seaman . Yes it was a crap decision by hardly on a par with Marlynn Monroes paid for hit on JFK in the conspiracy theory stakes.
Refs can’t get it right sat in a Var studio with endless replays.
It all balances out over the season
What I saw was two poor teams of which we were marginally the better slugging it out in something that rarely reflects the beautiful game .
We are team which has tightened up considerably but has  lost the ability to take chances and without Roses goals we would be stuffed particularly as Eisa doesn’t fit into this new style of play
Just get to the end of the season do enough to stay up and start again.

Such a breath of fresh air on a Sunday morning

Yes, it was a dreadful decision and yes, refereeing at this level is, being polite, inconsistent. But so many decisions over the years are debatable with or without television replays or VAR. Depending on your opinion, Havertz shouldn't have been on the pitch to score the winner last night, Liverpool shouldn't have had possession last weekend and so on..

Point is that we should have put the game to bed, didn't, and these are the consequences. 5 points this week was a good return - 2 more than FGR got and 4 more than Colchester. By the way, Sutton are rank and are heading back where they belong.