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choirboy · 23-09-2017, 17:10

I thought that it was a match of two halves today.
First half we were very good and should have been three goals to the good!
We had two or three penalty shouts but I don't think that our players helped the referee by trying to dramatically make more of the fouls than was needed! Kayden was electric until he got the injury which occurred a couple of minutes before he scored the equalizer.
We should have subbed him at half time IMHO.

The second half was in total contrast and was a very scrappy affair mainly due to the referee not applying the rules regarding pushing! The longer the match went on the more players on both sides were leaning and pushing and wrestling each other. The referee seemed only to want the game "to flow" by waving appeals for free kicks away and by 'playing on'.

I have seen this referee before and I reckon once again that he will think that he had a good game today as he awarded only seven free kicks against us and only thirteen against Cheltenham and only two players were booked. When will referees like this chap realise that the statistics don't judge whether he had a good game or not it is the quality of the match that does!
He should have been sterner with the players earlier, he could have booked a couple early on and stopped them from playing in this niggly fashion!
Totally frustrated at the end as was 'The Governor' Mark Hughes who was getting really fed up with the referee's inability to apply the rules!

23-09-2017, 17:10	#10
choirboy Senior Member+ Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Clayton le Moors Posts: 3,023 Liked: 2209 times Rep Power: 230532	Re: Cheltenham match thread. I thought that it was a match of two halves today. First half we were very good and should have been three goals to the good! We had two or three penalty shouts but I don't think that our players helped the referee by trying to dramatically make more of the fouls than was needed! Kayden was electric until he got the injury which occurred a couple of minutes before he scored the equalizer. We should have subbed him at half time IMHO. The second half was in total contrast and was a very scrappy affair mainly due to the referee not applying the rules regarding pushing! The longer the match went on the more players on both sides were leaning and pushing and wrestling each other. The referee seemed only to want the game "to flow" by waving appeals for free kicks away and by 'playing on'. I have seen this referee before and I reckon once again that he will think that he had a good game today as he awarded only seven free kicks against us and only thirteen against Cheltenham and only two players were booked. When will referees like this chap realise that the statistics don't judge whether he had a good game or not it is the quality of the match that does! He should have been sterner with the players earlier, he could have booked a couple early on and stopped them from playing in this niggly fashion! Totally frustrated at the end as was 'The Governor' Mark Hughes who was getting really fed up with the referee's inability to apply the rules!