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Originally Posted by Outback Ozzy
Have just returned from Chesterfield, and I am baffled!!! The referee had an absolute disgrace with both sets of fans barracking him. We outpayed and outthought Chesterfield in the first 45 with the wind against us, second half we didn't have a clue, hoof the ball anywhere towards the opposition goal and hope someone in red will get the ball, which they invariably didn't. Why the hell were we playing a team today with no attackers on the field of play and 2 sat on the bench?? When given the chance to sub an attacker - what happens - Branchy comes on????? What on earth is going on, all I can see is a right good thumping at home on Monday. I also thought that if the last player takes out and attacker (as in our penalty today) they were automatically sent off. No caution or red card was shown to the goalie. 3 of the bookings were for tackles that were a lot less worse than anything Chesterfield had done on our players - yet they were not booked, hence the reason (and I have to say) the players and Coley lost the plot (I cannot really blame them). yet now we get a fine (I think) for more than 5 players booked in one game. Also mystified why Mcgivern wasn't in the team. Long journey back through snow and wind, was it worth it, lets just say the ref and his assitants have a lot to answer for.
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Same views mainly. The Ref turned the match as was the same at Rochdale. When the keeper fouled Whalley,by my reckoning he should have been straight off as he denied a clear goal scoring chance and was the last man. Had we had the man advantage I think we would have held on, upped our game even and scored a few. But once again our terrible defending cost us the game and it was easy to see why we have the worst record in the league. Roberts should be dropped for Webb and Mark King should get a chance. I've said it before but Aswad Thomas is selected on the one performance at Chester and on recent performances shouldn't even be on the bench.
In all fairness I don't know how we managed to go 2-0 up as all we seemed to do was smash the ball up the pitch with no aim for players-just pure guess work. Can't understand why we didn't start with a striker on the pitch- Craney is no good upfront and should be played in is natural midfield positon.
I think the idea behind Branch was just to have a big player to aim at upfront- similar to Mullin. Brown and Mangan simply can't do that but all the same when we are chasing the game, one of them should come on as well. Mangan should have started on Sunday and today.
Already mentioned the ref-disgraceful. Branch booked for a hard fair tackle, harris booked for kicking the ball away when they escaped it a few times. These refs have no consistancy which really p****s me off.
Can't do anything about these refs but coley doesn't help by going and getting himself sent to the stand. Its only going to give us a bad reputation with other refs. One thing we can do is drop those aren't delivering on the pitch. Bring on Monday and may the management make the changes, otherwise it could be 5+.