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Worst part was the poor Lad was left writhing in agony after he got clogged, both the Ref and the Liner seemed reluctant to stop the play. Miserable performance from the Officials today

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Against the current guidelines there keeper threw the ball out.. so good on him

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It was an absolute joke... he was visably in agony yet the game carried on for ages!!! both ref and linesmen were a joke!!!!!:mad:

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Whilst you feel sympathy for those who are genuinely injured it's become an incredible art for a referee to tell the difference between real and fake.

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yep... if they see a head injury they take no chances.. otherwise leave to play goes out... so many divers and kidders about :( hard for the ref to make the right decision..

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It was obviously bad for Leighton but I agree with what has been said - the modern game is becoming virtually impossible to referee with diving saturating games.

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does this mean a return for browny to come and sit on our bench till january when we find some cover???

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Official site says McGivern will be out for up to 4 months. Very bad news for him and the team. He looked to be the answer to some of our problems.

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It wasn't the only time though was it, 3 times we had players down and it seemed to take ages for play to stop

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Can't believe the bad luck we're having with injuries this season. Everytime I've seen McGivern he's looked the business to me (which is why I've sponsored his shirt). Thought he was playing superbly yesterday. I just hope he recovers in less than four months.

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I just hope the Mac player who deliberately and blatantly inflicted the injury on McGivern is proud of himself. The poor lads season is probably over and the b*****d who did it got off scot free thanks to the delay by the linesman in stopping play.

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Hows speeding up the delay gonna help get the player into trouble :confused:

I think its getting harder for the officials to know when a player is actually hurt or if a player dived, which the players only have themself to blame for diving (not saying Leighton did dive) but we see it all the time, players diving and if the Referee stopped it everytime a player went down the game would never get going, and then we would moan that the Ref is trying get all the attention.

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Says on bbc that browny's extended his stay at burtoon for another month

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I didn't say doing something about it sooner would have helped Leighton, but by not stopping play straight away the dirty clogger who broke his ankle got away with it because he was away up the field and the ref had no idea who the culprit was.