find it hard to believe Crooks with 10 yellows & Nicky Hunt only 7
Crawley match thread
- Thread starter Tom D
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Coley makes a good point in his after match interview, Jason gets a red card for going on the pitch, yet The Crawley subs also went on and got involved but did not get a card. I think these officials should be retired. It is not an easy job but for these the time has come.
yeah but com-on chris even an inept referee cant forget the statue of our gentle giant
I don't think the referee would have done anything if the 4th official hadn't called him over
too far away for me to see the challenge. if sshay had been protected earlier as billy kee should have been it probably wouldn,t have happened. the off the ball stuff started early on against billy and only a few mins earlier shay had been taken out late with no punishment for the offender. not an easy job to referee as I know especially when one side do not want to play. a couple of cards earlier might have sorted things out. a horrible side who in the end got what they diserved but we ,ve lost two with suspensions due to this.
I don't know about one side not wanting to play, Crawley outplayed us in the first half by a fair margin. The second was made easy for us after some diabolical decisions by all four officials the major one for us being the sending off of their best defender who didn't seem to do anything except calm the players down.
The Crawley #4 who got sent off appeared to give Shay a bit of a kick on the floor. Was more surprised their #21 didn't get a red to be honest as he was the main guy smacking Shay in the face.
I must have been watching a very different game. I thought that we played some reasonable football in the first half but without ever threatening to score. Crawley scored in what was their first real attacking move.
However .....
I am worried about the aftermath of the fracas. I suspect that Stanley (and Crawley) will be charged with failing to keep control of their players. That would be a total injustice. It was the referee who failed to keep control. Instead of relying totally on the referee's report, which seems to hold almost biblical status, maybe the FA panel should look at the video evidence - as they do in other disciplinary cases. The video would show exactly what each player did or did not do. And what the inept officials did or did not do.
We're appealing Mooney's red card, seems fourth official & ref said that Jason had grabbed someone by the throat??? Hopefully when they look at the footage which will show he did no such thing, it will also show what certain Crawley players did do - pity they can't be issued with a retrospective red card for their shenanigans
Their number 4 did indeed kick Shay whilst on he was on the floor. Kipax has photos up on facebook that show him nowhere near the incident, then approach, then legs bent, then he ended up on the floor as well.
And yet Crawley have lodged an appeal against his red card, don't know how they have the brass neck????
Fully agree with your astute observation Baldy. I watched the Sky sports coverage last night, which is a bit longer than the Channel 5 shows coverage. Neither the referee or his assistant gave a foul. The coverage shows the Ref turning away to run up the pitch. It was only when the Crawley players waded in that he blew his whistle!
When two players going for the same loose ball but are approaching at right angles to each other then it is highly likely that whoever gets to the ball first will be contacted by the other player. Had Shay got to the ball first then he would have got the Crawley players boot on top of his foot! For me it was not a malicious foul by Shay but a mistimed tackle and should have merited nothing more than a yellow card.
The Crawley players over reaction caused the rumpus which ironically allowed us to get the upper hand by exploiting the space freed up in midfield!
Just seen on another post that Mooney's red card has been rescinded....... Agreement by the FA officials that the Ref was indeed a 'Numpty'!
Having looked at Kipax's photos, there is no doubt that retrospective action should be taken against at least two other Crawley players, notably their no. 25 who (foolishly) wanted a war with Matt Crooks throughout the game.
It is one of Coley's more endearing habits that he always gives the opposition more credit than they often deserve in his post match comments. I wish he hadn't done so this time as Mark Yates's lying remarks on the game are a disgrace. He is lucky that Shane isn't sueing his players for mass assault and eye gouging.
Disgraceful pics, I hope that they may be used to take retrospective action against certain individuals, including the officials !!!
Well done, Kipax, I think your photos, being closer to the action than videos, shows just how intent on trouble the Crawley players were, including their subs !