I've just seen the Elbow decision replay, what was the referee thinking?

I hope the club send the FULL Video to the FA for the Collins appeal, So that they can see exactly what we were up against yesterday

It was an absolute disgrace!

do you honestly think it would make any difference

To the result? No

To future results? Yes

Means chances are we wont have that tart refereeing us again

Ditto.

If enough people send their complaints about himto ra@footballreferee.org and fl@football-league.co.uk . Then it might just make them take notice, probably won't but it may make a small difference.

Just about the most laughable decision you will ever see.

If they appeal the red will definitely get over turned as from the close up it's absolutely conclusive that a) Humphreys was covering and b) It wasn't even close to being a foul.

The fooker should be struck off.

Am i wrong in thinking it was his 2nd yellow for the sending off and you can't appeal against that

Yes you are. It was a straight red.

It would be interesting to see a replay of it (I haven't yet) cos from where I was stood it looked like Collins miscontrolled the ball and then threw their bloke to the floor. Until or unless I see something different on telly then I don't see how there is any reason for complaining about the red card.

I was stood in the Town End and was livid a free kick was given, I didn't even think about the red card option initially. I didn't see much contact at all, certainly not a foul in my opinion. Unfortunately the guy that counts had a different opinion to mine.

speaking as someone who was at work all day, I am very inclined to believe these far east betting syndicates have a lot more influence on football than we would like to think they have. What happened to that Norwich/Derby inquiry? Refs don't get paid much in relation to players - so they are going to be tempted. It's time the football authorities paid them a lot more (they are loaded after all) and so far as the officials are concerned, made it not worth their while to be tempted by outside influences, in my opinion.

not that I'm suggesting anything about Saturday's ref...I wasn't there....

Still not seen it, but I suppose if it was as clearly not a foul or sending off as you lot reckon then Pools will appeal and get it rescinded.

So they'd never rescind a red card for a Pools player cos they'd just close ranks?

That's just silliness bordering on paranoia.

Just wondering why you (Mr Ripper) have not watched the replay or if you have now seen the incident what your view of it is.

It does baffle me why Pools haven't bothered appealing, maybe fear that the ban will be extended again.

I haven't watched a replay cos I was busy yesterday when The Championship was on and have been at work all day today. I did think about putting a half day in for this morning to trawl round tinterweb and look for it but thought it might be a bit short notice.

It's totally crass. There must be something that can be done to lever the FA. Apart from the injustice to the Clubs who're done down by these 'respectable refs', what about the supporters who've forked out to watch the match only to see it transformed into a travesty by some brainless official?

But maybe they're not appealing cos now that they've calmed down they realise that it could have been a sending off offence.

Just cos we lost it doesn't become mandatory to blame the ref you know. Only about 2 of our starting eleven on Saturday played half decent, so good ref or shite ref we deserved what we got.

I have only seen the brief highlights on The Championship and it seemed clear that Collins placed his hand on the attackers shoulder, who subsequently collapsed like a sack of shite. The ref was conned, pools were conned, it was never a red card but unfortunately an appeal would have been futile. IMO like.

You missed the bit about Collins being a culpable moron if, as you say, he put his hand on their forward in order to give him the opportunity to "con" the referee.

Couldn't you have made this reply to PoK (when he made a similar point to Mr Chessington's) without addressing PoK as 'Doyle'??

Hardly, as they were in no way making similar points.

One was advocting an appeal and the other was accepting that an appeal would be futile. Can I take the gamble that you are able to work out which is which for yourself or does it need spelling out?

Unless you're just deliberately shitstirring, try reading with your eyes open for a change.

To strip away the superfluities, I repeat, could you not have replied to PoK without calling him names?
You have made it quite clear what you think of his posts many times, so there is no need to go on making the point in the way you do. Besides, it's against Bunker rules.

But was I "calling him names"?

He was acting like a doyle, I was merely pointing it out.


And by the way, which "Bunker rules" is it against? The ones that you like to make up as you go along?

It may be perceived as childish, hell it might actually be childish. But unless there is a secret scroll somewhere it isn't "against Bunker rules" like some irritants might try to convince folk.

People have been yellow carded for persistently insulting other posters instead of merely replying to their posts. To the observant reader, this implies a Bunker rule.

Believe me, nothing can be more of an irritant than your apparent inability to let pass anything at all that Mr Kent says

Yes it can. Your ability to incorrectly imply things beats the hell out of it. Your inability to read properly runs that a close second and PoK's ability to overreact to the tiniest little news story would have to be up there too, so I'm not even on the podium love.

"You are behaving like a doyle": opinion (of the remonstrative type)

"Get a grip, doyle!": insult (of the childish variety)

HTH

You see, I'm currently thinking to myself that you should go andfuck yourself and that she should do the same only more often. Hell, it might even lighten her up a bit. Unfortunately I'm probably not allowed to share that thought with anybody as it might be classed as being against the rules so I'll just keep it to myself.

I could get this post deleted, but let it stay. No-one can then be in any doubt about what an offensive little bore you are

Can't work out if you two like each other or not?

Simple: if Ripper murders Flo' it means he thinks she's a whore so he likes her really
But if he doesn't murder her it's because of his contempt for her.

Watch the headlines - oops, that's your job.

Hmmm. Offensive little bore or irritating dried up old witch? I'll have to think about which I'd rather be.

Or maybe, taking your post as a whole, you just have no idea what you are on about.

He wasn't trying to con the ref, he genuinely slipped in my opinion. It was only the ref who thought it was a free kick as the MK Dons players around him didn't appeal either.