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Topic: FAO RUFC : We MUST appeal Derbyshire's Red Card

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Davidedin
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FAO RUFC : We MUST appeal Derbyshire's Red Card
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just seen it on Sky highlights, it was no more than a 50-50 clash and you can tell by Derbyshire's reaction was totally unintentional... aftermath looked terrible, but that does not make it Red card if it wasn't a foul... we should get this reversed.

Doesn't matter that we won (in this context) it should be reversed..... Dirty Leeds players practically W**ked off the ref to get the decision.. (sorry - not nice but true)...



-- Edited by Davidedin on Saturday 2nd of April 2016 08:06:08 PM

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Looked a very innocuous challenge from where I was sat and couldn't believe the ref's decision. Although the ref was consistently crap for both sides.

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Good... seems we are:

 

http://www.rotherham.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=441102



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They really were a very dirty team as well as being very good with the ball and very attacking.

I just can't see how you can win an appeal with a cut caused by a part of the body that isn't a clash if heads.

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A couple of thoughts about Derbyshire's red card. It wasn't a fifty/fifty challenge. Derbyshire was never going to win the header. He wasn't trying to. He did that thing he does where at the last moment he jumps across the player either to put them off their header or make it look like he has challenged (or both). Laurel and Hardy in the Leeds dugout helped get him sent off. They and the Leeds players were constantly at the officials from minute one every time Best jumped for the ball suggesting he was using elbows. It probably stems back to Best's red at Elland Road. It was clearly a tactic they had discussed in their preparations just as they had an obvious tactic plan to chop Grant Ward down every time he got a head of steam up. They got Best a yellow just before half time and we were saying at half time to get Best subbed before he saw red - well in a sense Derbyshire paid the price instead. It wasn't an intentional blow to the face but he caught him and the lad (it was funny that he got booed - his only crime was to get his face cut to bits) lost a lot of blood, and a combination of those things resulted in the red card. The swinging arm by their player five minutes later was worse but no blood drawn so yellow card only. Whether Derbyshire deserved the red or not I think is debatable and personally I think he was unlucky to get it but as soon as he drew blood it was coming.

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My major reservation with the sending off was the sudden change of mind by the ref. Watch the replay - Friend indicates in favour of Rotherham - either a free kick or a throw. You don't change from that position to the opposite extreme of sending off the guy you've just awarded the decision to without outside intervention. If Friend changed his mind because he saw blood then he's an idiot; if it was because he was influenced by the Leeds' players then he's bent; if it was the result of a message from the linesman or 4th official, that's acceptable. It wasn't an intentionally violent challenge - it was innocuous - that's why virtually everyone was amazed at the decision. I think Smiler's being generous to their fullback saying he did nothing wrong. Why would you repeatedly punch the ground unless you were trying to influence the ref? However I do agree Smiler's sentiments re Derbyshire and if we can afford to lose anyone to a ban then I'd prefer it be him. He can spend his time polishing his nice new Bentley that I saw parked outside the ground!

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It happened right in front of me and I saw nothing which warranted a red card. The ref gave the foul to us, saw blood and put 2 and 2 together and got 5. When I was in the army they taught me if a soldier is up and about moaning then he isn't seriously injured. Watch the Leeds players banging the ground and the rest of them swarm the ref. Weak refereeing of the highest order. Appeal the red. If the FA uphold it then God help football. might as well pay to watch a cotton bud fight.



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Derbyshire was never going to win the header. He didn't seem to me to be looking at the ball. He was trying to put him off the header, not win it himself. He did catch the Leeds player with his elbow. The Leeds player did have a nasty cut. There can be no argument with any of that. I agree that the ref didn't seem to see it as it happened. Whether Derbyshire meant to catch him I don't know but I doubt it. Whether the ref was influenced by the baying Leeds pack or whether he hot input from another official I don't know. It was a harsh sending off but all I am saying is that if I was a Leeds supporter (or one of theirs had caught one of ours like that) I would have wanted him off.

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Looked again. Derbyshire was looking at the ball. He didn't mean to catch Berardi. He was never going to win the header because he isn't good in the air, but it wasn't intentional. It was really harsh. No blood, there would have been no red card as we saw a few minutes later when their player swung an arm into Danny Wards face.

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Having watched the sky footage it looks as though it was a clash of heads rather than an elbow. Derbyshire is facing away from Bellusci with his arms no more than half raised and Bellusci looks to make contact with the back of Derbyshire's head as they both jump for the ball. In my view Bellusci was at fault and caused his own injury and Derbs's red should be rescinded.


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Excellent... it has been recinded.... well done Millers for appealing... now let's beat Brissle... UTM

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