Newell must have been injured. Good team selection, 3 in midfield. We've needed that. Make yourself hard to pass, make midfield solid.

Fantastic result, massive congratulations to the team & the fans that travelled. We're all but there now. UTM

Good professional team performance all round against the 12 men of Gillingham. Gillingham's direct approach had been correctly anticipated by Warnsey/Barkers and every Miller stuck well to his role. Bodes well for the playoffs. Smith taken off only because he was trying to explain the rules of football to Gillingham's 12th man who seemed to have been drafted in from a netball league.

Good night for the big lad who caught Wood's shirt at the end - any chance you could give it to a little kid if you are reading this?

great result last night and nearly there now

Another slip up from the chasing pack at 2-1 to Blackburn....however....Peterborough should have had two penalties and a definate red card for a late Blackburn tackle.....3-1 now so Blackburn now in auto's and Peterborough some work to do to get into play-offs.

Referee....smiling idiot....

Referee's scare me more than any team we might play....incompetent bordering on cheating for me!
( What Donni manager said....lol )

I have to be careful and considerate here. I reffed a game yesterday which had a 50/50 peno, lad in box running towards goal with ball tackle comes in wins ball, ball went out of players control and the challenge took him over. Everyone thought was a pen apart from me which was very contentious, luckily in the same passage of play they scored anyway 5 seconds later. Later on in the box defender and striker contest a bouncing ball and shoulder charge each other with equal force (fine in the law). Split second with that another defender also charges other side with force not equalled by striker, some call this a sandwich. It's totally unintentional but by law is a foul so gave the pen to same team I denied earlier much to the uproar of coaches players and parents. I explained why to the players and then again after the match. It was the 4th goal of a 4-0 loss so hardly any great shakes.

Being a ref is relentless, everyone always ready to jump on what's wrong and we need to hear more of good stuff they do, publicly. One of the biggest kudos of a ref is playing an advantage and a goal being scored as it requires reading of the game not implementing the rules. Ref's do it for the love of the game, a good game to ref is free flowing hardly needing to intervene. Notice how we all say ref had a good game mostly because we hardly noticed their presence.

However at Wigan, I swore I would never shout at a referee ever again. I lasted 38 minutes, the frequency of basic errors for professionals that high up the ladder and for what they get paid does need addressing. Referee's do make mistakes and we accept that don't we? - I'm sure I'd be the first to say to players after a whistle got that wrong, sorry, drop ball. But when they can't even make basic calls that gets my goat. I'll never question a foul, as from the stands we can't see what a ref does 5-10 yards away. A classic example yesterday was when I awarded a corner after a player shot and deflected off the defender but the ball path hardly changed. Lino many miles away gave a goal kick, attacker appealed for a corner and I gave it - why? I heard the deflection off his boot - its unmistakeable - and told the players so. However at Wigan twice neither the ref or lino had any clue which way a throw in should go, both hesitating for the other to make a move. That can't be right at this level, especially the comms tech they have to utilise.

I can understand in some instances why fans can get frustrated. We always have to remember though no ref = no football. There are not enough referee's, ipso facto the pool is smaller for the liklihood of top referees coming through. I'm not surprised at all we have no representatives in this years world cup. There's a lot for the FA to address. For me, I'd be taking a fee from all clubs on a home game basis which goes towards all league referee's to be professional, not just the PL. If the the clubs want better referee's VAR is not the solution they are gonna have to contribute to funding full time referee's in all leagues, the FA cannot finance it alone, but with such finance they can then put things in place to train our referee's more regular and to a higher standard.

hillsborough miller wrote:

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great result


but what we need now to is get a run of form going in to the playoffs i would be happy

wigan draw
gillingham away win
rover home win
plymouth draw
blackpool home win

-- Edited by hillsborough miller on Wednesday 11th of April 2018 07:13:47 AM

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 I've resurrected Hillsborough's post above just to prove that an optimistic outlook doesn't necessarily have to be unrealistic. If his predictions for the remaining three games come to fruition, we'll be ideally placed to hit the play-offs running!

Momentum is a key factor in the playoffs so we need to keep up the pace and get as many points as we can to ensure our heads are right. We had a big dip after we fell off our last good run

OK, with results last night and more to come, it looks like we've got too many points.....

Can we bank some for next season, lol :) :)