Why what's happening Tuesday mate? 

These games, top against lower end, always have the potential to be banana skins. They need every point they can squeeze out of the remaining games to avoid the drop; they're gonna fight, battle even in some cases cheat. Not saying they cheated today, but it was never going to be the push over that some may have thought. A point is a point we didn't lose.

A general point about refereeing. About ten times in the first half he warned their players about time wasting but he never booked anyone, and there was only one minute added on at the end of the first half. It took longer than that to restart after their goal. There is absolutely no point in warning players over and over again and eventually booking somebody with ten minutes to go. By then it's too late - the damage is done. Book someone early on and if they keep doing it book someone else. Simple. I dont blame Wimbledon at all. They were going to keep doing it until the ref stopped them, and he never got hold of it.

Adelakun was awful and he was at Lincoln as well, but he is not a left winger so he is being played out of position. We have been quite poor the last 3 games compare any of those performances to the Ipswich game. We are still top and took 7 points out of 9 when not playing well, that is a good thing. Crooks is a wonderful player, so calm on the ball and overall we showed great fight. Down sides for me was the ref it is not possible for so many officials to be as bad as they are, there has to be another reason. Smith gives too many fouls away and leads to lost possession a lot his missed one on one was terrible the keeper was out and a simple lob was all it needed, Freddie is a better goal scorer. Main thin is the weather affected Wood he was shocking today, when he plays bad so do we. However we didn't lose and we have to realise that playing at 80% is not good enough and we need to raise our game again. Could be worse we could be that shambles of a club Wednesday

I thought the ref was a loose cannon, giving odd decisions for/against both sides.

The disallowed goal - if anything if there was a foul it should have been for their players laying on the ball. If he waits half a second, the ball goes in and he isn't giving a free kick. I honestly believe he blew up quickly just to sort the mess out.

The penalty wasn't one. Every game you see tangles of legs and players going down from corners and free kicks and nothing is given. There was contact both ways, but as soon as their player went down you know there was a fair chance the ref would give it because he spent most of the game guessing, and he wasn't going to miss the chance to grab the limelight.

All good drama though!

I don't know why that ref bothered having assistant referees either. Two or three times he gave free kicks from forty yards away when the lino was five yards away and saw nothing wrong, and quite a few times the lino waved one way for a throw-in and the ref pointed the other. Their substitution after their equaliser was an utter farce. It was all very odd.

It is a hard job but that bloke made it far harder than it needed to be.

Rant over!

-- Edited by smiler on Saturday 15th of February 2020 11:15:46 PM

TH MILLER wrote:

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When we lose or drop a couple of points it is always the official's fault. We were playing fourth from bottom the manager takes the blame not good enough. These are the games you push on. The loan signings didn't do anything does No 14 know what tracking back means. Millers fan sat at the side of me kept shouting get him off. With him playing like that you can put any one at left back they are isolated.

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My criticism of the ref isn't sour grapes.  I put something similar after the Burton game, which we won. 

Increasingly I am coming away from games (win, lose or draw) shaking my head, baffled by some of what I have seen. I can accept that 50/50 calls can go against you, but there are an increasing number of glaring errors.  The back pass from Burton was a prime example.  The handball a yard outside the area by the Hull keeper was another. 

The Wimbledon players were taking the mick yesterday with time wasting.  They were laughing at him.  Until he booked one of them, it was going to carry on, and it started after about five minutes.  Refs need to understand the game well enough to know that teams waste time not just with five minutes to go, but from the start to disrupt the flow of the game.  At least a dozen times in the first half he ran to wave to their players to hurry up, waving his arms or pointing at his imaginary watch, but he booked nobody and then we got one added minute at the end of the half.

While their first substitution was taking place the ref was was talking to their left back for the umpteenth time about time wasting at throw-ins.  At the same time, behind the refs back the player being taken off walked at a snails pace from the family stand touchline all the way across the field.  What happened to leaving the field at the nearest exit point?  Also second half, half they had a player treated in their own six yard area a yard from the touchline and we all had to wait while he limped over to the dugouts, again instead of leaving the pitch a yard away.  Those sort of things are just common sense and really frustrate fans.  They give the impression that the ref really doesn't know what he is doing, so that you lose confidence in his ability to get bigger decisions right.

If you thought he was good THMiller, fair enough.

 

Referee aside team selection cost us that game. Loans in last window & Lamy out takes some explaining to me. Akelakun brings nothing to the side. Koroma he's got to get match sharp before we can judge him, how's he going to do that? Playing non-full backs why? when you have two on the bench. Lindsey needs to brought in to a midfield 3, just play one wide man. Olosunde & Mattock can give us some width. Football it's a simple game play to your strengths.

Wimbledon worked very hard for their point. Well done to them. They will be delighted. We had five attempts on goal to every one of theirs. We did enough to win it comfortably but it was one of those days. It was all quite entertaining in awful conditions and credit to both teams for that. I thought their left back was excellent by the way - he was nearly as quick as Ogbene and nullified him, and also got forward well.