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Appreciate he's a popular player but didn't half put us up against it today and extinguished any hope of 3 points with his sending off.

Understood the first when he and several others were blowing to slow the game down. But if you are on a yellow, you are on a yellow. The second was pure idiocy.

Expect better from our captain.
 
We will miss his experience against Wolves, just as we will miss Pearson too. But as someone has just said - shite happens, we need to move on. Nothing we can do about it.
 
We do need to stop trying to defend our players and blaming refs. Our disciplinary record this season is shocking. Yes, we've had some poor refs but they ref all the other teams in this division too so we all have to put up with them. A lot of our cards this season have been down to silliness, lack of concentration and petulance. We need to sort it out. The excuses trotted out on here are ridiculous.......
The ref was crap.
He was just taking one for the team.
He was injured so picking up that suspension was ok.
If it hadn't been Pearson he wouldn't have been booked etc etc.
 
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PNE Chris said:
Sort it out? They are clearly doing it on AN orders.
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Yeah it seems that way. I posted before our dark arts have improved a lot since Grayson where I often thought we were very naive or weak now we're the opposite we need to find a cuter way of getting away with it. It's part of the game, gamesmanship, constantly talking to the ref, pointing out inconsistentces etc are essential in my opinion, taking 5mins for a goal kick free kick corner or throw in isn't, obstructing opposition getting the ball 4 or 5 times.for a.free kick also isn't. Need to improve this area no doubt about it, important players picking up more suspensions than we can cope with.
 
bobbydavro said:
2nd wasn’t a booking, ref was shite

no need to criticise one of our best players, shit happens move on
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Even Stevie Wonder would have thought he was going to get a second yellow!

Not an ounce of doubt about the decision. Cunningham knew straight away he was walking.
 
California_PNE said:
Yeah it seems that way. I posted before our dark arts have improved a lot since Grayson where I often thought we were very naive or weak now we're the opposite we need to find a cuter way of getting away with it. It's part of the game, gamesmanship, constantly talking to the ref, pointing out inconsistentces etc are essential in my opinion, taking 5mins for a goal kick free kick corner or throw in isn't, obstructing opposition getting the ball 4 or 5 times.for a.free kick also isn't. Need to improve this area no doubt about it, important players picking up more suspensions than we can cope with.
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I have no Idea if it is because of instructions from the Manager or Coaching staff---But if it is it’s self defeating with the number of suspensions we have clocked up and more likely before the next amnesty---Personally if I was a Ref I would book them all for back chat or what I thought was deliberate gamesmanship---It would be their own fault if they tested my patience, and their choice in the sanction imposed---I bet they wouldn’t do it the second match I Ref’d with them---And as for Delli Alye tapping the ref on the shoulder, I would have given him a second yellow for that, by way of admitting he tried to Cheat
 
California_PNE said:
Yeah it seems that way. I posted before our dark arts have improved a lot since Grayson where I often thought we were very naive or weak now we're the opposite we need to find a cuter way of getting away with it. It's part of the game, gamesmanship, constantly talking to the ref, pointing out inconsistentces etc are essential in my opinion, taking 5mins for a goal kick free kick corner or throw in isn't, obstructing opposition getting the ball 4 or 5 times.for a.free kick also isn't. Need to improve this area no doubt about it, important players picking up more suspensions than we can cope with.
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They’re hardly ‘dark arts’, that implies something underhand and off the ball when what we do is gamesmanship and is pretty obvious. What is annoying is the number of opposition players who do the same and seem to get away with it. Eg McEachran yesterday
 
Pilot said:
They’re hardly ‘dark arts’, that implies something underhand and off the ball when what we do is gamesmanship and is pretty obvious. What is annoying is the number of opposition players who do the same and seem to get away with it. Eg McEachran yesterday
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Sorry I didn't call it the right thing.
 
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