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Second penalty

kingpne said:
He was terrible today, Maccy.

Gallagher & Allen both should have been sent off today, and it took until about Shawcross' 76th foul of the game for him to get booked. He had a shocking game.
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Shawcross had a terrible game - looked very nervous. Very surprising considering he has been playing in the prem for years.

As for Madley. He wasn't brilliant and had an abysmal game but until Mike Riley gets off his high horse and actually starts helping and training these referee's properly then I'm afraid these type of performances will continue.
 
White123 said:
Shawcross had a terrible game - looked very nervous. Very surprising considering he has been playing in the prem for years.

As for Madley. He wasn't brilliant and had an abysmal game but until Mike Riley gets off his high horse and actually starts helping and training these referee's properly then I'm afraid these type of performances will continue.
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What do you mean in your second para Mr white? Inside ref info?
 
White123 said:
Shawcross had a terrible game - looked very nervous. Very surprising considering he has been playing in the prem for years.

As for Madley. He wasn't brilliant and had an abysmal game but until Mike Riley gets off his high horse and actually starts helping and training these referee's properly then I'm afraid these type of performances will continue.
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To be fair, referees are given unbelievable facilities and resources to improve their decision making and fitness or whatnot.

The problem that the majority of them have is their own personality. Similarly to those disliked teachers in school, it seems they have only chosen their profession to feel a degree of authority.
 
California_PNE said:
What do you mean in your second para Mr white? Inside ref info?
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kingpne said:
To be fair, referees are given unbelievable facilities and resources to improve their decision making and fitness or whatnot.

The problem that the majority of them have is their own personality. Similarly to those disliked teachers in school, it seems they have only chosen their profession to feel a degree of authority.
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Don't get your point apart from ref bashing lads. He wasn't any shitter than the normal shit we endure, we got awarded a pen remember, great decision.
 
California_PNE said:
Don't get your point apart from ref bashing lads. He wasn't any shitter than the normal shit we endure, we got awarded a pen remember, great decision.
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Referees are paid to call decisions correctly, particular easy ones like today. The penalty he got right but that was one of the most obvious handballs I’ve ever seen.

Allen should’ve got a second yellow clearly. Shawcross should’ve been booked much, much earlier. And although I can’t complain too much, Gallagher should’ve been sent off. Obvious elbow.

He had a stinker today.

I do have sympathy for officials, particularly linesmen, as their jobs are very difficult but today I don’t think there was any 50/50 decisions or anything, he was just useless.
 
I don't think Gally meant to elbow Allen, but he did raise his elbow and I wouldn't have complained after seeing the highlights.

The ref seemed to me to be inconsistent, but I did think he was biased. It's a job I would never do and respect should be given to people who are willing to be vilified and take so much abuse on a regular basis. Without the refs we wouldn't have a game to watch.

Like someone else said the ref today was no better or worse than we get other weeks.
 
tete55 said:
I don't think Gally meant to elbow Allen, but he did raise his elbow and I wouldn't have complained after seeing the highlights.

The ref seemed to me to be inconsistent, but I did think he was biased. It's a job I would never do and respect should be given to people who are willing to be vilified and take so much abuse on a regular basis. Without the refs we wouldn't have a game to watch.

Like someone else said the ref today was no better or worse than we get other weeks.
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I have respect some the people that do the job but it takes a special type of weird personality to be a referee for me.

Like the child at school that was at the bottom of the food chain so they take a job where they have total control and can feed an ego they desperately needed validating whilst growing up.
 
kingpne said:
To be fair, referees are given unbelievable facilities and resources to improve their decision making and fitness or whatnot.

The problem that the majority of them have is their own personality. Similarly to those disliked teachers in school, it seems they have only chosen their profession to feel a degree of authority.
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There are over 100 young refs in the local junior leagues who go out to ref matches in all weathers out of nothing more than their love of football, some of whom enjoy enabling other kids to have a match, usually after or before they play themselves in their own teams. The main problem refs have is that they have to deal with attitudes like yours to them as youngsters and end up jacking it in.
 
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Ron Burgundy said:
I have respect some the people that do the job but it takes a special type of weird personality to be a referee for me.

Like the child at school that was at the bottom of the food chain so they take a job where they have total control and can feed an ego they desperately needed validating whilst growing up.
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Outdated and ill informed attitude. Try speaking to the hundreds of young lads and girls who go through young ref qualifications and who have shown far more resilience and bottle in their young lives than many adults have ever done to put kids games on each week while dealing with idiotic attitudes like yours from touch lines up and down the country.
 
Henrys Cat said:
Gallagher will certainly be receiving a retrospective ban for that elbow. Probably 3 games. It was blatant and deliberate. Had that been the other way round this forum would have gone into meltdown.
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Correct mate,blatent elbow,the referee was yards away,dont know how he didn't see it.
 
Dirty Harry said:
There are over 100 young refs in the local junior leagues who go out to ref matches in all weathers out of nothing more than their love of football, some of whom enjoy enabling other kids to have a match, usually after or before they play themselves in their own teams. The main problem refs have is that they have to deal with attitudes like yours to them as youngsters and end up jacking it in.
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100% agree DH. My son has ref' from age 14 and the crap he gets some weekends (from Parents mostly it has to be said) is just incredible. They seem to forget that without these young boys and girls their kids wouldnt get the chance to play at a weekend. For the record my son isn't "bottom of the food chain" looking for some power trip, he enjoys football, playing to a high standard and this gives him a bob or two in his pocket.
 
Pot said:
100% agree DH. My son has ref' from age 14 and the crap he gets some weekends (from Parents mostly it has to be said) is just incredible. They seem to forget that without these young boys and girls their kids wouldnt get the chance to play at a weekend. For the record my son isn't "bottom of the food chain" looking for some power trip, he enjoys football, playing to a high standard and this gives him a bob or two in his pocket.
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Good for your son. There's a few of us on here whose kids are young refs Pot.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
I have respect some the people that do the job but it takes a special type of weird personality to be a referee for me.

Like the child at school that was at the bottom of the food chain so they take a job where they have total control and can feed an ego they desperately needed validating whilst growing up.
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On the basis of that, it wouldn't surprise me if you were a referee.
 
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