| The referee 18:44 - Jan 31 with 1597 views | Deano69 |
Not sure I have seen a worse performance and there has been a few.
Too many incidents to list. |  |
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| The referee on 18:46 - Jan 31 with 1396 views | hoppy |
Definitely small man syndrome. But got so much wrong, or missed, as well. |  |
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| The referee on 18:51 - Jan 31 with 1335 views | RegencyBlue |
I wouldn’t say it was the worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen but it was right up there! |  | | |
| The referee on 18:53 - Jan 31 with 1295 views | Deano69 |
| The referee on 18:51 - Jan 31 by RegencyBlue |
I wouldn’t say it was the worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen but it was right up there! |
I may have seen individual moments of worse refereeing, but not so many across 90+ minutes.
Absolutely laughable, with the exception of giving a foul throw. | |
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| The referee on 18:54 - Jan 31 with 1286 views | LeoMuff |
The one where he pulled play back when Clarke had the ball in front of their back line, criminal.
He was awful |  |
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| The referee on 18:58 - Jan 31 with 1248 views | Kieran_Knows |
If they’re not bald, they’re short. Why do we always attract them?
The standard of officiating in this country is absolutely woeful. |  |
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| The referee on 18:59 - Jan 31 with 1228 views | TractorJack |
Every decision a coin flip. |  | | |
| The referee on 18:59 - Jan 31 with 1214 views | Dubtractor |
| The referee on 18:54 - Jan 31 by LeoMuff |
The one where he pulled play back when Clarke had the ball in front of their back line, criminal.
He was awful |
I lost it at that one. Someone on our bench got booked, I assume for a similar reaction. |  |
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| The referee on 19:00 - Jan 31 with 1210 views | NthQldITFC |
| The referee on 18:51 - Jan 31 by RegencyBlue |
I wouldn’t say it was the worst refereeing performance I’ve ever seen but it was right up there! |
As Cloughie would have said, "it was in the top one". |  |
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| The referee on 19:09 - Jan 31 with 1136 views | bsw72 |
I find it amazing that so many people on here seem to fail to understand that the ineptitude of today's referee in giving so many soft fouls against us, but letting Preston get away with multiple fouls against Clarke effectively does more to stop our main source of creativity thn the Preston defence did.
I lost count of the times a foul was given against Clarke yet he was repeatedly held back and blocked off with nothing given. Not saying that we didn't struggle to beak Preston down but the referee did more to aid Preston's cause through inaction or by getting sucked in.
Just when I thought it could not get any worse - he misses at least two pretty clear calls for another penalty in the last 2 mins.
Gutless and inept, and that is being positive about it. [Post edited 31 Jan 19:10]
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| The referee on 19:11 - Jan 31 with 1099 views | Wickets |
Had their 8 been booked already when he kicked Jack in the head ? |  | | |
| The referee on 19:38 - Jan 31 with 1019 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
He was dreadful. Keith Stroud was bad, but this bloke was a couple of levels worse. |  |
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It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| The referee on 19:50 - Jan 31 with 954 views | Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior |
Having now watched the last few minutes back, I’m ok with the first hand ball not being awarded O’Shea drills that. However, with the other two appeals out of the last 3, they are more a Pen than the first one. Clarke gets shoved in the back blatantly as he’s being slide tackled and the last one looks a pretty clear hand ball.
So in injury time, 4 huge shouts. I think one is 50/50, one isn’t and two are stonewall. Yet we get 1 of 4. PNE getting in the refs ear about the double touch was probably smart from them, as it might have had an affect on him bottling it.
Even after all that FFS Kipre! [Post edited 31 Jan 19:52]
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| The referee on 19:54 - Jan 31 with 902 views | Swansea_Blue |
| The referee on 18:59 - Jan 31 by TractorJack |
Every decision a coin flip. |
That’s what he’s normally like. Funnily enough we had him at Bristol City away and that was one of the better games I’ve seen him have. We’ve seen the best and worst of him this season. |  |
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| The referee on 19:54 - Jan 31 with 891 views | DJR |
It has to be remembered that the referee is always nearer to the play than the entire crowd but at the same time only sees play from one angle.
The thing is the crowd is fickle, it complained twice in the first half when he allowed play to continue after a foul, then complained in the second half when he gave a free kick rather than allowing play to continue probably because of the earlier crowd reaction.
Mick Mills thought the penalty we got was soft, and that that neither of the "handballs" was a penalty. He didn't comment on the second penalty claim for Clarke because he hadn't seen it again.
At the end of the day, we didn't fail to win that game because of the ref. [Post edited 31 Jan 19:59]
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| The referee on 19:56 - Jan 31 with 859 views | Durovigutum |
I tried to post on here before kick off (but my mobile signal wasn’t holding) that the ref will be one who knows the rules but cannot apply them in a “what the game expects” sense. After the coin toss he sent the AR to tell Walton to take his goalkeeper pack out of the net and place it beside the goal after fussing unnecessarily with the captains over the coin toss. Recognise his sort a mile off…. |  | | |
| The referee on 20:03 - Jan 31 with 769 views | mellowblue |
Well, he is not up there with the evil Clive Thomas that is for sure. |  | | |
| The referee on 20:03 - Jan 31 with 761 views | AbujaBlue |
| The referee on 19:54 - Jan 31 by DJR |
It has to be remembered that the referee is always nearer to the play than the entire crowd but at the same time only sees play from one angle.
The thing is the crowd is fickle, it complained twice in the first half when he allowed play to continue after a foul, then complained in the second half when he gave a free kick rather than allowing play to continue probably because of the earlier crowd reaction.
Mick Mills thought the penalty we got was soft, and that that neither of the "handballs" was a penalty. He didn't comment on the second penalty claim for Clarke because he hadn't seen it again.
At the end of the day, we didn't fail to win that game because of the ref. [Post edited 31 Jan 19:59]
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I respect him, but sorry, that sounds like classic Mick Mills to me. Perhaps in his day they would have been 50/50, but having watched the game one of the handballs at least was a dead-on penalty. As for the actual penalty, Clarke was pulled over in the box. It was absolutely a penalty. |  | | |
| The referee on 20:09 - Jan 31 with 708 views | GeoffSentence |
He was poor, really poor, but I have seen much worse. The worst I can recall was against Wycombe at home in one of the early league 1 seasons, the name Alan Young rings a bell not sure if thats right. |  |
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| The referee on 20:12 - Jan 31 with 675 views | BlueForYou |
I saw at least eight blatant fouls against Town players which were not penalised. It was remarkably poor officiating. We didn't play well at all, but that referee definitely cost us two points. It's just not possible to be that bad! No excuse for some of his decisions. |  | | |
| The referee on 20:13 - Jan 31 with 668 views | USA |
Looked like Paul Durkin. Reffed like Paul Durkin.
Absolute bottle job at the end. Actually throughout too. | |
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| The referee on 20:14 - Jan 31 with 668 views | GeoffSentence |
Don't want to be that guy who blames the officials every week but John Busby was genuinely out of his depth today. Honestly, where do they find these blokes?
How Jordan Thompson stayed on the pitch in that first half is beyond me. Already on a yellow, pulls Matusiwa down right in front of him, and he just gives him a little lecture? It’s a stone-cold second booking and it changes the whole game if he actually does his job.
And as for the "penalty" shouts... we eventually got the one for Clarke at the end but we should have had at least two others. There was a blatant handball in the second half that he was staring right at, and another shove on Clarke that was more obvious than the one he actually gave!
He let them get away with murder as well. Every time we got a bit of momentum, one of theirs went down with "cramp" or "injury" and he just stood there watching his watch. No control over the game whatsoever.
Yeah we weren't at our best and struggled to break them down, but it's hard to get any rhythm when the ref is that inconsistent. One of the worst performances I've seen at Portman Road in a long time. Anyone else think he was biased or just incompetent? Because it felt like a bit of both today.
**** I got Gemini to write this as a TWTD post on the ref today, seems to have done a decent job **** | |
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| The referee on 20:15 - Jan 31 with 643 views | DJR |
| The referee on 20:03 - Jan 31 by AbujaBlue |
I respect him, but sorry, that sounds like classic Mick Mills to me. Perhaps in his day they would have been 50/50, but having watched the game one of the handballs at least was a dead-on penalty. As for the actual penalty, Clarke was pulled over in the box. It was absolutely a penalty. |
He took the view that for both handballs the defenders kept their hands down, and under the new interpretation of the rules that meant it should not be a penalty. And he thought Clarke took two and a half steps before he went to ground, thus not making it a penalty,
In any event, he's an Ipswich fan, so he's not going to be perverse just for the sake of it.
EDIT; having looked at the replay of the penalty I can see what Mills is saying because Clarke appeared to have ridden the tackle before went down. [Post edited 31 Jan 20:24]
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| The referee on 20:25 - Jan 31 with 563 views | bsw72 |
| The referee on 20:14 - Jan 31 by GeoffSentence |
Don't want to be that guy who blames the officials every week but John Busby was genuinely out of his depth today. Honestly, where do they find these blokes?
How Jordan Thompson stayed on the pitch in that first half is beyond me. Already on a yellow, pulls Matusiwa down right in front of him, and he just gives him a little lecture? It’s a stone-cold second booking and it changes the whole game if he actually does his job.
And as for the "penalty" shouts... we eventually got the one for Clarke at the end but we should have had at least two others. There was a blatant handball in the second half that he was staring right at, and another shove on Clarke that was more obvious than the one he actually gave!
He let them get away with murder as well. Every time we got a bit of momentum, one of theirs went down with "cramp" or "injury" and he just stood there watching his watch. No control over the game whatsoever.
Yeah we weren't at our best and struggled to break them down, but it's hard to get any rhythm when the ref is that inconsistent. One of the worst performances I've seen at Portman Road in a long time. Anyone else think he was biased or just incompetent? Because it felt like a bit of both today.
**** I got Gemini to write this as a TWTD post on the ref today, seems to have done a decent job **** |
Good but I would argue that he was inept vs inconsistent. He basically bottled it in the last 5 mins after the penalty. | | | |
| The referee on 20:29 - Jan 31 with 535 views | bsw72 |
| The referee on 19:54 - Jan 31 by DJR |
It has to be remembered that the referee is always nearer to the play than the entire crowd but at the same time only sees play from one angle.
The thing is the crowd is fickle, it complained twice in the first half when he allowed play to continue after a foul, then complained in the second half when he gave a free kick rather than allowing play to continue probably because of the earlier crowd reaction.
Mick Mills thought the penalty we got was soft, and that that neither of the "handballs" was a penalty. He didn't comment on the second penalty claim for Clarke because he hadn't seen it again.
At the end of the day, we didn't fail to win that game because of the ref. [Post edited 31 Jan 19:59]
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I would suggest your last sentence should read "we didn't fail to win that game *just* because of the ref" as while he was not the sole reason he certainly was a significant contributing factor in how the game developed . . . we should do better but weak refereeing displays like that do not improve football matches. | | | |
| The referee on 20:31 - Jan 31 with 523 views | Edmundo |
| The referee on 18:59 - Jan 31 by Dubtractor |
I lost it at that one. Someone on our bench got booked, I assume for a similar reaction. |
Kieran I think. He's cool as ice usually |  |
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