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Red-Carded Spence Apologises to Players, Staff and Supporters
Tuesday, 2nd Jan 2018 23:45

Right-back Jordan Spence has apologised to Town’s players, staff and supporters for his red card during tonight’s 4-1 defeat at Fulham.

The 27-year-old was dismissed for clattering into Aboubakar Kamara after the Frenchman had fouled Freddie Sears, a challenge which went unpunished by referee Keith Stroud.

“It does look bad having watched it back but there was no intention to hurt anyone,” he told the club site. "

“It is the first time I have been sent off and anyone that has followed my career knows I’m not that type of player or person. I would never try and hurt a fellow player.""

“I’ve gone at speed to close him down and have gone into him and once you do that, you are at the referee’s call. "

“It has affected the result and I feel terrible about that. We were right in the game until that and all I can do is apologise to the players, the staff and the supporters.”

Spence will be suspended for the next three matches, starting with Saturday’s FA Cup tie against Sheffield United at Portman Road.""


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fergalsharkey added 00:18 - Jan 3
Silly
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Dissboyitfc added 00:39 - Jan 3
apology accepted, its a big man that can apologise, have we ever McCarthy come out and say that word?

No i dont think we have!
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Dissboyitfc added 00:40 - Jan 3
heard i should have said
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BrixtonBlue added 00:53 - Jan 3
You should have said nothing at all Dissboy. Too right Spence should be apologising. Nothing more needs to be said.
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statto added 01:36 - Jan 3
Spence lost it and the game went to pieces, but what the f*** was the lino (3m away) doing as their hitman AK47 smashes Sears into the front row of the stand, clearly taking Freddie out before even approaching the ball. Linesmen that's all they are, supposed to be Assistant Refs (ARs) nowadays - arse is about right!
MM had a plan, the lads bought into it and gave it their all to frustrate Fulham and we are on the way to another unlikely good result until Mr Dozy on the line fails to see the blatantly obvious and that injustice is the catalyst for the following mayhem.
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StavangerBlue added 06:48 - Jan 3
I was at the game and had a clear view of the incident. The initial challenge by the Fulham player was a shoulder barge be it an over the top, aggressive and dangerous barge. IMHO it should have been a foul and a yellow card. Spence had no right to do what he did and his interaction deserved a red card. Stupid. It cost us the game. However, the referee and linesmen had a shocking night. Poor decisions, numerous errors and blatant lack of consistency across the pitch. They'd incorrectly give a decision to one team only to balance it up with another poor call to even things up.

Fulham showed us up for what we are which is a team that cannot pass quickly enough (thumping it up in the air and watching it bounce before we can do anything rather than on the deck to feet), front men isolated and not supported so attacks fail, a defence that is too static gets turned way too easily, a midfield that cannot defend, no creativity and generally a team with only plan A but no plan B.

I've been a Town fan for 35+ years and the current team is poor. Individually we have flashes of talent but as a team we lack in almost every department. ME has to put more investment in but in a world where even the money ME could put in would not be enough? If Bart does go in this transfer window we are going to be in trouble. There is a reason he has been our standout player the past two seasons.

A wet horrible night. Did not get home until way after midnight. Tired, frustrated and fed up. The big plus tonight was a big Ipswich away turnout (maybe 4K Town fans), good atmosphere, singing and support for our team.
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GiveusaWave added 07:15 - Jan 3
I am sure many of you have heard of the term "subconscious bias". If you haven't, it's often used in Sports Psychology for the referees "need for justice" when they are themselves running a game. Though I think Spence thoroughly deserved his red card, I do wonder whether subconscious bias played its part. Basically, we were appalling...and then we took the lead. At a conscious level the referee may well have wanted to stay neutral...but at a subconscious level the situation screamed injustice. We do seem to have had a number of weird refereeing decisions go against us this season, I wonder in part whether this is a factor.
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blue75 added 07:26 - Jan 3
The challenge was no different to what Garner or Waghorn try to do to the opposition some go for you and others don't, Spence's not really sure what to call it (challenge/ran into player) was stupid but he's apologised, so hopefully won't happen again. Could this red card have been avoided if our players weren't constantly under pressure from opposition for most of the game? If we had the ball a bit more we wouldn't have to rush across the pitch to close players leading to stupid challenges and like last night a needless red card.
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marco007 added 07:37 - Jan 3
Silly but it's not the reason we lost.
We have had our one smash and grab win of the season at Derby
25 shots to 3 and 25% possession says it all!
Fulham are hardly Barcelona or Man City but we made them like that way!
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NBVJohn added 07:55 - Jan 3
Spence needs to take his punishment and accept it. He made a mistake that dignified a very poor linesman.

What happens to the linesman? Nothing. Pathetic EFL.
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bobble added 08:30 - Jan 3
losing one player and then conceding 4 goals stinks of poor management and organisation not the fact a player has been sent off...........
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bluearmy84 added 08:32 - Jan 3
marco007 of course its the reason we lost! were quiet good at sitting in tight and then catching teams. fulham are quality passing side difficult with 11 men on the pitch let alone 10. that was schoolboy from spence who ive always thought not good enough but this season has come up with a few goals to be fair to him but over thr 46 games hell have more bad than good neef new rb and cm
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blueherts added 08:36 - Jan 3
So to analyse the Xmas period
Wolves , Derby and Fulham - all far better teams than us with better quality , way more resources and managers who look to play football -
QPR at home ? Rubbish team who we could not score against - Sums it up really
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blueherts added 08:58 - Jan 3
Lack of discipline by Spence but a complete lack of leadership and discipline at the back afterwards - to capitulate like that was plain embarrassing . WHERE WAS THE ORGANISATION !? At this level you cannot fold like a pack of cards
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BlueBlood90 added 09:03 - Jan 3
Idiotic sending off, but he's popped up and scored a couple of goals this season which have won us points so it's apology accepted. Wasn't at the game but it sounded like we were being hammered on Sky Sports before he even got sent off.
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Barty added 09:26 - Jan 3
Same old crap . We are just not good enough and are far far far far too negative and that stems from our manager. Another mid table [ or below ] finish for us I fear. Nothing that £30 million or so wont sort out - hey !!!
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BlueandTruesince82 added 10:38 - Jan 3
We've all done it. Even im kick abouts
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Suffolkboy added 13:29 - Jan 3
Gavin, You kindly mailed me after there'd been a mix up ( my fault ) to say you'd arranged for my detailed comments on the Refereeing standards ,to be posted onto the TWTD forum!
SADLY can't find them : hope they will go on especially as others also feel similarly re lack of consistency !
Refereeing is fast becoming part of ' the untouchables ,and unapproachables '-- we need rapid change for they're becoming the unacceptables !
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ronnyd added 15:26 - Jan 3
It,s been said over the years by different managers that it,s sometimes difficult to play against ten men than eleven. Obviously Dino Mick hasn,t heard that one.
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beornioblue added 18:18 - Jan 3
well done for apologizing Jordan

How many times do we need to get humiliated by Fulham before the owner wakes up and take note.
It snot Barcelona its Fulham and they make us look so bad every time by simply passing the ball around, on the floor around us ... something Mcarthy simple doesnt know how to do..enough is enough Mick just go please and let us appoint an actual attack minded manager
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jas0999 added 19:00 - Jan 3
Stupidity, but it's done now. Move on.
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cat added 19:23 - Jan 3
Good call jas, I could have throttled him last night, as I'm sure the seething ‘T Rex' Dino probably did. Yesterday's news today's chip paper!
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blueboy1981 added 20:37 - Jan 3
No worries Jordan - our Manager has never apologised for inept performance over several seasons, so don't feel too guilty over one mistake. Your mistake didn't mean we had to concede four goals - the writing was on the wall for all to see what was coming, long before you made a rash decision.

It has been known for 10 organised men, with an organised Manager and Skipper, to perform well - we were never going to be capable of anything like that.
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Pilgrimblue added 21:53 - Jan 3
Rooks coming home to roost! We can't keep playing the MM way trying to defend and rely on breakaways. He's making good players look poor so time for him to move on asap. Even Nash would get more out of the squad.
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