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Hurst Considering Appeal Against Nsiala Red Card
Saturday, 25th Aug 2018 18:54

Town boss Paul Hurst is considering an appeal against Toto Nsiala’s red card and believes the controversial dismissal had a significant bearing on the Blues’ 2-1 defeat to Sheffield Wednesday at Hillsborough.

“I don’t feel I need to say anything. Everyone’s seen it. I’ve been told that their guys have said it’s a totally wrong decision,” Hurst said when quizzed on the 75th minute red-carding.

“I’ll try and be careful with my words because it seems as though we can’t criticise when people get things wrong, which isn’t right to me.

“I criticise my players, I’m sure people criticise me if they feel you’re getting things wrong. It’s his job, he’s got to do better than that.”

Did it change the match significantly? “I think a helluva lot, it has to. Naturally it gives them that lift. It’s not long after when they score. We’re a man light for those situations and arguably our best header, certainly one of our best headers, is off the pitch.

“Does he head it? No one knows for certain. I dare say he certainly helps out. It was in an area where he would have been and he’s already won a couple of a good headers in the second half in that position. So, of course it played its part.

“Even with 10 I thought Wednesday were not hanging on as such but I think they were still relieved to hear the final whistle, they weren’t comfortable.

“We had a couple of situations, one with Ellis in particular, and a couple of balls into the box when they were clearing their lines and we didn’t have too many scares, in truth.

“Massively disappointing and yet another game where it’s difficult to give a true reflection on everything that’s been and gone.”

Asked whether he will be appealing the card, he said: “Everyone’s telling me I should. But genuinely I’ve seen decisions before in the past and people appeal them and they still don’t overturn them when I think we could have a roomful and only one person thinks the opposite, so there are no guarantees.

“I don’t understand what the lad’s supposed to do after winning the ball. His leg drop off? He can’t do anything more.

“Forestieri runs into him and actually kicks Toto. We had one with Jon Nolan. Bannan’s gone sliding in, Nolan gets out of the way, he gives a freekick.

“Am I supposed to tell my player, ‘It’s not nice but stay on your feet, make sure he makes contact and then he gets sent off’. I don’t want to do that.

“It’s been brought on by the opposition player that even he’s come into contact. I’ve watched it back, he should have just left it alone.”

With Luke Woolfenden injured, Town are already short of central defenders and the prospect of losing Nsiala for three matches - the suspension for serious foul play - increases the need for an additional centre-half.

“These are the scenarios which will occur over the course of the season whether you like them or not,” Hurst reflected.

“I’ve said all along, we need more cover than we’ve got. And specialists, not someone filling in there.

“Yes, every now and again a team has to do that but you want to start with people that can play those positions.”

Long-time target Curtis Tilt, who was linked with the Blues again last weekend, was left out by Blackpool today, but asked whether that was likely to be related to Town’s interest, Hurst said: “I don’t know. I think I had a similar question at the start of the season. I don’t know.


“I’m surprised he hasn’t played that’s all I would say having played the last couple of games and kept clean sheets. Unless there’s an injury I’m not aware of it seems an odd decision.”

He confirmed the 27-year-old is a player he remains interested in: “Yes, I’m not going to change my mind and think he’s suddenly a bad player or anything but he’s one of the players [I’m interested in], no secret.

“I don’t particularly like speaking about other players but it’s out there but it’s been discussed numerous times already.”

Another of the central defenders he was interested in bringing in, former loanee Cameron Carter-Vickers, has completed a loan switch to Swansea.

Hurst reiterated that in addition to a centre-half and a striker, a wideman is also on his wish-list.

“For me, it’s an area where we do need to bring someone in,” he said. “I thought Ellis did quite well today at times and gave us a different option out there, a different threat.

“The thought was also that if we did want to change we could change without making the substitution if we wanted to go to two up top.

“I thought he’s had a good effort well saved by the keeper and caused a different sort of problem out there for us.

“But an actual winger as such, I think that’s an area where I would prefer another option certainly.”

Despite the loss there were positives in the performance, but Hurst says that’s not too much consolation immediately after the match.

“The points total and the record books they don’t say anything about that,” he said. “I’d take a really scruffy victory at the minute, I think we all would.

“It’s difficult to think about too many positives when you’ve lost the game. The manner that we did is difficult to take. So, it’s another frustrating afternoon.”

Both Wednesday goals came from set pieces, Town’s defensive achilles heel in the opening weeks of the season, seven opposition goals out of nine having come via that route.

Questioned on whether defending corners and freekicks will be something the squad will be working on in the days to come, Hurst said: “It’s difficult. You can keep doing them and doing them but I think ultimately people have to do their jobs.

“The second one, like I say, we are a man light. We’ve still got people around it and the lad wins the header still.

“The first one, there’s no point in hiding it, it’s Trevoh’s man, he knows that, you could see it in his face at half-time, he knows, having defended the previous one very well in a very similar scenario. But it’s far too easy for Joao to head it in.

“I think things can often go in cycles and at the minute that’s clearly something that’s causing us an issue, albeit some of the goals have been a little bit different. But the second one, to lose with 10 men to that sort of goal, is extremely disappointing.

Hurst agreed that the Blues haven’t have too much good fortune in the first few weeks of his tenure.

“People might say we had a bit of luck with our goal,” he said. “Ellis is an offside position but doesn’t go for the ball. Again, maybe you’ll have to get the referee in and get him to explain whether that should have been or not.

“My understanding is that it should be because he’s made no attempt to play the ball. I get why people get annoyed with things though, because I guess he is in a position not too far from the goal-line. But overall I don’t think we’ve been the luckiest of teams so far, shall we say.”

The defeat, Town’s second this week, sees the Blues drop to the bottom of the Championship, a position Hurst admits he hadn’t envisaged his side being in at the start of the campaign.

“Of course not, and no one wants to be in that position,” he said. “A few things have gone against us but we’ve got to try and overcome that.

“And certainly at Rotherham, for example, we should have won the game and that was down to ourselves and nothing else and ended up losing that one.

“There are some other bits along the way that it does feel we’re being harshly treated for one reason or another.

“But there’s only us that can try and change that and there’s no better time to attempt trying to do that than next Sunday against Norwich.”

Prior to the game boyhood Wednesday fan Hurst was looking forward to returning to Hillsborough but says the result put a cloud on his homecoming.

“I said I came to the game in midweek and it’s a stadium which brings back good memories, whether it’s playing, whether it’s watching the team, whatever it is,” he said.

“But it doesn’t make it feel any better sitting here right now. But when the teams come out and they start the song before kick-off I think everyone appreciates that whether they’re a Wednesday fan or a visiting supporter or player, it gets the game off in a great atmosphere.

“And then in large parts I thought it was quite quiet, partly down to ourselves perhaps causing them a few scary moments.”

After a frantic spell of fixtures coming thick and fast Hurst says he’s looking forward to a full week on the training ground ahead of Sunday’s East Anglian derby against Norwich.

“Yes, it’s been a busy start, as it has for everybody and with the midweek games it’s difficult in terms of preparation, the travelling that we have to do from where we are, that cuts things back a little as well,” he said.

“But there should be no need to get anyone up for that game next week. Clearly we want to keep working hard and we want to look at one or two things ahead of that game and see if we can give everyone a lift but also particularly a result that the Ipswich fans have been waiting for for some time, I believe. That’s what we’ll be trying to do.”

Owls manager Jos Luhukay felt Town made the game very difficult for his team, especially before the break.

“I think today was a totally different game to Wednesday [when they beat Millwall 2-1]," he said. "It was so tough in the first half.

“We had no rhythm. Ipswich closed the lines and we lost a lot of balls.

“We had no combinations, no chances and the set pieces were dangerous just twice, one we scored from.

“In the second half it was better in the beginning, we had some chances to score the second goal but the game went right until the end. We had to give a lot of energy and work hard for the three points."

Regarding Nsiala's dismissal, he added: "The referee is very close at the moment the defender goes in on Fernando. It was hard I think, the red card, but there's a decision [to make]. The referee stays very near, so this was his decision.

"But it wasn't easier in the last 15 minutes, it was too hectic, we didn't control the game with one player more and Ipswich played very fast with long balls and there were moments in or around the 18-yard box."


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RobITFC added 19:02 - Aug 25
If the Fa panel reject this appeal , there is something wrong! It was a good tackle.
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BraveDave added 19:05 - Aug 25
That's the problem. If fans want to be negative they'll say you can't keep blaming refs, etc, but today I firmly believe his decision cost us the game. Not only because we were a man down, but because it wasn't even a foul and so we would have been on the attack rather than almost immediately defending the corner. Of course we should have defended better, of course we should have been more ruthless up front, but the fact still remains the ref cost us the match.
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martin587 added 19:06 - Aug 25
I agree with the three positions we need to cover.At least Paul is honest and I trust his decisions.However I seriously think we should be practicing defending crosses on set pieces,but then that's just my thoughts.Chins up lads.
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Suffolkboy added 19:11 - Aug 25
Regrettably sounds rather downhearted and ' lost in the woods ' not sure if he can see the wood for the trees !
We and he need solid objectivity ,complete certainty about events and objectives ; we , like he , share the disappointment but we HAVE to make our own luck and actually scoring would go a long way to resurrecting a glimmer of hope . Do hope the team are not downhearted ,but resilient ,calm and objective and will rapidly sort out who's job is whose .COME on you Blues !
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keighleyblue added 19:14 - Aug 25
astounding decision for the sending off. But our attacking threat was, as previous games, paper thin. Seriously getting worried now.
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brockleyblueboy added 19:14 - Aug 25
Can we appeal against your appointment you useless tit. We are getting relegated!!! I'm beside myself! This is terrible. Unless he turns it around against Norwich, get this tit out of our club. Rubbish rubbish rubbish
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JCBLUE added 19:22 - Aug 25
Keep the faith! We only had 1 point after the first 7 games of Sir Bobby's first full season in charge and look what he went on to achieve.

We are playing better football and have been extremely unlucky, perhaps it is written in the stars that Paul's first win should be against Norwich!!

We were careful what we wished for, give it time .....
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Swn98 added 19:23 - Aug 25
Brockley understand your frustrations I'm afraid we've got to stick with Hurst he's destroyed a good squad of players appears to have no faith in youth that Klug has nurtured let's hope his belief is well placed.
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cat added 19:25 - Aug 25
Sounds like we were unlucky again. Maim thing for me is that we are competing, PH has adopted a philosophy that I've called for and I'm certainly not ‘flapping' yet. I'd be more concerned if I was a canary, spanked 3.0 at home, 4 wins in 21 odd games, Maddison's departed and I believe they are there for the taking.
Looking forward to next week. Keep the faith, it's still August!
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Blueray added 19:25 - Aug 25
Brockelyboyblue. You are wrong. And stupid (unless your post was ironic which I doubt). Hurst may prove to be a failure after 20-30 games...but until then, give the guy a chance. Ps was at the game today and we were pretty decent before dodgy sending off
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Taricco_Fan added 19:25 - Aug 25
Hurst absolutely should appeal the decision. It was a great tackle, not even a foul. Ridiculous decision that most likely turned the game against us.

Regarding league position and our start to the season; I would be more concerned if it wasn't for the fact that we are playing decent football and have probably deserved more from most games so far. The foundation is there. It will come together for us.
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BlueInBerks added 19:28 - Aug 25
Brockley you're a canary
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Desertion_ added 19:50 - Aug 25
Watching the game it feels we are a little unexperienced in attack - as expected. At times runs could have been more clever, running offside a little too early and when bringing the ball down after a good chestrap to put your body to cover incoming tackles whilst looking to release the trigger quicker. I also feel another winger, anything similar to the level of Edwards ability would be great and of course another CB. Can't think of anyone in particular in terms of a winger or striker though
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BlueandTruesince82 added 20:04 - Aug 25
I genuinely think we have been robbed of 4 or 5 points so far, at this stage of the season that's huge.

The lack of goals is a worry because it seems to me that we are creating chances. I don't blame the club for selling Waghorn, he wanted out, how much stick did Jonas get for suggesting In the last year of his contract that if the manager didn't fancy him he may have to look elsewhere....? Waghorn all but asked for a transfer and whilst maybe he did it in a nice way I think it a shame thatwe don't hold one player to the same standard we held the other....

We are as of now in a false position BUT that is only the vase for so long.

2 reds in 3 games thay were totally unfounded.... not 50/50. Unfounded.

Plus 2 clear pens and an iffy free kick leading to Barnsleys goal.

We have had rotten luck but have contributed to that no doubt...... worrying times regardless. Goals needed but surely with chances they will come...?
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AlfBuksh added 20:22 - Aug 25
Honestly, comments like Brockley blues are so frustrating and reactional. I always thought Ipswich fans were patient with managers?
We have to be patient and look past these results, nearly everyone can see that we are starting to play decent football and let's not forget Bobby Robson wasn't well liked or succesful at first. I am sure I am in the minority but if we went down I don't necessarily think it would be the worst thing. If we focus on creative football and slowly blood the youth we could be laying great foundations for the future. Give the guy time, support and the freedom to fail and let's see what happens. Anything is better than the stuff we've had to watch for the last few seasons!
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Swn98 added 20:26 - Aug 25
This time last year we were scoring for fun and had points on the board all the naysayers carping on wait till we meet a decent team, well so far this season we haven't met a decent team and we've got 2 points.
Well you got what you wished for.
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ITFCsince73 added 20:34 - Aug 25
Cat. Lol. True words.
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runningout added 20:49 - Aug 25
We were brilliant in spells today, but are nearly getting to that stage where a goal or three would shock us, let alone any opposition. I have optimism we will start shining for sure
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Bluewelshman added 20:59 - Aug 25
To F**k**g right we will appeal, shame we can't sue the ref.

Got a feeling that this Ref. and the dick we had against Villa are fervent Mick M fans.
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TimmyH added 21:16 - Aug 25
I'm a bit concerned too he hasn't looked at any of our promising youth players from last season: Nydam, Downes, Dozzell (still waiting for him to be fit)?...instead we have young loan players with little experience which rankles with me a bit, if we are to have loan players let's have experienced one's (to a degree) - looks like in the week or so ahead we could have more loanee's.
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Dissboyitfc added 21:20 - Aug 25
this time last year we won our opening games werent playing well at all but would have 2 attempts on goal and score, for instance we went to Barnsley, they battered us and could have been out of sight by half time, second half we went in their half twice and scored twice. The difference is this year we have had nod rub of the green.
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paris_mitchell_in_oz added 21:30 - Aug 25
Hey brockleyblueboy. Save your stupid, attention-seeking comments for some other forum. Now go take your psych meds and have a nice early night.
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jas0999 added 21:30 - Aug 25
We need to appeal. It wasn't a sending off, but remarkably we only have two senior Centre Backs at the club, which would be laughable if it wasn't so serious.
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Swn98 added 21:41 - Aug 25
Diss boy let's hope when we do get the rub of the green we manage to bang some goals in.
All you Mick haters used to vilify us for offering explanations/excuses.
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Kikapu added 22:27 - Aug 25
Gee! Where is MM when you need him? All looks pretty amateur to me.
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