Ref

[mrfrostsdad]

They wasted time from the minute they went in front. But the worst decision the ref made all night was when he didn't give Accrington a stone wall penalty after Blair (I think) somehow headed against his own post/crossbar. It was as bad a decision as the penalty we didn't get at Sunderland on Friday. That could/would have made it 3-0.

We got what we deserved tonight, because play like we did in the first half and you deserve nothing.
We'll still be in the playoffs and that's a different ball game

[RoversAlias]

Can someone tell me what this stonewall penalty would've been for? I was at the other end and didn't see any infringement when Blair nearly scored the own goal.

[roversdude]

Don’t know if anyone noticed but every time Maxted had a goal kick, one of their players was distracting the ref so he didn’t notice how long it was taking

[CJK]

Don’t know if anyone noticed but every time Maxted had a goal kick, one of their players was distracting the ref so he didn’t notice how long it was taking

We noticed that!

[Donnywolf]

Every time - I pointed this out to those around me. Also the fact that almost every time the Ball went out one of them poked it away back past him

3 grand a week and he misses a roll from the Ball boy or a pass from a Team mate

That said we were rubbish from the start - and seeing us play that badly after Sunderland away and Bradford away is massively frustrating and the Officials seem to exacerbate that frustration ....

.... BUT they are easy targets because of the actions they take or dont take . Someone said elsewhere they probably are not biased and are probably just totally incompetent


Finally for the umpteenth time - we must move to a fixed 30 (or maybe 35) Game clock.
Ball goes out of play or play stops for Goals Subs injuries (be they real or fake) and the Clock stops. Take forever to take a goal kick or throw in - or as last night have a free kick you want to take quickly delayed 3 times by Ref - no problem - no time lost because the Game clock has not been restarted yet
AND as a massive bonus there would be no "where did 6 Minutes come from" or like last night "2 minutes 2 f*****g minutes" becasue the Clock would be right there fr all to see as in American Football to name but one

It wont solve everrything - Teams will still try to run down the Clock by going to the corners for one but at least you can boot them and give away a Free Kick to stop the Clock ! Bring it on soon p-l-e-a-s-e !!!

[mrfrostsdad]

Can someone tell me what this stonewall penalty would've been for? I was at the other end and didn't see any infringement when Blair nearly scored the own goal.

Hi Alias,
Two handed push in the middle of the back straight after the ball was headed on to our own woodwork by Blair. Sent their kid flying. All Accringtons officials/players were going mad, especially manager and coach with the 4th official.
We had a really good view from next to the press box and I think we all knew it was a penno.
I agree with Wolf's 30 minutes each way and stop the clock for each stoppage idea. There would be no point in time wasting, because I'll be really honest and say if we were in the same position in ANY league as they were last night, where a win almost guarantees survival, I'd expected us to waste as much time as possible if we got 2-0 in front. They're safe now and good luck to them on the smallest budget in the league

[dickos1]

It wasn’t Coleman going mad, he just sat in his chair and didn’t move the whole game, he could’ve been on his deckchair on Filey beach.
Calm as f**k while everyone around him was going mad the whole game

[The Red Baron]

It wasn’t Coleman going mad, he just sat in his chair and didn’t move the whole game, he could’ve been on his deckchair on Filey beach.
Calm as f**k while everyone around him was going mad the whole game

I think the excitable cove is Jimmy Bell, the assistant manager.

[Colemans Left Hook]

I’ve never seen 2 at end of a game
Never mind a game like that

i thought that last night  as well when i heard the amount of time on sky .. a cynic could say if the ref took his shirt off he had a "vested " interest in the result --   and an observer would think "that person " had his own agenda --  is it possible to make an official complaint even though nothing would come of it 

[RoversAlias]

Can someone tell me what this stonewall penalty would've been for? I was at the other end and didn't see any infringement when Blair nearly scored the own goal.

I know there's being biased, but with eye-sight like that were you refereeing?

It was 'nailed on' and mind-boggling that he didn't give it, just as mind-boggling as it was that Blair somehow managed to bugger up and hit the post in the first place.

Had things panned out differently, they'd have been banging on about it in their post-match interviews for sure.

Rigo, I was sat halfway up the South Stand and this happened at the very far end of the field. My post was a genuine question, which MFD answered for me. All I could see was Blair heading it onto his own bar, can't even remember anyone else who was in the vicinity. My previous post wasn't an attempt to claim there was no foul, it was me asking what had happened because I couldn't see it.

[RoversAlias]

I can't see us losing out on 6th place to GD. Peterborough have to overturn a 7-goal deficit on that one and to do so they'd have to win one more game than us, in effect meaning they'd have to claw that 7 goals back in just the one game. Unless they hammer Portsmouth, at Fratton Park, that feels unlikely. The only way they'll overturn the GD deficit is if they win their last few games and we lose ours, at which point we'd be behind them on points anyway.

[ravenrover]

Depends how many we lose our last two by as well don’t forget. Playing like we did in the 1st half there is no way we will beat Oxford or Coventry

[RoversAlias]

Well like I say, if we lose our last two games, I am quite confident we will be behind Peterborough on points, thus Goal Difference will be irrelevant.

[Pancho Regan]

They wasted time from the minute they went in front.

Actually it was worse than that.

In the very first sequence of play after the kick-off, we played a ball through the left channel which was over-hit. I’m not sure who played it; sadly it was to be the first of many passes which didn’t find their intended target.

Anyway, the ball was rolling aimlessly towards Accrington’s goal-line, being shepherded by their right back. There was no Rovers player anywhere near him as he tracked back, jogging slowly alongside the ball. It would have been the easiest, logical thing for the Stanley defender to have stopped the ball, turned, looked up, thought about his options, and kept play moving, taking Stanley forward.

But instead, he followed the run of the ball almost at walking pace, until it crossed the goal-line for a Stanley goal kick. As soon as the ball crossed the line, he stopped and turned and jogged the other way.
No attempt to play the ball, no attempt to retrieve it or pass it to Jonny Maxted for the goal kick.

The incident would have gone unnoticed by most people, but as it happened in front of me it made me think.
What was in that defender’s mind? What made him decide not to stop the run of the ball, turn with it, and move his team forward?

I looked up at the clock.
1.06 minutes played.
I knew what I’d witnessed.
The Stanley defender was wasting time.