Harrogate Town vs Rovers- 6/1/2024- Sam Purkiss

[The Red Baron]

Referee: Sam Purkiss.
Assistants: Steve Durnall & Joe Simpson.
4th official: Declan Bourne.

[The Red Baron]

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[Donnywolf]

Atrocious performance. Not sour grapes but here was another Ref Lino combo tat were (are) way out of their depth

Let their Number 9 dive all day long without ever having even a word.

Their players should have got several Yellow Cards during the 90 minutes a blatant pull back on Ironside (I think) in the centre circle in First Half warranted nothing either. Several more fouls I could cite that were not punished

Yet showing some consistency he Yellow Carded almost every Foul committed by a Rovers player

Lino in front of Rovers seated fans was abysmal and missed obvious offsides by being behind the play by 3 or 4 yards

Awful the pair of them. Not as bad as Ed the Duck but for me same Points NIL

[roversdude]

Got to agree my hairy friend absolute homer, shocking performance gave us next to nothing all game yet couldn’t wait to give them a free kick every challenge. A couple of the fouls he did give for challenges on Faal were worthy of a card but he didn’t even have a word with the fouler

[Donnywolf]

The dragging back of I think it was Ironside as he was breaking into open space AND supported was a terrible decision from this Ref

Moly did something similar with a trip in game v MKD and was rightly Yellow Carded

Took one for the Team and this was identical in that it deprived a player of a run on goal . I also thought pulling back was a mandatory Yellow. Not for this Ref

Consistently inconsistent again

[StocktonRover]

I thought it was Faal who was pulled back on the halfway line.
Ironsides was as usual manhandled as he always is.
Shocking ref.

[Donnywolf]

Hi SR .... You are probably correct. I know I shouldn't mix up Ironside and in fact I did put in my first post Ironside (I think)

However I did once identify Mark McCammon as the scorer v Huddersfield away when it was Gareth Taylor.

AND they were at our end as well , so I would have no chance when Faal was over halfway and running away from me lol