How the hell did that Number 10 ....

[Donnywolf]

.... stay on


He was involved with Sterry and people on Half way couldn't see like the South Stand who were chanting off off off


A Yellow duly arrived and I said , that's him home free as the lily livered Ref won't produce  2nd Yellow


And by God was I right as he embarked on a fouling spree including a second skirmish with Sterry plus at least

[Donnywolf]

5 to 6 more First Half fouls


Totting up Ref ?

[drfchound]

.... stay on


He was involved with Sterry and people on Half way couldn't see like the South Stand who were chanting off off off


A Yellow duly arrived and I said , that's him home free as the lily livered Ref won't produce  2nd Yellow


And by God was I right as he embarked on a fouling spree including a second skirmish with Sterry plus at least

Agreed, the second foul on Sterry was no different to the first one which got him carded, so why wasn’t the second one worth a yellow as well.
The were two or three other fouls in that first half hour which on another day would have been rewarded with a booking but the ref seemed to bottle it, well until he booked Bailey for something that wasn’t anywhere near as bad as the one he didn’t caution players for.

[Silkscarf]

The Bailey foul on him got the biggest cheer of the day apart from the goal. The pantomime villain got clobbered and we all enjoyed that moment very much.

[Bessie Red]

The Bailey foul on him got the biggest cheer of the day apart from the goal. The pantomime villain got clobbered and we all enjoyed that moment very much.

He had more rolls than Greggs!!

[GazLaz]

The stuff on sterry was next to nothing. The worst foul was on Moly after he was already on a booking.

[5minstogo]

Unbelievable that Lund didn't get a cars after scything down Sterry in the centre circle.

[GazLaz]

Unbelievable that Lund didn't get a cars after scything down Sterry in the centre circle.

That was a nailed on yellow as well.

[BobG]

Is that the Matty Lund who started off with the Rovers?

BobG

[Campsall rover]

Is that the Matty Lund who started off with the Rovers?

BobG

No this one was at Scunny some years ago I think.

[BobG]

Thanks Camps! Always puzzled me that has.


Where's our one these days?

Bob

[Dutch Uncle]

Is that the Matty Lund who started off with the Rovers?

BobG

Our Lund was called Mitchell Lund

[ChrisBx]

Thanks Camps! Always puzzled me that has.


Where's our one these days?

Bob

Seems to have dropped out of the game which is a shame.

[Bentley Bullet]

Mitchell Lund was at Bradford Park Avenue earlier this year.

[BobG]

Thank you all!

Bob

[PDX_Rover]

It was as if 10 wanted to be sent off… bizarre.

[Donnywolf]

I don't know what he was doing at HT . He made a bee line for Officials with another Player ( Captain maybe ) in SE corner and spent ages talking to them

Wonder why unless he was offering his thanks that they had seen his actions as being unlucky or simply mistiming of tackles and rightly kept him on the pitch

I didn't expect to see him out on 2nd half but hey ho there he was

[drfchound]

I don't know what he was doing at HT . He made a bee line for Officials with another Player ( Captain maybe ) in SE corner and spent ages talking to them

Wonder why unless he was offering his thanks that they had seen his actions as being unlucky or simply mistiming of tackles and rightly kept him on the pitch

I didn't expect to see him out on 2nd half but hey ho there he was

I also noticed that 10 removed his shirt before going down the tunnel at half time.
Very unusual.

[Cramby10]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the assault on Hurst in the first half whilst we were on the break down the east stand touchline. He was completely polaxed with the ball past the defender. Unbelievable nothing was given.

[Chris Black come back]

The stuff on sterry was next to nothing. The worst foul was on Moly after he was already on a booking.

Tbh thought both were handbags. Ref probably did us a favour booking him because many occasions it would have got nothing. If it was at other end of pitch he probably wouldn’t.

[mushRTID]

I’m surprised Lund didn’t get booked for diving towards the east stand. It was blatent.

[GazLaz]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the assault on Hurst in the first half whilst we were on the break down the east stand touchline. He was completely polaxed with the ball past the defender. Unbelievable nothing was given.

Ref implied shoulder to shoulder! Just wiped him out. It was a NFL block.

[LincsRover]

Yeah, I mentioned this in another thread - it was farcical how he stayed on the pitch, ref bottled it every time. I agree the foul on him by Bailey was a particular highlight 

[donnievic]

Don’t think the ref was that bad yesterday on a whole

Yes number 10 made a lot of niggly fouls but wasn’t booked because of the foul on sterry it was of the bit afterwards same as TSL,yes he pherhaps could of got another for amount of fouls he made but that is at refs discretion,but likes been said the worse one apart from baileys challenge was lunds in the 1st few mins

[LincsRover]

It was as if 10 wanted to be sent off… bizarre.

Agreed, and the ref refused to do it! At least  didn’t have the b*ll*cks to! 

[roversdude]

Robinson was on at the 4th official all game
Btw was Ryan Giggs on the Salford bench (not as a player) or was it a lookalike

[The Dav]

No it was deffo Ryan Giggs

[ForsolongaRover]

Mr Woods has only reffed 6 EFL matches so far this season and 5 yellows beats his average of 4 per match. And perhaps, not surprisingly, he has not sent anyone off this season. So perhaps Salford did some homework because they excelled and got away with feigning injury to break up play, standing over the ball for Rovers free kicks to stop them being taken too quickly, and stealing yards in free kicks even when the ball was placed by the ref.

If he had not yellow-carded 2 of our players for fouls (+TSL quite justifiably) based on 9 offences compared with their 2 for twice as many, you might say that he was consistent. But Salford exploited his weakness to great advantage. And there is another argument around wider stricter standards of consistency. Referees today book players for persistent foul play and despite 19 fouls, it was not apparent that any of their bookings were for that reason - he just didn't do any totting up. And as for letting the game flow, they ensured that their tactical injuries prevented that.

You could come away from the Bromley game and at least conclude that it was fairly fought, but its no wonder that teams that play like Salford can't attract crowds at home even when their rich neighbours sell out their games.

[BillyStubbsTears]

Frustrating that Molyneux (rightly) was red carded for two technical yellow card offences. Yet the lad yesterday committed at least two fouls AFTER his yellow card that were as bad as the one that brought the card, yet stayed on.

Something morally not right there. The leeway allowed in adjudging the severity of fouls that isn't there on more technical infringements.

[Donnywolf]

Cheating the rules IS cheating the rules at any time in any game

The rules are set to maintain law and order , fair play etc and so if Number 10 picks up a Yellow but then continues fouling ( cheating the rules ) he should rightly get a second Yellow

However it appears that ONLY the taking off of Shirts after scoring are enforced

Sometimes dissent is punished , sometimes delaying start of play again but let's face it individual Referees are not even consistent within the same game so there is ZERO chance of the being consistent between themselves