Referee

[roversdude]

Words fail me - how poor was he may as well have let the keeper hold the ball for the whole game.
Missed a handball when we were pressing and they had a nailed on pen just before the second goal

[andyst79]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

[Spud]

Was Moly offside for the disallowed goal? Looked on from where we were but admittedly not in line.

[GazLaz]

Was our disallowed goal offside? Did anyone have a better view than me?

[roversdude]

Flag was up ages before the ball was in the net.
For what it’s worth I’m not blaming the ref for us losing - we lost because we were crap today, however that officiating was poor

[Filo]

Not offside for me

And the 6 minutes added time, 4 of those minutes were wasted by the keeper

[roversdude]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

So you think he had a decent game ?

[redarmi66]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

How is he blaming the ref for our poor performance? Ref was crap. So were we.

[Fal]

Not offside for me

And the 6 minutes added time, 4 of those minutes were wasted by the keeper

He was way off Filo…

[rich1471]

Was Moly offside for the disallowed goal? Looked on from where we were but admittedly not in line.

watched a replay the players in the middle played him onside

[big fat yorkshire pudding]

Molyneux was miles offside for me right in front of us.

The time wasting was super frustrating, refs need to get a grip, can't fail Grimsby for it at all.

The sooner they stop these tactical injuries the better.  Really hurt us today. We do it aswell by the way but it's frustrating for spectators.

[obeonesarover]

Was our disallowed goal offside? Did anyone have a better view than me?

I was sat in line and he was offside, I never bothered to cheer when we scored the decision was correct

[ForsolongaRover]

Molyneux was miles offside for me right in front of us.

The time wasting was super frustrating, refs need to get a grip, can't fail Grimsby for it at all.

The sooner they stop these tactical injuries the better.  Really hurt us today. We do it aswell by the way but it's frustrating for spectators.

In the past we have been guilty of much worse time-wasting than we saw from Grimsby today. The worst time-wasters today were our own players who messed about passing the ball around their own half instead of playing constructively. So much of it is without purpose with no one courageous enough to take responsibilty.

There is no way to “stop” tactical injuries. All the ref can do is add another 30 seconds or more each time to cover them and the you question whether these minor additions (which mount up) are  actually made.

[Alan Southstand]

If there’s one thing we can take as a constant ,at this level, it’s the officials being poor. It’s almost every home game and probably most away!

[andyst79]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

So you think he had a decent game ?

I thought he was pretty consistent and tried to let the game flow

[roversdude]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

So you think he had a decent game ?

I thought he was pretty consistent and tried to let the game flow

Fair enough all about opinions

[dickos1]

Molyneux was miles offside for me right in front of us.

The time wasting was super frustrating, refs need to get a grip, can't fail Grimsby for it at all.

The sooner they stop these tactical injuries the better.  Really hurt us today. We do it aswell by the way but it's frustrating for spectators.

In the past we have been guilty of much worse time-wasting than we saw from Grimsby today. The worst time-wasters today were our own players who messed about passing the ball around their own half instead of playing constructively. So much of it is without purpose with no one courageous enough to take responsibilty.

There is no way to “stop” tactical injuries. All the ref can do is add another 30 seconds or more each time to cover them and the you question whether these minor additions (which mount up) are  actually made.

When have we done much worse time wasting? Certainly not under McCann

[andyst79]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

So you think he had a decent game ?

I thought he was pretty consistent and tried to let the game flow

Fair enough all about opinions

Agreed. I think consistency is the key word, you can be consistently good or consistently bad but if you maintain the same level or standards throughout the game I suppose you can't really argue to a degree. The standard of officiating is bad enough at top level even with the assistance of VAR so for a L2 ref I thought he was good

[Armthorpe mickler]

What about when there player was ragged in our area.He missed that one and the linesman could not see.

[andyst79]

What about when there player was ragged in our area.He missed that one and the linesman could not see.

I'd like to see it again but at first glance it looked naughty from us, I think from the refs point of view he was blindsided by a group of bodies but you'd expect the lino to step up and help out unfortunately they're all weak as piss in this division.

[Armthorpe mickler]

To be fair I don't think ref or lino got a good view of it but I'd thought I'd subscribed to WWF for a minute .

[Ian Nimmo]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

It’s not a case of blaming the ref for our defeat, he was totally useless.
There was a definite handball, multiple fouls given when our players clearly won the ball fairly. There players went to ground and he bought it on numerous times.
He was aware their keeper was wasting time early in the game, and should have given a yellow, which would’ve likely put an end to it.

[andyst79]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

It’s not a case of blaming the ref for our defeat, he was totally useless.
There was a definite handball, multiple fouls given when our players clearly won the ball fairly. There players went to ground and he bought it on numerous times.
He was aware their keeper was wasting time early in the game, and should have given a yellow, which would’ve likely put an end to it.

We were the best team for the 1st 15 minutes Artell and Rose knew this that's why Rose went to ground feigning injury, bought them the necessary time to reshuffle. Was a great bit of gamesmanship and gave Artell chance to tactically outmanoeuvre our manager. If it was the other way around we'd be all on here lauding it.

[Armthorpe mickler]

The ref was'nt that bad.It was the team that was awful.He was better than that ref against Chesterfield at home or Trevor Kettle's son the other week.

[ForsolongaRover]

Molyneux was miles offside for me right in front of us.

The time wasting was super frustrating, refs need to get a grip, can't fail Grimsby for it at all.

The sooner they stop these tactical injuries the better.  Really hurt us today. We do it aswell by the way but it's frustrating for spectators.

In the past we have been guilty of much worse time-wasting than we saw from Grimsby today. The worst time-wasters today were our own players who messed about passing the ball around their own half instead of playing constructively. So much of it is without purpose with no one courageous enough to take responsibilty.

There is no way to “stop” tactical injuries. All the ref can do is add another 30 seconds or more each time to cover them and the you question whether these minor additions (which mount up) are  actually made.

When have we done much worse time wasting? Certainly not under McCann

I’m not surprised that you haven’t noticed. 

[donnievic]

Blaming the ref again lol,nothing said for a blatant pull back of their man in the 1st half that should of been a penalty,yes keeper was time wasting but every team does it including us

[ravenrover]

I think the ref saw it but the ball was miles away at the time so no chance of the player getting any way near it. Isn't that the new ruling this season for this type of situation

[donnievic]

Definitely not when it’s in open play no and the ball wasn’t miles away from the incident either,too many fans at times think they are better referees or assistants you only have to look at Mondays goals half of the south stand thought both goals were offside.

[thumper]

I don't think he was awful, didn't deal with their keepers time wasting though, told him to hurry up several times in injury time, that warranted a booking for me.

We got away with a penno too in my opinion 

[karldew]

Yeah let's blame the ref every week for how poor we are

It’s not a case of blaming the ref for our defeat, he was totally useless.
There was a definite handball, multiple fouls given when our players clearly won the ball fairly. There players went to ground and he bought it on numerous times.
He was aware their keeper was wasting time early in the game, and should have given a yellow, which would’ve likely put an end to it.

We were the best team for the 1st 15 minutes Artell and Rose knew this that's why Rose went to ground feigning injury, bought them the necessary time to reshuffle. Was a great bit of gamesmanship and gave Artell chance to tactically outmanoeuvre our manager. If it was the other way around we'd be all on here lauding it.

Port Vale did the exact same thing this season. We did it at Crawley last season Timmy went down “injured” and we reshuffled.

The ref was a little frustrating today but we played awful. Goes to show how bad the league is when you play as bad as that and nearly get a draw!