Let's talk about the Huddersfield Town game

[dickos1]

Their better players ground it out in the second half. We were the better team first half but didn’t take the couple of good chances that were presented. Their centre halves were colossal.

It was more than a couple of good chances,
5 proper excellent chances we missed in the first half and at least one excellent chance in the second

There weren’t 5 excellent chances for us in the first half.

There were!
Broadbent, sharp, sbarra, Middleton x 2

[dickos1]

I sat and counted. Tell me I’m wrong
If I’m an odd one out either way, I did go for a slash, it’s  nowhere near good enough.

You’re wrong

[Alan Southstand]

But he’s right that he’s not good enough!

[i_ateallthepies]

I take it you’ve not seen the video, DBR?

He never held his shirt - he put his hand on his back - the slightest of touch, and he went down like he’d been hit with a steamroller!

It was an appalling decision - one of many throughout the game.

Alan, if you're sure you didn't see the shirt pull then I suggest you get an early appointment with your optician.

[GazLaz]

I sat and counted. Tell me I’m wrong
If I’m an odd one out either way, I did go for a slash, it’s  nowhere near good enough.

You’re wrong

21 touches. 8 accurate passes. It was a truly awful performance within a largely good team performance, which makes it even worse.

The decision to play him was a woeful one as well. I like Sbarra and he had ability, he’s just not suited to the way we play.

We have a big squad and we need to make use of it but over the last two years we have been at our best when we have had a settled team. In the periods where Grant has changed shape and personnel for the opposition we have been worse. We need to tweak things tactically on a game by game basis, that’s football, it’s possible to over do it though.

For me there was no justification playing Bailey at RB last week and none for playing JS last night. Let’s just settle in to the league playing our best team. Sharp can’t play every week so we can rotate there. We have cup games coming up where we can rotate. Just settle things down a bit would be my advice.

[Alan Southstand]

I take it you’ve not seen the video, DBR?

He never held his shirt - he put his hand on his back - the slightest of touch, and he went down like he’d been hit with a steamroller!

It was an appalling decision - one of many throughout the game.

Alan, if you're sure you didn't see the shirt pull then I suggest you get an early appointment with your optician.

The ref told GM he’d given the pen for a trip. Show me that, if you can.

[Cramby10]

I sat and counted. Tell me I’m wrong
If I’m an odd one out either way, I did go for a slash, it’s  nowhere near good enough.

You’re wrong

21 touches. 8 accurate passes. It was a truly awful performance within a largely good team performance, which makes it even worse.

The decision to play him was a woeful one as well. I like Sbarra and he had ability, he’s just not suited to the way we play.

We have a big squad and we need to make use of it but over the last two years we have been at our best when we have had a settled team. In the periods where Grant has changed shape and personnel for the opposition we have been worse. We need to tweak things tactically on a game by game basis, that’s football, it’s possible to over do it though.

For me there was no justification playing Bailey at RB last week and none for playing JS last night. Let’s just settle in to the league playing our best team. Sharp can’t play every week so we can rotate there. We have cup games coming up where we can rotate. Just settle things down a bit would be my advice.

21? Does that include the number whilst in his possession also?

[DonnyBazR0ver]

I take it you’ve not seen the video, DBR?

He never held his shirt - he put his hand on his back - the slightest of touch, and he went down like he’d been hit with a steamroller!

It was an appalling decision - one of many throughout the game.

Alan, if you're sure you didn't see the shirt pull then I suggest you get an early appointment with your optician.

The ref told GM he’d given the pen for a trip. Show me that, if you can.

There wasn't a trip but you can't say it was categorically not a penalty. It was a soft, maybe harsh call and hopefully, we'll benefit for some equally questionable calls which we'll justify after the event.

[RoversInSpain]

Did anyone see their huge centre back trying to protect the ball and turning around and physically pushing Sbarra away at least 3 times as Sbarra tried to get a toe in.Absolute clear pushes one after the other in the chest, so if that’s not a foul then it’s no penalty.
And if he’s giving Pens for that then every corner should have been a free kick or a pelanty. Inconsistency is killing us.

[roversdude]

Huddersfield have all that money and can’t even get the right badge on the programme how rude

[BobG]

At least Udders was the very first team to get thumped at the Keepmoat - unless I'm imagining things again..... They'll  be remembered forever. As losers.



BobG

[drfchound]

I’ve just remembered Billy’s flash of temper last night which earns him a booking.  The big centre back had a nibble at him as the ball was going out of play and Billy “bit” and kicked out at him.
Of course the CB went down in agony, holding his leg but also sneakily looking at the ref to see what colour card he was pulling out.
It reminded me of the way Wimbledon got him sent off last season.

[selby]

  He did put his leg across him but didn't make contact because their player was already going down because he was being pulled with a fist full of his shirt on his shoulder, a clear penalty unless holding is no longer a direct free kick by the laws of the game.
  Yes a lot goes off that are ignored, in this case it wasn't and it could well have looked a trip from the referees angle as well.

[Alan Southstand]

Give over Selby - that sort of thing goes at every corner and it’s totally ignored. Their guy was being manhandled and he went down in stages. It was a dive and you know it.

I wonder what your reaction would have been if it had been Faulkner defending?

I’d rather support Grant’s take on it, if you don’t mind.

[selby]

  Yep I agree with you it happens all the time and shouldn't according to the laws of the game, and in  this case it was given, leaving us with the only thing we could do, watch him take the penalty.
  Grant can say what he wants, today the papers recorded a goal from a penalty I'm right and he is wrong, and our defender was mugged by a smart attacker.
  Bobby by the way would have been too fast for him and got the ball.

[Alan Southstand]

He wasn’t mugged, their lad dived. End of.

[dickos1]

It was never a pen I was sat right in line with it, the Huddersfield fans were all laughing and couldn’t believe he gave it.
One of the softest ones I’ve ever seen

[GazLaz]

It was never a pen I was sat right in line with it, the Huddersfield fans were all laughing and couldn’t believe he gave it.
One of the softest ones I’ve ever seen

It was horribly soft. The ref will say he pulled his shirt (which he did) so there is no argument.

[selby]

  The same referee gave us three direct free kicks during the game for very similar incidents when Molineux twice and Middleton were pulled back around the neck area.
  it is creeping into the game more every season and is a ten minute sin bin offence at Rugby league brought in because it can cause serious injury to eyes if misplaced.
  Did you think them three incidents were soft and laughed? anyway look at the result it says penalty scored. Both their goals were poor defending in what otherwise was a good team performance, it happens, and needs to be addressed and not cried over.

[dickos1]

I’d the shirt pulling was so bad the ref would’ve given it for that but he gave it for a trip which their player just manifested himself.
We defended excellently as we have all Season, may never had a kick. The Huddersfield fans I was sat near were raving about McGrath.
He is some player

[Alan Southstand]

It was never a pen I was sat right in line with it, the Huddersfield fans were all laughing and couldn’t believe he gave it.
One of the softest ones I’ve ever seen

It was horribly soft. The ref will say he pulled his shirt (which he did) so there is no argument.

No, he told GM it was for the trip (which never occurred)

[ForsolongaRover]

https://terrierspirit.com/whining-mccann-why-we-struggled-how-we-won-and-rebranding-subs-notes-on-huddersfield-towns-win-over-doncaster-rovers/

I don’t think anyone has referenced this report which takes the Huddersfield perspective and includes some very complimentary analysis of Rovers’ performance.

[ForsolongaRover]

McCann is now reported to have talked to the ref - https://c.newsnow.co.uk/A/1284505205?-12737%3A1601%3Ann_topic_top
and it seems the ref has reported that the penalty was for “persistently holding” which was visible.