What frustrated me yesterday was the referee ignoring the shirt pulling that was constantly happening and even though jamma is no saint it was there for all to see.
The other frustration was once we had the ball how easily we gave it away.
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The one on Earing in the second half when their player was literally dragging him down the pitch by his arm was a shocking decision to allow play on.He even looked straight at the incident and did absolutely nothing about it.Earing was close to having his shoulder pulled out of its socket and he gave absolutely Jack for it.(No pun intended)
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The standard of reffing is really poor. Very rare you find a good one that just lets the game flow and gets basic decisions right.
I find myself getting angry with linesmen or whatever they are called these days. I noticed yesterday the linesman to our right flagged for a free kick (against us obviously) And I thought that is rare. One of my pet hates is how often when deciding which way a throw-in should go they stand and wait for the ref to indicate cos they haven’t got a clue themselves.
I’m not sure what the answer is really, I doubt they get paid much and are doing it because they love it, but the standard should be higher than it is for sure.
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I saw that and said to one of our group “how can’t the officials see that “. It was a disgraceful decision.
In fairness Jack conducted himself in a very professional manner.
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Complaining about the standard of referees is like moaning about the weather. I wish it were better, and we would all be happier if it were, but it is what it is.
We get as many bad decisions in our favour as given against us
Yeah I had a few ‘choice words’ for the ref at that one. You know those ones when the kids look at you and don’t know whether to be laugh at you or poo their pants.
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The butler was running alongside him with a glass of water on a tray. It was an impressive performance- the butler’s, not Crod’s.
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When I saw UTS had server issues I wondered whether Crod would think the butler had spilled a bit of gravy.
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We were sat on halfway for the first half so a bit closer to the action than behind the goal (where we went for the second half as we were kicking that way). Every time that our fans were shouting for a free kick for Jamma having his shirt pulled, we had a clear view of him having a handful of the defender’s shirt himself, or his arm crooked around the defender’s back trying to stop him getting to the ball. I reckon the officials probably saw it as 50/50 and let them all go both ways.
Having said that, I agree about the one they gave when the Accrington bloke threw himself on the floor screaming like he was being murdered even though no one touched him, and the Earing one that would have been pulled up in WWE never mind a game of football.
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I’ve mentioned it a few times over recent weeks about Jamma and all his pulling, pushing and shoving without even attempting to play the ball. Also exactly what I said, the refs see it a few times, then his card is marked and he doesn’t get decisions.
I don’t think it is a popular opinion, but it is definitely true, half the time Walsall fans are screaming for fouls, he has already fouled the defender twice. There were some pictures of the game on a social media page I and the one picture of Jamma he was pulling the defenders shirt!
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It’s the way things are at the moment. Corners are just like watching cage fighting these days. Defenders virtually do what they like with strikers. Grabbing, pulling punching. Strikers feel they have to do the same to stand any chance of getting the ball. Without doubt if it happened anywhere else on the field somebody would get a yellow or red card. What it needs is for the referee/linesman to give a few penalties and it would stop. My personal view is why don’t the attacking team just run in from the edge of the area, they could jump higher with a run-in and would avoid the awful spectacle of players ripping each others shirts off their back.
Sounds a good plan. There must be some reason we don’t see this.
Probably because our main corner routines are either near post or dropping the ball right in front of the keeper.
On Saturday we had a ton of corners and sometimes the players need to work stuff out themselves.
There was obviously a plan to hang a few under the bar to test out their young keeper. Have Harry Williams steaming on to concentrate the keeper’s mind a bit. About 15 minutes in we tried it, their young keeper got a fist or palm on the ball, ball gone, Williams clatters him, free kick.
We must have tried that corner another half dozen times, each time with the same outcome. Bloke next to me was going mad at the ref. I said to him he should be going mad at Allen. We knew exactly how the script worked through so change the story.
You can still get to the near post etc starting with a run up, and jump an extra 8-10 inches.
The gate of 2995 was Accrington’s highest of the season so far.
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Has anyone ever tried a rugby union type line out .two or three of our big lads could hoist someone 12 feet in the air .
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We should have sung ‘you’ve only cum caus it’s Walsall’, wonder what their fans reaction to that would have been.
I mean we did sing “You only come to see the Saddlers” Were you purchasing a pot noodle and a cream pie at the time?
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