Dissent shouldn't be a sending off


Very rare for a ref to issue a second yellow for dissent when a player could go off. However Dan Neil was on a yellow , so he should have kept his mouth shut, he has cost us big style today.
 
Red card for dissent ruins the game without anyone being hurt. Should be a hefty fine, not a red. Happens all the time with players hollering in the ref's face with no action taken, often ref just laughs it off.

Ref should be more bothered about booking players for pulling back and kicking the ball away.
I think the second yellow was for entertaining the field of play without a brain
 
Very rare for a ref to issue a second yellow for dissent when a player could go off. However Dan Neil was on a yellow , so he should have kept his mouth shut, he has cost us big style today.

This is the top and bottom of it. Neil, Mowbray and fans can twist as much as they like about it but ultimately Neil was in the wrong and got suitably punished.

The fact the ref got loads more wrong is a different matter and worthy of criticism
 

Referee skipped about seven steps in dealing with it.
 
When will footballers start thinking before they mouth off, and start respecting the ref more, like they do in rugby. They really bring it on themselves at times . Gutted at the result but it was bloody stupid from Neil when he already must have known that he was lucky to have only got a yellow rather than a red for his first offence.
 

Referee skipped about seven steps in dealing with it.
Well yes, but why aren't protesting 'boro players carded on 31' minute? To fail there to impose the law and then send off a player enforcing it is bonkers decision making by the ref.
When will footballers start thinking before they mouth off, and start respecting the ref more, like they do in rugby. They really bring it on themselves at times . Gutted at the result but it was bloody stupid from Neil when he already must have known that he was lucky to have only got a yellow rather than a red for his first offence.
He was lucky he didn't connect with his studs up, but he can't be lucky not getting a red for that tackle because you can't be sent off for a tackle that doesn't connect and when players are it is always rescinded on appeal.
 
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Well yes, but why aren't protesting 'boro players carded on 31' minute? To fail there to impose the law and then send off a player enforcing it is bonkers decision making by the ref.

He was lucky he didn't connect with his studs up, but he can't be lucky not getting a red for that tackle because you can't be sent off for a tackle that doesn't connect.
Absolutely.
Just saying that the referee went straight for the throat for absolutely no reason.
 
A yellow for dissent is probably right, the problem is referees deciding to book some players and not others, the pressure a footballer is under every game there's just know way they won't lose their mind when refs consistently make bad decisions which is what's got Dan Neil sent off, Neil needs to control himself but players are not robots and they boil over especially when they can see really obvious stuff getting missed.
This. Anyone who swears at the ref should be booked but it's the inconsistency that's annoying. Most of the time players get away with it cos the refs bottle booking them. It would soon stop if every player was booked for it.
 
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Red card for dissent ruins the game without anyone being hurt. Should be a hefty fine, not a red. Happens all the time with players hollering in the ref's face with no action taken, often ref just laughs it off.

Ref should be more bothered about booking players for pulling back and kicking the ball away.
If one of their players had been sent off for the same reason would you have created this thread ?
 
When will footballers start thinking before they mouth off, and start respecting the ref more, like they do in rugby. They really bring it on themselves at times . Gutted at the result but it was bloody stupid from Neil when he already must have known that he was lucky to have only got a yellow rather than a red for his first offence.

If it were 10min in the bin for even questioning the referees decision there would quickly be no dissent.

There's hardly any dissent in Rugby, the Refs are always explaining most of their decisions on the run, and the decisions are 100% accepted by the players. It's a vicious game but politely managed by players and officials.
 
Dissent should be punished, as irritating as it is for us, relentless dissent is bad for the game.

Neil is good but he comes across as thick and he’s certainly backed that up today. Such a stupid, needless mistake.
 

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