Plymouth boss not happy

[vinegar hill]

I thought the ref was hopeless.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

I didn’t see much good from the ref for either side so he was at least consistent which is good.

Linesman a bit dodge.

But overall the bloke is covering his arse after they showed naivety in the extreme and we punished them.

 

[Dundas street kid]

He said the ref was one-sided, didn’t see that myself

aye he was, for them, loads of free kicks for no reason other than their players went down, the ref was poor. and that corner at the end that he gave to them which was a throw in to us he was unsighted and looked to his assistant who stood like a tin of milk as he had no idea so he guessed.

 

[Thunder Road]

From my memory (so could easily be wrong) they were screaming for him to come back on as they felt that the 30 seconds were up but we had the ball in close proximity to where Forshaw would have come back onto the pitch so by the laws of the game he could not re-enter the pitch as he could have had an immediate effect on the play.
We then switched the ball to Clarke and he did the rest.

 

[viccarlton]

He was poor, but likely equally poor for both sides. It is the ones against us I remember.

First half, it felt like 50% of our attacks broke down because Mumba decided to have a lie down for a rest rather than try to defend. Some replays showed no contact at all and down he went. Must have done that at least a dozen times, and Clarke was getting very frustrated.

Leading up to the Ekwah free kick, the ball came (from Neil) I think to Clarke on the edge of the area, and the Plymouth defender had both of Clarke's arms held behind his back. He tried to get to the ball, but could not move. Another defender cleared badly, it came straight back, they fouled and just as I was typing to moan about the ref again, we scored.

Clarke again runs into the area, passes two players, one tries to slide in but doesn't win the ball, ref sees a player go down, free kick Plymouth.

Players scrapping for the ball in our right corner, their player kicks it out for a throw, they get a corner!

I think both sides could go on like this. Those are the first ones that stick in my mind. Yes refs make mistakes, but this one made a hell of a lot of mistakes. He was not doing the big show and making it all about him. He was just out of his depth. I joked on the match thread that it was only his third game as a referee. I don't know if anyone believed it, but it was believable.

Seems to be the latest tactic by defenders now, feign contact and injury, I know it’s gone on for years but seems to be a lot worse now and referees fall for it ( pun intended).

 

[humbug]

It makes me laugh when Clarke goes down and just grabs the ball before he’s even blown

can't remember who it was or who it was against but it's only fairly recently one of our players did that and the ref blew up for handball.

 

[Mitch149]

I wouldn’t know what a centre forward looks like

 

[Steve 10]

Saw him look up at the east stand at one point, looked very impressed with all the blankets and flasks

When the East Stand is in full voice there is no better sight marra.

 

[DBStar]

He was waived on as soon as they took the free kick. Like everyone else it happens to. You don't get to wait 30 seconds for him to come on and get in position then take the free kick.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

I thought the Ref was OK.
Gave plenty of correct decision to both teams.
Don't see the problem here.

 

[tooliohelmet]

He said the ref was one-sided, didn’t see that myself

He was, in their favour.

 

[redandwhiterob]

Plymouth manger convinced he was biased towards us

Sunderland fans disagree

Just about sums up how officials can very rarely win

 

[3.142]

Sounds more like he either doesn't know or doesn't like the rules, at least for the two things he was complaining about - injured player staying off the pitch and free kicks for fouls outside the box.

 

[Freddie the Greek]

That really pissed me off bout Mumba how easy he went down

Then when he got booked for a foul nearly started crying

He was a reet little arsehole yesterday, and to show him my views I didn't applaud him off. That'll show him.

 

[makumstu]

Didnt seem to have much to say about Mumba going down every time someone breathed on him, nor how his wall went missing in action for our equaliser, apart from to say that was one of 87 free kicks.

Missing in action, one of them decided to have a lie down behind the wall blocking absolutely nothing.

As the ball skimmed past his studs, should have had somebody taller doing that job.

 

[martin_s_buckley]

First half, it felt like 50% of our attacks broke down because Mumba decided to have a lie down for a rest rather than try to defend. Some replays showed no contact at all and down he went. Must have done that at least a dozen times, and Clarke was getting very frustrated.

The lad needs to get on the weights as he's clearly not physically strong enough for a mans game based on yesterday.

 

[YES WE GYAN]

Ref was generally poor, but he was good at cracking down on time-wasting. Even quite early in the first half he was onto their keeper, and also dragged their players away from the bench after they'd scored.

That's probably why their manager is pissed off, not being able to drag the shit out of the game.

 

[molthemackem]

Load of old shite about the free kicks mind. None of them was exactly soft.

Apart from them falling down at every opportunity for a foul, which the Referee bought into. I thought giving them a corner, late on in the second half, which went clearly out for a throw in was the Best of the Referees guess'es.

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Apart from them falling down at every opportunity for a foul, which the Referee bought into.

Mumba was awful for it.

 

[harryCLSsafc]

Cant say I particularly picked the referee out during the game which probably means that IMHO he did alright.