Quote Originally Posted by rolymiller View Post
The twitter thread was only scratching the surface, their is virtually an example every game we have played this season. It gets beyond the odd refereeing mistake. When was the last time a refs or linesman mistake gave us a dodgy goal or penalty? Can you remember any examples, I can't.

I can't remember any opposition fans coming on social media saying they were robbed by a dodgy goal of ours.

True or not folks?

I believe that refs have a mindset before the game that we are going to be an anti footy team and thus jump on anything we do and turn a blind eye to the "footballing" sides misdemeanours.

Look at the hammer Smudge and Tree get from opposition players. I am not saying they are angels but they get a disproportionate number of fouls given against them rather than for them. Weds night was a classic example of how Smudge is treated in this league. The poor bugger has his shirt ripped off him and no fecker notices.

I thought when Stevie left us that refs might be a bit more lenient to us with him not in their ear all the time. How wrong I was. If owt they are worse with Warne because they know he won't make much of a fuss about their poor decisions.
To be honest Roly, it's a reasonable observation with regards to when we were last given a dodgy penalty, or dodgy goal, but we as fans definitely dont complain as much when we've been in division 1 so maybe, as one of the more fashionable teams at that level, we benefit from it? that is if the subconscious of the refs work the same in the divisions below?
However, maybe other clubs feel the same as we do, and I do go on other teams that we play forums, and supporters do accuse us of being physical, and ref letting us get away with it, when in that particular game, I've seen it the other way round, and ref has allowed their players to constantly foul such as smudge and tree, as you said, so we cant all be right.
The thing about fouls is that they are subjective, but we are talking about things that are obvious such as stonewall penalties and offsides, which we most certainly haven't had the rub of the green with this season.