Tonights Game

[sinkov]

Ipswich brought with them a deliberate spoiling game. Feigning injuries, stopping play, unbelievable timewasting not checked by what lancaster100 called an incompetent referee, but what I would call bloody awful and totally clueless.

This is something about footballers I don't understand, I see it watching Burnley and it's the same at Clitheroe. The opposition go in for organised timewasting, they know exactly what they're doing, but unless it's absolutely blatant, the refs, who are all for a quiet life, don't want to know, I've even seen them, quite often, turn their backs on goalkeepers wasting time with goal kicks so they don't see it. What I don't get is why, at the first sign of time wasting, players don't get on the referee's case about it, point it out to him every time, get in his face about it, insist he does something about it, and why aren't managers telling their players to do this ?

Players will waste time, refs for the most part don't want to know, but why are opposition players so accepting of it, if I was a player I'd be on the ref's back, pointing it out right from the first instance. Why they don't I have no idea, don't let lazy refs get away with it.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

This is something about footballers I don't understand, I see it watching Burnley and it's the same at Clitheroe. The opposition go in for organised timewasting, they know exactly what they're doing, but unless it's absolutely blatant, the refs, who are all for a quiet life, don't want to know, I've even seen them, quite often, turn their backs on goalkeepers wasting time with goal kicks so they don't see it. What I don't get is why, at the first sign of time wasting, players don't get on the referee's case about it, point it out to him every time, get in his face about it, insist he does something about it, and why aren't managers telling their players to do this ?

Players will waste time, refs for the most part don't want to know, but why are opposition players so accepting of it, if I was a player I'd be on the ref's back, pointing it out right from the first instance. Why they don't I have no idea, don't let lazy refs get away with it.

I said exactly the same last night, Cork was all over this hapless eejit like a skin rash but had to quieten down when he got his usual yellow card.

Brownhill came on got the arm band and was constantly in his ear. I think that's why the eejit ignored a blatant foul by Barnes which led to our winner.

I'm with you all the way on this one sinkov, last night went way beyond farcical.

The way the Tractor Boys speeded things up after our second goal was astonishing, the bloke behind me was calling for a post-match drug test.

[army88]

I said exactly the same last night, Cork was all over this hapless eejit like a skin rash but had to quieten down when he got his usual yellow card.

Brownhill came on got the arm band and was constantly in his ear. I think that's why the eejit ignored a blatant foul by Barnes which led to our winner.

I'm with you all the way on this one sinkov, last night went way beyond farcical.

The way the Tractor Boys speeded things up after our second goal was astonishing, the bloke behind me was calling for a post-match drug test.

When playing BT , we once had a season where we looked back at all
Previous games - cards - bookings etc and we came to the conclusion that we didn’t ask for every decision as a team - so from then on we asked the ref for everything but all together and it worked we def got more decisions in unison.

Posted this before we also shared out the bookings / bad tackles to keep us all on the pitch ( midfielder s that is ) spread the bookings.

[sinkov]

When playing BT , we once had a season where we looked back at all
Previous games - cards - bookings etc and we came to the conclusion that we didn’t ask for every decision as a team - so from then on we asked the ref for everything but all together and it worked we def got more decisions in unison.

Posted this before we also shared out the bookings / bad tackles to keep us all on the pitch ( midfielder s that is ) spread the bookings.

Who were you playing for Army, what level ?