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    It rather looks like the new manager "bounce" has gone and from here on in we shall find out whether Rooney has what it takes. I still believe this team is good enough to be comfortably mid table, but someone needs to get the tactics right and coach them properly.

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    Next season looks possible as they are climbing to safety....

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    Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
    It rather looks like the new manager "bounce" has gone and from here on in we shall find out whether Rooney has what it takes.
    Is that what it is, or is it Bielik’s injury? Maybe Rooney just has to use the cards that Cocu was dealt now.
    As far as I remember we’ve only put in one good performance without Bielik. All seems a little reminiscent of Thorne...we just can’t build a side around someone so ‘fragile’ no matter how good they are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
    Is that what it is, or is it Bielik’s injury? Maybe Rooney just has to use the cards that Cocu was dealt now.
    As far as I remember we’ve only put in one good performance without Bielik. All seems a little reminiscent of Thorne...we just can’t build a side around someone so ‘fragile’ no matter how good they are.
    Yep, very much agree with this.

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    As I aid, this is where Rooney shows how good or bad a manager he is!

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    I'll be shorter than usual in my matchday musings today. One wayward pass turned a game that had 0-0 written all over it from start to finish into a 1-0 defeat. Most of our other passes were among the back 5, not in a keep ball way, but in a there's no forward pass on due to the oppo playing the pressing game. Lose the ball and we give them the freedom of the park. Absoulutely ridiculous. For the 2nd game running, the changes weren't rung until the 69th minute. Why so late when we haven't been in the game? It wasn't all bad. Despite us not pressing, apart from the goal, they never looked like scoring. On the other hand, neither did we aside from 2 instances where, more by luck than judgment, a player got the ball in a position to shoot. Clarke dropped on the ball close in but the keeper was already going down on the ball and was maybe a foot off it and one from Knight who maybe should have scored a goal we didn't really deserve.

    The ref? Awful. 1st minute, CKR held and fell, nothing given. 2nd minute he does less and gets a foul given against him. 3rd minute he barges and a free kick is rightly given against him. One of the few things the ref got right. 5th minute, Roberts tries to go between 2 players in the box, loses the ball turns to go after the man with the ball, the other player blocks him off by raising his left leg 90 degrees. It's then down to the ref what happens next. In this case nothing happened and that was 100% wrong. The weakest of refs might have gone for the indirect free kick for obstruction and just about got away with it. A half decent ref would give the penalty. Some 10 minutes later, Roberts was unceremoniously dumped flat on his back. Nowt given. In the majority of the opening 25 minutes prior to my losing interest in the ref, I had counted half a dozen free kicks we should have got and didn't and they got 4 that were less of a free kick than the ones we didn't get. Looks like, after a very short hiatus, we're back to getting the crap refs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
    I'll be shorter than usual in my matchday musings today. One wayward pass turned a game that had 0-0 written all over it from start to finish into a 1-0 defeat. Most of our other passes were among the back 5, not in a keep ball way, but in a there's no forward pass on due to the oppo playing the pressing game. Lose the ball and we give them the freedom of the park. Absoulutely ridiculous. For the 2nd game running, the changes weren't rung until the 69th minute. Why so late when we haven't been in the game? It wasn't all bad. Despite us not pressing, apart from the goal, they never looked like scoring. On the other hand, neither did we aside from 2 instances where, more by luck than judgment, a player got the ball in a position to shoot. Clarke dropped on the ball close in but the keeper was already going down on the ball and was maybe a foot off it and one from Knight who maybe should have scored a goal we didn't really deserve.

    The ref? Awful. 1st minute, CKR held and fell, nothing given. 2nd minute he does less and gets a foul given against him. 3rd minute he barges and a free kick is rightly given against him. One of the few things the ref got right. 5th minute, Roberts tries to go between 2 players in the box, loses the ball turns to go after the man with the ball, the other player blocks him off by raising his left leg 90 degrees. It's then down to the ref what happens next. In this case nothing happened and that was 100% wrong. The weakest of refs might have gone for the indirect free kick for obstruction and just about got away with it. A half decent ref would give the penalty. Some 10 minutes later, Roberts was unceremoniously dumped flat on his back. Nowt given. In the majority of the opening 25 minutes prior to my losing interest in the ref, I had counted half a dozen free kicks we should have got and didn't and they got 4 that were less of a free kick than the ones we didn't get. Looks like, after a very short hiatus, we're back to getting the crap refs.
    Aren't all refs crap when we are playing badly and losing? Roberts clearly isn't up to the physicality of the championship.

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    Quote Originally Posted by swaledale View Post
    Aren't all refs crap when we are playing badly and losing? Roberts clearly isn't up to the physicality of the championship.
    If you've been paying attention you'll have seen that I have regularly criticised the refereeing standards in all but a handful of games this season. You are probably right on Roberts and the physicality thing, however, that doesn't mean the ref can ignore fouls on him as happened with the 2 I highlighted. The 5th minute deliberate high leg and the dumping on his back were both fouls the ref decided not to give.

    Agreed we didn't play well but that is a different and unrelated matter to the ref also being garbage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
    If you've been paying attention you'll have seen that I have regularly criticised the refereeing standards in all but a handful of games this season. You are probably right on Roberts and the physicality thing, however, that doesn't mean the ref can ignore fouls on him as happened with the 2 I highlighted. The 5th minute deliberate high leg and the dumping on his back were both fouls the ref decided not to give.

    Agreed we didn't play well but that is a different and unrelated matter to the ref also being garbage.
    But that happens all the time and to be fair we ahve been ****e for most of the season and the crap ref has been mentioned many times almost as an excuse. its natural to view the ref negatively when ones team isn't doing well. Also there is a theme whereby the ref gives fouls against us, a crap ref basically gets things wrong for both teams, so there is some bias (natural) in there!

    I well remember Atwell, who in my memory was absolutely ****e whenever he refed Derby games, but is now one of the top refs in the prem, make of that what you will!!

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    I’m repeatedly surprised at the poor standard of refereeing and sometimes their apparent lack of fitness.
    Take Jonathan Moss...he’s approaching fifty one, seemingly significantly overweight and rarely, imo, able to keep up with play, and yet there he is, every week, lumbering about attempting to keep control of 22 highly tuned young athletes in matches worth millions of £’s.

    Don’t get me started on Atwell...the Gavin Williamson of the refereeing world.

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