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Have to say I was very impressed at Crawley's style of play and passing ability.
I'm sure some will come back and say that this is solely because they are in lower league and it is easier and more open but, nonetheless, I wouldn't mind seeing that sort of play week in week out and promotion too!
Any thoughts as to our poaching any of them because they seemed to be making an effort as opposed to 'others' we have secured from League 1 (now gone from our books- phew!)
Coming up to driver in middle lane of motorway, nothing in left lane, flashing headlights before I get there, beeping as I go by, then pointing left suggesting pull over as I carry on down the road in the left lane ........ and still believing, EVERY TIME that the simple, mindless or arrogant driver (still poodling along in the middle lane of my rear view mirror) actually understands or even cares about THEIR part in what just happened!
Every time...I never learn and I drive myself mad with it= why are there so many thick, ignorant or arrogant people on the road these days?
Thinking of crossing the roof of my car with a Chieftan tank turret, so I can blast these plonkers out of the way!
IF you are someone who drives in the middle lane, when there is nothing in the left lane watch out for the Ford C max with a large barrel on top coming up behnd you
Just to let you know...I'm not criticising the assistants at all and everyone in life makes mistakes and that's fine.
I just didn't understand why the flag so often stayed down when the ball is, say, alongside the assistant and then, when it was explained to me, it seemed a reason that the assistants often get shouted at unfairly and surely, if this IS happening, why cannot the crowd be told at the outset?
A simple: the referee today is officiating ALL calls except offsides or the referee and his assistants are officiating today!
How hard is that to go towards preventing unfair abuse?
People want refereees and assistants to be treated with respect and a simple announcement would surely help to that end?!
Ok and thanks but clearly we DO see a difference and even watching on TV I watch the assisant and note that he/ she often keeps his/her flag down even when the ball has gone into touch beside him/her UNTIL the referee points and THEN he/she raises the flag!
If you haven't seen this (and, as I say, it is the same for fouls) please watch out for it.
There IS 'inconsistency' that the crowds see week in week out!
I'll try to set the background (as brief as poss) and then ask the question.
Two separate games (of many) watched this season
Game 1:
Two assistant referees and one referee. Scenario 1 Game 1: Ball goes out of play on side line, assistant looks at referee, referee points, THEN assistant raises flag to indicate throw in . Scenario 2 Game 1: There is an obvious foul directly in front of assitant but no flag, referee blows whistle for a foul and points indicating the direction of play arising from the foul (or of course arm aloft for indirect) THEN assistant raises flag to indicate foul.
Game 2
Two different assistant referees and one different referee. Scenario 1 Game 2: Ball goes out of play on side line, assistant immediately raises flag to indicate throw in, referee points to indicate throw in . Scenario 2 Game 2: There is an obvious foul directly in front of assitant, assitant raises and waves flag to indicate foul play, referee blows whistle for a foul and points indicating the direction of play arising from the foul (or of course arm aloft for indirect).
Clearly there is a difference in what the assistant referees do in Game 1 from Game 2
If we see the refereeing as described in Game 2 and then, the next game the refereeing is as Game 1, we get annoyed and abuse the assistant refs for not flagging and or abuse the ref.
I have tried to understand this disparity in the officiating that an assistant has and when he raises hs flag (aside from offsides and corners) and have been advised, by both referees and assitants, as follows:
PRIOR to commencement of game, in the dressing room, the refereee advises his assistants what he wants them to flag for with respect to foul play and ball in touch.
Some refs say that they want the assitants help (and we get the game 2 indication and the assitant involved in the game)
However.... and this is the point and the background
In other games the referee advises the assistants that he SOLELY wants them to look for and flag for offside and corner/goal kicks and NOTHING ELSE as he will decide!
If this IS the case (and from the refereeing and assistants in the Championship and other divisions can someone please explain straight (as opposed to humour or sarcasm please)
1: Why it changes from game to game- a nonsense surely?! 2: Why the crowd cannot be told which form of officiating we shall be watching over the PA prior to the start of the game?
There is a trend to try and prevent side line abuse and referee abuse but IF, from one game to the next you don't know if the game is being run by one pair of eyes or three pairs of eyes, THEN the crowd IS going to get infuriated when the assistant refuses to raise his flag- solely because the referee has told him before the game NOT TO!
It seems a madness but, now that it has been explained to me that it is the referee who decides (and we know what some of them are like) I would like to know where to correctly direct my frustration and not start singing " Lino Lino you're a (whatever)!" when, in reality it is to the referee!
Yes, there are a lot of sarcastic and humorous replies possible here but, trying to be serious, could someone please answer and explain this disparity in officiating matches.
Always makes me smile at Christmas as to how they got away with getting people to think it was "Don't let the bells end!"
The word Rock in a number of 50s songs often was an acceptable substitute for another word ending in CK (try it and you'll see what at least some of them meant) as was Groovin/ Feeling Groovy/ Into the Groove etc!
Read the goodbye references for Drewe and Dozell and see if you can spot the difference in the sentiments. One is welcome back 'any time' ---guess which one!
Also is there any link with him going to Birminghams and they and us swapping places?
"One of the 3,000 deities, returns to Earth disguised as a citrus fruit seller but is exposed for who he is after meeting a wandering religious teacher" in: The God, The Buddha and the Ugli.
"One of the 3,000 deities, returns to Earth disguised as a batsman but is caught out and bowled over by a wandering religious teacher trying his arm at spin bowling" in: The God, The Buddha and the Googly
"Two West London Footballers fall out over playing in a triangle formation. One moves to Arnhem in the Netherlands and remarries. The other then considers also going to the Netherlands to set up new triangular play but decides not to" in: A Bridge Too Far
"Home nation blames wrong country name on shirt is cause of failure in both soccer and rugby competitions and demands that the name never be used again and the correct name of Cymru is used" in: The Outlawed Jersey 'Wales'
"Its Christmas eve in Los Angeles. Travelling Welshman goes to office building for a job with the Nu man clinic and is offered the choice of taking the red pill or the blue pill. He takes the blue pill but it gets caught in his throat and he suffers a stiff neck instead" in: Dai Hard
"Two years later, its a similar story and again its Christmas Eve but this time our Welsh hero is at an airport steak restaurant waiting for a flight. He orders his T bone well done as does his friend but they complain when the chef leaves their steaks far too long" in: Dai's charred too!
" Finally, in this trilogy, our Welsh friend and hero, who's neck has healed, finds fame as a singer and travels to Manhatten for an audition. There is an 1990s Eurodance singer there too who once had "Boom Boom" fame. Both are employed" in: Dai's hired with a Venga
First and foremost, we need to secure Marti and let him know what options he has.
He's kept the patient 'alive' but we need to convince him that he needs to stay on for the recovery otherwise any other treatments (i.e. transfers) could be irrelevant.
Personally I would like to see Begovic and Dykes move onward, leave while they are 'on top' and can remember us cheering them as opposed to jeering them!
Back in those far off days of the 1980s, there was an inciteful book about good management (albeit referencing offices, etc) - it's still out there (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_One_Minute_Manager) but one of it's fundamentals was that if you are going to criticise someone for not doing what they should, then you should also praise them when they do something well!
It is a simple tenet but overlooked by many managers (office based or armchair football managers) : "always give credit where it is due!".
I've been very critical of both Begovic and Dykes this season but, in the 'one minute' I am allowed by the book, I have to say that they have both played very well when we needed them to so well done both of them!
But, as with Albert, please now leave is on a high!
Agreed. Stan Bowles cites this very point in his (auto)biography.
People said it was the loss away at Norwich that dropped the points which would have on us the title but Stan correctly pointed out that it was the games where we were winning (and let a last minute goal in to draw) and where we were drawing (and let a last minute goal in to lose) that cost us the First Division title.
However, it is actually what is fresh in people's minds and it is the same for the loss at Norwich as it is for the draw at Plymouth. It is the dropping of so valuable points when it is critical and there is little chance to recover those points - which is the issue!
I've seen us continually miss opportunities and lose points this season and have said to friends around that we may well rue those opportunities and lost points.
However, to be a few minutes away from a valuable win and to throw 2 points away which he did (and has done time and again- as well as saving goals!) - is criminal.
If you do what you are paid very well to do and you do it then that IS why you are paid, but if you are paid very well and DO NOT DO IT then expect criticism- and he has flapped once to often!
However as he has been at one end, Dykes (striker??) has been worse at the other and one can very easily argue that Asmir has been as good as he has been bad, whereas Lyndon hasn't!
However, if he saves goals and we win then all will be forgiven! Ditto Lyndon but I have more confidence in Begovic saving than Lyndon scoring!
Is there anyone on here (with an IQ above that of a 'plant') who thinks that the chants:
"You're just another shit ref" or "Lino, Lino you're a ****!" or "You don't know what your doing!"
will actually make them stop, and re-evaluate their ability and suddenly change their decision-making in favour of the R's.... ? OR, assuming they hear and are human, do you think it will make them wave away any 50-50 claims we have?
But you will hear the chants nonetheless and then watch the subsequent decisions go against us and wonder why (and fume) that the ref and or lino are crap! (Has anyone ever bothered to write to the refereeing body after a match?)
Yes, it IS frustrating but is there any other outlet?- cos the ref and lino aren't going to change their opinions and will become more resolute- they ARE human!
Then, separately, is there any chance that Armstrong could be taught NOT to go right up to a defender who has his back to him and can fall over! He keeps giving the referees and linos every chance to blow or wave for a foul when the defender is going nowhere!
Is there any chance Colback or Dykes won't get booked?
I've asked the plants in the garden and around the house but they don't answer or they look at me with scorn knowing their colleagues will ridicule me for the post!
But we have to avoid the stupid, pointless things and 50/50s and above all, NOT get a sending off! (Dykes/Colback/Cook/Field/CSalter - all please note!)
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