JP Hampton

I don’t really like jumping on the band wagon but really couldn’t let this go by. I tried honestly I think you’ll find there’s plenty of people who also slag Ian Gay off so do they all have an agenda? I’m not sure Ian Gay has given any info that’s ever been tried and tested. Telling everyone the new manager was going to be someone we’d be very excited about didn’t turn out so well

Well obviously he did feel the need to, yes. Don’t see why that should be a problem, sharing thoughts and impressions about matches is what this forum is for.

I’m not so sure, can’t back this up in terms of which games specifically, I’m afraid, but I think there have been a fair few matches where we’ve had negative reactions usually in the form of groans, which have usually come on the back of exactly this type of play, passing backwards and sideways rather than finding forward passages of play.

Yes. We’ve seen refs apply these added time rules that were supposed to be coming in this season in the Prem, but few refs in the championship, until today. So fair enough. They risked playing the game a certain way and it came back to bite them I’m afraid.

Couldn’t agree more. Just had a look at some of the comments and think it’s pretty disgusting. Good to see that some fans are level headed enough to recognise she is not responsible for where they are and the position they find themselves in!

It depends. Calling a male ref all the names under the sun doesn’t, if he’s deemed crap, usually include his being male. I suspect the insults are about her being female and crap or whatever.

I think the main thing she had which many refs don’t was consistency. The way I saw it although some around me thought she was a bit picky, was that what she actually did, was apply the rules consistently. I thought it was pretty refreshing. She certainly got the adding time on for injuries and time wasting even within injury time.

Sorry. Was responding having heard someone else moaning she stopped the game when she got knocked, thought that was what you referred to.

Well how could she referee the game whilst getting the ball kicked in her stomach. You wouldn’t bat an eyelid if a player went to the floor. If there’d been a foul against us and she didn’t give it cos she didn’t see it would you be happy with that?

@headhunter I get you not supporting the pile in on Lez. With the greatest respect though, he isn’t only expressing opinions about football, he’s chosen to insult fans who happen to have a different opinion to him. Comments like “bed wetters” and “the cult of Nige” just seems infantile to me and unnecessary. Can he not give his opinion without that? What “the cult of Nige”, actually means is anyone who hasn’t enjoyed Manning’s football and didn’t appreciate the way NP was sacked, which isn’t exactly controversial. It doesn’t take us forward when people use your platform to continue getting these remarks in and is used to shut down conversations Your podcast is better than that in my opinion.

Just after the “bed wetters “comment. It’s the usual shutting down of the discussion tactics.

As explained was rather a tongue in cheek comment.

Yes said as much at the time. Seemed like he was going for a draw, by pulling off wells Mehmeti and Sykes.

I was being a bit tongue in cheek.

Will be very interesting to see what happens there.