Portland Bill

3 hours ago, transfer reader said:

BMF play tomorrow 

At least I hope so, otherwise I have 20 minutes to get the other side of Bristol for the coach down there!

Going to be a tough one as Tavistock will be on a high after coming from behind to beat table toppers Wimborne, but only having today off after what would have been a tough game will hopefully be the advantage Farm need to go and get the job done with the ruthlessness they've shown of late.

 

1 defeat in 10 for Farm now, and so many of the recent games have seen them score 2 goals in a short space of time in the first half to take control of it, then play from there.

Yes!!, apologies, it’s tomorrow!. 
its Larkhall who play tonight, enjoy the game, hopefully a win

8 hours ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

Wimborne lost last night so going into the last game of the season so Frome in 2nd need to beat Bristol Manor Farm to have a chance of winning the league, Bristol Manor Farm are in the playoffs so a win will confirm that place, all to play for!

BMF play tonight, away to Tavistock ( who beat Wimborne!). Larkhall play tonight as well, a win for BMF and loss for Larkhall, would guarantee a play off place for BMF. Other results, and it all goes down to Saturday’s games!!. 

Helston Town won the Western League Prem tonight. Promotion to the Southern league division one south and west. 

7 minutes ago, ralphindevon said:

The authorities will be glad Coventry have fallen out of the play off race a bit else it’d be a nervous 30 odd minutes coming up, what with the play off final being the day after the FA cup final 

Apparently if Coventry got to the cup final, and play off final, the plan is/was to move the Championship play off final to the week before. And swap it with the league one play off final. 

Wimborne Town had a gate of 2307 v Frome yesterday!.

16 minutes ago, bcfcredandwhite said:

It’s a penalty if the ball connects with your arm regardless of intent. The ‘ball to hand’ rule was scrapped years ago. 
If the ball hits the hand it’s a penalty. If it’s deemed deliberate it’s also a red card. If accidental then it’s a penalty but no card. 
Rebecca gave a penalty but no card - which indicates she knew and acknowledged it was accidental but it was still a ‘foul’ and awarded the penalty. 

There are basically two hand ball laws nowadays, one in the penalty area, and one on the rest of the pitch. 
Personally I’m not convinced yesterdays was hand ball, but there is far more chance of that being given in the box, it would never have been given anywhere else on the pitch though. 
 

On 01/04/2024 at 16:48, transfer reader said:

Farm take a late lead, sounds like it was a corker

The week before last I watched Cribbs v Melksham, then BMF v Evesham, both as a neutral.

Watching Cribbs was a really hard watch, very ‘up and at them’ football, and possibly the worst game I’ve watched all season. Even though Melksham did try to play some football. 

Watching BMF was very enjoyable though, they play football the right way ( imo ), was a really enjoyable watch. In my view, BMF and Cribbs just how playing styles of teams can be so different, give me BMF every day of the week. I hope they can get the promotion they want.

Finally, it’s such a nice feel at BMF, from the music they play, to the good atmosphere and friendliness of the people. 

On 01/04/2024 at 16:48, transfer reader said:

Job for Warnock!. 

The biggest issue I have with GJ is the mess he left when he went.

He did exactly the same at Yeovil second time round.

Zero foundations. 

1 hour ago, Lanterne Rouge said:

So, they`re off to Fleetwood tonight. A bloody long way back after the likes of Jack Marriott and Jayden Stockley have torn them a new one hopefully.

They`ll probably have about 150 there which, to be fair, is about what we would take too but no doubt it will end up as something like 900 after g*sflation.

Just put the game on my fire stick. They have about 100 there!! 
 

4 hours ago, 1960maaan said:

It wasn't fouls as in poor challenges that got me, but the "professional" fouls. Shirt pulling and stopping a break without challenging for the ball is always a card, they got away with 4 . Then add the 2 dodgy "tackles" that he waved play on but looked confused to who committed them when play stopped.
If you want another, late on I think it was McCrorie cleaned their player out with the ball gone, we just burst out laughing when he waved play on. Definite foul and possible booking, by that time I think he'd given up 
His performance went from OK to clueless through the game.

The ref is clueless, but you know everything…ok!. 

Perhaps you should carry a whistle and referee from the Dolman!. 
 

4 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

It's the simple fouls of shirt pulling and innocuous ankle taps when a team is breaking out of their own defensive area and can threaten a speedy break on opposing goal. None of them are dangerous like causing injury, neither are they last man/red cards. Simply to allow them to organise their defence.

In other words CHEATING.

Cheating by whom, the players. 

You want every foul to be a yellow card then. I’m sure referees would like to oblige, but then you would say the ref spoilt the game when it’s 8 v 8.

2 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

Thats why you didnt get a true reflection of the game read other comments on this page most agree with me he was useless and so was his linesman just favour the big prem teams or ex .

“He was useless” ok mate

When will you be showing us show it’s done then?. 
Seriously, what do you want out of the officials, other than giving every decision City’s way. It’s boring now seeing the officials slagged off continuously. 
If you think you could do better, then go for it, get your black kit on, then tell us when you do your first game!. 

8 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

Im on about the challenges that saints players were getting away with endless times before any of their players were booked just wondering did you go to the game or watch it on t.v ?

Committing a foul is not always a yellow card offence. I didn’t see any particular foul that they were “getting away” with and not getting carded.

Both teams received 2 yellows each, which seemed fine imo. 
I watched it on tv thanks. Do you referee often ?. 

19 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

He was pathetic must of new saints players by their first names .

A referee will ( when he can ) talk to players on first name terms, it’s all about building up a rapport with the players. 
As for the Vyner challenge that earned him a yellow, a close up camera angle showed he didn’t actually touch him. 

Did the referee get this close up camera view… no, but because people on here did, then they blame the referee. 

There are so many experts at officiating on here, that I’m amazed we have a referee shortage in this country….

Great performance, 6 wouldn’t have flattered us tonight.

We were so wasteful with the final ball at times, especially in the first half.

Second half we were far more composed and relaxed on the ball. 

Which goes to show the players can still improve immensely. 
 

City look far the better side, going forward time and time again. 
Simply zero thought or composure going into the final ball though. 
I honestly cannot remember City ever wasting so many opportunities of finding players in the box. Sam Bell really needs a lesson in relaxing on the ball. 

Our approach play at times is fantastic, our final ball, shocking. 

6 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

Has it "ruined the spectacle" for you?

Do teams that have a player sent to the bin just sit in and time waste for ten minutes?

No, I haven’t witnessed any of that. All I hear is the other players telling their team mate what he pxxk he was, for getting sin binned. 

3 hours ago, Jose said:

Will ruin football as a spectacle. Will make teams sit back and waste time until they come back on. Tell you something, things like this make me think about just giving up on the sport completely. Slowly falling out of love with the game that i was obsessed with for the last 25 years. 

It doesn’t spoil the game, it makes players behave properly. If players can’t behave properly then tough. 

I’ve actually fallen out of love with the game at the top, because I’ve become sick of the diving, cheating, dissent, and trying to con officials for 90 minutes. 
Players and managers need to start behaving properly, if they won’t, then accept the punishment and go off for ten minutes, simple. 

31 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

I definitely think something is needed to distinguish the “honest” attempted tackle on an opponent in a really good counter-attack (yellow) and the “dangerous hack” on an opponent in same situation (red).  In particular the shirt grab / arm around / piggy back (Luke O’Nien v Alex Scott).  That is much easier for the ref to decide, essentially using the arms or torso (body check) to stop a counter should be blue card.

So, if the Reds Association can come up with some pretty clear guidelines, why not is my view.

There has to be some penalty to blatantly stopping a counterattack.  I’ve been pleased to see the odd ref give a red card where the stooping of the opponent has been reckless, e.g. the wild swipe across the back of the opponent’s legs.

The next question is - how long is 10 mins?  10 mins game time, or 10 minutes ball-in-play.  It is likely that the team with the player in the sin bin will try to waste as much as that as possible.  Imagine Preston under Alex Neil!!!

So totally in favour of it, but worried about the implementation.

At grassroots it’s 10 minutes from the referees watch. As you can imagine, the player is desperate to get back on after 5 minutes!.

I don’t know what will happen at the top level, I imagine it will be handed over to the fourth official to time it.

The big issue is that players at the top have been allowed for far too long to get away with abuse, and swearing at the officials. Grassroots players see this on tv, and think it’s acceptable.
 

The officials at the lower levels have paid for the leniency that the top level officials give players. Hopefully the top level officials will now use this new tool properly, and the abuse will stop… time will tell. 

I’ve been watching football for the last 2-3 seasons in Somerset county league, and this league has had sin bins.
 I’ve found they work really well, players who are at ‘boiling point’ etc get 10 minutes to basically calm down on the touchline, you see a marked improvement from them when they come back on.

Its a really good piece of armour for a referee to have, and use. So far I think it’s only been used for abuse etc, but it can only be good that it will be also used for cynical “ taking one for the team” fouls. It’s about time these were stamped down on with more than just a yellow card. 

9 minutes ago, Forest Red said:

Give your head a wobble mate - winning a cup tie in a competition we were never going to win or staying in the Prem worth 10’s millions?

And that’s why I hate the money league, and personally have no desire to get there. All clubs like yours, and mine, would/do……care about is not getting relegated. What a miserable way to watch football. 

1 minute ago, Unan said:

Is this how you old ones used to listen to the football every week??

Yep!

We didn’t even used to get commentary, radio Bristol would go to Phil Tottle about ten times over the whole 90 minutes, just for updates, or goal updates!.