Portland Bill

Pass, pass, keep the ball……. then continues hopeful balls into the box. We have zero guile or creativity in the last third. Even a one-two would be nice!.

They aren’t outdated though. You could potentially have 11 players in a team knocked out of the 2nd round today, then they all play in the third round for the team that beat them!.

It doesn’t matter, there are rules, the clubs know what they are, if they break them they have to accept the consequences.

Probably didn’t bow down to LJ.

The real problem is the amount of young referees who are quitting the game, assaults are now common practice in non league grassroots games. These ‘were’ the future referees.

I’ve no opinion either if he’s good or bad as a football manager. My only thoughts are, when you are talking to someone, you look at that person.

Was there something on the floor!. It was a hard watch imo.

I’m surprised that others are surprised we haven’t signed anyone else. I’m sure Pearson said in an interview about a week ago, that all business was done.

Thought this may interest some of you.

Living in Somerset myself, I have had to listen to her numerous times over the last couple of years. She has been the commentator on all of Yeovil’s games. She is 100% not the sort of commentator I want to listen to, I can’t handle the screeching voice, it drives me nuts.

Thanks mate, much appreciated ?

I’m slightly hijacking this thread!!. I have bought 3 digital tickets for the Bristol Bears v Exeter Chiefs. They are for someone else, is it easy to send these tickets on to another person ?

The Bountyhunter was different class, no City fanzine has ever come close to being as good as it was.

Boxing Day, potentially Plymouth.

They weren’t good either, but Pulis and Osman didn’t have the luxury of spending the massive amount of money Johnson was able too. I think it was four transfer windows he said he needed?. Whereas he was actually doing alright until he let all of Cotterill’s players go and bought his own in!. He was given all the riches, and dismally failed. I actually quite liked him as a player, as a manager he ended up sending me to sleep!.

I got so disillusioned watching his football that I stopped going, coupled with the fact he blamed everyone else for how bad it was. He constantly threw players under the bus, and counted the ‘box entries’! That’s how bad it was in my eyes.

Exactly, we have a situation where there are two handball laws, one in the box, one outside the box. The lawmakers are the problem, no one else.

Personally, some of the worst football I ever witnessed, that’s in the 45 years of watching City.

Sky sport 3 NZ English commentator.

Wrong, the referee can play the advantage rule. It’s little things like these that a referee would know, and a fan wouldn’t. If, when a free kick is taken, an opponent is closer to the ball than the required distance, the kick is retaken unless the advantage can be applied; but if a player takes a free kick quickly and an opponent who is less than 9.15 m (10 yds) from the ball intercepts it, the referee allows play to continue. However, an opponent who deliberately prevents a free kick being taken quickly must be cautioned for delaying the restart of play.

Every referee ‘does’ give a huge shit about an assessor, but you know best big boy. You have just proved my point. You clearly don’t know any referees.

Two of the defending team are more interested in arguing with the referee than defending the free kick, so they got what they deserved. The whistle does not ‘have’ to be blown for a free kick to be taken, and it’s common all around the pitch for a player to take a free kick quickly, I personally don’t see any issues at all with the clip. This scenario has happened numerous times.

Oh dear!. Have a chat with an assessor, then come back to me if you are still convinced the “ref decides to manage the game how he chooses”. You really haven’t got a clue!.

I agree with the majority of what you say. I would love to see the Reds at the top throw red cards at these over pampered players. But I know and so do you, as soon as this happened the media would go into overdrive and the officials would get the shit, not the players. Pro referees ‘have’ become soft on disciplining players, especially the swearing, diving and cheating, but if they clamped down big time, they will get attacked from every corner, and especially on here!. It will be the usual shite, the games not all about you ref blah blah. As for me protecting and support referees, someone has too!. It gets boring reading attack after attack on the officials. You only have to look on this forum. It amazes me just how many ‘football fans’ don’t even know the laws off the game, but feel they are qualified to attack the officials. I can clearly remember a few years ago, an opposition player kneed the ball back to his keeper, 2/3 of Ashton Gate stood up and screamed for a back pass, they didn’t even know the rule.

It’s 6 seconds, it’s another one that the authorities didn’t feel the need to clamp down too hard on after the initial first season. It causes a lot of hastle and controversy, so instead the referees will normally vocally tell the keeper to get on with it if he/she feels the keeper is taking too long.