The Dolman Pragmatist

Sorry mate, but you’re talking garbage. To blame Vyner for not pulling the player down, while not even mentioning the villain of the piece, is utterly absurd.

Anyone blaming Zak for the equaliser either wasn’t watching the same game as me or wasn’t watching the game at all. The goal was caused by a slack pass that put the Blackpool player in. Vyner didn’t stand a chance, except to haul him down and get a red card. I thought it was Naismith who passed, but the commentator said something about King. Certainly NOT Vyner’s fault.

Try ‘click here to join our discord’. That’s how I got in for the first half, but now not letting me…

Stream’s booted me out. Can you resend the link? I’m getting ‘Safari cannot open the page because the address is invalid.’

We’re all over them. Just need to stick at it.

I don’t understand people. I want to see us progress as far as possible in this competition. Give me a lower division club at home any day of the week. Cracking draw!

To be fair, describing something as nonsense because it differs from your opinion is a bit strong. it looks quite a plausible team to me, but we’ll see.

So if you break someone’s leg you get a three match ban, but if you spit at them you get six…

I’d rather give away a penalty than a goal…

He has to at least start the subs so Tanner and Wilson (if both can be accommodated), O’Leary, Klose, King, Pring and Martin all have to start, surely?

I go to sleep … The Pretenders

Will someone tell footballers that you cannot possibly defend with your hands clasped behind your back? It immediately removes 90% of your balance and flexibility. To see a defender like Van Dijk effectively sacrifice a goal last night for fear of handling was mind-blowing, and no wonder James Milner gave him a mouthful afterwards. Utterly ridiculous. You simply cannot defend like that.

The first one (for Bagan) was a concussion sub.

He made a couple of very poor mistakes today which could have cost us (particularly the one when he misjudged the pace of the ball shepherding it back to Bentley); one or two of his corners were very poor; and his playing out from the back is very risky sometimes (he put Zak in difficulty in the second half). He does add something that we’re not used to though, but he needs to cut out the silly mistakes.

Death walks behind you … Atomic Rooster

She’s Got It … Little Richard

What’s the point? It ain’t real…

On A Snowy Christmas Night … Elvis Presley (couldn’t think of anything with Haddock in the title!)

The Man Whose Head Expanded … The Fall

He certainly disappointed in pre-season. Looked awful in one match at the HPC…

Itchycoo Park … The Small Faces (it’s a Bath thing)

I didn’t agree with your assessment of City’s performance after the sending off H, but I do agree with your comments about the ref. There’s an awful lot of hysteria about refereeing standards, but you never hear a manager complain when their team benefits from a wrong decision! The fact is that refs call it as they see it, and how often do fans get it wrong? Refs are not incompetent, they’re not biased, but without VAR they have a split second to make a decision and when the situation is unclear, inevitably they will sometimes get it wrong. I’ve looked at the Atkinson penalty shout several times and even with the benefit of slow-mo and freeze frame I’m not certain it was a penalty. The fact is that the game relies on respect for the ref at all levels (there are major problems with numbers of available referees in grassroots football because of referee abuse) and for Pearson to talk about retiring because of the poor standard of refereeing is, frankly, a bit ridiculous.

For what it’s worth I thought Pearson made the perfect substitutions tonight, and I’ve been very critical of his subs in the past. And as bcfc01 has pointed out: 2-0!

It was pure frustration after being sandwiched by two Luton players and getting nothing from the ref. At least it demonstrated some passion and footballers are only human. Poor control of a match by the referee is often responsible for such incidents.

The handball on the line was hilarious. Having virtually caught the ball, Alexander then stood motionless for a second or two until the Rovers goalkeeper quite clearly suggested to him that he might be well advised to throw himself on the ground clutching his face. Alexander duly threw himself on the ground clutching his face. The ref waited for him to stop rolling around and get up, and then sent him off. Fantastic!