Peterborough United Home 9th March

I've watched it back now a dozen times and I'm sorry, I don't see what you are seeing. It was a great tackle and never a penalty in a million years.

 

a tackle is classed as dangerous when a player isn’t in control of it, as caddis had left the floor with both feet it was dangerous. like i’ve said, i don’t agree with it and it wasn’t a bad tackle but can see why within the laws of the game it was given.

 

but mellor wasn’t feigning head injury. the referree should not have stopped play. if that’s maddison down there’s no way those sat in valley parade would have been telling the players to stop playing.

 

do you see both of caddis’ feet leave the floor?

 

Whether it was a head injury is irrelevant - but, Quite right. That’s the tribal nature of football fans. It’s the referees job to apply the rules, not the crowds. He struck me as a ref who was trying to prove to the assessor that he wouldn’t be intimated by the crowd - hence the flurry of soft decisions Peterborough’s way.

 

Not in anyway that could be deemed reckless, out of control or dangerous no.

 

as soon as both feet are off the floor you are out of control and it immediately becomes careless.

 

The powers that be are taking physical contact out of the game, good defending (including tackling from behind) is as much a part of good defending as is strikers scoring blinders from 25 yards.

 

In some situations yes, but all I'm seeing when I watch this one is a well timed challenge that wins the ball.

 

image attached shows a player off the ground, two feet in the air, out of control and careless. current laws of the game look at the risk of endangering your opponent not whether you won the ball or not. if your tackle is reckless or careless, within the current laws of the game the referree is entitled to give a free-kick or penalty dependent on where the tackle takes place.

you don’t have to agree with the decision he made but understand that within the rules of the game why he was given the option to make the decision he did.

 

It seems that referees disregard all aspects of common sence by citing the letter of the law whenever it suits. He was going to give Peterborough a penalty today no matter what. Everyone around me said the same thing even before we scored. Apparently shirt pulling appears completely exempt from this these days. Todays ref was atrocious. But to be fair most of them ignore shirt pulling as its not the FAs flavour of the month anymore. He only made the first booking after there guy decided to roll around on the floor. Needs to concentrate on his teaching reffing is clearly just another way of him exerting his authority to feel power over the masses.

 

I understand completely that 'within the rules of the game' he had the option to make that decision, but I'm entitled to say it was a poor one. It wasn't out of control or careless as you are arguing, it was well timed and he won the ball.

 

The difference between the two is subjective and it is down to the ref as to which goes in which category. In my view that was not a penalty, and Maddison was play acting as Caddis did not touch him, so why was he on the floor. This ref was completely and utterly useless. It started in the first half, defenders with their arms round our players, nothing, shoves in the back nothing, pulling shirts nothing. He then got considerably worse in the second half.

In that situation he should have been looking for three things, were Peterborough at a disadvantage by a foul on one of their players? No Was the ball taken cleanly? Yes Was the player hindered unfairly? No. There is no need to understand why the ref made the decision you are not the case for the prosecution, you are allegedly city fan who I have seen on a number of occasions argue Black is white and vice versa. There are a number of occasions when you know your player deserves a yellow/red card, and nobody argues about it, but this is not one of them.

 

how is someone in control when they are in the air? once his two feet leave the ground it becomes careless.

 

Butterfield in his natural, more attacking guise was an absolute joy to watch and at times I had to pinch myself that he's actually here playing for us. The joy in his face when he scored too... beautiful.

We can do this.

Well done City, well done Bowyer!

 

its right Brisbane lad, every time anyone leaps for a header it must be a minimum of a yellow card for an out of control challenge.

 

Re Caddis pen. Even within the written rules of the game I’m struggling to see how it’s reckless. For a split second both feet are off the floor but his left leg is under his body and not stretching for the ball. To me that’s a textbook tackle.

Re Payne. I’m getting pelters for suggesting that by dropping Payne we actually looked a stronger unit. Other clubs have worked it out that we only play through him and by leaving him out Posh had no idea. Plus I’ve heard he’s a difficult character to manage.

 

I don’t see how the ref could have seen that from his position and make that instant decision, to be honest. Even with the benefit of replays it’s hard to find a reason why it was given, so not sure how a mostly unsighted ref managed to see a clear penalty?

 

Great win that needs backing up now. Interesting to learn that Doyle scoring 10 league goals is only the tenth time this century that has happened, and he’s keeping some good company whilst playing most of the time as a lone striker with the ball booted at his head. Not bad for someone people have called useless and wanted Miller to replace.

Hopefully we finally get a new manager bounce, onto Luton looking at their record gulp!

 

It’s all about opinions. I disagree with you though. Caddis was in full control of that, led with one foot and nicked the ball off him. Text book tackle. If that is deemed as a foul or dangerous etc then we really have a lot more to worry about in football generally as they are changing a skill. We might as well tie a ribbon round our waist and you are tackled if someone manages to grab it