Match Thread Most liked posts in thread: City v Doncaster Rovers Saturday 30 July 2022 @ 3.00pm

Good post indeed Kevin.

Sadly as said several times Doncaster won't be the last to play like that on our ground. I appreciate they were missing something like 5 players but what should have been a great start to the season was ruined.
* Red card offence all day long.
* FIFA Ref complete joke, clearly had not got the memo on time wasting, unlike the Town/ Burnley ref who booked the Burnley gk without even warning him.
* Coaching staff and Manager telling the keeper to kick it dead at our end or into the crowd all second half to waste time and applauding when he did.
* Players going down as if shot after every contact, the Ref was well and truly mugged.
* Off the pitch flares with flames from fans who were equally moronic as the players.
* Directors who were apparently / seemingly so embarrassed they left without returning to say goodbye, thanks for the hospitality, etc, just ignorant and not like them so that tells you all you need to know.
But as I posted some weeks ago they are a Club with £32 million debt, kept afloat with Director's loans. Given that I think I'd be miserable with what I saw too.
Finally, for all the arguments about Ravenhill their Manager was quoted as saying he thought it was "a freak" but then tripped himself up by adding he took the lad off "...because I knew Bradford and the Ref would be looking to get him..", the only conclusions are we might kick him but far more important, the Ref realised he had made a serious error and would be looking to give a second yellow. Says it all, I hope the F.A are reviewing this.
As for Tomlin .....

 

What annoyed me more was the morons behind the goal who kept throwing objects at him. Stupid in itself, but gave him tge perfect excuse to waste more time by clearing them away.

 

Sod it, just bought a match pass to watch the game live. Gonna stay up until 4am to watch this one. The things we do for football!

 

My thoughts are with Osadebe-looked bad and confirmed by MH its a double break-how unlucky for him as he was looking really dangerous.

We have some really thick fans at this club.

Donny were always going to waste time second half so why do our brain dead fans help them by throwing the paper sheets onto the pitch at every dead ball kick giving the keeper every opportunity to waste even more time?

Absolute bell ends.

Ref had a mare.

Donny defended well. We couldn't score in a brothel.

Time for some beer.

 

I don't think you can underestimate the impact of what happened in the 6th minute on the way we played for the rest of the game. I was shook up after it happened and found it hard to concentrate on the game so god only knows how hard it must have been out on the pitch. I think the lads deserve more credit than they are getting from some.

 

Bullshit. The whole point of the modern tackle rule is that you can't just steam in, take the ball and then let the momentum of your follow through injure your opponent. City have had players sent off (Syers, Davies) without even making contact with the opponent, because their follow through was seemed to be out of control. This was as clear a red card as you'll ever see. You seem to delight in posting contrarian views. Any sensible football fan could see that this was a reckless challenge, endangering the opponent.

 

The tempo was far to slow if you want to open up defences you have to move the ball quicker.

 

You're right, atmosphere is so overrated. I wish we could go back to empty stadiums again.

 

Think people are being too critical of the team and not the abysmal shithousery from donny and the shite reffing.

Imagine if one of your best mates got his leg snapped, the guy who did it gets no punishment and then you have to do your job to the full immediately after. Yes its disappointing but not a game people should be judging the season on. Or player performance for that matter.

 

Utter bollocks. If you hit a player hard enough to break his leg in two places, that is basically the definition of 'excessive force'.

 

Whether it was unlucky or reckless it was dangerous play and Ravenhill should have been shown the red card

 

No I say if a player dives into a tackle in a dangerous manner then it’s a sending off. I have seen many such incidents in the time I have been watching football and this was as clear a sending of as any I have seen

 

I was really enjoying that until Osadebe's awful injury. We were looking great until that.
Ref too quick to give a yellow.
Doncaster were a ghastly team to watch, the ref did not help at all.
Tomlin was an idiot, as was Harratt. He is a bit of a hothead but young.
Crichlow and Smallwood impressed.
We lost focus after Osadebe went off and pace too.
Frustrating watch.

 

Think he was

Sorry Donny fans, totally missing the current laws (applied last season as well). Winning the ball is not the key criteria, endangering an opponent and not being in control of the challenge is what the referee should be assessing and today's toss pot f.... d it up

Bloody livid that a players season could be over after just 6 minutes due to a reckless and unesessary challenge

 

It's a red card offence. Ravenhill was not in control of what he was doing. It was reckless and dangerous. What he intended, whether it was two footed or not is irrelevant. It was out of control and endangered his opponent recklessly.

 

If we start like we did yesterday we have no chance. The balance of the team just wasn't there. They aren't bad players but you need to get the jigsaw pieces to fit cos that yesterday was poor. It reminded me of watching us a year or two back where we had no runners off the ball and its so easy to defend against.

 

I'll answer for Park, not at all. But that challenge 6 mins into the new season was totally unesessary, dangerous and showed no respect or care for the safety of another football professional.
Kids are taught this from their early years, respect your teammates and the opponents - I don't for one minute think Ravenhill meant to cause such damage but it was far too over zealous and massively increased the risk of injury

 

Really hope they don’t offload Andy Cook before the deadline, he was much sharper than Oliver when he came on, in fact he should start at Barrow and leave Oliver on the bench.