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true. Sounds like we were truely awful though. Looking at the plight of Chesterfield, Yeovil and Notts County who not long back were chsmpionship or v nearly so I am very worried

 

If we were challenging for a play off place we would probably be hopeful even after today s result of bridging the gap. But











Cannot be arsed.

 

***WINNER***

 

See what you're saying. But in all honesty we were white and got nothing. which is what we deserved.

 

Unfaithful Bantam

 

I managed to stop it just as the keeper puts the ball down and somehow nudge it a single frame and then again and it is definitely a rolling ball when he takes the goal kick since you can see the ball move twice in the two frame changes from hand-down to kick.

I would not take the win from Oxford, though. They clearly deserve it. The officials perhaps deserve relegating the same as us!

 

Is this the Jason Thornton thread?

 

I like your idea but can't find a nice way of saying that you're being naive.

 

You are correct we are a poor "team" but the football authorities need to take a big look at themselves. Football is awash with money at the higher levels and some of this needs serious investing in improving the the referring standards as a profession the current crop of premiership referees need to be replaced. The next crop coming up through the leagues need to be better and this should be done by providing a decent remuneration all through the leagues, professional in depth training on - their fitness levels, physiology, psychology, communication technical expertise on the assisting technology and personal support provided. The majority of games of football will not be enjoyable to watch if refereeing standards are not improved and enough fans may drift away from the professional game to effect finances including money provided from tv.

 

Na. you've watched ifollow ALL season.

 

Can't agree Dave every business has a business plan and a realistic intent of where it will be in 5 years time and how it will get there. Stefan has no interest in Football but he is a business man ( as his reported wealth testifies) and am sure would hate to fail. He needs to either appoint someone who knows the game inside out and back him or look for a prospective buyer either way a statement of intent from him wouldn't go a miss
Confidence is at an all time low and some commitment from on high is desperately needed and quick

 

I'm no business man but I can't see without finance you can make money in leagues 1/2, that's why Julian & Mark sold the club they realised just what would be required to take us to the next step.
Many posters have quoted what clubs lose to try and get to the promised land, but getting into the Championship is very difficult without serious backing so getting from the Champinship to the Premier you need a Hoyle or Whelan benefactors who have some attachment to the football club in our case.

 

True
It will be a long time before the club is in as good a shape as it was when Mr Lawn & Mr Rhodes sold it with careful investment at that time the Championship was quite easily attainable. We know the rest but all I am trying to say is that to get a club championship ready can be done with prudent financial control as well as investing countless millions (and still fail)

 

The referee messed up big time today but let's face it we didn't deserve anything from the game and unfortunately bottom of the league is where we belong after the season we've had.

 

https://www.soccerbase.com/referees/referee.sd?referee_id=1307&fbclid=IwAR0VdyIG51E4SxcawlmPcxVYkOdBdovXwckq_NEHxifMm9jdmVdHABTDlz8

He's a Championship-level referee

 

Whilst it ultimately doesn’t matter, I may be changing my mind on the legality of the Oxford goal kick and what happened afterwards.

The relevant part of the laws (law 16) dictates a retake if opponents in the area try to play the ball/challenge an opponent. Whilst the law states procedurally that opponents should not be in the area, reading it I don’t think it demands a retake for that alone unless you interpret the ‘any other offence means retake’ comment in the laws as including the above.

The other point was whether the ball left the area before the Oxford player touched it (which definitely would be a retake). TV didn’t capture it so down to the City fans who were there to confirm.

If the ball left the area before the Oxford player touched it, then whilst the officials made a right old mess of the situation they may actually have got the decision right ultimately.

Apparently it was the assistant nearest our fans who drew the ref’s attention to something potentially being amiss but for some reason didn’t flag as soon as he spotted what he thought was the infringement - which would be standard protocol i.e. ref hasn’t seen something so bring his attention to it.

Doesn’t change the fact we were worse than awful and deserved to lose, but potentially not due to the refereeing error we thought it was.

 

I wasnt 100% sure myself but former premier referee Keith Hackett on Twitter last night confirmed all players must be out of the area for a goal kick, and that many referees neglect this rule for some reason.

 

To be honest... my gripe is that some people think they are far superior by using the term "supporters" in that way.

Equally. They have paid their money to be there, and are free to act how they please.

Yesterday was a day fuelled on emotion. Every city fan I spoke to before the game said that we needed 3 points, anything less and we are pretty much down. So to see that performance just wasn't good enough. Forgetting about the ref and the decision at the end of the game.... we didn't deserve anything from the game yesterday.

And by the way, I was not one of those giving grief to Anderson... But I can understand why people did.

 

That to me is the most important thing, how do you convince the referee there was an incident in the Oxford goalmouth that he saw but didn't think it was worthy of flagging for.