[Albion] Matt O Riley [26/08/24 - sings on a 5-year deal]

[Lady Whistledown]

The main thing that disappoints me about this education programme for referees with the MLS is that we don't get to vote on one to go over there as a swap deal.

Who (of the current crop) would you pick? Hoops? Salisbury? Stuey "COYS "Attwell?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

The main thing that disappoints me about this education programme for referees with the MLS is that we don't get to vote on one to go over there as a swap deal.

Who (of the current crop) would you pick? Hoops? Salisbury? Stuey "COYS "Attwell?

Michael Salisbury, one way ticket

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Obviously two grown men having a punch up in the context of a physical game is directly comparable to a teacher belting a minor who’s under his authority.

Stop being soft.

I don't teach minors. All my students are adults.

What makes you think that physical assault in the workplace is acceptable on a football pitch but not in a lecture theatre or teaching laboratory?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Michael Salisbury, one way ticket

To Detroit. Nowhere nice.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

The main thing that disappoints me about this education programme for referees with the MLS is that we don't get to vote on one to go over there as a swap deal.

Who (of the current crop) would you pick? Hoops? Salisbury? Stuey "COYS "Attwell?

Hoops.

And it's a shame the Titanic is no longer operating.

 

[Iggle Piggle]

The main thing that disappoints me about this education programme for referees with the MLS is that we don't get to vote on one to go over there as a swap deal.

Who (of the current crop) would you pick? Hoops? Salisbury? Stuey "COYS "Attwell?

Mike Dean was ahead of his time. He'd have loved to have performed some over exaggerated arm movements in the States.

 

[Seagull58]

If WBG goes, we are fairly desperate in central mid. Unless we are happy with a lower midtable midfield.

Baleba looks like he is a better fit for Fabi's system than de Zerbi's. Fabi is happy for him to gallop forward smashing aside anyone in his path, whereas Roberto wanted him playing on the half turn and laying the ball off immediately. From what I saw last night he is at his best facing forward, dribbling and passing.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Mike Dean was ahead of his time. He'd have loved to have performed some over exaggerated arm movements in the States.

He'd have LOVED the black and white striped umpires' jerseys too.

 

[5Ways Gull]

Anybody seen anything about Williams' retrospective punishment? Surely he can't just get away with it!

 

[Alfagull]

Wishing you a speedy recovery....

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Anybody seen anything about Williams' retrospective punishment? Surely he can't just get away with it!

Of course he will. Bad fouls happen sometimes, if the ref sees it and decides it merits a yellow card or no card, then it's just one of those things. Gilmour got away with one against Forest last season didn't he? I think it was WBG. Only got a yellow when it could and should have been a red. If the Crawley bloke had punched O'Riley (ie violent conduct) and the ref missed it, that might be different, but a foul is "just" a foul...no chance of further punishment.

I say we move on, keep our fingers crossed that O'Riley isn't badly hurt, and leave that no-mark non-leaguer to what remains of his career with Crawley Town, which I'm sure is absolutely the football career he dreamed of when he was a boy.

 

[Weststander]

Wishing you a speedy recovery....

Gets worse every time you see it. In footballers terms, the ball was long gone.

A standard straight red.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

But as it stands the English refs are on a mission not to hand out cards because they think a lot of cards indicates they've lost control of a game, which is something I don't agree with. Right now the yellow card carries so much value that you can break someones leg within the first ten minutes and get away with it because of unwritten laws that a yellow card is too impactful to be given in the first ten minutes.

This fear of cards also means that you can do all sort of shithousery if you're on a yellow because an English ref is never ever going to contemplate a second yellow unless someone has been murdered.

You're wrong, simple as that.

 

[Hiheidi]

A different angle of the incident .

 

[nwgull]

I don't teach minors. All my students are adults.

What makes you think that physical assault in the workplace is acceptable on a football pitch but not in a lecture theatre or teaching laboratory?

Because a punch up is two blokes going toe to toe. It’s not like one of them has attacked the other when tempers boil over and they both go at it. Part of the game in physical sport.

 

[willalbion]

A different angle of the incident .

That’s atrocious. Red all day long.

 

[Sussexscots]

That was absolutely a straight red card.

Really poor refereeing. Same as the failure to send off Liverpool's Fabinho for going straight through the back of Ferguson in the FA Cup in January last year.

If a red card had been properly awarded, we'd have totally eviscerated that mob last night. 4-0 would have been just the start.

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

A different angle of the incident .

Slowing that down, it looks like he luckily didn't connect fully with his leading leg as that might have broken Matt's ankle.

The trailing leg does connect and seems to roll his ankle, not great but hopefully just a sprain.

 

[Professor Plum]

Of course he will. Bad fouls happen sometimes, if the ref sees it and decides it merits a yellow card or no card, then it's just one of those things. Gilmour got away with one against Forest last season didn't he? I think it was WBG. Only got a yellow when it could and should have been a red. If the Crawley bloke had punched O'Riley (ie violent conduct) and the ref missed it, that might be different, but a foul is "just" a foul...no chance of further punishment.

I say we move on, keep our fingers crossed that O'Riley isn't badly hurt, and leave that no-mark non-leaguer to what remains of his career with Crawley Town, which I'm sure is absolutely the football career he dreamed of when he was a boy.

Some of the complacency from a few Albion fans is really mystifying. I really don’t understand the pusillanimous 'let’s not make a fuss, these things happen in sport' attitude. This wasn’t a 'coming together'. It was an outright assault on a key player we’ve spent months negotiating with, 6 or 7 minutes into his debut, by a brutal player who has previous for this sort of thing. Not only that, he smiles and winks after the incident. Why the f*** people are so scared of confronting the club and the player, beats me.

 

[Littlemo]

Some of the complacency from a few Albion fans is really mystifying. I really don’t understand the pusillanimous 'let’s not make a fuss, these things happen in sport' attitude. This wasn’t a 'coming together'. It was an outright assault on a key player we’ve spent months negotiating with, 6 or 7 minutes into his debut, by a brutal player who has previous for this sort of thing. Not only that, he smiles and winks after the incident. Why the f*** people are so scared of confronting the club and the player, beats me.

I think there is a place in between tbh. It’s fine to be angry and I think the player should see some punishment for it as it was a horrendous tackle.

That’s it though. Things like he was a new signing, cost £25m, negotiated for over months, debut etc are all completely irrelevant tbh. What he is worth to us or the fact he’s new, bear no relevance to the actual challenge, and I’m not sure why people talk about them as thought they matter.

It was simply a terrible tackle in a game and they happen.