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Sitting on the ball = a drop ball
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HawkTheSeagull
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This, I suspect that played a part in why he was brought off.
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I partially agree but he also got kicked all day long with ZERO protection from a hapless ref. Blackpool should've ended with 8/9 men. So many blatant yellow card counter attack stopping challenges.
Why the hell can't Kaz work out the simple fact:-
If the ref didn't give a free kick in the first minute, he's unlikely to give a free kick in the 60 minute, and all points in between.
If the ref didn't give a free kick in the first minute, he's unlikely to give a free kick in the 60 minute, and all points in between.
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But at point he was hacked down rather than choosing to godown, and STILL the ref didn't blow. It was genuinely unbelievable at points.
Very much so, all the more reason to think 'we're gonna have to carve them open the old fashioned way'.
It's not as if a free kick is any advantage to us, anyway.
The first half push on Lingard when he was going through was amazing.
The fella had to stretch to reach JL and the ref was between the incident and us.
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pishhead
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The ref made some astonishing decisions the thing was he was so weak throughout that the Blackpool players knew they could get away with it.
DumLum
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No. He was brought off because that's what happens week in week out. It doesn't matter how he is playing.
DumLum
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Like the fight he showed in winning the ball on the half way line in the build up to our goal do you mean?
He should have stayed on and had CMS and Ulloa to aim for. With Lingard coming off. Unless he is being protected because of his old injuries.
amexee
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The ref gave out 2 yellows for fouls on Kaz. He was hacked a few times and blatantly blocked with f'all protection today. It is true BHA are quite lightweight, but today the ref had a shocker and signalled early on that he was simply crap.
HawkTheSeagull
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He was like Bambi on f**king ice at times and was constantly falling over. Sometimes he was genuinely fouled, but he was going down far too easily at other times.
Today, he was pretty poor and simply didnt create that much, that goes for the entire team.
Ali_rrr
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Blackpool were dirty, and how they only received 5 yellows. Our players go down far too easily, but we don't get half as many fouls as we should.
Gazwag
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That should say our players go down far too easily WHICH IS WHY we don't get half as many fouls as we should. Personally I think the majority of "fouls" on Kaz were fair challenges
dougdeep
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Who in their right mind would give a drop ball because their defender wouldn't release the ball then blow for half time as soon as the ball hit the ground? Why didn't he just blow for half time in the first place?
1066familyman
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Absolute shocker of a ref!
I'm all for refs that let things go as much as possible in order to let the game flow, but time and time again he let Blackpool do just as they please. The push on Lingard not given was such a bad decision it was almost laughable.
Kaz doesn't help himself at times to be fair, by going down too easily, but he was given so little protection from the ref early on. Some of the fouls on him and Lingard were almost comedy efforts they were so far removed from any actual attempt at a tackle, yet still the ref waved play on.
The drop ball incident mentioned by the OP just about summed the ref up too. Almost fighting to wrestle the ball away from the player so he could perform a drop ball (must have been years since he's done one and so got all excited) only to blow the half time whistle the moment he bounced the bloody thing
Pathetic ref!, absolutely pathetic!
I won't blame him for the result though. That was our fault. Just not good enough on the day
I'm all for refs that let things go as much as possible in order to let the game flow, but time and time again he let Blackpool do just as they please. The push on Lingard not given was such a bad decision it was almost laughable.
Kaz doesn't help himself at times to be fair, by going down too easily, but he was given so little protection from the ref early on. Some of the fouls on him and Lingard were almost comedy efforts they were so far removed from any actual attempt at a tackle, yet still the ref waved play on.
The drop ball incident mentioned by the OP just about summed the ref up too. Almost fighting to wrestle the ball away from the player so he could perform a drop ball (must have been years since he's done one and so got all excited) only to blow the half time whistle the moment he bounced the bloody thing
Pathetic ref!, absolutely pathetic!
I won't blame him for the result though. That was our fault. Just not good enough on the day
Deadly Danson
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Exactly. Truly awful ref (who didn't cost us the game by the way so it's not an excuse) but that decision to a) award a drop ball and then b) blow for half time as soon as it had been taken showed the complete idiot he was. And by the way if one more ref just keeps warning players to hurry up rather than booking them I think I'm going to commit murder. And whilst I'm on a rant what about WALKING off with the substitute to hurry him up. Ludicrous.
father_and_son
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Agree. But I think Kaz (and Jesse) do themselves no favours. I'm sure most of the refs in the league now know that he (they) falls at the first breath on him. Dive quite so much and refs will give you nothing, even when it's deserved like most of the shoulder barges and kicks he got today.