Ref Watch City Games - 2023/24

[bewaresutekh]

Not going to “ like” this because I was there that day.

we do however need am “eye roll” button

More like a FFS button. PS I was there too.

 

[Blue Mist]

Not really if someone had a bet on 7-2, or 6-3, it's simply not his decision (unless he had a bet on 6-2 obviously).

Personally I couldn't care less, I don't bet, but there are rules to be obeyed.

I made the point about betting more as a throwaway comment. My point is, it shows how aded time is manipulated by the referee. If he can ignore the rules last night, he can ignore them any time he wants and that is why fans think its corrupt. They really don't help themselves.

 

[Blue Mist]

He added nothing because the game was done. Goal difference didn’t matter and it minimised player injury.

Betting outcomes should never be part of a referee’s decision making.

I find it ludicrous that the main taking point has been this.

It’s only this because people want to undermine injury time numbers going forward.

It’s irrelevant to tonight’s game.

I'm glad he didnt ref the FA Cup final against Watford. The game was done by half time, we'd have been well pissed off.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I'm glad he didnt ref the FA Cup final against Watford. The game was done by half time, we'd have been well pissed off.

You’re pissed off whatever happens, highlighted by the discussion following a 6-2 hammering last night.

The game must last 90 minutes, unless one team is down to 6 players.

Now, whilst I get your point that we could have played <insert whatever number you like> more minutes last night, Taylor decided that it was irrelevant and that we’d play none.

It affected nothing, bar your hypothetical bets from people. They’re as unlucky as the ones that had bet on Haaland scoring 6 when Pep took him off.

 

[Chris in London]

You’re pissed off whatever happens, highlighted by the discussion following a 6-2 hammering last night.

The game must last 90 minutes, unless one team is down to 6 players.

Now, whilst I get your point that we could have played <insert whatever number you like> more minutes last night, Taylor decided that it was irrelevant and that we’d play none.

It affected nothing, bar your hypothetical bets from people. They’re as unlucky as the ones that had bet on Haaland scoring 6 when Pep took him off.

I agree with this.

Within the context of a league, allowing a fair amount of additional amount of time at the end of 90 minutes is important, because otherwise it unfairly reduces the time for one team or the other to score a winner or equaliser, and because even if it doesn't goal differences can be affected which can be very important at the end of the season. AFAIK the only team that has ever won the premier league on goal difference is us.

These considerations do not apply in cup competitions. If it is clear the result will not be impacted within the sort of additional time that might be added on in a league game, I don't have a problem with the full time whistle coming at 90 minutes. It is important that the rules are followed - part of the wider problem is that different referees seem to pick and choose when they will apply which laws - but in the context of a knock-out cup game choosing not to add additional time that won't make a difference to the outcome of the tie seems to me to be right at the bottom end of the scale.

I don't think the betting point carries much weight, either. I see how if you had a bet on nine goals being scored last night you'd be pissed off at the full time whistle being blown at 90 minutes with no additional time, but equally if you had a bet on eight goals being scored last night, you were pleased that Taylor didn't add an additional four or five minutes on. So that particular point seems to me to be as broad as it is long.

The biggest take-away for me last night is that Taylor, in my view at least, refereed the game pretty well, and it makes me wonder why he is so cack-handed during league matches.

 

[halfcenturyup]

The biggest take-away for me last night is that Taylor, in my view at least, refereed the game pretty well, and it makes me wonder why he is so cack-handed during league matches.

Bingo!

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Bingo!

The turnover of the FA is minuscule in comparison to the PL.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I'm glad he didnt ref the FA Cup final against Watford. The game was done by half time, we'd have been well pissed off.

Yeah, the bugger would probably blown sometime between the fiftieth and fifty-fifth minute.

I checked in last night at HT, having been glued to the MCFC notifications, so I knew it was 3-1, and then I saw the glistening dome of the Duke of Altrincham and thought HowTF have we got to 3-1. And I noticed this morning he hadn't booked anyone.

 

[kaz7]

I agree with this.

Within the context of a league, allowing a fair amount of additional amount of time at the end of 90 minutes is important, because otherwise it unfairly reduces the time for one team or the other to score a winner or equaliser, and because even if it doesn't goal differences can be affected which can be very important at the end of the season. AFAIK the only team that has ever won the premier league on goal difference is us.

These considerations do not apply in cup competitions. If it is clear the result will not be impacted within the sort of additional time that might be added on in a league game, I don't have a problem with the full time whistle coming at 90 minutes. It is important that the rules are followed - part of the wider problem is that different referees seem to pick and choose when they will apply which laws - but in the context of a knock-out cup game choosing not to add additional time that won't make a difference to the outcome of the tie seems to me to be right at the bottom end of the scale.

I don't think the betting point carries much weight, either. I see how if you had a bet on nine goals being scored last night you'd be pissed off at the full time whistle being blown at 90 minutes with no additional time, but equally if you had a bet on eight goals being scored last night, you were pleased that Taylor didn't add an additional four or five minutes on. So that particular point seems to me to be as broad as it is long.

The biggest take-away for me last night is that Taylor, in my view at least, refereed the game pretty well, and it makes me wonder why he is so cack-handed during league matches.

The last bit of your post is obvious to me , pigmol and the prem do not want us to keep winning things and he goes out of his way to lose control of prem games so we boil over so he can get card happy, following the script

 

[Chris in London]

The last bit of your post is obvious to me , pigmol and the prem do not want us to keep winning things and he goes out of his way to lose control of prem games so we boil over so he can get card happy, following the script

I think there are several strands to this.

We had Richard Scudamore saying a while ago that it was not good for the same team to keep winning the league (unless they played in red) and that a weak rags side was bad for the brand.

We have had a series of regulatory changes aimed specifically at preventing teams that are not already amongst the elite from getting there. (Nobody can argue that the changes to 'associated party transactions' were not targeted at Newcastle, for instance, just as the UEFA FFP was, according to Michel Platini when speaking to the European Parliament at the time of the Kaka transfer bid, aimed at us.)

For years we have watched certain teams get the benefit of highly dubious offside and other refereeing decisions, and when VAR was introduced, we find that the same teams still seem to be getting the smooth side of the decisions and not the rough.

For years we have seen how a compliant media has been wholly uninterested in reporting corruption within the game, such as when Mark Halsey revealed that he was given instructions to change his report to permit a retrospective punishment, or when there was an almost universal lack of interest in the story that Liverpool had hacked into our scouting database.

We see how the average time added on at the end of a game increases by 30% when we are leading by a single goal.

We have seen how stories detrimental to our club are planted in the media as regularly as clockwork in the run up to certain games. (How often did we hear that Sergio was off to Real Madrid at the end of the season?)

Some people look at these different as pointers, which indicate a more general direction of travel or a wider trend. Others see them as the product of paranoia. Others see them as just random things with no connection to each other.

Each to their own, I suppose.