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Am I the only one who is beginning to find our disciplinary record a bit of an embarrassment?
As I said on another thread it was a lack of discipline that cost us the game last night. Players should have it drummed into them that two footed lunges will result in them being sent off - referees are instructed to do so.
And whilst it is convenient to say that some refs - eg the winker who did the Orient away match last year - are useless and card happy , the same cannot be said for Mr Singh , whose praises have been sung on here on many occasions .
Last season we had a number of needless sendings off for the same offence - Bailey at Swansea and Scannel at Millwall immediately spring to mind and we ended up with one of the worst disciplinary records in the league. Our main miscreant has yet to start this season and we already must be near the top of the offenders list.
Last night Revell started it off and our team littered the game with other bad tackles - some of which such as Grant's just before Moooooose's sending off - went unpunished .
This is a needless and reckless approach and one which T+B have to stamp out ( pardon the pun !)
It won't be long before Tilly is bemoaning the fact that we are down to the bare bones .
I can understand the need to balance the books and therefore run a small squad but to deplete that further through a lack of discipline is inexcuseable imho .
If we keep throwing away points and matches like last night then the gates will start to dwindle and we all know what that means .
As I said on another thread it was a lack of discipline that cost us the game last night. Players should have it drummed into them that two footed lunges will result in them being sent off - referees are instructed to do so.
And whilst it is convenient to say that some refs - eg the winker who did the Orient away match last year - are useless and card happy , the same cannot be said for Mr Singh , whose praises have been sung on here on many occasions .
Last season we had a number of needless sendings off for the same offence - Bailey at Swansea and Scannel at Millwall immediately spring to mind and we ended up with one of the worst disciplinary records in the league. Our main miscreant has yet to start this season and we already must be near the top of the offenders list.
Last night Revell started it off and our team littered the game with other bad tackles - some of which such as Grant's just before Moooooose's sending off - went unpunished .
This is a needless and reckless approach and one which T+B have to stamp out ( pardon the pun !)
It won't be long before Tilly is bemoaning the fact that we are down to the bare bones .
I can understand the need to balance the books and therefore run a small squad but to deplete that further through a lack of discipline is inexcuseable imho .
If we keep throwing away points and matches like last night then the gates will start to dwindle and we all know what that means .