I'm fuming at that to be honest. I will say 3 things:
1. We hit the post 3 times, clearly lacking a smidge of luck.
2. That referee is without a doubt one of the most shocking that I have seen in my 20+ years of watching football. We definitely played against 12 men.
3. MK Franchise scum one of the more niggly, dirty, unsporting and time-wasting teams I've seen here in some time too.
That doesn't, however, change the main point today. That point being that we just didn't turn up. I thought that apart from the first 20-25 minutes we were atrocious. Not enough of the players on that pitch wanted it, there were too many shockingly poor decisions being made by players in possession, and too many silly mistakes. We were so on it for the first 20 mins. We were well and truly in control. Why did the foot come off the gas? It looked like they were willing to come steaming out of the blocks, but with the mindset that "we'll play at 100% for the first 20 mins and if we don't get our noses in front then sod it, we'll settle for a point. Unacceptable. It angers and worries me in equal measure that after being BEGGED to fill the stands, we've been repaid with garbage. After turning up in huge numbers for the Bolton and Charlton games too, it seems like the fans are the only ones holding up their end of the bargain. If you're going to beg the town and the fans for support, then damn we'll get up for the games yourselves.
One saving grace I guess is the Millwall result, but I'm not thinking about that positively at all. If we can't get up for a home game against mid-table and mediocre gash who have nothing to play for like MK Dons, with a packed house and when just a draw would have seen us back in the playoffs, then I don't imagine we'll be up for it enough against 2 teams scrapping for their lives.
All-in-all very very poor and rather concerning too.
Ryan Leonard was our only good player, with some excellent tackles etc.
Timlin - really poor
Anton - Must of been injured, walked around most the game and offered nothing bar looking like costing us goals. I really hope him playing 90 doesn’t mean he is now out of the next game
If we didn’t get the penalty then we could of been playing a week and not scored.
No change thanks to Millwall result but Dale and Bristol now closer and confidence must be low after that.
I wonder if other fans comment on how much we moan as a fan base, I can’t remember the last game where I haven’t heard people moaning about the ref or other teams doing something wrong.
Oh and to the idiot female driver, who stupidly sped up into a group of boys walking in the road (pushing a wheelchair). People took a photo of your number plate, and called the police.
I'm fuming at that to be honest. I will say 3 things:
1. We hit the post 3 times, clearly lacking a smidge of luck.
2. That referee is without a doubt one of the most shocking that I have seen in my 20+ years of watching football. We definitely played against 12 men.
3. MK Franchise scum one of the more niggly, dirty, unsporting and time-wasting teams I've seen here in some time too.
That doesn't, however, change the main point today. That point being that we just didn't turn up. I thought that apart from the first 20-25 minutes we were atrocious. Not enough of the players on that pitch wanted it, there were too many shockingly poor decisions being made by players in possession, and too many silly mistakes. We were so on it for the first 20 mins. We were well and truly in control. Why did the foot come off the gas? It looked like they were willing to come steaming out of the blocks, but with the mindset that "we'll play at 100% for the first 20 mins and if we don't get our noses in front then sod it, we'll settle for a point". Unacceptable. It angers and worries me in equal measure that after being BEGGED to fill the stands, we've been repaid with garbage. After turning up in huge numbers for the Bolton and Charlton games too, it seems like the fans are the only ones holding up their end of the bargain. If you're going to beg the town and the fans for support, then damn we'll get up for the games yourselves.
One saving grace I guess is the Millwall result, but I'm not thinking about that positively at all. If we can't get up for a home game against mid-table and mediocre gash who have nothing to play for like MK Dons, with a packed house and when just a draw would have seen us back in the playoffs, then I don't imagine we'll be up for it enough against 2 teams scrapping for their lives.
All-in-all very very poor and rather concerning too.
That really got my goat. The drop ball that they had should have gone back to the keeper but they kicked it out for a throw inside the 18 yard line. Unsporting behaviour. The number 6 who threw himself to the ground when nobody touched him while Cox was waiting to take the penalty and then kicking out when Ferdy helped him up. Disgusting
Generally the ball is only in play 60-65 mins on average. Add in your time wasting on days like today and you'd be playing for 130-140 minutes.Very good report and exactly how I saw it - a note on the ref, it's all well and good pointing at your watch when they are wasting time, but do something else about it.
BTW why doesn't football introduce something like rugby whereas as soon as play stops, so does the watch, wouldn't matter how much time wasting went on then
Before all the comments about 'poor ref' ( most are in this league )and 'time wasters' ( what would we have done ? ) , we just weren't at the races today - end of.