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Jed writes to the Football League to complain about officials
           
           


  SWINDON Town chairman Jed McCrory voiced his frustration at the levels of refereeing in League One this week when he wrote to the relevant authorities at the Football League asking for clarification on certain decisions made by officials during games involving the Robins this term.

           

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Excellent.....lets get the refs onside.

They are all shit....look at all the latest upheld appeals!

We just don't win any....thats where we can complain.

10 point deduction on its way then

They'll probably write back it's a bit hard for us to get on our high horse while Preston sit at the top of the League One fair play table and we sit second from bottom.

Although maybe that only highlights his point, judging from people's reaction to the Preston game.

Surely the majority of our cautions have not been for verbal dissent though?

I think the word 'majority' may have been an exaggeration, but we've picked up a few.

Hmmm.

Not sure I like this.

It all sounds like - 'we are trying to play football and nobody is letting us, boo hoo'.

However I see where he is coming from, Fernando Torres can get away with scratching the face of an opponent and we had the Nathan Byrne incident which is clearly what is the bone of contention.

EVERY team in the league has bad decisions, I think we have to just get on with it.

Reading the BBC article, I find the complaint quite embarrassing. I can imagine those not associated with STFC will be laughing their socks off.

Jed has a point, there is inconsistency with refereeing decisions but it's the same for every club up and down the country.

Better to get it out in the open, before someone gets a career ending injury. We've been on the end of some shocking tackles already this season. And recieved dodgy cards for far less serious ones. I doubt it's a conspiracy though, just refs not being consistent, that same old chestnut, so anything that highlights it more can only be good for everyone.

Gotta agree with both of these.  Points been made through the media, now move on...

If you feel inclined to send a letter then so be it... But making it public?

Strewth.

Should provide a little amusement in the Tranmere changing room tomorrow.

At least it will give their fans something to take their minds off of floodlight issues.

+1 for the slightly embarrassed camp.

Nice that he is trying to stick up for the team but every club could produce a list of decisions they have disagreed with and write the same letter.  This "hard done by" act won't make any difference, just get on with it, things will equal themselves out, they always do.

I had the exactly the same thought.  Sadly, this game is in early October.  If only it was a month or so later, then the floodlight scenario would have them seriously worried.

Scousers (:fishing:) love a good whinge, don't they.

Dey do doh don't dey?

 ::)

Embarrassing!  Our Chairman is showing how naive he is again!  

 Strange one...in some ways I applaud McCrory for this, but know it will make fuck all difference as it isn't a conspiracy despite what Dosser might think...it's always been thus, dirty norvern bastards kick southern, svelte, sophisticates off the park.

 Barnsley set the template in 1912 by putting "our 'arlold" out of the game for 6 months during the FA cup semi final.

"And the meek shall inherit the earth". Well they haven't yet.

Well done Jed. Say nothing and nothing gets done. Say something and something may get done....

Worked for SAF did it not? Yeah, yeah he's no SAF and we're no Manchester United but the does not mean we should not strive to be so.

If the club said nothing and we get clattered every week will not take long for fans to call for something to e done about it.

What it does show is that the club and MC are doing the iChat things in the right way and the others are more than concerned about it.

http://www.thefootballforum.net/index.php?/topic/221091-swindon-town-pussies/

Getting some attention already.

I cringed slightly as I read it, but it might just make the ref think twice about how he reacts to tackles tomorrow. Doubt it'll have any effect beyond then, apart from alerting any teams that haven't already worked it out that we don't like it up us, so to speak.

Speaking of Kevin Davies, reminds me of seeing him for the first time, playing for Chesterfield in 95. They had Darren Carr a typical neanderthal Div 3 centre half.  Carr dumped Wayne O'Sullivan in front of the south side, now Wayne was only little, so some fella jumps out from the terrace and squares up to Carr...before being escorted away by coppers etc.

A few years later I recall a fella jumping out of the TE, to have a word with an opposition player who was facing up to SSP.

Man the fuck up and get on with it. There is already more than sufficient laws in place to deal with bad tackles.

Platini and Blatter have made the game as tippy tappy attacker biased as it needs to be.

We always get shit refs. So what.

This letter and importantly it's publicity is an embarrassment.

If I was the opposition I'd just kick a bit harder. Where's our PR person, surely she should have stopped this. The sentiment is right but it just comes across as immature.

...from our players! I wouldn't be surprised if we finish with 10 men tomorrow.

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Wouldn't be surprised if we finish with 9. Bit like the mob coming and smashing up your shop if you dobbed someone in to the police. Sends a message to leave well alone...

Anything that winds up those hairy palmed tug merchants on that football forum place is a good thing. What a pile of Ill informed/made up crap that site is full of.

Jed on the whole has done a good job so far.

The problem is not other teams being too physical, we're not being physical enough. You can put that down to us having a very small squad.

Meet the Thompson boys...

Meet the Thompson boys...

Wouldn't disagree with that but IMHO I think he's done us no favours by going public with the letter.  He could have simply announced that he had raised his concerns about refereeing standards with the FL.

Then you have Pritchard, Barthram, Byrne...

Very tinpot.

Waaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Stop kicking our players!

*storms out in hissy fit*




For fucks sake

Remember the Darren Carr incident very well ,the "fella" that squared up to him didnt get escorted away by the ob.
He went back to his seat(wasnt terrace then),left at h/t and got nicked in the cgh after the game  :sherlock:

You're right it must have been the Intel by then...funny thing memory, the picture I've got is the terrace, prob mixing it up with when Mark Hughes got clocked v ManUre, which was roughly in the same sort of area.

One bloke was arrested and led down the front of the intel.  Plenty seemed to get on the pitch at the time, although I thought only one really got that close to Carr.  That game is the most stoned I've ever been at a football ground, it all seemed rather surreal.

Having read the letter, I think the FA will bin it without a second thought...just a note; we have the 3rd worst diseplinary record in the league at the moment with 22 yellows and 1 red, behind Tranmere (22 yellows/3 reds) and Stevenage (26 yellows). Make of that what you will.