Swindon Town v Sutton United pre match chat and matchday thread

[DiV]

I don’t think the ref was particularly biased one way or another.
Just completely inept at making the correct decisions.

[horlock07]

Football fans in considering the referee favoured the opposition shocker...

[Bob's Orange]

I don’t think the ref was particularly biased one way or another.
Just completely inept at making the correct decisions.

Completely agree.

[Peter Venkman]

I don’t think the ref was particularly biased one way or another.
Just completely inept at making the correct decisions.

Considering many peoples jobs and livlihoods are at risk from one decision obviously missed it does make me wonder about how is the best way to improve the standard of refereeing at our level.

Even at our level the difference between one bad call by the ref can cost a club over £1 million in revenue if it happens in a play off final etc.

I think we can count on the fingers of 1 hand easily the amount of half decent refs we have had this season and probably 80% wouldnt even be fit to ref at Sunday League level.

[Batch]

still can't see how their scorer wasn't offside the moment the ball was kicked

[The Artist Formerly Known as Audrey]

Are full time, professional refs economically viable at our level? And would they decrease the amount of errors?

[Saxondale]

I dunno.  Thinking about it the incident on the touchline where their player went in late and nasty (it should have been a card) on one of ours was originally given their way by the ref.  It took the 4th official to tell him he had it wrong.  It seemed his default position that we were fouling.

I could see why the Sutton fans thought the ref favoured us from that point on as it looked like the ref went to one of our bench and changed his decision but it was the 4th official.

[Arriba]

Who'd be a ref eh? They get one split second look at it. The fact that people on here can't agree if goals, bookings, dives etc should have counted after looking at footage show how hard it is. Those potential offsides were tight last night. Very tight.

[Bob's Orange]

still can't see how their scorer wasn't offside the moment the ball was kicked

Pause the youtube highlights on 38 seconds Batch. You can see that the 2 Sutton players in the 'middle' are ahead of the defensive line, but Kizzi is either level or just behind Davison. It's a shame because Baudry, Conroy, AK and Iandolo are in the perfect defensive position to play everyone offside. Had Bennett headed in then it would/should have been disallowed but unfortunately Kizzi got his head to it and therefore I believe it was a legal goal.

[Posh Red]

Who'd be a ref eh? They get one split second look at it. The fact that people on here can't agree if goals, bookings, dives etc should have counted after looking at footage show how hard it is. Those potential offsides were tight last night. Very tight.

This is why we have ended up with VAR, and we were discussing last night which we would prefer, the  Officials making mistakes or VAR?

The main thing you can ask for from the ref & Lino’s is consistency.

[4D]

This is why we have ended up with VAR, and we were discussing last night which we would prefer, the  Officials making mistakes or VAR?

The main thing you can ask for from the ref & Lino’s is consistency.

They were consistent 

[fuzzy]

Pause the youtube highlights on 38 seconds Batch. You can see that the 2 Sutton players in the 'middle' are ahead of the defensive line, but Kizzi is either level or just behind Davison. It's a shame because Baudry, Conroy, AK and Iandolo are in the perfect defensive position to play everyone offside. Had Bennett headed in then it would/should have been disallowed but unfortunately Kizzi got his head to it and therefore I believe it was a legal goal.

Even if the goal scorer was onside- the two ahead of him were distracting our defence and therefore interfering with play.

[Arriba]

This is why we have ended up with VAR, and we were discussing last night which we would prefer, the  Officials making mistakes or VAR?

The main thing you can ask for from the ref & Lino’s is consistency.

You're never going to get consistency because of human error. Just the way it is. Even those using VAR are getting it wrong.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

Ref was an absolute lottery. You never knew what he was going to do. The amount of times he missed obvious free kicks just to give a much much softer freekick moments later was astonishing. Looked like the fourth official even had to correct him once too.

Few occasions ref and linesman just looked at each other waiting the other to make a decision. No bottle whatsoever. No authority either. Would tell the player he was going to book to come to him and eventually just go to them. Laughing stock.

Should not be close to refereeing at this level.

[Batch]

You're never going to get consistency because of human error. Just the way it is. Even those using VAR are getting it wrong.

True.

But its even simple things like if one player kicks the ball away and is booked, so should another. The time on the clock or the score shouldn't matter.