Mills brought down and Bradley's pen separates the sides at the break.
Wings playing nice stuff and look better suited to the synthetic surface.
Just as well as Josh Hill is the latest to be released and Brendan, Gavin and Richard Orlu (the latter just back from injury) make up our bench. We'll be doing this the hard way.
Yes exactly....his words we heard were....He said it was 4 minutes 4 minutes ago....add a load of expletives and there you have it...the bizarre thing was the ref waiting to restart until King had walked all the way around the pitch and down the tunnel...muttering all the way....We played really well tonight....Oxford had little threat but if we are now down to only 15 players it will be tough but hey...A win,,,away...on a Tuesday...Happy Days...oh and we hit the post 3 times too
We had the 4 minutes bit a couple of times. The point at which the referee acted was the 'you're f* making it up' comment (which unfortunately is his prerogative by dint of his position anyway!).
For the defence
We don't win midweek anywhere very often and a desire to see it over the line.
We don't win away anywhere very often at the moment and a desire to see it over the line.
The job is not what the prospectus offered and the pressure\stress level is on, reputational or otherwise.
Possibly an attempt to show those players that remain he is in it with them
For the prosecution
The time displayed is the MINIMUM, who ever remembers that? Maybe it was better when only the ref knew?
If you give someone grief who has the power to stop you giving them grief for long enough, whether you think that grief is justified or not, sooner or later they will use that power.
If you really do have influence from the touchline, isn't it better to use it over the next 270+ minutes he will probably miss rather than blow a fuse for minimal gain.
Despite my innate pessimism about an equaliser, we were actually doing a decent job of not giving them a sniff.
The whole rumpus could have been counter productive and destroyed our concentration.
If he is banned, it is a handy excuse if we don't perform in the coming games.
I will concede I lose my rag a lot less easily than a lot of people and a short fuse may be part of what makes King effective. There seems to be the prevailing ethos in football that if you keep on at the officials you will wheedle your way into their psyche. It may work with some of the weaker ones but, if you are going to do it, by the 94th minute you should have worked out if your target is vulnerable to it or not. Frankly after the way he was going across to book someone for doing the slow subs walk, he wasn't.
All in all, it was a bit dumb. Just hope King sits down and analyses what he hoped to achieve and what he did achieve and if it was really worth the fuss. I have my doubts on both counts.
-- Edited by stafford on Wednesday 13th of February 2019 12:35:41 PM
-- Edited by stafford on Wednesday 13th of February 2019 12:41:21 PM
The last 5-10 mins of a match we often see time wasting that we do not see in the preceding 80 minutes. It is so obvious, except to some referees, including the slow sub walk, the walking away from the bench when you know your number is up, goalkeeper falling on the floor when catching a ball, switching goal kicks either side, slow throw ins, feigning injury and so on. Weve all seen it, weve done it ourselves. The officials see it but turn a blind eye to most of it and the authorities seem happy for it to continue.
Why not at 80 minutes the ref signals how much injury time so far to the fourth official and he not only adds on that time but stops a stopwatch for every single thing. Players will soon learn to stop timewasting when their antics mean the final 10minutes could mean playing 20 minutes.
This might not have helped SK last night but it would have stopped the frustration for everyone when added on time, is at best, guess work.
Full credit to our threadbare squad for this tremendous result and to SK. A battling performance on Saturday and we could be right back in the mix. Believe, even in adversity.
The last 5-10 mins of a match we often see time wasting that we do not see in the preceding 80 minutes. It is so obvious, except to some referees, including the slow sub walk, the walking away from the bench when you know your number is up, goalkeeper falling on the floor when catching a ball, switching goal kicks either side, slow throw ins, feigning injury and so on. Weve all seen it, weve done it ourselves. The officials see it but turn a blind eye to most of it and the authorities seem happy for it to continue.
Why not at 80 minutes the ref signals how much injury time so far to the fourth official and he not only adds on that time but stops a stopwatch for every single thing. Players will soon learn to stop timewasting when their antics mean the final 10minutes could mean playing 20 minutes.
This might not have helped SK last night but it would have stopped the frustration for everyone when added on time, is at best, guess work.
This kind of Basketball style timekeeping would have needed to have been deployed for 89 minutes against Concord. Many teams time waste from the start at PVR, even at 0-0.
A great win last night. Looking at the league table and I think 68-70 points will get us 7th. So 6 wins and maybe a draw or two. Very doable even with a thin squad. And Nas has announced on Twitter that he's back on Saturday.
COYW!
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