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Post by Davef on Feb 16, 2004 21:42:06 GMT
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Post by JoeinOz on Feb 16, 2004 21:44:48 GMT
Prosser, that rhymes with.......
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Post by StokieSC on Feb 16, 2004 21:45:12 GMT
 aww i was hoping Mr Styles was gonna come back for his 'homecoming' I was gonna paint 'Welcome to Hell' banners for the back of the Boothen too! ;D
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 16, 2004 22:04:03 GMT
You might aswell do it anyway, we know he can't stay away for long.
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Post by markscfc72 on Feb 16, 2004 22:04:36 GMT
styles has got the gillingham - reading match should be fun for them  |
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Post by markscfc72 on Feb 16, 2004 22:06:28 GMT
oh and barry knight has been given the glamerous tie of Rushden and diamonds Vs Sheffield Wednesday
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Post by StokieSC on Feb 16, 2004 22:06:49 GMT
Well hes a Gills fan, get your money on them  |
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Post by McLovin on Feb 16, 2004 22:33:01 GMT
might as well post the barry knight petition link on those two sites for preporation then ;D www.knightout.cjb.net if you've not already signed it |
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 16, 2004 22:35:32 GMT
I really feel sorry for Reading, fuckingbiastknobhead
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Post by markscfc72 on Feb 16, 2004 22:44:19 GMT
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 16, 2004 22:45:38 GMT
Someone's got to give some sometime!
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Post by polofrance on Feb 17, 2004 7:29:23 GMT
Dodgy penalties
Remember Preston ???? Can any body honestly tell me why we got a penalty that day.
Swings and roundabouts
Polo
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Post by Davef on Feb 17, 2004 8:35:10 GMT
Because a Preston defender twatted Ade Akinbiyi and the assistant referee saw it.
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Post by homerj on Feb 17, 2004 8:46:35 GMT
It was Thommo who was twatted. Ade saw it happen and remonstrated with the linesman/referee.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 17, 2004 8:46:43 GMT
There seems a strange reluctance with some fans (at all clubs) to view an incident off the ball as a penalty. If its a foul and its in the penalty area and its not obstruction its a penalty - end of story. ???
The fact that the ball was going out of play near the halfway line by the time the assistant managed to get the ref's attention is irrelevant.
A mate (not a Stokie) rang me over the weekend to say he had watched the goals on Sky and that the foul on Commons on Saturday wasn't a penalty "as he was headed for the byline with no where to go when he was fouled". I told him that's not just bollox - its double bollox. First it was a penno wherever he was heading, second if any player can get out of a tight situation on the byline its Kris. ;D
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Post by polofrance on Feb 17, 2004 9:09:29 GMT
Ok boys calm down
What i meant to say was while we all get upset by reffereeing decisions that go against us we tend to forget the ones that go for us,
What reaction would we have got on here if we Stokies were leading 1-0 in the 93rd minute of a match away from home and the linesman (assistant sorry Rex) brought back play to an incident the ref had missed and awarded a penalty against us.
I think we could have been on Styles mode for about a fortnight comming so close to the Barry Knight debacle
YOU WIN SOME YOU LOOSE SOME
polo
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 17, 2004 9:20:13 GMT
Polo, I wasn't upset in the first place so I can hardly calm down. ;D I think it was your use of the word dodgy which caused confusion. The first penalty on Saturday was dodgy by any definition - the second wasn't, in my opinion. Nor was ours against Preston. So the only dodgy penalty decisions from the two matches was the first awarded against us on Saturday and the one we were refused for hand ball in the second half plus the two penalties we should have had against Preston but didn't get. So that's 4 up to the forces of evil and swings and roundabouts don't apply! |
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Post by Davef on Feb 17, 2004 12:21:59 GMT
The reason I was so upset with the first penalty was because of Styles' positioning. There's no way he could be 100% certain that Williams had fouled Gray or that Gray had dived. His assistant certainly didn't think it was a penalty and that's why the Stoke players folornly appealed with Styles to consult his assitant. It was a truly shocking decision and when you consider the foul on John Eustace at Smallsall earlier in the season which the referee deemed a perfectly legitimate tackle it's easy to understand why fans are so quick to question referees' motives.
Later on in the game Styles waved away Stoke appeals for a blatant handball by Popovic in the penatly area. We all saw it from seventy or eighty yards away and there's no way Styles didn't see it. So why didn't he give that, having been so certain that Williams had tripped Gray in the first half? I think we all know the answer.
Yeah, sure, he gave us a penatly for the foul against Krissy Commons, but at 5-2 down. The one he should have given us would have given us a chance to get it back to 4-3 and we'd have been in with a chance of getting something out of the game.
There were also three incidents when Stoke players(John Eustace twice and Darel Russel once) were blatantly body-checked as they were running through midfield to catch up with an attack. Styles might have done the right think by playing an advantage with Stoke on the attack, but did he then go back and caution the offending Palace player? Did he balls. In fact, he didn't even talk to them. (Shades there of the Gillingham game when Mikael Hansson was taken out while bursting up the right wing)
No surprises then later in the game when John Eustace was booked for his FIRST foul of the game.
Styles is a disgrace to the game of football, he really is.
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Post by spiderpuss on Feb 17, 2004 12:42:35 GMT
One of his most recent comments does bode well though:
"Mr Prosser had an excellent game at Gigg Lane today. He kept his cards in his pockets and communicated with the players well. He allowed his assistants to play an 'active' role within the match and this allowed decisions to be made which usually aren't given. I had to laugh at his assistant Mr Lockhart who got hit by the ball and then threw his flag up into the air and it landed in the stand."
From Feb 14.
Spider
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Post by RipRoaringPotter on Feb 17, 2004 13:52:22 GMT
That little quote isn't off Rex's site is it  ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by jaykaye on Feb 17, 2004 17:45:58 GMT
Spiderman waits with anticipation for Rex to come galloping in on his high horse and tell us all the rules of the gams and how right the refs always are ;D ;D
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Feb 17, 2004 17:52:19 GMT
Well if he does I hope he keeps off the pitch. Wembley was never the same after they held the horse of the year show on it! |
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