Ref

[Stafford-Stokie]

Not very good today. Do you think we should have had a pen when Periwinkle went down?

[BiddulphStokie]

i appealed never the less

[nathan]

No. I felt he was looking for it and the Ref was correct in not giving it. A great opportunity to go some way in making amends for the money spunked up the wall on wages.........

I felt the Ref was inconsistent regarding nudges in the back, which really was my only gripe.

[markscfc72]

ref was very poor, gave them quite a few soft free-kicks and for the pen, the linesman bottled it, the ref didnt have a clue, looked at the lino and he bottled it, it should have been a pen, he isnt going to go down in that position when hes got a clear chance to shoot. Also i think we could have had 1 when cressie was being held by 2 of there players when a cross came in

[nathan]

Mark,

Of the two shouts, I felt the Cressy one was certainly the better from my view. With regards Pericard, a lack of confidence could of seen him go down easy.......

[Stafford-Stokie]

I think we should have had a free kick in the middle of the park just before they scored. They had about 3 players around LL. (i think it was LL anyway)

[nathan]

SS,

Yeah, I think there was a case for it...........and he was giving extremely soft free kicks near Hull corner flags when their players sensed danger and collapsed to the floor after minimal pressure.

Still, I think it would of been a gross injustice should we have come away with a win.

[Stafford-Stokie]

"Still, I think it would of been a gross injustice should we have come away with a win."

Totaly agree mate but i would of took it. ;D

[fingers]

I have never known a ref in a match give us as little as he did today,he favoured Hull on every 50-50 decision but having said that he is not the reason for how poor we were today.

[Stafford-Stokie]

Not for one minute blaming the ref mate. A better team today would have battered us.
I am quite happy with the point all things considered.

[Jamo on the wing]

He wasn't great but I've seen worse, as for Pericard's penalty shout I think we might have had a sniff if Vincent had made ANY attempt to have a shot. He didn't and I think the ref felt he was looking for it even though I think it actually was a pen.
That instance showed why we will never be able to rely on strikers like him, a natural goalscorer would have seen it as an oppotunity to notch and would have busted a gut to get his shot away.

[expectedtoulouse]

The ref was Neil Swarbrick from Lancashire. We had him gainst Barnsley earlier in the season at the brit, and I recall that game being dire aswell.

[knype]

joethestokie said:

The ref was Neil Swarbrick from Lancashire. We had him gainst Barnsley earlier in the season at the brit, and I recall that game being dire aswell.

Nothing to do with being the worse team on the day on both counts?

[nathan]

SS,

So would I, so would I.



I honestly thought he was 'okay'.

[Deleted]

from where I sit (behind the goal in the boothen lower tier) i thought it was a pen

Pericard was pulled to his left by the centre half definite professional foul - you know the ones - the ones where they trap the players arm between their arm and their body

[Rebelliousjukebox]

Thought he was OK in the first half, dire in the second.

[Cupid Stunt]

No, the useless shit fell over. Cresswell and Fuller would have buried that, Parkin probably would have too tbh!

[A-teen_six_T3]

As a fan I appealed, but I think if other teams appealed for it, i would have told them to shut up. The sot should have been made before the 'conection'

[tazi]

Was a definate penalty, no ifs no buts.

Pericard had worked an opening and just as he was about to pull the trigger from all of 3 yards out he gets hauled back.

Disgusting officials witnessed at the Brit yet again.

[OldStokie]

Lets put it this way, if the ref had awarded a penno against us for the same 'offence', I would have been livid. It was all hustle and bustle and he got hustled out of it just as Lawrence did when he tried to take on 3 men and lost the ball which led to their goal. IMO, neither of the 'offences' were fouls.

OS.

[dexter97]

It looked to me like the defender had got hold of Pericard, which makes it a penalty, however soft. I think the problem was that he was appealing for it as he was falling!

That said, I don't think the ref had a bad game. A bit picky at times when the situation didn't call for it (There wasn't a bad tackle in the game), but kept his cards in his pocket and seemed keen to play advantage whenever he could.

[Northy]

The Cresswell one was a defo penalty, I was in line with it. Chelsea got one for the same today,