If Brown was out of control ....

What is your point?

 

It's against the rules to try influence a referees decision. If he can't see it's a sending off without our players telling him then God help him.
To be fair yesterday Woodrow was getting grabbed round the kneck the ref gave nothing and then gave a foul against us dougall ran over to him and told him Woodrow was getting gripped round the kneck didn't make a blind bit of difference but at least he knew.

 

That's my point. Referees are incompetent and we need to start standing up for ourselves and telling them when they've missed something

 

It’s a very difficult job - it’s mental really when you consider how good technology is and how much is at stake

There should be 4/5 refs reffing the match via video imho

That said having an inconsistent ref adds to the drama

 

That's the problem with having your captain between the sticks.

 

When I played, I made a hundred tackles like the one brown made yesterday, likewise I’ll have had an equal number made on me. I can hand on heart state that in 35 years of playing, I never once went in to deliberately hurt anyone. In this day and age I would expect a yellow to be shown but the red was ridiculous in my opinion

 

what annoyed me was Southend player ,making a big deal of getting back up, when he not even been touched

 

Is that an actual rule?

 

I thought the ref was very poor but got the Brown one right.

 

Their man play acting played a part in getting brown sent off when in reality they wad little if any contact. It's never good to see a player faking injury to get a player sent off or players asking the ref to card or send a player off but I suppose it's part of the game now.
Surprised their player didn't make more of mcgeehans studs but maybe he thought it was accidental.