First Mistake

There weren't many highlights.

 

I said tother week those that think derby games or games against teams at the lower end are easy are off their rocker.

 

If that game had been the Reading or Luton game we'd be 13 unbeaten because we'd have approached it differently.

 

I think those highlights are cut together by Sky. Those incidents are included on the matchday recap video though. Difficult to judge the second one, but the first penalty shout was a blatant pen.

 

Disallowed goal 3:46
DK penalty incidents 4:02 & 5:25

https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/2021/march/recap-vs-wednesday/

 

Had Valerien made changes to the line up and we'd lost, there'd have been plenty of folk claiming he shouldn't have changed a winning team.

 

Damned if you do, damned if you don't! That sounds like me at home, can't do owt reight sometimes lol

 

The disallowed goal.

Just remember, the referee's reasoning for blowing up was a foul by Daryl Dike on the goalkeeper.

Ignore Tom Lees and Mads Andersen's collision. Ignore Liam Palmer holding and pulling Dike.

The foul according to Tim Robinson was Dike on Joe Wildsmith.

 

Bloody hell, it's getting worse every time I see this. There's two fouls leading up to Wildsmith dropping the ball. One on Mads and one on DK. If the ref deems those as play on, then how do we foul the GK

 

Here's the so-called soft penalty we got at Wycombe. The only decision I can think of that we've had this season that could be deemed a bit fortunate.

And it's still a foul, all day long. You can't grab hold of a player's arm with both hands in the box as he's about to shoot and not expect punishment.

I'm amazed we got it, mind. Because it's us.

 

That is shocking

 

Looking at that though, it comes off Dike to Woodrow. Wildsmith looks more advanced so I think he was offside anyway, though difficult to be sure without seeing across the line.

Still an absolute shocker to give a foul when fresh air made Wildsmith drop it.

 

Just on a technical question which you might be more aware of us than the rest of us.

A few years ago there seemed a bit of a crackdown on players holding in the box and shirt pulling. Has there been any change in direction to referees on how they deal with such actions? Because the games I've seen this season (and I bet if you did those stills at just about every set piece at either end you'd see some form of infringement) it seems to have gotten way worse.

And do referees say anything to teams or captains at the start of what he doesn't want to see or what players should be careful of? Maybe trickier with covid, but I just wondered if some have foibles that they do crack down on in the game, or if its just refereed by whim.

 

Ha hah! That clip looks like something from gridiron with the blockers clearing a path for the QB to make a run i.e. two Barnsley players hauled down in front of the ref with no hint of a whistle. Jeez!! Just because we have an American Quarterba....oops sorry, soccer player in our team, doesn't mean we, or the opposition should be playing to NFL rules (referee take note!)