Its been like that ALL season with Dunks, granted not usually as bad as today, but time and time again this season have defenders held back, grabbed and shoved Dunks (and who can blame them!) and refs do absolutely f*ck all and it was particularly bad today, not even the linos gave anything. I wasn't at a good angle to judge the foul on LIng, but felt we should have had a penalty in the first half for a blatant shove in the back which I'm fairly sure would have been a foul anywhere else on the pitch. But what's done is done, poor ref or not, we deserve what we got today.SouthRushdenJFC wrote:Well, no one died. Bad misses from Ling and Alfie summed it up for me.
I'm often not impressed with the ref and that was certainly true today. He let their centre halves hang on Dunks all game and the foul on Long was a yard inside the box but he bottled the penalty decision.
Those things apart we didn't deserve anything from that came.
Ever since the Welly 'away' game we've started to line up attacking the PDB in the first half, I really don't get it, and yeah, the home atmosphere dropped considerably (as it always does) when the fans spread out all over the ground and their fans taking the PDB only got louder.Another observation, for whatever reason,it was the second home match running we weren't attacking the PDB end in the second half when we're usually at our strongest.
It seems our fans are unable to lift the team when they are at the open river end.
One positive I can think of right now is that at least we've got the reward of a bye to the 2nd round next year and not having to play in the Vase til November. Long way off right now of course, but no doubt we'll have a strong chance of doing well again and hopefully they'll keep today in mind and learn from their mistakes.
