Billy Out for Chesterfield

portugull · Post by **portugull** » 13 Feb 2014, 18:49

Confirmed on the OS.

Having seen it 5 times on Gulls Player it was without question a bad foul.

Rjc70 · Post by **Rjc70** » 13 Feb 2014, 18:59

Definitely a foul. Hope he is back soon.
Chapell deserves a start after Tuesday, whatever the formation next time out, so expect him in Saturday's eleven.

gullintwoplaces · Post by **gullintwoplaces** » 13 Feb 2014, 18:59

It was a disgusting, disgraceful, appalling foul. Any ref that missed such a foul, when standing less than 10 metres away, should never referee another game. The psycho that committed this foul should be banned for ten games.

ROADRUNNER · Post by **ROADRUNNER** » 13 Feb 2014, 19:13

Ref was awful, should have stopped the game when billy was fouled, he was crap from the 1st minute, labadie made a great tackle just in front the popside just after they scored the 2nd goal and he gave northampton a freekick, and as for connell what a wanker, always looking to get a player booked and making out he was fouled, complete ****.

brucie · Post by **brucie** » 13 Feb 2014, 22:21

It was the decision that changed the game thats for sure. It was such an obvious foul it is hard to understand how the referee didn't give it. To compound that he let play continue when 9 times out of ten the referee would have blown up for treatment to the injured player.
It was hard to fathom why the referee was so completely biased booking three players to their one. Ignored the time wasting. allowed their players to feign injury.
Perhaps the answer can be found as he is based in Staffordshire hardly a million miles from the location of the visitors.

Burnhamgull · Post by **Burnhamgull** » 13 Feb 2014, 22:37

brucie wrote:It was the decision that changed the game thats for sure. It was such an obvious foul it is hard to understand how the referee didn't give it. To compound that he let play continue when 9 times out of ten the referee would have blown up for treatment to the injured player.
It was hard to fathom why the referee was so completely biased booking three players to their one. Ignored the time wasting. allowed their players to feign injury.
Perhaps the answer can be found as he is based in Staffordshire hardly a million miles from the location of the visitors.

I was working in Stafford on the day of the game, drove down and then drove back up the following morning. Does that mean I'm a Northampton fan?????

What difference does it make where the ref is from? The ref was poor but so were we. I agree it was a foul on Bodin but that's no excuse for every player to switch off and then do it again a few minutes later.

It's easy to criticise the ref but we were so poor that if he'd given us a penalty, we'd have missed it.

gullintwoplaces · Post by **gullintwoplaces** » 14 Feb 2014, 08:53

Burnhamgull's comments are all fair. Brucie is right though that the referee made a decision that changed the game. After that decision we were woeful, but it was the disgraceful incompetence of the referee that changed the game from one in which we were playing reasonably with Billy Bodin looking dangerous into a disaster in which we played poorly with no Bodin. Furthermore, the player that committed the disgraceful foul on Bodin has got away scot free, and we lose Billy for more games. I hope that the referee was given a fail by his assessor, if there was one, and that Karma catches up with Northampton Town and their dirty players.

tomogull · Post by **tomogull** » 14 Feb 2014, 16:17

gullintwoplaces wrote:Burnhamgull's comments are all fair. Brucie is right though that the referee made a decision that changed the game. After that decision we were woeful, but it was the disgraceful incompetence of the referee that changed the game from one in which we were playing reasonably with Billy Bodin looking dangerous into a disaster in which we played poorly with no Bodin. Furthermore, the player that committed the disgraceful foul on Bodin has got away scot free, and we lose Billy for more games. I hope that the referee was given a fail by his assessor, if there was one, and that Karma catches up with Northampton Town and their dirty players.

Well, you and the rest of us are all WRONG, Gullin2places. We had THREE players booked, Northampton only had one booking. According to the Herald Express stats, we committed 12 fouls whilst Northampton committed only NINE !! We all know stats don't lie ..... so we were obviously the dirty team. Yeah ...... I was also GOBSMACKED when I read those match stats.

I know photos can be deceptive, but a photo in the HE shows Ravenhill flying in with a shin-high studs showing lunge which was nowhere near the ball. I wasn't sure on the night whether or not he had won the ball but the photo clearly shows he didn't. It looks a dreadful challenge - deserved a straight red card in my opinion - and if it wasn't seen by the ref, the linesman should certainly have seen it. Sarginson has refereed at Plainmoor several times and I've always thought he was a reasonably good ref but he seemed to be prepared to let a lot go (in the Cobblers favour) on Tuesday night. I know there are lads on here who ref local soccer games - I wonder what they thought of the ref's 'performance' looking through ref's eyes ? Fair play to CH though. He could have easily blamed 'referee's decisions' for the defeat, but he put the blame squarely where it was - a poor performance by our players.

gullintwoplaces · Post by **gullintwoplaces** » 14 Feb 2014, 16:47

Tomogull, that photograph in the Herald Express is shocking. Can this not be sent to the FA by Torquay United? I believe that once the ref punishes an incident then additional punishments cannot be given, but I thought that the FA could review incidents missed by the referee. Any advice? I would love to see Ravenhill hauled up before the FA to be punished for a dreadful, potentially career ending, foul.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 15 Feb 2014, 06:19

Anyone got a link to this picture?

In fairness to the players, the foul was so bad and so obviously bad that I - and those around me - stopped also. The bloke dives in, well off the ground and with the intention to hurt Billy as much as possible. That is so obviously a foul that the game will unquestionably be stopped... Except it wasn't. If that happened another 1000 times, the referee would stop play and send off the NTFC bloke 1000 times. With the way our season is going, of course we managed to pick on the one time it doesn't happen.

Matt.

gullintwoplaces · Post by **gullintwoplaces** » 15 Feb 2014, 08:02

ferrarilover wrote:Anyone got a link to this picture?

In fairness to the players, the foul was so bad and so obviously bad that I - and those around me - stopped also. The bloke dives in, well off the ground and with the intention to hurt Billy as much as possible. That is so obviously a foul that the game will unquestionably be stopped... Except it wasn't. If that happened another 1000 times, the referee would stop play and send off the NTFC bloke 1000 times. With the way our season is going, of course we managed to pick on the one time it doesn't happen.

Matt.

Matt, this is the link:

http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/U ... story.html

You have the jiggle the arrows on the picture until you get the one where you see full studs up by Ravenhill. Shocking foul, clearly a dangerous lunge and refereeing incompetence at its worst. I hope that the FA review this.

ferrarilover · Post by **ferrarilover** » 15 Feb 2014, 11:32

Cheers GITP. An horrific challenge. Miles over the top of the ball, off the ground and completely out of control. No attempt to play the ball, a clear breach of the rules and the tackle which cost us the match.

Well done Cobblers (I know you're reading), you're the worst club in the world. Worse than Ian-Huntley-loves-Hitler-and-Myra-Hindley FC. I hate your club and its pathetic supporters and I desperately hope you're relegated and that your horrible, nasty, anti-football club goes out of business.

Matt.

arcadia · Post by **arcadia** » 17 Feb 2014, 19:16

Any news on Billy hope he's fit for Saturday!

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