***MESSAGE TO REFEREES***

[GOBIAS]

EVERYTIME and I mean EVERYTIME Chris Martin gets a football he flops to the floor to try and buy a free kick. Please do us all a favour and after he has done it fifteen times in a match (including some occasions when a challenge hasn't even gone in on him) get f***ing wise to the fact.

Sky commentators calling forest defenders naive for fouls on him. Maybe so but how many times does a referee have to watch a player blatantly flop to the floor before he smells a rat?

 

[Trents]

Chris Martin is a diving, moaning dickhead.

He's shite at football too.

 

[Red Dawn]

Awful diving ****. So was the albino throwing himself on the deck

 

[Alpha Fail]

...and we actually WANT to be back in the Premiership?

We need to get used to this shit, then... and more importantly so do our defenders.

 

[GOBIAS]

But when it is so obvious and everyone can't stand it why do pundits excuse it and referees not think "hang on a minute this is a bit curious". Really it could be stopped overnight. Beggars belief.

 

[Alpha Fail]

Celebrity (and thus controversy) is more marketable than sportsmanship.

Ashley Young will always make better headlines than Chris Cohen.

 

[Strummer]

Cheating should be punished. End of story.

 

[Kieran]

I hate how we get punished for using strength. Henderson has been penalised many times already this season for just being stronger than a defender and being able to shrug him off.

 

[Red Dawn]

To be fair, Abdoun going down clutching his face is exactly that - cheating.

I know he foreign, but don't want to see that from anyone wearing a Garibaldi shirt. Said the same thing for McGugan during the Playoff semi finals against Swansea.

 

[Rich]

To be fair, Abdoun going down clutching his face is exactly that - cheating. I know he foreign, but don't want to see that from anyone wearing a Garibaldi shirt. Said the same thing for McGugan during the Playoff semi finals against Swansea.

Looked like he took a blow to the face from where I was sat.

 

[ozthecoz]

Looked like he took a blow to the face from where I was sat.

He did - How the ref didnt spot it and blow his whilstle is beyond belief

 

[valspoodle]

The linos are just as bad. There was a blatant handball right in front of the lino on the BC side of the ground in the second half during a D***y attack and he didn't move a muscle. It didn't matter, but I thought they were now called Asst referees so that they act as the refs eyes when he is unsighted.

 

[Ash]

He did - How the ref didnt spot it and blow his whilstle is beyond belief

Nah, player just put his hand on top of Abdoun's head, looked like he was about to ruffle his hair. Abdoun just made a meal of it.

I don't agree with it but unfortunately if referee's pander to opposing the team diving and acting up thus getting cheap free kicks, can you blame players for getting into the trenches and using their dirty tricks against them?

 

[winnits]

To be fair, Abdoun going down clutching his face is exactly that - cheating.

I know he foreign, but don't want to see that from anyone wearing a Garibaldi shirt. Said the same thing for McGugan during the Playoff semi finals against Swansea.

The Derby defender basically gouged his face. I can totally understand his bewilderment at it not being seen by the ref.

 

[JWJW]

The Derby defender basically gouged his face. I can totally understand his bewilderment at it not being seen by the ref.

Exactly, you would get a red card for face gouging even in a rugby match, let alone a football match. Fingers do not go anywhere near eyes.

 

[sebs]

To be fair, Abdoun going down clutching his face is exactly that - cheating.

I know he foreign, but don't want to see that from anyone wearing a Garibaldi shirt. Said the same thing for McGugan during the Playoff semi finals against Swansea.

less of the foreign shit. The worst cheats in the premier league the last ten seasons have all been british, Steven Gerard, ashley young, Gareth bale. Calling it out as a foreign problem makes you look racist

 

[benj360]

Ashley Young was certainly one of the worst at one point. I have to admit I felt a great deal of satisfaction when Young missed his penalty for England against Italy in the Euros, as I'd like to think that will have broken him and his ego somewhat. I know that's bad as a so-called England fan, but I'd rather not support a team with such invertebrates playing in it.

 

[tricky_tree1982]

The Albino you refer to is Will Hughes and I actually thought he was the worse Derby player for diving, literally every time he touched the ball he went to ground and the ref gave a free kick!

 

[Forrest_Grump]

What a stupid thread :facepalm:

There's a world of difference between a player going to ground when he feels a defender in his back and one who dives when he hasn't been touched at all or does an 'Ashley Young'. Do we really want to encourage strength as a virtue over skill? Refs have to decide where the fine line gets crossed and sometimes they protect the weak over the strong. Get over it.

f*** me, we've enjoyed a hard earned victory and triumphed even though we didn't play well and still some people are whining as much as if we'd been 'robbed' Some of our fans are f***ing morons.

 

[Evans007]

The scum set up to con the ref and all of us out of a full blooded derby - and got what they deserved. Tactically we played into their hands with moussi starting, but thankfully quality and composure edged us the win against a niggly unimaginative team. Its not necessarily clever to fall over all the time but its part of the game - had they mustered a goal or two perhaps NLN would still be employed on the back of it.

 

[spark32uk]

What a stupid thread :facepalm:

There's a world of difference between a player going to ground when he feels a defender in his back and one who dives when he hasn't been touched at all or does an 'Ashley Young'. Do we really want to encourage strength as a virtue over skill? Refs have to decide where the fine line gets crossed and sometimes they protect the weak over the strong. Get over it.

f*** me, we've enjoyed a hard earned victory and triumphed even though we didn't play well and still some people are whining as much as if we'd been 'robbed' Some of our fans are f***ing morons.

That kind of attitude is exactly the problem. I hear the dickheads on MOTD say it all the time "He felt a touch, he had a right to go down." NO. He didn't. Not unless he had absolutely no choice because of the actions of the defender. In the old days when men instead of pansies played football, you stayed up unless you had no choice. Falling over deliberately, whether you 'feel a touch' (and how gay does that sound) or not, is cheating, plain and simple. And the sooner it's stamped out, the better.

 

[Senior Flange Technician]

A fouls a foul. You don't need to go to the ground if you're fouled.

 

[Timothy Pope]

A fouls a foul. You don't need to go to the ground if you're fouled.

Unfortunately, that isn't true. Match Officials are so inept that they do not understand that you can be fouled without falling over. This has led to exaggeration of fouls to ensure they are noticed by officials. This in turn has led to some players simulating fouls because it is difficult for the officials to tell the difference between an exaggerated foul and a simulated one - unless you are Phil Dowd, who cannot tell the difference from an actual 'clear as day' foul and a simulated one.

 

[Senior Flange Technician]

Wrong though.

 

[Army]

Snipers on site, they get time to watch the replay, if it was a clear dive, they go for the head shot. Simple. Problem solved!