kpinwp
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Post by kpinwp on Mar 11, 2018 13:05:51 GMT
Officials - Carl Brook in shocker shock! Paul has some great shots of the Solihull defender's reach-around on Harrison. Nothing given yet a clear red card offence.... As for Mark Yates - odious! Has a team that clearly has ability yet engages in tactics best kept for wind-up dinky cars set for a demolition derby. Seconded. When they bothered to play they were decent. But most of the time it was all niggle and grab. Not rewarding to the eyes. |
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Post by amberneutral on Mar 11, 2018 14:03:14 GMT
Attendance 1,990. Assume you guys count all season ticket holders who don’t turn up? Absolutely no way was there almost 2,000 there yesterday.
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Post by timall on Mar 11, 2018 14:23:15 GMT
Attendance 1,990. Assume you guys count all season ticket holders who don’t turn up? Absolutely no way was there almost 2,000 there yesterday. Standard practice these days. Attendance no longer means what it literally means. A season ticket entitles you to be there so you are considered to have attended.
A word of caution though, you may not be aware but inadvertently you may have reopened a topic that can sometimes get quite "hot" in these parts, so prepare yourself for some potentially less than hospitable comments. You might even be accused of having been born with the name "William".
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markf
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Post by markf on Mar 11, 2018 16:05:18 GMT
As the saying goes "there is more than one way to skin a cat" and yesterday's way would have left the cat looking pretty rough after a match that at times was more of war of attrition officiated by one of our least welcome of regular visitors to GGL in recent seasons.
One piece of brilliant improvisation was enough to separate the two sides but Jamie B should certainly take a bough for his performance as a barrage of high balls were aimed into Sutton's box, particularly as the match wore on. Solihull was a far different proposition than they were back in November - as was expected - but they played little football, worked bloody hard off the ball and were not concerned in getting "involved" when necessary. With more giants in their team than a three-tin pack of a popular sweetcorn product would exhibit, this was always going to be a physical battle and not the sort of spectacle most people would want to celebrate a birthday with. It was anti-football at times from the visitors, rolling around in agony after many tackles (if you're that hurt you tend not to move much in my experience) loads of holding, particular the two centre-halves etc. It didn't work though, 'cos they lost.
The tone was set early when Kenny went to retrieve the ball for our free-kick, Hylton took exception and ref books both; not sure what Kenny did tbh and was a yellow for each that early merited? And so it continued. By h-t we had four yellows they had two. Considering the lack in parity of size I thought U's did well. Solihull were direct and looked to get Hylton and Yussuf involved quickly. U's tried to be more clever in their approach and a couple of curling crosses from the right almost caught out O'Leary. At the other end Jamie B blocked well and then made another top save, shovelling the ball around a post.
As said above, Tom B's goal was the result of a piece of well-executed improvisation.
Second half, Solihull tried hard for an equaliser, swapping Yussuf into the middle and going down the flanks. Sutton's defence once again held well, blocking, winning headers, clearing well and behind them they had Jamie B who showed agility, fine handling and no little bravery in keeping The Moors out. Can't argue with motm as I thought Kenny D was outstanding and a nod too, to Simon W when he joined the fray.
Yussuf got himself sent-off; the second yellow was his third handball offence of the match. Kelleher (no 36), Carter (no 4) and Storer (no 8) spent much time gobbing off at anybody near enough to hear them. The ref took most of it - more fool him - but still dished out the cards elsewhere. Ten times the yellow came out, the red once. His right arm wouldn't have been elevated much more if he had been around to attend a 1930's rally at Nuremberg. The NLP reporter gave him 4 out of 10. A bit harsh as not the easiest match to officiate but if he had spent less time on engaging in protracted conversations we all may have not had to endure eight minutes of added time over the piece. Never like the way this guy referees and even less so after yesterday.
Three more points to the cause in front of another good crowd and if there wasn't 1990 in the ground as was announced, who cares?
On to Maidstone who should be without loanees Dean B and Ross L next week and ended their 18 match win less run with a late goal against Torquay. Confidence booster for them.
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Post by timall on Mar 11, 2018 16:21:39 GMT
The tone was set early when Kenny went to retrieve the ball for our free-kick, Hylton took exception and ref books both; not sure what Kenny did tbh and was a yellow for each that early merited? I think Kenny knew what he did. It looked to me he took a cute kick at his opponent after the free kick had been awarded, which led to the minor fracas. The officials didn't seem to know what happened, so both players involved get booked. The ref had already awarded a throw in the wrong way in his journey down the road of losing the crowd. With the next contentious incident being the "late" tackle by Harry Beautyman, where it looked 50:50 as to who was late and who got the ball, with Harry penalised but no yellow (or red a la Dover), the ref was confounding his confused attempts at control with inconsistency. At this point we knew it was going to be a match of refereeing talking points.
It would be good to see the points again, but rarely are we "allowed" to see the controversial bits amongst the "highlights". It was about the only thing Kenny did wrong all match, an accusation that can't made with respect to the officials.
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markf
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Post by markf on Mar 11, 2018 17:10:01 GMT
The tone was set early when Kenny went to retrieve the ball for our free-kick, Hylton took exception and ref books both; not sure what Kenny did tbh and was a yellow for each that early merited? I think Kenny knew what he did. It looked to me he took a cute kick at his opponent after the free kick had been awarded, which led to the minor fracas. The officials didn't seem to know what happened, so both players involved get booked. The ref had already awarded a throw in the wrong way in his journey down the road of losing the crowd. With the next contentious incident being the "late" tackle by Harry Beautyman, where it looked 50:50 as to who was late and who got the ball, with Harry penalised but no yellow (or red a la Dover), the ref was confounding his confused attempts at control with inconsistency. At this point we knew it was going to be a match of refereeing talking points.
It would be good to see the points again, but rarely are we "allowed" to see the controversial bits amongst the "highlights". It was about the only thing Kenny did wrong all match, an accusation that can't made with respect to the officials.
Had Hylton not walked off with the ball (our free-kick) therefore delaying the restart (a yellow) it wouldn't have happened. Just summed up their approach to the afternoon, setting the stall out early. From my angle, Harry won the ball, it went past their fella, who, committed to the challenge, ended up riding up the back of Harry. Ref got that wrong plus the two throw-in decisions earlier. |
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Post by fran1 on Mar 11, 2018 17:32:26 GMT
I did enjoy reading the piece by Markf on this thread.
It so covers a lot of what I felt after attending our home match yesterday.
Many of the Solihull players were too active 'off the ball' yesterday and in my biased opinion as a Sutton supporter, the officials seemed to miss lot of this off the ball action. I must have driven mad, the regular ' footie pals' that I stand with on the half way line each home match. As we held on to our narrow lead towards the end I kept repeating out loud , ( over and over), that I couldn't bear to watch as Solihull repeatedly tried to get an equaliser.
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Post by johnnie1 on Mar 11, 2018 17:58:09 GMT
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Post by timall on Mar 11, 2018 18:08:13 GMT
I think Kenny knew what he did. It looked to me he took a cute kick at his opponent after the free kick had been awarded, which led to the minor fracas. The officials didn't seem to know what happened, so both players involved get booked. The ref had already awarded a throw in the wrong way in his journey down the road of losing the crowd. With the next contentious incident being the "late" tackle by Harry Beautyman, where it looked 50:50 as to who was late and who got the ball, with Harry penalised but no yellow (or red a la Dover), the ref was confounding his confused attempts at control with inconsistency. At this point we knew it was going to be a match of refereeing talking points.
It would be good to see the points again, but rarely are we "allowed" to see the controversial bits amongst the "highlights". It was about the only thing Kenny did wrong all match, an accusation that can't made with respect to the officials.
Had Hylton not walked off with the ball (our free-kick) therefore delaying the restart (a yellow) it wouldn't have happened. Just summed up their approach to the afternoon, setting the stall out early. From my angle, Harry won the ball, it went past their fella, who, committed to the challenge, ended up riding up the back of Harry. Ref got that wrong plus the two throw-in decisions earlier. Yes, agree with all that. Would be good to watch it again to see if my initial judgement still holds, though I suspect they won't appear in the "highlights". |
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Post by os on Mar 11, 2018 18:50:17 GMT
Kenny Davis, surely. A terrific performance. Are you confusing POTM with MOTM? No, not getting confused, Simon Walton picked up a deserved Player of the Month award for February before KO. And for me Tom B took MOTM not just for his goal but his excellent shift in helping out at the back, one challenge as mentioned was an absolute corker any CB would be proud of. |
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Post by SuttonUnitedFCtv on Mar 11, 2018 18:53:19 GMT
Had Hylton not walked off with the ball (our free-kick) therefore delaying the restart (a yellow) it wouldn't have happened. Just summed up their approach to the afternoon, setting the stall out early. From my angle, Harry won the ball, it went past their fella, who, committed to the challenge, ended up riding up the back of Harry. Ref got that wrong plus the two throw-in decisions earlier. Yes, agree with all that. Would be good to watch it again to see if my initial judgement still holds, though I suspect they won't appear in the "highlights". Can you remember what time that was on? The highlights are being made now, so if you want it added, I need a time 
Edit, Its OK I found it, on 12mins 30secs OUCH! |
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Post by skillspaybills on Mar 11, 2018 19:23:27 GMT
The two handed push into Eastmond's back that sent him flying onto the touchline and ref waved play on 😂.
The linesman sees Byron thrown over so waves for a foul on their player. It's so inept it beggars belief.
The performance was gritty and a game that earlier in the season we would of lost control of and ended up with just a point or less. Jamie Butler has just come on leaps and bounds. He kept us level with a few smart stops and we found our way to goal and managed things from there.
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oohaah
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Post by oohaah on Mar 12, 2018 11:19:42 GMT
Arguably one of JB's best stops was from Simon Walton late on.
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Post by davethegrave on Mar 12, 2018 21:30:33 GMT
What I want to know is why are the officials so weak? Two or three players rushing halfway up the pitch to argue with the referee should not be tolerated. They should've gone straight in the book and then maybe things would have calmed down a bit. Dirty sneaky whinging bastards!
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