SteppsJag Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Officials were an absolute disgrace tonight. Totally changed the direction of the game twice, both times in Dunfermline’s favour. Second disallowed goal in particular was a farce. Linesman did not flag for offside. Why Ref even had to speak to him is unbelievable. Yes, goals we lost were all poor but if ours had stood it’s a totally different game. As a footnote not impressed with Stewart! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Peebles Tackle Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 1 minute ago, SteppsJag said: Officials were an absolute disgrace tonight. Totally changed the direction of the game twice, both times in Dunfermline’s favour. Second disallowed goal in particular was a farce. Linesman did not flag for offside. Why Ref even had to speak to him is unbelievable. Yes, goals we lost were all poor but if ours had stood it’s a totally different game. As a footnote not impressed with Stewart! defending clearly awful but can’t excuse officials. Dreadful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljaggo Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Shocking defending - on a par with the refereeing. Floodlight robbery. Defence a disgrace and I can understand why Doolan stuck with Snedden for so long. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deboy Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Shite performance, shite refereeing and to crown it all shite half time 'entertainment'. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandy Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Disappointing all round. Stewart is not the answer to our goalie question. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAGSMAN1968 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 (edited) Just back from that. Shocking display. Desperately need a leader on the pitch, and some defenders. Guess that's the season over now. Officials were shocking too, nearly as bad as us. Wonder what new platitudes Dools will spout. Anybody still going to Ayr on tuesday !! At least nobody can blame Sneddon for that! Rant over! Edited February 23 by JAGSMAN1968 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAGSMAN1968 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Lino didn't even flag for our "Goal " ref trots over to speak to him and then he puts flag up! total jokes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kenny Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Officiating aside, we’re just not up to much this year. Our defence is poor and our midfield offer nothing other than pedestrian sideways passes. Once Fitzy has been hacked out the game, that’s us finished in an attacking sense. Sideways passes until someone hits a poor cross in to the box and we start again. Adeloye offers nothing as a sub, can never get up to the speed of the match quick enough. We might still do enough to get to the playoffs but we’ll not be going anywhere based on the goals we concede. Stewart distributes the ball quickly but seems very similar to Sneddon and Mitchell. A poor night all round, less said about the officials the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarciaBlaine Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 That was a proper "Why did I spend £20 to do that?" kind of night Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTFC1942 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Still need a goalie and a coach. Oh maybe about 4 or 5 players as well!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 4 minutes ago, King Kenny said: Officiating aside, we’re just not up to much this year. Our defence is poor and our midfield offer nothing other than pedestrian sideways passes. Once Fitzy has been hacked out the game, that’s us finished in an attacking sense. Sideways passes until someone hits a poor cross in to the box and we start again. Adeloye offers nothing as a sub, can never get up to the speed of the match quick enough. We might still do enough to get to the playoffs but we’ll not be going anywhere based on the goals we concede. Stewart distributes the ball quickly but seems very similar to Sneddon and Mitchell. A poor night all round, less said about the officials the better. Our defence is poor, but we do score a load of goals - 47 in 24 games (and it should’ve been 49!), which suggests that the midfield must be doing something right. I still think we can sneak a promotion through the playoffs based on the number of goals that we score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 We scored 3 good goals and were only awarded one. We know our defence is weak, but we make up for it (much of the time) by scoring so many. So when we come across a refereeing performance like that, we do not stand a chance. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 One thing to take home from the second disallowed goal-it’s worth remonstrating with the ref if a perceived decision goes against you. There was no way that goal was getting chalked off if Mehmet had shrugged his shoulders and threw the ball back to the centre. But because he acted as if the world’s worst decision had just occurred, he convinced the ref and lino to disallow a goal they were correctly going to allow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastjag Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Was on my way up to this but the M77 was nose to tail. Turned round and watched it in the bar. Thank f***. Pretty poor performance and some shocking decisions. I'm finding this all really painful. I know it's only a game but it hurts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fearchar Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 If one thing was made clear tonight for the future, it is that goalkeeping needs a complete clearout - players and coach. They aren't up to standard. Will Doolan bite the bullet, or is he just too nice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weebaw1 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 I agree with most of what’s been said. Defence and officials cost us the game. I don’t think Lawless played very well but to replace him with Robinson destroyed the shape completely. Felt sorry for striker Diack playing on the wing. Come on Kris, that was just daft. Robinson should have replaced McInroy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaggy Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 5 minutes ago, belfastjag said: Was on my way up to this but the M77 was nose to tail. Turned round and watched it in the bar. Thank f***. Pretty poor performance and some shocking decisions. I'm finding this all really painful. I know it's only a game but it hurts. That’s the way I feel about it just now too. I just seem to have been on a downer since the disgraceful decisions at Dingwall and the last 2 games we’ve had more shockers go against us. This coupled with our shocking defence doesn’t make for pleasant watching. Really not enjoying it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fawlty Towers Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Always a chance when going in to town on a Friday night you might get lucky but was not expecting to come home having been screwed by David Munro 🤬 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muscat Jag Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 For me the worst goal was their 1st. Regardless of the goalies inability to push the ball away from goal, the rest of the team were culpable. We had effectively cleared the ball, the Dunfermline defender wasn't that far the halfway line. Lawless, who had sclaffed the ball upfield to him, for some reason ran away from the advancing player. Not a single other player in our team had the gumption to get out and engage with him. Absolutely shocking standard of defending. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laukat Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Ref was abysmal, long time since I've seen officials so incompetent. Completely ruined a game of football. None of our players should be shaking hands with him at the end. If the Dunfermline Goalie could get out and influence the linesman why on earth weren't Doolan and McDonald doing the same? Would have been worth getting sent to the stand but we're just too nice Doolan had a shocker tonight. Picking Stewart over Mitchell was a terrible decision. At halftime taking off Lawless was presumably due to injury but playing McInroy as a winger was bizarre when he could have put a more natural winger in MacKenzie on or changed formation. Throwing on Adeloye and Diack meant we started playing a 4-1-1-4 and we looked a total shambles. Presumably McMillan was subbed for Alston because of injury but by that stage we were playing 3-1-2-4 and created nothing. The manager has a real problem with his substitutions. More often than not he's making the team worse. He also seems determined to play 2 wingers even when he doesn't have 2 wingers in a McCall-esque fashion. Serious questions about Doolan's ability to take us much further. Muirhead needs dropped. Only bright spot was McBeth. Looks a proper ball winner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodstock Jag Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 You don’t concede three goals at home that soft and win football matches. Can’t blame tonight’s defeat on the (admittedly poor) officiating. A dreadful keeper and two inexcusable failures from the centre backs cost us. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter of '63 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Tonight's game was a strong argument for VAR. In fairness, I was sure Graham was offside but the linesman didn't flag - did the ref convince him he should have? We played well enough in the first half against a poor Dunfermline side but I still had the feeling that we might lose a game we should win comfortably. Without Lawless, we had nothing to offer on the right flank and again we lost soft goals - that's nine in the last 3 games. The substitutions had the look of frantic panic and once more our lack of fitness was an issue. It was worth giving Stewart a start since we already know that Sneddon & Mitchell are no better than ok - I don't think he's an upgrade. Muirhead made a bad misjudgement for their second goal - Neilson looks a classy player at times but he was poor at their third goal to add to his two errors for Livingston goals. Do we need a defensive coach? Last season we had Tiffoney or Turner in the free role behind Graham - they both carried a threat and kept defenders occupied - McInroy doesn't really and Alston even less - I think that's part of the reason our midfield gets over-run and we lose so many goals. When we had a full fit squad last season, we were the best team in the Division and showed that in the play-off games. There have been very few times this season when I've thought we were significantly better than the opposition. I'm not confident we're good enough to get through the play-offs...if we make them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muscat Jag Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 3 minutes ago, Winter of '63 said: Tonight's game was a strong argument for VAR. In fairness, I was sure Graham was offside but the linesman didn't flag - did the ref convince him he should have? We played well enough in the first half against a poor Dunfermline side but I still had the feeling that we might lose a game we should win comfortably. Without Lawless, we had nothing to offer on the right flank and again we lost soft goals - that's nine in the last 3 games. The substitutions had the look of frantic panic and once more our lack of fitness was an issue. It was worth giving Stewart a start since we already know that Sneddon & Mitchell are no better than ok - I don't think he's an upgrade. Muirhead made a bad misjudgement for their second goal - Neilson looks a classy player at times but he was poor at their third goal to add to his two errors for Livingston goals. Do we need a defensive coach? Last season we had Tiffoney or Turner in the free role behind Graham - they both carried a threat and kept defenders occupied - McInroy doesn't really and Alston even less - I think that's part of the reason our midfield gets over-run and we lose so many goals. When we had a full fit squad last season, we were the best team in the Division and showed that in the play-off games. There have been very few times this season when I've thought we were significantly better than the opposition. I'm not confident we're good enough to get through the play-offs...if we make them. As seen on TV. Graham was about a yard onside. First disallowed goal was also onside, although that was a very tight decision. Dunfermline's 2nd was also onside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle88 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 I knew the goalkeeper situation would be a absolute fall back on how we played tonight no matter what.. Mitchell knows the the back 4 far better than him.. so the blame lies with Doolan for that no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Gekantawa Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Thistle88 said: I knew the goalkeeper situation would be a absolute fall back on how we played tonight no matter what.. Mitchell knows the the back 4 far better than him.. so the blame lies with Doolan for that no? I don’t think Mitchell is fully fit- he’d been injured for a while Edited February 23 by Duke Gekantawa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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