Match Day Thread Bristol Rovers (H)

Blimey, you're right.

Maybe confidence, or lack of it in both cases?

 

Poyet has just been released too, once again he's a free agent

 

Karl Robinson has said that neither the Charlton goal or the red card were correct decisions in our 1-0 win over Bristol Rovers;

http://www.kentlive.news/charlton-b...r-a-red-card/story-30472061-detail/story.html

The goal;
I don't know if Robinson has seen additional video footage of our goal from different angles, but where I sit I'm a lot closer to the away end goal line than KR, and I saw the ball go clearly behind the line before their keeper scooped it back out. There seemed to be a moment of hesitation, but the linesman's call was the right one. Naturally their goalie made a show of being outraged by the decision, but he knew it was over the line.
From where he was standing, Robinson cannot have had much of a view of it.
Unless somebody can prove it did not cross the line with one of those computer graphic things it was a good goal for me.

the red card;
What Lee Novak did was by far not the nastiest challenge I have ever seen, but it was very clumsy. On another day a different referee might have been lenient and given Novak a stern talking to and a yellow card (the games was only 6 minutes old after all) but I have seen plenty of straight reds given for the kind of tackle Novak put in. I don't think there was really much valid argument about it.
And it is not the referee's job to consider how a decision he makes might affect the rest of the game. He is there to enforce the rules, albeit with some common sense discretion. When my own brief hopes that Novak would escape with a yellow card were snuffed out I was not very surprised.
And I don't think an appeal would have got anywhere.

 

Yeah - I thought his post match comments were a bit odd but if he's going to appeal the red then I think he was trying to make the officials come across as incompetent. Whether thats the smartest thing to do with 45 matches still to play remains to be seen.

 

Robinson mentioned in his post match discussion that he would not appeal the card.

 

Is it a 3-match ban for violent conduct?

 

Yep. 4 games if they do it twice I believe.

 

If you're going to have a player sent off, Novak's the man you'd choose.

 

Yep - relieved he's not around for the next 3 games. The guy is an idiot for that challenge, an example of not being arsed.

 

I just think it was a case of Novak wanting to prove himself. But being reckless isn't the way to do it.