But, he didn't stop him from a goalscoring chance as the ball was in the keepers hands before he hit the deck. So, 'to the letter of the law' it was a foul but not a red card.
God knows what you're on about now. He fouled him in front of goal just as McLean was about to shoot, there's nothing to actually argue about if we're just implementing the current rules, which the ref obviously was doing.
I remember saying something similar at the time, but to send someone off for denying a goal scoring opportunity and then providing a clear goal scoring opportunity as well, smacks of a double whammy to me. However, the guy was an experienced player who presumably knew the consequences, so he must have felt goal was imminent unless he acted. If Leicester fans have a beef, it should be with that player, although the set up of the team after the sending off was very, very poor and negative imho, so perhaps the gaffer at the time should have got some stick. A gaffer here doing that certainly would have done.
Happy to agree with Bob but for different reasons - his Missus reliably informs me that coming first is one of his specialities!
No it wasn't. even the Leicester fans that looked when you claimed before agreed you were wrong on that claim.
We were at home against a side that was doing well in the league with no end of attack minded players. For half an hour after we scored we looked quite good, we were playing well enough to have kept a draw or snatch a goal but we then decided to (rightly IMO) bring Fernandes on to soak up pressure from your midfield. Shame that one mistake from us led to your goal because our performance that day deserved a point. Why Koren was allowed that much room was beyond me. Although after working as hard as the lads did I suppose a goal was inevitable. But, anyway, what you're saying is why didn't we just roll over? Well, we know that away points are valuable in this league and a point against you with 10 men is a good point.
No, I'm not saying why didn't you just roll over, because that's exactly what you did do. To try to park the bus as you did for that long was only going to lead to one outcome and showed a distinct lack of faith in the defence. It was only one player. Teams usually end up playing better with ten men as each player doubles their effort to take up the slack. I doubt a manager here would have got away with such negativity.
Do all female Hull City fans look like this? http://www.ambernectar.org/blog/2008/08/photo-special-dogs-in-city-shirts/ Seriously, that's some horrific animal cruelty right there.
What do you mean 'such negativity'? When we still had players like King, Nugent, Gallagher, Danns, Wellens and Dyer playing? We had a flat back four and a flat midfield four with Nugent working his arse off up front. The fact is, the team did work really hard and because you are naturally a passing side you were able to exploit space that we were unable to fill. True, a goal was inevitable, but if we'd had played any different I think it'd have ended up 3/4-1 and you can't blame Nige for that. Fact is, we didn't roll over at all. We dug in and frustrated you for an hour before you scored a wonder goal that;d be worthy to win any match.
I honestly don't see why there's a debate over the outcome of the last meeting between us. We'd probably play similarly as you did in that match if we were a man down. It's pretty normal to sit back and make it difficult for the opposition. Infact it's good management and tactics. I thought Pearson was starting to get it right here and I was suprised when he left. The boring/ greedy bastard stuff is getting tedious now.
If you're happy with that sort of performance, that's your choice. We don't have to suffer it every week, and would certainly make our opinions known if we were served up something like that too often. He gave us it on a plate. Quite a few of us thought it was a parting gift the outcome of his action was so blatant.
I've just seen the goals from last night. Forest were absolute gash! I thought Beckford's second was a good finish, but Forest's defending was generous to say the least! That miss from Findley was comical too
You are free to think that. But I felt it was a fantastic, hard working, gritty performance of which the result didn't do it justice. The kind of shift we should be putting in week in week out. Unfortunately we went down to 10 men. Although, had we have been at home, we'd have drawn that game or maybe even won it.
You should enjoy Nige then, you seem easily pleased. As soon as we saw what he'd done we relaxed knowing it was job done. Feel free to encourage the same style and display in March. It won't be entertaining to watch, but it'll be funny and points are points. There was nothing unfortunate about the ten men. Your man could see a goal was inevitable so gambled and lost.
So you don't think that having the backing of your 20k or so fans who wanted Nigel's blood had much to do with it? Fine.
where did I say that? PS there's no need to keep adding a little smiley head, it makes you look insecure.
I don't think he got much grief to be honest. Are you sure you're thinking of the right game because your comments don't really seem to reflect real events?
I've misread. Apologies. To say you 'relaxed' is a lie. Your fans went absolutely mental when you scored
