Thats your opinion fair enough, but I have watched it 3 times and saw it differently. I will try to get the shots on here when i can.
I'm with H, it was dangerous and deserved his yellow, if he had not just been booked the second one would have been a yellow, all in all a very lucky boy IMHO!
agreed Al, though the game could have been very different by then if they'd had their overly well deserved red!
The Ref bottled it, like I said on one of our threads, we all need enlightening to what the exact rules are and each and every Ref needs to abide by them. No grey areas just black and white, the players will soon realise, what they can and cannot do!
If you can justify that then fair enough, but he got the ball first, his studs were not up dangerously high and he did not leave the ground. It was no worse than Kompany's!
not on contact they werent. he was on the floor. I will show when i get the video, but the short highlights have missed it out
Well i saw the yeates tackle at half time and my dad even had the nerve to question that, but he was silent when we watched it later lol. A good job we record the live games
gotta say, if we can't even agree after watching it a few times, it must be very difficult for the ref to get it right! lol
well there should be a basic rule that if you play the ball first with out being blatantly reckless or dangerous then its fair. Dangerous and reckless should be anything over the top of the ball, or from behind, or a high boot. The Eustace incident should have been red, the Kompany one should have been a pat on the back and the Robson-Kanu tackle should have been red too
I think 8 games unbeaten was pretty consistent. The Boro' game we should have drawn but the lineman forgot his specs that day, and we were unlucky on saturday. We are doing ok atm, if we can pick up 3/4 points from the next two games it will help us a lot, but so long as we pick up points against the teams around us i will be happy.
Very nice statistic.....until you dig a bit deeper and find only 3 of the 8 games were WON,and five of em were at home.Theres always someone else to blame(refs and people with flags an easy option), but factually I suggest this is a struggling club at present in every sense of the word.
That may be true, but again its only half the facts. You have to consider we drew against Leeds, Brighton and Cardiff who are all in the top 11, and are strong squads. Also the general rule of thumb is 3 points at home and 1 away, so a point away at the Keepmoat is nothing to worry about. I can blame the officials for us loosing to Middlesborough as the goal was scored when the player was offside, and we can say we were unlucky against Reading cos they should have been down to 10 men in the first half, giving us about 25-30 mins to dominate (you would hope).
This is the Yeates incident for those who did not see it. I think we can conclusively say that Robson-Kanu was a thug and did not deserve to be on the pitch after that!! See the way his studs are racking the calf of Yeates when the ball has gone! And here we have the proof that Forsyth got the ball first and made a good challenge. He gets the ball and forces it on to the boot of Karacan. He is on the floor, even the commentator commented on that. Granted his studs are leading, but if you send a player off for that you are saying you can only tackle from the side or not at all. The studs are to help you grip and therefore you will not slide with them pointing down. Yes his follow through catches the player, but his foot doesnt, its his leg. It was wet that night so he was going to slide, its unavoidable. You cannot send someone off for that!! Hopefully these shed some light on the situation for those who could not see it.
