@threadx We had him at Robin Park v Newcastle and he was equally as poor, there. In that we won not because of him, but in spite of him.
Paulie xx
@pauliewalnuts Walker looks short just before half time , and the hooker at the start of second half looks to bounce it wild was furious 😡
Oldham obviously posted them on there Facebook is you want to see 🙈
Again, I can't find the members only full match, is it just that they are not being posted? I was hoping to get James's view on the refereeing decisions.
@owl No argument from me on this.
Overall the Referee and his TJs completely ruined the game. On the first tackle we had, the Oldham player should have at least got a 'Yellow', and he may have, if we all hadn't ran in causing a melee. We have to be more disciplined in those situations and let the Ref sort it. We lost out as he deemed pulling the Captains for a chat sufficient. I don't think I've seen so many 'knock-ons' unpunished. Coleman was absolutely raging on the bench, and rightly so. A bad night at the office, Oldham did a job on us, fair play to them.
Paulie xx
The running in,which Widnes do all too frequently,. Your right the ref is then dealing with that and the original situation gets forgotten. The TJ should be watching the situation after the ball has gone and if the ref missed the incident then at least one TJ should have seen it. We always seem to get on the wrong side of refs ......wonder why?...well notice Oldham sent only one player up to dispute any call......is this is the coaching at fault here?
Well only listened to commentary but they seemed very annoyed with some of the decisions
We missed Joe edge deffo, not sure that Fleming was fit, but good score
we need to regroup before Donny, what is the news on junior sambou - hasn’t been in the squad for a long time ?
sargent too - will we ever see him play ?
lawton has to play Wednesday, should have played yesterday against his old team
The full match on YouTube still hasn’t been uploaded for the oldham game. I thought it was meant to be uploaded an hour after the final whistle
We have not been able to play the game for a long time. Every other team stays down after foul play resulting in a Firstly a penalty then consultation about a card. The rules are there for both teams yet for years we never use them. School boy coaching equates to schoolboy on field behaviour. We don't even wriggle in the tackle so the ref allows lying on. We have needed to wise up for a long time but we have not. Stop blaming the ref it's down to coaching. Every other team plays the ref but we haven't a clue how to.
@prisoner To be fair, to a degree I agree with you, but last night the Ref was 'unplayable'. At least 3 Oldham knock-ons were allowed to play on. It got that bad I saw TG mouth to Coleman that the Ref was 'a joke'. I speak to Tom regularly, and he never criticises the Officials. So make of that what you will. Take away the two dubious tries, and the extra field position they were afforded, the game would have been more of a contest. Which is a shame. Well done Oldham, roll on Wednesday.
Paulie xx
@mckviking Just been onto the Ambassador Group, and they are looking into it now. It will be Tim Holmes last task at the Club, so cherish it.
Paulie xx
Just re-watched the match online, some absolute stinkers from the Ref them knock on’s was ridiculous. Don’t think we’d have won with a different ref but I think the score would’ve been more respectable to us.
Not sure how that Oldham fella didn’t get sent off in the first minute a high tackle both feet off the floor and takes Roberts head off.
Just re-watched the match online, some absolute stinkers from the Ref them knock on’s was ridiculous. Don’t think we’d have won with a different ref but I think the score would’ve been more respectable to us.
Not sure how that Oldham fella didn’t get sent off in the first minute a high tackle both feet off the floor and takes Roberts head off.
I suggest otherwise.
Think about it; with a different ref Oldham would have been playing with 12 men for most of the game, two of their "tries" would have been disallowed, the absolute stinkers and not-given knock ons wouldn't have happened and our disallowed try may have been allowed.
I think we would have won.
But it wasn't a different referee so we lost.
We badly missed Edge. Thought our forwards did well actually. But our back play in the absence of Edge and Butt was poor compared to Oldham's. Yes, the refereeing was awful but Oldham are a good team, no doubt about it, showed up our deficiencies and where we need to improve.