17 Apr 2017 14:40:11
When are Referees going to start getting interviewed after the game to explain the certain decisions made in games? Are we just meant to accept it was a mistake and move on? I can understand maybe just MAYBE the Jamie Walker decision at the start of the season as the little fool made it look like a penalty in real time. But that decision yesterday was the worst penalty decision I've seen in 30 years of watching the game. It was that bad a decision it actually made it on the TV screens in North Korea 🙄! Joking aside tho it's time referees start explaining certain decisions made after the game. Dembele has had a couple this season which I won't ever accept even playing for the club I support and I'm sure Brendan has had a word in his ear regarding this. That penalty decision didn't just cheat us, it cheated all the clubs fighting relegation. Hopeflly the little scum bag gets a lengthy ban. And as for the Brown tackle, it was a yellow and nothing more. No studs were shown but it was mistimed. If that was a red in my local junior league I play in each team would finish with 7 men each! It is a mans game after all! HH.

{Ed007's Note - To be honest at the time I was raging with Broony but the more I seen it the more I felt it only warranted a yellow card but the ref seemed to be swayed by the County players reaction.}

1.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 14:51:08
He was certainly swayed ed, he was going for yellow until all the pushing started. This was the same ref (I'm pretty sure) who only gave a yellow for a horror tackle on young Tierney earlier in the season vs Murderwell.

{Ed007's Note - Yeah it's the same ref.}

2.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 15:18:59
We need to start a campaign to get a TMO in Scottish football, like rugby. There's a few different ways rules could be implemented for it to work; tennis gives each player 3 challenges per game, rugby the ref asks for help if he's not 100%.

Either way - I'm sure I'm not alone in being fed up arguing with Newco fans about referees every other weekend.

3.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 15:03:34
Sometimes I feel for the refs when players dive as it just makes their job more difficult but there is absolutely no excuse for yesterday's penalty decision, none whatsoever. Brown's, at the time, I thought was very reckless because of the speed he dived in and it was pretty clear that he'd lost the head and went for the man and not the ball. Whether or not it warranted a red card I don't know. I know he was frustrated but the league's won and there are important games coming up you'd expect better from your captain.

4.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 15:54:48
I can never understand why referees are such a protected species. I'm not sure about the ruling in Scotland, but in England a manager is forced to speak to the press after a match and explain his teams performance, yet if he criticises a referee he is fined by the FA regardless of the accuracy in what he said.
If yesterdays referee is convinced he made the right call, then why would he object to explaining it in public, if he admitted that he'd got the decision wrong then he would take a lot of the heat out of things by admitting his error.
Referees are as entitled as anyone else to make a mistake, everybody does, but they should have to explain the reason behind certain decisions in the same way that managers have to explain team selections, both affect players livelihoods.
Decisions at this time of year can have a major impact on clubs, players, and fans, it's not asking too much for these decisions to be explained.

5.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 16:58:41
Thought I read that the ref had apologised to Brendan for making a mistake.

6.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 18:48:43
Broonies tackle was reckless but influenced by penalty decision. Any other club and any other time it's a yellow.

7.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 19:30:55
Were any players booked for the pushing by the way? Or was the red all that was on the Don's mind? I know Jozo hoyed somebody down but there was a mele of County players in there as well.

8.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 21:25:52
Brown's tackle was disgusting. He went out his way to hurt Boyce.

9.) 17 Apr 2017
17 Apr 2017 22:42:42
Did you say that cee when kenny Miller did a two footed lunge, studs showing! No where near a ball? I think not mate.

10.) 18 Apr 2017
18 Apr 2017 00:34:23
ive been tackled harder by a wee old woman with her shopping trolley in asda, my thoughts on the headless chicken brown on here are well known, but it was a total overreaction to an admittedly hard tackle but nothing over the top of the ball, studs up or two footed about it.