A-League 20/21 The Other Matches Thread

Classic hun behaviour that. Pish and a thug.

As an aside, apart from Victory, i'm not sure there are any easy games.

Fox Sport are muppets- 'refs handled that well.'   High foot, dangerous play, 9/10 red. Marco out for some time. 

I've never thought King was a good ref. He's worse than Beath. For mine, Beath is usually consistentish, though he had a couple of irritated calls last game and tbf I'm happy to see players pinged for swearing and dissent. 

King though is the exemplar of the A league trend to react to playacting or complaining rather than fouls and not to punish dangerous challenges. 

I don't think it looked like malice, but very dangerous play- exactly why there is a high foot rule. 

Jaysus Fox I'd hate to see your HR complaints- ' it was a bouncy touch by Rojas and he's put himself and his team in the firing line.' ' Rojas must have made a mess of his nose'.

On a selfish level good for the Nix if Rojas misses a few games.

They play Victory next Wednesday in Melbs, backing up after CCM on Sunday, whilst VUC will have had a nice 7 day break.

That's interesting. My view on King and Beath is pretty much the opposite of yours. I've always seen King as a very consistent ref who communicates effectively and controls the game well with a minimum of mistakes (last night being the exception). The games flow better, players visibly respond better to his decision making and there is generally way less coach/player angst than in games reffed by Ams, Evans, Beath, Kersey, etc. 

Chris Beath is extremely experienced yet is so often at the heart of refereeing controversies that I cringe whenever I see his name down to ref a Nix game. Consistent he is not. He also has a bad habit of slowing down games with schoolmasterly lectures of players which annoys them as much as it does me!

I guess with Beath I don't think he's great, but he usually doesn't lose control. Maybe just have forgotten his games. He hasn't reffed us much recently.

Ams and Kersey the worst defo. 

Tbh I'd trust your recall above mine at the mo. My ref bug bears are not carding dangerous tackles early and listening to players selling fouls too much. 

Either way it's a really difficult and unenviable job. The amount of crap referees cop is unbelievable and I often find that as I'm yelling at the TV as poor, nervous Kurt Ams stuffs up yet again I also feel quite sympathetic. 

Although the standard of A League officiating still isn't where it needs to be I think it has improved in the 13 years we've been watching. For me atm there are two excellent refs, another couple coming along really well, with the rest a bit so-so but giving it their best shot. Frankly that's a better ratio of quality than the league has had for most of it's lifespan.

It's a wet one tonight

Couple of great last ditch defending to keep Derbyshire from scoring

Adelaide really having the defend hard out

Derbyshire finally scores,  1-0

and now, finally Derbyshire heads home from lose range to give Mac lead

Derbyshire again,  2-0

and Derbyshire doubles it three minutes later

Milligan makes it 3-0

There's a spike in the scoring!

Hatty for Matty, 4-0

Must say I was surprised at how poor Adelaide's defence was

DDS prods home an under hit back pass to open the scoring,  0-1

VAR declines to over rule a questionable penalty. Juric converts, 1-1

Kuol!! 1-2

Another questionable penalty, 2-2

VAR finds a hand ball & Juric gets a hatty from the spot. 3-2

This has been some watch.

Trying to imagine our forums if we were CCM in this match.

Rowles shown a red post game. 

Soon as I heard Kurt Ams was the VAR I thought this ain't gonna end well. And is it it true that Fielding gave Stajic a yellow card for "standing up all game"? 

Another classic A League officiating disaster.

Hey, at least it wasn't us, would feed another conspiracy thread.

Goal out of nowhere, Western take an early lead.  1-0

Is it just me or does anyone else find Archie Thompson interesting to listen to? His analysis seems on to it but he also has a sense of humour to go with it.

Tbh I'm not sure about his analysis but I'd rather listen to him than Slater or Bozza. At least he doesn't have a massive ego.

Berisha doubles the lead just before half time,  2-0

3-0

3-0. Macarthur's defense caught our playing a high line again

FFS why is VAR getting involved in that? Wasn't last night enough of a mess already?

...Sanity prevails.

This Point.

4-0 Berisha 138 goals now.

Berisha follows up on a rebound off the bar, 4-0

4-1 Derbyshire