Crap Final

 

Verbeek thought so highly of the occasion he came dressed in an old brown jersey!

 

Yes that was a handball in the last minute but often have we seen games when everyone saw something so blatant and the match officials were busy watching something not connected to the play. I mean if they were fiollowing the play, they too would have / should have, seen it.

 

Joel Griffiths early yellow and the hope was on for the second one or a red but it was not to be. A sad game indeed.

 

There's a first

 

Ps; Any Refs - did Shields restart the game after the send off without a goalkeeper, thought you had to have a goal-keeper ?

Mark Shields and his assistants were copping an earful from both teams all the game. They shouldn't have to, they are reffing the game to the best of their abilities, just as the players are playing to the best of theirs.

And what about that free header that Aloisi missed? If there was any justice the ref would have run up to him and screamed in his face "you useless pile of muck!".

The officials let the players get away with far too much dissent, not just in this game but in any top game you watch nowadays. It needs to be eliminated from the game.

 

good point

 

players throughout the world give refs way to much crap, and the kids get to see it and decide it's the right thing to do

 

Lonegunman, you are talking drivel. Mark Shields is the top referee in this neck of the woods.

Too many players, coaches and fans are prepared to blame the ref for all their own team's shortfalls. The fact is if John Aloisi had buried the earlier header as he should have then all this carry-on wouldn't even be happening. CCM did not lose the final because of a refereeing error - although I acknowledge there was one - they lost it because on the day they weren't good enough to win it. They didn't have  a player who stepped up when required like Bridge did.

 

And speaking now as an England fan, I have always excepted that they lost to Argentina in 86 because England weren't good enough to win that day. Yes, Maradona punched the ball into the net, but if Lineker had done the same at the other end (which he probably should have tried from Barnes' cross, knowing what had gone before...) I would have accepted that too.

 

And finally, for those who cry "show some consistency" at the refs, well, you tend to be the same people who also spout off about refs "showing a bit of commonsense". You can have one or the other, not both.

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day Sheilds & the linesmen blew it on a very important decision at the most crucial of times.

 

Having now probably seen the replays etc, I would be very curious to know What Mark Shields  etc thinks of it now.

 

oddly enough "Mis of the night" other than the hand ball must go to that CCM player at the end who lined up a power volley only to send it 90 degrees away from the goal. I think it scuffed the top of his boot.

 

Agree, he missed the most crucial decision of the match. If he had wave the protests away claiming it wasn't hand ball fair enough but looks like he just miss the whole incident which for a ref at this level [ any level really for such a basic decision] is poor. Don't think Mark Shields will be watching any replays

 

Players get dropped  -  have any ref's been dropped from the A-LEAGUE this season ?

 

He was bloody unlucky them , should been a couple more to join him on games I have seen this season