The_Sheriff

2 minutes ago, Chris_Martin said:

how was it earned?, it was a handball. Thats not something the team have created

They havent just out of nowhere handled the ball.  We have got ourselves up the pitch put in a cross which waghorn got on the end of forcing their defender to try stop a goal. Unfortunately for him illegally.

So yes penalties are very much earned. 

13 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:

a penalty is 0.79xg though, so take that off and portsmouth deserved it

Why take it off though? We earned that penalty.

We score every game! 

37 minutes ago, Shuff264 said:

So grim feeling like you stole a point at home, such awful football with no sign of improvement.

Checked xG and it's as I expected 0.62 -1.58, Pompey can feel very hard done by.

1.75 to 1.65 in our favour xg was on the site i used.

A draw was a fair result.

Another great performance by this ref at pride park.

Not being sarcastic.

I moan about refs often enough so credit where due

Scored every single league game this season

Cant do a deal with chansiri

1 hour ago, Chris_Martin said:

We didn't start the game with 10 men though did we, only went down to 10 around 50 mins. Either way, weather we score the penalty or score just before it it's still only one shot overall. 

Thats still 40+ minutes with 10 men away at the best team in the league.

Scored 4 at pboro and 3 at burton so we are hardly gun shy!

23 hours ago, Chris_Martin said:

Your talking about the same side thats only shot on goal v bolton was a penalty

Well we did have 10 men... did actually score a goal for it to be brought back for a penalty and we had a couple more very strong penalty shouts.

21 hours ago, Jubbs said:

We were top of the league in xG from open play under Rosenioir.

What about overall?  Obviously you can score goals from set pieces too.

11 hours ago, Ambitious said:

Not guessed, but assumed (and assumed wrong). The ball hit Wildsmith in the chest/stomach, but his arm was out and he dived into the ball. You would have to have superhuman cognitive reasoning to see that in real time. I think 90% of refs give it as handball - 90% of the ground thought he handled it. 

There wasn’t even much of a protest from our players aside from Wildsmith - watching it on RamsTV it looked like a stonewall red card. It took a camera angle looking right down the barrel that proved it wasn’t, but you can’t blame the ref for that. It’s just one of those things. 

Assumed and guessed not a lot of difference in definition is there?

He either seen it or he didnt. 

You cant say its anything other then poor officiating when the ref didnt blow straight away so he wasnt sure and the linesman didnt flag so he clearly wasnt sure either.

Cant be guessing/assuming that somethings happened but unfortunately the officials did.

12 minutes ago, Ambitious said:

As annoying as the red card was, now knowing that he didn’t handle it, honestly don’t blame the referee for sending him off. He dived with his arm out and despite his protest, it looked like a stonewall red card. Refs don’t have the ability to watch the game in slow motion, unfortunately. 

What did irritate me, however, was the handball which should’ve been a penalty and then the rugby tackle. I felt his general management of the game was terrible. So, while I can forgive him for the red card, he’s an appalling referee in general. He was one of the worst we had last season too, which also caused us to lose a big game away. 

I would make a request, if possible, that he just be blacklisted from our games. 

How can you give an excuse for the red? He clearly didnt know wildsmith handled it which is why he played on before pulling it back and then asked the linesman who didnt even flag for it.

They guessed!! And obviously guessed wrong.

2 hours ago, Jourdan said:

Who are these players that are going to play fast, vibrant, passing attacking football?

Méndez Laing, who can’t last 60 minutes and is equal measures frustrating and exciting?

Smith and Hourihane, who can only prosper on the ball when they are given the freedom of the continent?

Sibley and Barkhuizen, who can’t stay fit or find enough consistency to get a place in the team?

Cashin, who only has a sweeping long ball in his locker?

Let’s be honest, we have a squad which is not above this level and isn’t particularly blessed with technically strong players who can play good attacking football against all comers. This is why our play orbited around McGoldrick for 70% of the season previously.

The only one who is really fit for a passing team is Bird, and currently he is injured and come January, he might be on the move.

If you want to see a good passing team, @CornwallRam is right. It will need time, patience and investment.

What a post!

I have no stats to back it up but under warne we always look like scoring i would imagine our xg proves this in comparison to rosenior or rooney or cocu? 

I know i am in the minority but i am happy to be more direct instead of passing sideways and backwards. 

Too many fans dont know the difference between possession and domination/control of a game

Officials guessing and making game changing errors.

So frustrating 10v14 by looks of it.

I would imagine we will appeal the red

So frustrating reading this thread. Too many waiting to say warne out at the first chance of things going against us.

We just lost to the best team in the league 2-1 with 10 men and a few pen shouts. 

3 pts from pboro and bolton away is not a bad return.

Get behind the team plenty of games left!

Just now, Bris Vegas said:

It depends but it’s far more plausible it would have been structured, say:

£750k upfront.

£250k per year over four years.

£150k for every 10 PL appearances up to £1.5m

£750k if Brighton finish in the top four.

Regardless if the club got 4m up top or the above that only helps us off the pitch.

On the pitch we would have been weaker! 

Spot on deadline day for us.

Managed to keep cashin who would have been a big blow to lose and got a goal scoring midfielder in.

The squads healthy! Just need them to perform now

I dont get how according to big trav a few weeks ago we didnt have a pot to piss in and now we can buy JCH who will cost a 7 figure fee

Do we need anyone else? I think we have enough now if no one leaves.

Perhaps another cm

Warne will probably encourage it. During his time here he has hinted we are not 'coy' enough.

Its a tactic that always frustrates me in the game but its very effective and undoubtedly stopped them having a chance of getting another and giving us shakey legs

Korey smiths best game in a rams shirt.  Not getting recognition he deserves probably due to waghorn and thommo being brilliant too

Imminent

I reckon hes a middle aged west stand fan who is mates/related with the photographer at dcfc

Just my guess 🤣

Well that hickman is not coming is he so move on

Is the deal done if pics have been taken though? Didnt daniel james have his done at leeds then swansea pulled the deal 11th hour