duncanjwitham Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I had a clear view and it looked like heads to me. Russell got to the ball easily and the Wigan player came steaming in with no intention of playing the ball, only cleaning out Russell and ended up head butting him. Definitely foul, at least a yellow, and he should have been very lucky to not see red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VulcanRam Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Red card all day that challenge. Led with his arm, no intent to get the ball. Whether it was his elbow or his head that eventually came into contact with Russell is immaterial, it was dangerous play.The fact that the ref didn't even give a foul showed how either incompetent he was or how Wigan had managed to influence him. As RamNut said, they were in his ear all afternoon trying to get Martin booked, especially after their defender - the one who threw that hilarious hissy fit - got a yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsmini Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Should have been a red card, incredible the ref only gave a drop ball. Perch should have been sent of oft intent on Ward. We sit in the East stand and you could see from there how high Ward had to jump to get out the way of of Perch. I thought a one point Wigan were trying to emulate a 70's Leeds team. If that's the only way they can win it's not very good is it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rammieib Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 End of the day, does it matter if a late challenge is with the foot or a head....no. Ref offered no protection all game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodleyRam Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Aye don't disagree with you all, Wigan played a very hard, physical brand of football aimed at stopping us from playing at all costs. The ref was pretty abysmal and they were lucky to have 11 on the pitch at the end of it. I'm afraid he was not strong enough to deal with their various tactics but we can't blame him for the defeat, we didn't figure out a way of countering it until it was too late. Feel sorry for Russell, he's not had the best of luck and given a run in the side I think he'd be a top player at this level. Hopefully this is the last of his injury problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 End of the day, does it matter if a late challenge is with the foot or a head....no. Ref offered no protection all game. Exactly. If two teams want to kick lumps out of one another then let them get on with it and the game flow otherwise it'll be a free kick every minute and 8 men each. But when one is trying to play football and the other is intent on breaking skulls then the ref should surely offer protection and do what has to be done at the cost of the quality of the game. Can't believe the credit Howard Webb got for that World Cup final. He made a thuggish game keep flowing. Yeah, had that have been England wouldn't you rather have limbs still attached to your players and play against 9 men than entertain neutrals? Was a ***** game anyway. Thugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 "4f66038121435c8e92efdc7c9965bafb" alt="4f66038121435c8e92efdc7c9965bafb"> Red eye on that photo's awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Although Rodley is right. We didnt really do enough to claim we deserved goals to win it. Al Habsi didnt have much to do for nearly the whole game. When we turned it on we started to look too good. But if you can't turn it on before injury time then you have to take defeat on the chin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Red eye on that photo's awful. Good to have you back. Who's the serious fooker that took over your account for a couple of days worth of arguing? Welcome back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Day Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Puberty, leave him alone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost of Clough Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Wasn't that picture taken after he had an op on it? I'm guessing that's made it look worse than it actually was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodleyRam Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Rodley is right. I'm printing this out and getting it framed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott129 Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 http://instagram.com/p/iuEf9tFg-J/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddesdenRam Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 In my opinion, not a red card. Russell and the Wigan player went up to head it Russell with a timed jump and a good connection the other player was just reckless, he didn't use excessive force though or with any malice he did try to head the ball. I would have given a yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 http://instagram.com/p/iuEf9tFg-J/ Bloody hell.......the photo of his eye looks awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alph Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I'm printing this out and getting it framed. You couldn't work a printer. You didnt know how to post pictures until I told you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 "4f66038121435c8e92efdc7c9965bafb" alt="4f66038121435c8e92efdc7c9965bafb"> Thats awful The lampshade i mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 In my opinion, not a red card. Russell and the Wigan player went up to head it Russell with a timed jump and a good connection the other player was just reckless, he didn't use excessive force though or with any malice he did try to head the ball. I would have given a yellow. He led with his arm. Straight red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaddesdenRam Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 He led with his arm. Straight red. Just watched the incident back on Rams player and he didn't lead with his arm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Just watched the incident back on Rams player and he didn't lead with his arm. Shoulder? OK, deliberate head-butt and that's my final offer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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