Dangerous play this season

Edit: some people seem to misunderstand my point. This is not about the referee today. It is about the culture of allowing these challenges until someone gets hurt in general over the course of the season.

Fergusson's straight red will get more attention; but TBH Huns gonna be Huns and Thompson is a muppet, but he's not biased and it was right in front of him. It was deliberate and was always going to walk.

For me the more important one was Ball on Christie. Of course he didn't mean it, but that sort of dangerous play was already a feature since Brendan Rodgers took over from Ronny and it has gone into a sort of overdrive this season.

It seems that our players actually have to get badly hurt for these challenges to receive a yellow and I feel really angry. Yes I know Thompson gave it and he walked, but these challenges are a direct result of referees not giving yellows in games were no one gets hurt and that has to stop. I hope Ryan Christie is alright.

Seriously, someone at the club has to say something about this.

I've not put this in the ref thread, because for me it's a separate issue from the fact that some of them are definitely biased. It's the culture in Scottish refereeing to let these challenges go if there is no intent to foul unless someone gets hurt.

 

For me Thompson actually had a good game. Fergus-hun one was just a straight assault right enough, impossible for any referee not to give it.

I get the feeling from the game that McInnes sent them out telling them to get stuck right in, and they lost the plot when they realised they couldn't get near us, hence the reds.

 

Referee got pretty much all the major decisions correct.

 

I don't think so*; but that's not really the point, mate. It's not this game: there have been dangerous tackles on us all season and the reason is that opposing players know that, unless our player actually does get badly hurt, they won't receive a yellow.

If that doesn't change, we will continue to see our players getting hurt.



* Forrest booking when he was clearly tugged and giving a foul against Eddy when it was actually a stonewall penalty being the two biggest reasons. Thompson is very fair, there's not a shred of bias in him; he's just utterly incompetent.

 

He didn't; but that actually isn't even the point. Read the OP, mate.

 

I thought GMS was * dead when Boyata smashed him at Hampden earlier in the season I don't remember the concern on here about dangerous play then. Its football. The boy was sent off, move on.

 

I was screaming at that Forrest decision in real time, but on the replay he does go down. He was inconsistent with the Aberdeen players' simulation after that but it wasn't a FK/pen for me.

 

There was a * load of concern on here about that.

 

Was the concern about referee's causing it because they were too leniant in previous games?

 

Not about dangerous play. More about his well being.

 

Exactly. It's the tunnel vision of the club football fan at work again.

 

You may want to check my post history if you think that.

 

Did you start a thread blaming the referees for Boyata being allowed to make the challenge because of previous leniancy?

 

IIRC Boyata was unsighted for that and he is about 5 times GMS's size; he wasn't being reckless, just showing his lack of awareness.

I think this needs to be stamped out regardless of the club, including if it is one of ours; but tell me, do you think our players put in a lot of dangerous tackles? Do you think our players are adequately protected?

 

Bullshit mate, there was quite a lot of us at the time how football as a whole should be handling head knocks and how its something that is largely ignored and can cause major problems down the line.

 

No, because I don't think Boyata was being reckless. It was a 50/50 ball and he couldn't see GMS. You will note that Ball today had Christie right in front of him.

But that's a side issue. It needs stamped out regardless of the club the player plays for.

 

I think the speed of the game now means lots of players are capable of dangerous tackles.
If you mean intentionally, then that’s a different argument & almost impossible to prove.

 

So you thought it was dangerous play by Boyata.
Random didn’t.

 

No, I thought it was a head clash. What I’m saying is there was far more concern for both GMS and the wider discussion of it in football.

 

That too, mate; but there is also a consistent pattern of reckless tackles now I think. More than ever this season.