League Two Rovers v carlisle

[bigmart]

Morris sent off wtf

 

[bigmart]

2 2

 

[bigmart]

Shocking ref, absolutely gutted to concede so late, played very well 2nd half.

 

[Ian]

So annoyed right now. Will post later

 

[Goody Two Shoes]

Yep, pretty speechless myself. Somebody’s received a brown envelope.

 

[Boz]

We were under the cosh for much of the second half but Nevitt scored with a breakaway effort. Morris red card seemed incredibly harsh but we didn’t manage the ball well late on and Carlisle grabbed a late heart breaking equaliser. Amazingly we’re still in the top seven just, which is the only consolation

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

The reality is it was a good performance this afternoon, and if it had not been for a rush of blood by MacDonald and an appalling official we would have comfortably won the game.

In the first thirty minutes I thought our passing and the tempo of our play was good, and Carlisle were lucky to be only one goal down at that stage. Patrick was a constant threat on the break but we were the better side, with Morris making a huge difference to the quality of our attacking play.

In the second half we generally coped admirably well when down to ten men, and credit has to go both to the players for the spirit they showed, and also to Mellon for keeping both strikers on the pitch, which ensured we still maintained an attacking threat. Carlisle huffed and puffed but created little apart from the deflected equaliser, whereas we continued to look dangerous when we broke away.

My first reaction to the MacDonald incident was that it was a red card because he was out of control when making the tackle; no idea why he flew in like that in the opposition half. The straight red for Morris was an absolute nonsense, and I was not even convinced the challenge was a foul.

After the second goal it seemed we would relatively comfortably, and deservedly, see the game out, but the second red left us hopelessly outnumbered in the box in the closing stages. Even then, their second equaliser was as cruel as can be imagined, with a speculative thirty-yarder rebounding off the post and falling to their man.

I agreed with the sponsor's choice of Kane Hemmings as man of the match, and it was good to see both strikers scoring excellent goals, after all the debate about the front men.

Time will tell how costly the two lost points are, but of greater concern is losing MacDonald and Morris for three games, particularly the latter.

 

[Sparky]

I’ve calmed down a bit now and trying to be positive. The front men both scored and we’re still in the play offs. It was gutting to concede yet another late goal but given we’ve conceded some when it’s been 11v11, with 9v11 it was fairly inevitable, even though they had some luck when it hit the post and fell to their striker. I missed McDonald’s tackle but heard the ‘ooooohhh’ from the paddock so it must have been a bad one. if a definite red then a silly challenge giving the ref a decision to make when he was on the half way line and we‘re one nil up.

their equaliser was disappointing and showed the value of having some pace up top as we couldn’t deal with Patrick. A good finish from nevitt after a top save from Murphy but as I say, once it was 9 men I could see the equaliser coming.

another positive was if their had been another 5-10 mins we would have probably lost that game.

as for the ref, what a joke. He even booked micky after the melee who to me looked like he was deliberately staying away from it.

as RLC says any suspensions will be a real concern albeit merrie did ok

 

[keep the faith]

players have bad games get dropped, managers get sacked todays imposter of a referee will be allowed to turn up next week to cause more carnage, who assesses these refs? feel gutted for everyone today, you would have thought Carlisle had won the league they way they acted at the end. now to calm down.

 

[Rockford's Love Child]

Having seen the MacDonald challenge back, I am not convinced that was a red card either. He wins the ball, but then slips as he challenges and follows through. Probably a yellow.

 

[Goody Two Shoes]

Despite stil, being livid, I want to take my hat off to the lads who put up a brave battle. Great passing, cross and finish for the first and Nevitt still had a helluva lot to do and finished superbly under pressure. Every cloud has a silver lining I guess.

 

[Goody Two Shoes]

Having seen the MacDonald challenge back, I am not convinced that was a red card either. He wins the ball, but then slips as he challenges and follows through. Probably a yellow.

Spot on, happened right in front of us in the Town Paddock. You’d have ten players per game red carded of that’s the standard. Told my son it’ll be a while before he sees such a bizarre refereeing performance again; he’s perplexed and I don’t have any words of wisdom to justify what he just witnessed……….that old cliche of it’ll even itself out over the season doesn’t sit well with me on this occasion.

 

[ADD]

Distraught by that ending.
We had played some really decent football that was much more positive up to the MacDonald sending off. Looked like he got the ball but it was a rash challenge with both feet off the ground that didn't need to be made either. Sadly whether a red or not I can't see that it will be overturned and it will be a 4 game ban not 3 if it isn't as his second sending off of the season!
Morris one much harder to justify and he wasn't even looking at the player so zero intent but his foot was very high so sadly not sure that the referee's decison will be overturned if we do appeal it which we probably should in any event.
Great backs to the wall stuff therefter although marking for their first from a short corner was poor then a superb save from Murphy ,a great break and credit to Nevitt for the finish under so much pressure.
Players need to feed off the intensity and style they showed with much more football on the deck today in the remaining games to overcome adversity and we need to continue playing on the front foot as I felt we would have won comfortably but for the first sending off.

 

[ADD]

 

[frenchrover]

Total, total travesty in a game in which we played some really good football with Morris providing so much skill and endeavour on his return to the side, including a brilliant cross for Hemmings to latch onto to put us deservedly in the lead. The game turned initially on the red card for MacDonald although in my opinion it was a yellow at worst. This sending off allowed Carlisle back into the game and despite some tremendous defensive work throughout by the 10 men Carlisle were able to equalise only for the game to turn again but in Rovers favour when Carlisle found themselves behind once more following a superb save by Murphy and some quick thinking and a brilliant through ball by Merrie to find Nevitt who showed some pace and control to put Rovers back in front. A further turn in the game came with the nonsensical sending off of Morris for a tackle that should never have warranted a yellow card had the referee not been an absolute shambles. The final, and most painful turn came with the most fortunate of equalisers for Carlisle in the 7th minute of stoppage time when the 9 white shirts were unable to prevent a speculative long-distant strike hitting the Rovers goalpost only for the ball to cannon back directly to a United player who was able to head in the rebound past the grounded Murphy.
Man of the match, for me, was Elliot Nevitt for not only his calmness in scoring the goal of the match but for his total work effort in lengthy periods of the game when we were inevitably under pressure of being one man and then two men down.

 

[Ian]

Morris sending off, Micky: "The linesman said it was a foul for you". That pretty much sums up the atrocious refereeing today.
Feel sorry for the players, they worked magnificantly hard today and never gave up even when down to 9 men. At least we are not out of it and 18 points still to play for but it was a hard one to take today, very tough..

I actually feel like we've lost!..

 

[bigmart]

Macdonald will get a 4 game ban as its his second red card of the season.

 

[Sparky]

Paul Simpson Carlisle manager saying it’s one of the most hostile atmospheres he’s seen. The crowd and the stewards giving their bench a load of stick. Police and stewards not doing the job. Fair play he also gives us some credit

 

[Ian]

Paul Simpson Carlisle manager saying it’s one of the most hostile atmospheres he’s seen. The crowd and the stewards giving their bench a load of stick. Police and stewards not doing the job. Fair play he also gives us some credit

I do not usually go in at referees unless they've had a particularly bad game but most of the incidents from today's game was largely due to the referee. He had no control over the game, made ridiculous decisions and is why we saw a melee in the dugout, players and managers getting involved, players getting sent off, numerous yellow cards, supporters getting hostile, not giving the ball back etc etc.. This is what you get when the referee wants to take centre stage.

That game was ruined by the ref and like I said before its a tough one to swallow as the lads worked extremely hard today and now we have suspensions to deal with with only six games to go. Morris comes back after weeks out, plays a blinder and is now suspended for 3 games for doing nothing wrong IMO.

 

[bigmart]

Paul Simpson Carlisle manager saying it’s one of the most hostile atmospheres he’s seen. The crowd and the stewards giving their bench a load of stick. Police and stewards not doing the job. Fair play he also gives us some credit

Some of the stewards he refers too had bottles thrown at them by their supporters.