How the f**k......

[Steve U.]

does a player have one bookable fracas with one player, then punch another player to the ground not once but twice, only to receive a yellow card. he then goes on to get one of our players sent off and then scores. I'd like to see how the ref writes this one up in his match report........the whole thing stinks! Anyone would think there were more than just fancy lwyers trying to help them out of a sticky situation.

[andyrich]

It was a real shame. The decision not to send off the AFC No 10 completely changed the game. He was certainly trying his best to stir things up and succeeded.

The first half was about the most high intensity football I have seen this season. A.F.C were good, but Billericay stuck at it and deserved to be level at half time. The second half was a totally different story.

 

Hopefully it will be the football, and not a terrible referreeing error, that sticks in the mind after the Margate game.

[Hoops@BTFC]

The ref was a blatent womble in disguise! The 10 decked Heffer twice and gets a yellow card! refs match report 'number 10 punched number 5 twice in the face so i gave him a yellow card'. What a joke. He totally bottled!

 

Spoiled a great game, and with the sending off of blewitt took away our chances of winning. Flacky scored again hes on a role lets hope he carries on. Great fiting performance by the guys lets just hope that we can get that all important result on tuesday.

 

My first time standing with the army to day and it aint half louder than my normal mellow position on the sideline. Great atmosphere though! I think i might have to change my standing position now.

 

BLUE ARMY!!!!!

[Gareth J]

Quite frankly 10 against 12 is not a fair game.

 

It was the most disgraceful, incompetant and biased display from the officials I have ever seen (and they have some good competition!). Right from the kick off it was clear that in front of a crowd the referee was only going to give decisions to the home side. He had absolutely no b*llocks! The fact that 10 stayed on the pitch and Blewitt got sent is an embarrassing decision. It was a total stitch up.

 

We should be concentrating on what was a good performance - especially with 10 men against the leaders, but unfortunately it is always going be overshadowed by the such an inept display by the referee.

 

I can only assume that the £9 to get in and the £2.50 for the programme are to help the referee brown envelope fund - because I can't believe any referee can be that one sided without being biased or bought.

 

On the up side we played extremely well, may it continue on Tuesday. Well done lads.

[Simon BTFC]

It's disappointing that the game was ruined for me by the referee, doubly so as up until that point it had been an exciting game.

 

Blewitt deserved to go as you can't lash out whatever the provocation, but given that is the case, why was D'Sane even on the pitch?

 

There is no doubt in my mind that the referee bottled it, had the game been Folkestone v Billericay I am sure he would have been more even handed in his handling of the game. I see from their website that AFCW have been complaining about there being one rule for the rich and one for everybody else. Today's game will give them further evidence that that is the case, should they choose to use it.

 

 

[WokingJon]

You'll have to watch the video on this one guys, your 5 was extremely lucky to stay on the pitch after twice dropping to the ground for no apparent reason. http://www.donsonline.co.uk

[OldIsthmian]

The only fracas to begin with was verbal then your keeper grabbed Roscoe pulled him towards himself and then fell over trying to complain he'd been headbutted. Probably a yellow for the keeper and everyone told to put away their handbags.

 

4 and 5 come rushing back, 5 squares up to Roscoe and pushes him, Roscoe pushes back and the "tiny little" number 5 falls over, stands up pushes Roscoe again and falls over again. Possibly reds for both of them except that it would appear to take notice of play acting.

 

Finally 4 has another go at Roscoe at the next opportunity and gets sent off, rather harshly in my opinion, a yellow would have been adequate.

 

Don't understand why all the aggression was necessary (Steve Wales was flattened half a dozen times) you're the best side I've seen in the Ryman.,

[Simon BTFC]

We're obviously seeing different things... Unless a hand to the face is "no reason"...

[Simon BTFC]

I didn't think it was a particularly dirty game. Just that the referee only gave those decisions one way. Early on Whelpdale gets taken out into the hoardings - no free kick. Adrian Allen chopped down by the centre back that wasn't Lorraine - no decision. The players clearly felt, with some justification, that the referee was one sided and lost their discipline. That is also disappointing, and we'll suffer from not having Blewitt for 3 games now.

[OldIsthmian]

Actually the ref was generally bad altogether. He ignored the linesman flagging for a foul on Little in the run up to your second goal. He let Wales get scythed down numerous times with only the occasional free kick. I think he let a few things go the other way as well but was generally bad and roughly unbiased. The problem for you was that your 4 and 5 lost their cool completley and you paid the price.

 

Still a good team though.

[jl]

I thought AFCW played very well in the first half. It's a long time since we've been put under that sort of pressure, having said that we did manage to create a few chances ourselves, but I was still happy to be level at the break.

 

The video doesnt show the McMahon/Dsane or Dsane/Blewitt incidents but it does show that Dsane should have walked for raising his hands into Heffer's face. How can he only get a yellow, yet Blewitt gets a red (probably correctly) for in essence the same offence? Sadly the ref bottled the first one and was influenced by the crowd by the second.

 

I agree about our second goal and the free-kick given against your goalie was also ridiculous, but they didnt change the game like the Dsane fiasco did.

 

Our lads battled away well, but it was not to be. Hopefully we'll pick ourselves up and be ready for another big game on Tuesday.

 

 

[Gareth J]

It's rather convenient isn't it that the most contraversial incidents are not actually captured on video? The first one I can understand because it was away from the play, but the second captured the build up and the sending off, but not the actual incident - mmm strange. Suspect that not all the Wombles were innocent in that one! Or perhaps it shows that Darren shouldn't have been sent off - either way there's no point in directing us to the video to answer our arguments as it doesn't actually prove much.

As for the ref being generally bad - yeah right! If we could get decisions for us like Wimbledon's today from bad referees I suspect we wouldn't think them so bad.

[TRS]

I was in the main stand almost level with the Dsane/No.5 handbags. BOTH deserved reds as BOTH raised their hands. No.5 laughably threw himself to the ground on two occasions. Simply embarassing. I was amazed when Dsane was given only yellow and even more amazed when No.5 wasn't even booked!

As for the sending-off, I thought that was harsh and should have been a yellow.

 

[Simon BTFC]

At 10 v 10 we would still have had a game. 11 v 10 was always going to be difficult! I don't think anybody is suggesting that we were particularly hard done by with the sending off, just that the game should have been 10 v 10.

[TRS]

To be honest, thought you played quite well with ten. I was relieved to get the third. Having seen the two games this season, I expect you to finish in the top 5. Bet you get to play Chelmsford in the play-offs too.....

[delboy]

what should have been a great game of football ends up being a farce due to the performance of the officials. In the 1st half the ref was a blatent homer but at a ground with as big a crowd you learn to live with that and 1-1 at half time reflected the close nature of the game. What happened in the 2nd half was nothing less than incompetence. he obviously did not see the original incident between billy and d'sane but even if he didnt see what went on next the lino must have and d'sane by all accounts should have gone, however having lost total control he then proceded to compound matters by giving a drop ball when the ball had gone for a corner before he stopped for the incident in our goalmouth. the resulting break forward by wombles was what set off the incident whereby darren gets dismissed. How he can justify his position as a ref on this level of incompetence i do not know. Well done wombles you made the most of your "assistance" but even then we nearly forced the draw. Well done to all the lads a great effort ( although we must try and retain our usual discilpine in these cicumstances) and lets hope we get the chance ( weather permitting) to come back on tues. Wombles win doesnt mean anything to them as i am sure their groundless appeal will be rejected and they will not be there at the end.

[extaffyjim]

I hate complaining about the refs, but from what i saw it was a hugely incompetent display that spoilt what would otherwise have been a good day out for me, and many other travellers. Ive got no problem losing fair and square, im normally the first to admit it when we play poorly, but to lose like that left a bitter taste. Having said that, i thought wimbledon played quite well, much better than when we beat them 3-0, and had the better of the play when it was 11v11. Their first goal was also a belter.

 

D'sane is a cheat and a disgrace.

 

Anyway, least said soonest mended, so heads up and lets look forward to another cracking away day on Tuesda (fingers crossed).

 

Ps, was great to see the fans applauding the players and v/v after the game, they gave it a mighty effort with 10 men.

[The Town Crier]

 

I've not watched the video yet, I'll do that in a bit.

 

One of the AFC officials made a good point (well I thought so) after the game, what we see during a game is not always what really happened. IE when you see the video, it’s often different to what you thought you saw.

 

Great hospitality BTW, nice people, nice club, and I wish them well for the rest of the season.

 

Right, back to what I thought I saw. When I see the lino flag for the Blewitt incident, I thought he had to go, and he did.

But, previously to that, I thought D'Sane should have gone, the lino and ref didn’t seem to have seen anything though… It happens

 

Had the officials seen the earlier incidents then, imo, the Blewitt one wouldn't have occurred?

But there was no need for Blewwit, or Heffs, to behave in that way.

 

It was a tense game, not dirty in any way; in fact it was a good spirited, well contested encounter.

 

If we are to progress, and grow as a team, then we can’t let this little five minute lapse in concentration creep into our game. Knowing the lads as I do, they will learn from toady, and I can’t see that kind of gamesmanship affecting them again.

 

It was a good game, the, I thought AFC worked hard to stop us playing, and looked a much better side than when we played them at New Lodge. The AFC keeper pulled off a great save from a whelps header, and had that gone in…well who knows?

 

Even with our ten men, the result could have gone either way, I don't think either side would have complained had it been a draw, but it wasn't to be. AFC are a good side, and worthy of their League position. Well done to them today/yesterday

 

So it Margate next, another very tough game for us, but if we stick to our task, keep it simple, and work hard, we might just come away with a point or Two.

 

I'll probably be back in a mo having watched the video, and totally contradict myself.??

 

[extaffyjim]

Having looked at the video, D'sane appears to raise his hands to Heffer (automatic red). I cannot see what Blewitt got sent off for, all i see is a tangle, although the video then pans away so you cant see what happened.

 

Anyway, im done moaning, these things happen and all you can do is accept it, move on, and try and put things right with the football. Onwards and upwards.

[Simon BTFC]

I'm a great believer that over the season refereeing mistakes even themselves out... We've had two games where big decisions have gone against us, AFCW and Hayes, but there have been occasions when decisions have gone in our favour - the penalty at Boreham Wood on the opening day springs immediately to mind.

 

As has been said the lads on the pitch gave everything for the cause, and if they keep up that level of performance we'll be OK...