Weekend 21-22

[marinobohs]

Again? Does every ref in the league have it in for Derry?

Derry fan complains about biased ref shock ! Whatever next ?

[osarusan]

Whatever next ?

Somebody will point out that Shamrock Rovers don't own their ground.

Or somebody will call Sean Connor a ballbag or Pat Fenlon a to$$er.

Or somebody will start a thread asking if the league should be divided up into 8 mini-divisions based on geographical location.

Or somebody will start a thread called "Best Corner Flags".

[A N Mouse]

Again? Does every ref in the league have it in for Derry?

I don't believe refs are biased, just unbelievably incompetent individuals. And last night Pat's got the rub of that incompetence.

The bias thing is just the polite way of saying the above. Managers calling the refs useless feckers is frowned upon, but its acceptable to suggest [sometimes forcibly] that their decisions may have favoured the opposition.

In their day Wallace and MacArdle were useless feckers of refs, but a few more displays like yesterday's and Derry fans will ready to beatify them.

I still can't believe the lino, who can't even point his flag in the right direction for a throw, had to call the refs attention to a incident that happened under his nose.

[SkStu]

Aparently Kenny's rant, if they show it, will be worth listening to tomorrow night

i hope he cries again!

[Dodge]

RTE radio played a bit of Kenny's rant earlier. Hilarious stuff

Basic line was similar to Rico's Ridden Rock Solid effort some years ago, without a catchy tagline. All Dublin refs are out to get them apparently. Mentions number of penalties for Derry, Bohs and Rovers

Doesn't mention that we've only had 2 penalties in the last 70 odd leagues games, but then I guess the argument that all dublin refs are anti Derry and Pats wouldn't have sat so well with the Derry fans.

[Flexy]

RTE radio played a bit of Kenny's rant earlier. Hilarious stuff

Basic line was similar to Rico's Ridden Rock Solid effort some years ago, without a catchy tagline. All Dublin refs are out to get them apparently. Mentions number of penalties for Derry, Bohs and Rovers

Doesn't mention that we've only had 2 penalties in the last 70 odd leagues games, but then I guess the argument that all dublin refs are anti Derry and Pats wouldn't have sat so well with the Derry fans.

Dodge what we are saying is why should we have to face a dublin team with a ref from dublin on 90% of occassions. How wud pats bohs rovers etc feel if the ref was from derry or if cork were playing a dublin team and the ref was from Cork. Its just ridiculous the league the powers at be sa most of the good refs are from dublin, then why dont they promote referring more outside dublin to generate more interest.

[Umberside]

Dodge what we are saying is why should we have to face a dublin team with a ref from dublin on 90% of occassions. How wud pats bohs rovers etc feel if the ref was from derry or if cork were playing a dublin team and the ref was from Cork. Its just ridiculous the league the powers at be sa most of the good refs are from dublin, then why dont they promote referring more outside dublin to generate more interest.

I though you were from Cobh Ramblers for a minute

[Flexy]

I don't believe refs are biased, just unbelievably incompetent individuals. And last night Pat's got the rub of that incompetence.

The bias thing is just the polite way of saying the above. Managers calling the refs useless feckers is frowned upon, but its acceptable to suggest [sometimes forcibly] that their decisions may have favoured the opposition.

In their day Wallace and MacArdle were useless feckers of refs, but a few more displays like yesterday's and Derry fans will ready to beatify them.

I still can't believe the lino, who can't even point his flag in the right direction for a throw, had to call the refs attention to a incident that happened under his nose.

Delaney's fourth or 5th sending off this year, think only two of them deserved, but take paul keegan of bohs for the reckless challenges hes made this year and how many times hes been sent off not once, JOKE

[osarusan]

I think that the poor decisions in LOI football are down to incompetence rather than bias (conscious or unconscious). Any attempt to portray poor decisions as bias really is clutching at straws (or an attempt to divert blame).

[Umberside]

take paul keegan of bohs for the reckless challenges hes made this year and how many times hes been sent off not once

agreed, it is a joke

[Dunny]

I'd also agree but I'd be told to stop bringing up a certain tackle.

[Umberside]

I'd also agree but I'd be told to stop bringing up a certain tackle.

Refs have been biased in Bohs v Dundalk games definitely.

[Dodge]

Its just ridiculous the league the powers at be sa most of the good refs are from dublin, then why dont they promote referring more outside dublin to generate more interest.

How many referees have sought promotion to the LOI panel? The top assessor in the league is from Cork. How can he be Dublin biased?

Oh and it was 100% correct to send Delaney off.

osarusan has it spot on

[dancinpants]

Doesn't mention that we've only had 2 penalties in the last 70 odd leagues games, but then I guess the argument that all dublin refs are anti Derry and Pats wouldn't have sat so well with the Derry fans.

http://www.stpatsfc.com/report.php?report=302 Quigley against us end of last season.
http://www.soccerbot.com/fai/results...9x.htm?Team=St Patricks Athletic (Cawley home to Rovers, and Quigley away to Galway this season)

According to those its 3 in your last 26 league matches.

[Dalymountrower]

Doh, Its teams that more often retain posession in the opposition penalty areas that get most penalties, get over it Stephen Kenny , start managing your team and stop making excuses
We got very few peno`s under Connor and Farrelly because we didn`t get into the penalty area often enough.

I would have thought that Dublin Refs are less less likely to be disposed towards Bohs, a lot of them are Hoops and a lot of them hate Fenlon . Whereas Provincial refs once they see the hypnotic red and black stripes and the bright lights and temptations of Phibsboro, they are putty in our evil hands.

By the way,the only major Home Town pattern for refereeing decisions I`ve seen in the league over the years is in Derry.

[ndrog]

Paul Keegan doesn't know what he's missing.

Can't believe that after Friday nights injury time melee in Drogheda that Richie deemed it sufficent to book 2 City players and leave it at that.
Fair play to the linesman for spotting the attempted headbutt & ensuing slap in the face by the Drogheda player that caused the whole thing.

The ref obviously didnt see the attempted " headbutt " or the slap , but the linesman did . Whats hard to believe FFS ? and while the usual moaning about refs is happening the guy in utd pk was pathetic on fri .He let joe gamble and danny murphy get away with there usual thuggery and constant moaning and bullying .Was the ref from cork ? anti louth bias and im sick of it .Refs hate us and they are conspiring to get us relegated . especially the dublin ones ..

[razor]

The ref obviously didnt see the attempted " headbutt " or the slap , but the linesman did .

Officials get enough of a hammering on here so credit where its due.

Whats hard to believe FFS ?

Its hard to believe that our 2 angelic players would have caused such a melee with absolutely no Drogheda player at all culpable. Then again he was from Dublin

[ndrog]

Officials get enough of a hammering on here so credit where its due.

Its hard to believe that our 2 angelic players would have caused such a melee with absolutely no Drogheda player at all culpable. Then again he was from Dublin

who was from dublin ? the ref or the player ?

[razor]

who was from dublin ? the ref or the player ?

Apologies for any ambiguity, but you should have known I was referring to the ref. They're all from Dublin, aren't they?

[brianw82]

This Dublin ref stuff is really laughable. At least 1/4 of the country's population is from Dublin, of course there's going to be more refs from Dublin than anywhere else. Simple logic. And I don't see how a ref from say, Balbriggan, would automatically favour St. Pats for example. They're from a completely different part of the county, and he might never have been in Inchicore in his life.