M.N.S. - 8 September 2008

**sligoman** · 09/09/2008, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

Like I said, the ref's decision is final.

One question for you, do you think those two refs would have been suspended earlier in the season if there wasn't such a fuss made of it on MNS? Nothing can change that particular decision he's made but we can help influence consequences for the refs if they make mistakes.

**superfrank** · 10/09/2008, 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by sligoman

One question for you, do you think those two refs would have been suspended earlier in the season if there wasn't such a fuss made of it on MNS?

Maybe it did but there hasn't been any ref suspensions since and in that time there's been the Cobh Bray game that's caused a lot of whinging and practically every Sligo game.

AFAIK, the ref's performances are checked on by the el rep who sits in the stands at matches and, afaik, any suspensions would be handed down on the rep's report, not by the fuss on here or on MNS.

**CharlesThompson** · 10/09/2008, 3:27 PM

Originally Posted by superfrank

Like I said, the ref's decision is final. Once the decision's been made, there's no chance he's going to over-rule it. Complaining afterwards is pointless. It won't change what happened.

Don't be so glib. When we 'won' a peno against you at the start of the season Bray fans were going mad ffs.

@ Sligoman - If the laws of averages are to indeed be ironed out, you will get some pretty good decisions next season. While we had Farrrelly (in particular) and Connor in charge, we had some ridiculous decisions go against us, from the 'goal' we scored in Bray, to the 'Peno' conceded to Drogheda at United Park, to the 'goal' conceded to Drogheda at Dalyer (the one that was 2 feet from the goal line at it's nearest point), numerous other decisions. I'm a football fan - I don't forget.

This season however, we've gotten a lot of decisions we traditionally haven't gotten. Some 50/50's that have gone our way and the decisions you know you should get, but in this league you should never expect - we've gotten some of those. I figure that this is the law of averages working out in our favour.

Hopefully next year, you'll find the same!

**dfx-** · 10/09/2008, 3:50 PM

Originally Posted by Inside Man

Also just to mention we were knocked out of the Cup by a very contentious decision earlier in the year and that can somewhat be said to have attributed to our Financial woes as we would have obviously budgeted a couple of wins in the Cup. So you can see why all Sligo fans at this minute are bulling about the officials.

Budgeting for wins in the cup?

No wonder you were in trouble.