TOPIC: Penalty.

Pompey player goes over it with a fine toothed comb, but I think they have a point.


Shame.

Boo hoo

Nice to have a bit of luck for a change cant beleive that second decision though its a shocker both the ref and pattison .

Thought at the time he got both of them wrong.

Funny really because apparently referees cheat us out of decisions every week at Brunton Park.

The first one is a tough decision and toy can't blame the ref either way.

The second one was just a horrendous decision at the time and nothing I've seen since makes it any easier to understand how he hasn't given a penalty!

Still, I genuinely can't remember the last time decisions like this went in our favour. 18 months since we got a penalty isn't it?

If you watch the first decision on the CUFC channel- using the camera on the East Stand it looks like a cast on penalty. Just shows how hard it must be to judge with one viewing from the refs position. Must admit though the second one looks like a certain penalty as well.

Our one is a lot closer than i thought at the time but still its outside the box, the 2nd an absolute shocker!

Have to say cant remember the last time 2 big decisions in a game went our way, anybody any ideas?

On first glance I thought both were penalties, and it seems I was right. Grainger did a good job in buying the penalty, but it was a penalty nontheless. Theirs was one too. Can't just blame the ref when the lino was right infront of it too. So many linos are afraid to overrule the ref at this level though.

For the first one, when he slides hes outside the box, but the contact is made bang on the line imo. So that one the ref got right.

The second one is a horrendous decision. How both the ref and linesman fail to see where it happened amazes me.

I thought he had got them both wrong on saturday.... I still do having watched that.

It shows you how close the first decision was when there is still some doubt. At the time I thought it was a penalty, and in fact still do. It was also a very reckless and deliberate bad tackle, and I think if Grainger had got past him we'd have been likely to score.

The second one is a different matter, no argument at all about whether it was in the box. I couldn't see the line on Saturday from where I was stood, but it didn't even look like a foul. It does now though, and was a definite penalty, so the officials got that one wrong.

Their lad Burgess who brought Grainger down looked a very good footballer.

It looked to me like Burgess was trying to make sure he did commit a foul but before Grainger got inside the box so that it wouldn't be a penalty. You can see the direction of his run just before he lunges that he's trying to take the yellow card give away the free kick.

The second is really quite appalling. It's like the referee has decided that he'll give the decision based on where the attacking player ends up, not where the foul took place.

Burgess did indeed look a good player, shame about his top knot.

Indeed, they had a couple with topknots.

I thought both were pens at the time and still do and glad I'm not the only one who thought Burgess was impressive. Being a Smoggie we might have had a chance in getting him one time but was loaned out to Hartlepool whilst there.

Aye Burgess and Mckurk with the top knots, im sure i could put up with them if they played for us!

Pompey missing Gary Roberts and Tubbs on saturday as well, always thought Roberts was a cracking player and seems to do well against us, shows their strength in depth, a very impressive squad they've got

£4m playing budget...

Moylesey wrote:
Whats our playing budget out of interest? Id have thought our gates are between 3 to 4 times lower than theirs so maybe around the £1.25 million mark?

Dancingbear wrote:

2 to 2.5 mill Philips said on saturday i think

What a shame skate bar stewards!

What's Accrington's playing budget?