referee's

[legga]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

[Lucas Leiva]

I think we should all be thankful - regardless of how terrible they might be - that they show up and ref a game, otherwise we'd all be playing collegiates.

I think people should be a bit more grateful that we have referees at all. I for one wouldn't like to be a referee for some of the games I hear about on this forum, yet people bag the cr*p out of them for one poor decision. I'd like to see anyone in their jobs and professions not make one mistake (except a pilot, a doctor or a porn star).

I also think clubs should invest in hiring a ref for their home reserves matches. We pay whoever does our match and line regardless if they are from the club. This maintains a healthy view of the fact that if someone does complain about their officiating, we can bring in someone else anyway who may want to be paid. I think any club that is opposed to this idea would probably admit to liking their home ref being biased when need be.

Oh, and all clubs should stop playing the offside trap in Amateurs. I mean, seriously, what do you expect?!

[legga]

No mate your argument is fine for everyone else but I am talking about the one and only maltesse eddy..King of the bungers..

[Wraith]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Budapest club ref takes the prize.

[wacker]

First post, so not sure if this has been discussed before. I have watched a set of Saturday matches for the past three weeks and cannot understand why the referee's are so bad....
for each reserves match, the games have started off being neutral, competitive and in good nature, the referee's then start to favour the home side and basically spoils the game. Example of this was at A.Villa V Wanderers,reserves game yesterday which I had the pleasure to watch, The game started off really well, both teams attacking and looking for an opening and was a hard, clean contest, Wanderers took the lead through a well worked goal, they scored a 2nd shortly after, which the referee disallowed for handball, which really baffled everyone who was watching that was for sure. A.Villa then really started to play the ref, and he was happy to blow up everytime they called, dived or just wanted an advantage which started to spoil the game. 2nd half A.Villa came out strong in the 2nd half, equalised, then on the run of play went 2-1 up, still a competitive match, but seemed that if A.Villa wanted a free kick they could just ask the ref., Wanderers should have had a penalty when Villa's keeper keeper decided to clean up one of Wanderers forwards just as he was about to shoot. Wanderers then equalised, not sure how that was given, maybe he thought he would have a riot on his hands as the game was getting quite heated at this stage, anyway ended up 2-2 which was a fair resullt, Villa had most of the ball, but Wanderers had most of the chances.
But the game was just spoilt by the refereeing, I am sure both teams would have had much more enjoyable game if the referee's do not act this way, the game is trying to create an image for players to respect referee's but when they are so biased how can they gain any respect.

The B team referre is probably the most unbaised ref I have ever had the pleasure of playing with. He is the always calling it fair and does not favour AV at all. i guess when u dont get max points, then the whingeing starts!!
as far as the game goes, AV had a goal disallowed for offside due to the linesman, who was at least 10m behind play flagging it??????

neways, to start a topic about the B team Referee, is disappointing. Most of the boys from wanderers are a good bunch of blokes and were sharing in a few jokes after their game. Its dissapointing that u need to vent ur whingeing on a public forum, considering the B team ref did a great job!

I played in the game, ref not too bad, but players for AV definately called the shots, any whingeing is from your players on the pitch everytime it does not go you way. Shame you see the game in your rose tinted glasses.

[Kitchimo]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Budapest club ref takes the prize.

[Jack Mehorf]

i played in villa wanderers res game
an the ref made decisions that cost both teams
ref done good job as far as i was concerned
both teams had times when decision went against us
but thats football
apart for crap in A grade found villa boys great bunch lads off field
we nearly managed to drink all the beer they had on offer
but one gripe about reserve game...... villa had a lad who out of frustration spat in face of one of our players what a tosser
once a spitter always a spitter

Nice to see someone put something in perspective. I would love to know which Villa player would have spat, as I couldn't imagine anyone from that group of boys doing it... if that was in fact the case we as a club would do something about it and I will assure you we will follow it up and ask the question. (Not tolerated in my book).
As for the Wanderers supporters and reserve players during the A game......I say again.......thank you very much for your support and control during a time which could have turned very ugly!
As for myself as a supporter and player of this club and this great game in general feel dissapointed with what went on in the A grade game as the game was far from dirty and never looked like heading in that direction.

[Vale_boy05]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Have a cry...

Im sure Eddy has cost us more games then he has ever cost the downs, whinging people like you is why clubs find it hard to get a ref,

Hes there week in and week out....cant complain

[BANYA]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Have a cry...

Im sure Eddy has cost us more games then he has ever cost the downs, whinging people like you is why clubs find it hard to get a ref,

Hes there week in and week out....cant complain

Ease up Vale_Boy05, anyone that "knows" Legga knows it's all tongue in cheek when talking about Eddie. They've probably known each other more years than you've been eating bung fritz and sauce sandwiches...

[Vale_boy05]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Have a cry...

Im sure Eddy has cost us more games then he has ever cost the downs, whinging people like you is why clubs find it hard to get a ref,

Hes there week in and week out....cant complain

Ease up Vale_Boy05, anyone that "knows" Legga knows it's all tongue in cheek when talking about Eddie. They've probably known each other more years than you've been eating bung fritz and sauce sandwiches...

Thats fair enough,
just gives me the shits thats all.....bad day at work

[bapa]

i played in villa wanderers res game
an the ref made decisions that cost both teams
ref done good job as far as i was concerned
both teams had times when decision went against us
but thats football
apart for crap in A grade found villa boys great bunch lads off field
we nearly managed to drink all the beer they had on offer
but one gripe about reserve game...... villa had a lad who out of frustration spat in face of one of our players what a tosser
once a spitter always a spitter

Nice to see someone put something in perspective. I would love to know which Villa player would have spat, as I couldn't imagine anyone from that group of boys doing it... if that was in fact the case we as a club would do something about it and I will assure you we will follow it up and ask the question. (Not tolerated in my book).
As for the Wanderers supporters and reserve players during the A game......I say again.......thank you very much for your support and control during a time which could have turned very ugly!
As for myself as a supporter and player of this club and this great game in general feel dissapointed with what went on in the A grade game as the game was far from dirty and never looked like heading in that direction.

Well said Jack!

[on the side]

@ Bodo
was the raptors disallowed goal a right or wrong decision????

Personally I thought the goal should have stood.

What is the exact ruling on hitting a keeper?? Is it only if the keeper has the ball in their hands? Didn't really look like the keeper touched it?? :?

[George Gotzías]

Both players ran into each other. Neither was any more guily than the other.

[rangersfc]

at end of day the lad who spat on our bloke knows what he done
but lets say we know who it was
so he might be in for a tough but fair game on return leg
villa ressies best team we played so far maybe let danny la bella have a kick next time in ressies

[waawaa]

the only issue i had with the game was the wanderers defender that kept kicking the ball to me . dude i was on the bench and not on your side. maybe summer league you can play along side me

[rangersfc]

maybe
but u prob still sittin on bench
cutting up oranges

[rangersfc]

i going to training paul 12
enjoy that hour long road trip to get to your ground
wave to me as u go past

[waawaa]

ha i will keep your oranges in a special box!!

we have a training pitch only takes me half hour to get there!!

make sure you practice your free kicks

[CrappyKeeper]

The only thing about spitting I heard was from one of our players saying he was spat on. It's possible there was more spitting going on we'd like.

And yes, a lot of our B's are whingers. Bit sad really. Normally our ref punishes us for it. Not one of his best games on Saturday but I'd say the result was fair even if the way we got to it wasn't.

[Jack Mehorf]

:? Been on the piss Crappy WTF yah on about

[waawaa]

i am going to whinge about that post

[Hawkesy]

How do you think we feel we will probaly have maltese eddy again this week. Possibly the worse b ref in the history of the game. The lads are still dirty on his last years effort..

Budapest club ref takes the prize.

you didn't play against simba last year.

He made the ref at murray bridge, adelaide uni and falcons look like they were FIFA quallified. In fact Puma's and Straph were the only decent ones.

[Jack Mehorf]

i am going to whinge about that post

Gold.

he was having a whinge about whinging

[Jack Mehorf]

[quote="CrappyKeeper"]The only thing about spitting I heard was from one of our players saying he was spat on. It's possible there was more spitting going on we'd like.


Spit it out crappy

[George Gotzías]

i am going to whinge about that post

Gold.

he was having a whinge about whinging

Quick, before Hawkesy whinges about people who can't spell whingeing.

[Hawkesy]

i am going to whinge about that post

Gold.

he was having a whinge about whinging

Quick, before Hawkesy whinges about people who can't spell whingeing.

how hard is it for you aussies to spell whingeing? after all you all do lead the world in it.

[Jack Mehorf]

i am going to whinge about that post

Gold.

he was having a whinge about whinging

Quick, before Hawkesy whinges about people who can't spell whingeing.

Sorry Bod's getting excited..............whingeing..........you "Road's" schollar you

[Hawkesy]

you "Road's" schollar you

I see what you did there

[Jack Mehorf]

i am going to whinge about that post

Gold.

he was having a whinge about whinging

Quick, before Hawkesy whinges about people who can't spell whingeing.

Is he that quick on the pitch

[Hawkesy]

Is he that quick on the pitch

well i used to sprint for my county, so probably.