Referee

Hinchcliffe on the commentary was equally amazed at some of the decisions.

Genuinely terrible performance.

I think he thought that he was cracking down on people that went down easy just because there was contact. But you can't ref this one game completely differently to all other games.
 
TheYorkshireTerrier said:
Was it picked up by the commentators at all?
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I watched the first half on a foreign stream, and I didn't need to speak Arabic to know they were ripping into the ref. Found a Sky stream at half-time and the only analysis I saw was multiple replays of the DOGSO on Jones when the defender put two arms round him and the ref just waved it away.

Shocking, even by Championship standards.
 
Linesman was every bit as bad. That Jones foul was shocking. He was in one on one so not only a foul but a red card.

I'm not sure how either didn't give it.

The late hand ball by the WBA sub. Paddy nearly got crocked trying to recover as it wasn't given. The fecking lino looking right at it😔
 
Redwurzel said:
The pull back of Jones in the first half could have been a sending off offence. The ref did not give a foul. Sky commentators were shocked as well as me.
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Other end to me but just watched it on the highlights, crazy how the ref waved play on & facing the play, yet moments later a WBA player goes down, with the ref behind both players & he gives a free kick to WBA
 
He and his linesman were terrible. Not that it levelled things up but when our players lost their temper and did some blatant fouls back he didn't give them either. Tav with 2 hands gave the most blatent push I've ever seen but they missed it. The Andy Carroll free kick where he said play on, realised we might score and Carroll complained so changed his mind. Absolutely awful.
 
Kevcharben said:
Yes McNair stood behind the wall, and deliberately impeded the West Brom player who would have closed Jones run. It was a clear plan at our set play
The only decision he got right all night
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It was a deliberate block. The kind of thing every team does at every set piece and get away with 95% of the time. Technically a foul for sure but typical of the ref tonight that it was given.
 
Lifted from the Baggies site, says a lot about what they saw as well:

'The ref doesn’t seem to be giving Boro much, add that to the Fact CT should be off and you just know he’s going to give them something big at some point. I can see us getting red or a conceeding a pen'
 
Expat Smoggie said:
That non call set the tone for the refs bizarre performance.
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Yep a typically spineless, ducking a big decision early doors performance. That leaves him nowhere to go with later decisions. It was a bizarre performance, and to be fair he gave us a few against them I thought were wrong.

I've noticed all season that the linesman (assistant referees I suppose) are very hesitant or reticent to flag for stuff. Is it something deliberate the referee body is pushing? Let the ref referee and only indicate with the flag once given the nod?

The ref played some truly bizarre 'advantages' as well.
 
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Kevcharben said:
Yes McNair stood behind the wall, and deliberately impeded the West Brom player who would have closed Jones run. It was a clear plan at our set play
The only decision he got right all night
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I'm with superstu here I don't think it was a foul although I haven't seen it again.

McNair didn't move just stood where he was. He didn't seem to move into the defenders path. He just stood where he was. Is he obliged to get out of the way?
 
The linesmen were poor too, even up until the last minute when the one on the near side (to the TV camera) gave a FK against Jones for breathing on their player. Can't believe we managed to beat 14 men tonight.
 
Mfc79 said:
I'm with superstu here I don't think it was a foul although I haven't seen it again.

McNair didn't move just stood where he was. He didn't seem to move into the defenders path. He just stood where he was. Is he obliged to get out of the way?
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Attackers aren't allowed within 1m of the wall at a free kick anymore. Can't remember where he was exactly but presume that is the rule he's broken.
 
He was smirking and joking with Bartley in the warm up, to the degree Bartley and the ref stopped warming up to laugh at each others repartee. I said immediately he is going to be favouring WBA, and so it proved.

The West stand lino twice gave decisions the ref reluctantly supported and on both occasions he seemed disappointed with that official. The East stand lino concurred nicely for his WBA bias though.

Terrible ref, Sent Morsy off v Blackburn last August
 
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