I'm seeing some support on Twatter, but rather more 'what about MY team' plus a bit of play off final mentions.
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I'm not debating that fundamental stuff needs to happen. However, on unexpected promotion, there are two options: buy or build. It would appear that neither will keep you up for long. And the idea that you go down, come back up stronger and stay up, has Burnely and Sheff Utd on one side and Bournemouth and Fulham on the other. So I don't think we are alone in this dilemma.
But for whatever reason, we are on the receiving end of multiple refereeing shockers. If we were marginally better (e.g., Wolves), it would not lead to us getting relegated. However, we now have a vicious cycle of ineptitude all around.
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You think this is bad? Wait until your primary competition, and it's referees, are run by Barca, Real, and PSG.
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Pretty selective view of the replies. For every tweet in support, there's others that say:
I can’t believe this is the official account tweeting this 🤯
Bro forgot to change to his main fan account
Might be the most embarrassing tweet from an official club account of all time.
The owner definitely logged in and tweeted this. His club, his rules.
Channel this energy into your next game fellas
Sack ur PR team ASAP😂 ‘VAR is a Luton fan’ 😭
I thought this was from a fan account shocking to tweet this
Listen you wanna go after VAR please do, we all despise its corruption, but this tweet is quite unprofessional for the official club account
How was that even a penalty he didn't touch him. Never a foul you're just cross because you lost the game.
Headless at its finest
This is genuinely embarrassing how is an official club account tweeting this. Get it you’re frustrated but this ain’t gonna fix anything.
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No. I'm talking about the way I feel.
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I'm not sure that our recruitment policy has a direct effect on the shit refereeing decisions
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Referees are human beings and human beings make mistakes. The same as players on the pitch will make mistakes. Brian Clough lost an FA Cup Final because a referee failed to send off Paul Gascoigne. Did he jump onto Twitter and have a bitch about it? No. He always preached respect for referees, and demanded it from his players as well. That's the standard we should be setting ourselves now.
We are where we are because we are not good enough. We were bang average today against an Everton side that recently lost 6-0. Blaming the referee is just a convenient excuse to distract ourselves from our own shortcomings. We won't get better if we always find excuses for failure.
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I would have thought this was obvious, but shit recruitment = poorer results = us being closer to the relegation spots = being more at risk because of a bad refereeing decision. If we were 10th this wouldn't matter.
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Been for a walk to calm down. It didn’t work. Still furious. With the players for lack of passion. With the manager for his coaching. With the ref and VAR for obvious reasons. With the FA and premier league for being cunts. And with the owner’s decisions for giving us a points deduction while making us a laughing stock, and for losing so much fan goodwill. Fuck off all of them.
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I might also add that our official Twitter account was very quiet when Huddersfield Town weren't awarded those two penalties in the playoff final.
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So, we are saying the same thing.
Your earlier post implied that (a) = (d). i.e., that somehow we were on the receiving end of a shocking series of refereeing decisions as a direct result of our recruitment policy.
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Our shortcomings doesn't excuse referees getting obvious decisions wrong and massively changing the course of games. In elite sport where fine margins are in play, affecting the lumpy statistical anomalies has a massive impact on outcomes.
At the very best refs and VAR are completely shit and unfit for purpose. With respect, a player tripping over their feet is a legitimate part of the game. Not correctly, evenly, and fairly applying the laws of the game is not. Player and referee mistakes are not analogous.
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I think we have widely acknowledged here that it was a terrible refereeing display where we benefited from bias. You can hardly expect a business that financially benefits from that, kicking up a fuss. Then again, they aren't fit organisations to be running community based sporting institutions. Which is also something we have talked about here.
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For all the shit things that have happened I can't stop thinking about the 2 Luton last gasp equalisers. We'd be 7 points clear but for those.
And as someone - Brid? - pointed out - if we do survive it'll very likely be more of the same next season. -
We got promoted because a referee got two obvious decisions wrong. Where was our righteous indignation then?
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Are there any spare petrochemical States looking for a football club?
We mentioned it a lot. And laughed at them. If they wanted some traction their club should have moaned on the twats.
