[Albion] Why blame the ref for our ineptness?!

[Sarisbury Seagull]

I can’t believe how many one eyed Brighton fans are blaming the referee for that when we’ve just been the second best team in the worst premier league game of football I’ve seen in 25 years of watching it.

Yes he gave some soft decisions but we were so naive, lunging in when we knew what he was going to do. And Stephens was a definite red card in todays game. More concerning was how poor we actually played the game before and after the red card.

We need to start looking closer to home, at our players and the manager. We have been shocking all season bar the United game. We’ve totaly forgotten how to pass be bloody football?!

Massive few weeks for Hughton. I’ve got every faith he will sort it but he does need to make some changes, fast.

 

[Stat Brother]

Deffo.

They were shithouse and we dropped down to their level.
9 players should have won today, even if the ref was Charlie Church with Max Boyce and Shirley Bassey running the line.

 

[bhafcjack]

True, yes the ref was very poor and defiantly made things harder for us but the performance was still crap. I’m with you in that I believe Hughton can turn this around, hopefully with 3 points and a more positive performance against Leicester in 2 weeks.

 

[Perkino]

We could do with bringing back our 2 best passers of the ball and hopefully our ball retention will improve thus allowing us to make better use of our chances and create more of them

 

[portslade seagull]

Sadl Hughton won't change. Defend defend defend. Let the attackers of the leash CH it might surprise you

 

[seagulls4ever]

Well no, but he certainly didn't help, not allowing us to build any momentum by giving Cardiff a lot of questionable decisions throughout the game. Some of the decisions gave them good opportunities or took away our opportunities. It's not like Cardiff actually looked any good themselves.

We were pretty rubbish today - but so was the ref.

That was both one of the worst oppositions I've seen us play since our promotion, and one of the worst refereeing performances too.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Just seen the winning goal again. Duffy, Dunk, Bong throwing themselves in the way. Montoya trying to get back. Kayal pretending to be injured and hoping for a free kick. Bissouma, Knockaert, Izquierdo on their heels watching. Poor.

 

[Lethargic]

The 2 are mutually exclusive both the Ref AND the team can be incompetent and today proved this theory/

 

[Stat Brother]

We were not great, but it is hard to win a game that the officials have, CLEARLY, been told to make the bottom of the premier league more interesting so that they can continue to sell the "product" for big bucks.

#ClearlyHasn'tHappened.

 

[sydney]

We were not great, but it is hard to win a game that the officials have, CLEARLY, been told to make the bottom of the premier league more interesting so that they can continue to sell the "product" for big bucks.

seems that way .....he was turd , foul count 7-21 against us .....terrible , terrible refereeing.....

 

[GT49er]

Why blame the ref for our ineptness?!

We're not. We're blaming him for his ineptness, and for playing an out and out homer. We were inept too, but that's a different matter.

 

[AmexRuislip]

We do this every time we loooose or play crap.
Threads on whether the ref or the opposition players are to blame.
Chris Hughton sends the team out with simple instructions, when these are not done by the players, it's Chris Hughton who takes the flack.
He's the man to sort this problem out, so I have faith he'll do it.

 

[LamieRobertson]

We're not. We're blaming him for his ineptness, and for playing an out and out homer. We were inept too, but that's a different matter.

Nail on head

 

[sydney]

#ClearlyHasn'tHappened.

did you watch the game or were you at work again ...?

 

[LamieRobertson]

We do this every time we loooose or play crap.
Threads on whether the ref or the opposition players are to blame.
Chris Hughton sends the team out with simple instructions, when these are not done by the players, it's Chris Hughton who takes the flack.
He's the man to sort this problem out, so I have faith he'll do it.

Tbh I start a ref thread when we play at home win lose or draw

 

[AmexRuislip]

Tbh I start a ref thread when we play at home win lose or draw

It wasn't meant as a dig at anyone, just POV

 

[Luke93]

We do this every time we loooose or play crap.
Threads on whether the ref or the opposition players are to blame.
Chris Hughton sends the team out with simple instructions, when these are not done by the players, it's Chris Hughton who takes the flack.
He's the man to sort this problem out, so I have faith he'll do it.

This time though, NSC are right. Martin Atkinson was awful. I’m seeing so many neutrals agree on various social media platforms.

Brighton did not play well, but neither did Cardiff. This isn’t a case of being outplayed by an inferior team, despite the result.

 

[LamieRobertson]

It wasn't meant as a dig at anyone, just POV

How could I take anything you post as a dig

 

[AmexRuislip]

How could I take anything you post as a dig

Probably because they're all bollox

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

I thought we looked the better team first 20 minutes, then they got a lucky goal and then the red card swung the game in their favour. Add to that the 21 fouls given and the offside goal and it is understandable that people should feel let down by the officials, then not booking a player for taking off his shirt? I'm sorry how exactly can you "miss" that. We have every right to feel aggrieved as the officials effectively gifted Cardiff three points.