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@arbitro Just curious when you reffed how did you calculate added time? I always envisage that if a player is down injured you see how long it takes and if it’s 3 minutes before play resumed you add 3 minutes on. If another injury is 2 minutes you add another 2 on. But that clearly doesn’t happen in most games and absolutely not today. Was there any science to it, or did you just add on what felt right compared to what was added on in most games at the time? Not a trick question or a whinge, just want to understand the mentality of how the number of added minutes is come to. Also, we clearly scored bang as the announcement for 5 added minutes was announced. However the ref blows full time about 3 seconds over 5 minutes. As the goal is in injury time surely some time is added on? This is one of my biggest gripes. Time wasting is clearly beneficial to teams because as much as refs look at their watch, the amount wasted is rarely added on. The World Cup was actually excellent for combating this.

I was going to do a full reply but I thought what’s the point as I’d be making the same points I made in my post above. Morton - 28 starts Wharton - 7 starts. 2 exceptional performances. That’s why they get treated differently. It’s not double standards. If Wharton had played all season and cost us numerous goals with sloppy passing, and was still playing poorly but repeatedly getting picked, he would be getting the same stick Morton gets.

Morton has started 28 league games this season compared to Morton’s 7. In those 7 games he’s been MOTM against Blackpool and arguably at Hull. Morton has, as far as I’m aware, not put in a performance of that quality. He’s also been pretty bad some games and been responsible for a number of goals through stupidity. Early on in the season there were very, very few comments about him starting, but as we’ve seen him play more and more it has become obvious he isn’t good enough. Wharton, on the other hand, looks like he may be pretty good. Therefore, as one is proven poor and one isn’t, it’s pretty logical that Morton is now being picked up on every bad point he does as we’ve had a full season of it. It’s not really double standard. Back to the match thread, I’m not collecting a dossier. I just thought it a really odd comment during a match that instead of commenting on how bad the corner was (which would have been fair) you posted “Shite corner from Wharton. Would love to see the reaction if Morton had taken that.” which is a pop at people criticising Morton. Strange behaviour. But then I now see a few pages back you said ”Exactly, he’s fucking 18, he’s not going to magically change our season. Get that in your head. The bollocks talked about Wharton is insane, he’s getting better by not playing, purely in peoples heads. If he wasn’t a Rovers fan no one would care he wasn’t been picked for having a shit attitude.” And before that there’s plenty of other “Wharton isn’t the answer” posts from you. And thus you can’t accept you were wrong and he actually had a positive impact today despite most other peoples views backing this up, hence the need to try and put him down both through the match and after..

Could do with a winner either way in this game. Boro have Norwich, Luton and Coventry to play so you want them either chasing 2nd, or closer to us.

Only just reading this thread. That was one of the most nailed-on penalties you could see that Coventry didn’t get.

You commented as much a couple of times on the match thread. Not sure if you are anti-Wharton or pro-Morton, but I’ve already spotted you as having an issue on this. Morton doesn’t put performances in like that as he doesn’t have the ability or vision to turn forwards with his first touch or play quick accurate balls into feet. Morton did, however, benefit from having players infront of him today who could do that so he didn’t have to. That way he could mop up and move it about out the back. He was also ok today and put a great ball in for the goal, but did pull out of 50/50 which was crucial which left them on one of their only dangerous breaks of the second half. And before you comment, both took rubbish corners in that game. It’s a common problem with Rovers. Even the much-touted Thomas can’t really take them.

Not a chance. I’d be more hoping Luton were guaranteed top 6 and no better and they only half turn up.

Agree. And even if he was a boy it should be his parents that teach him about life choices and repercussions. That shouldn’t be Ty’s job.

On Huddersfield’s forum they want Dolan banned for 3 years for assaulting the ball boy.

West Brom winning. Watford winning.

What? That it feels like a defeat? Im just explaining why a point is, err, pointless.

Still feels like a defeat. I felt we needed 4 wins before the game, I still feel we need 4 wins now.

The EFL would be calling for a much bigger ban than 8 games if I was confronting that ref at the final whistle. How can that only be 5 minutes.

Should be at least 7 or 8 after that latest substitution.

He’s been down for 3 minutes here. Bearing in mind there would have been at least 3 minutes anyway that should be 6 minutes. Plus the inevitable time wasting coming up.

Unchanged

Fair point. Broughton was brought in specifically to oversee this however, and the reason we were right on the absolute deadline to submit the paperwork was because everything that happened before had gone too slow. That’s GB. If you want to portion some blame off elsewhere then fine, the bulk of it is on GB. Sack just him. Sack all 3. I don’t care.

What has Waggot said or done on Jan? I genuinely have missed it. I have heard GB take responsibility for not bringing anybody in and JDT saying we needed a striker and he was disappointed we didn’t get one. I’d get shut of Waggot for just being commercially shite, but not particularly for screwing January and hence this season up. That’s Greg.

And the person who took responsibility for fucking it all up. Some of you think GB did his job perfectly but the secretary obviously went for a brew and a cupcake when he should have been filling documents. It was last minute because the club did everything last minute.

Remember when Dack is fit he doesn’t work hard enough to get in this team. Can score and assist but, well, doesn’t work hard enough.

Hope Broughton is ‘taking responsibility’ for this as well as January.

That what a striker does for you Broughton you fraud.

Let’s hope his head doesn’t go like at Wigan.

Well it’s changed up a bit. I’m not confident after the last few league games but let’s see how it goes.