Plenty of play acting in the Derby.


Anybody see Isa play-acting at being an RL player?

We get called rotten as a club for anything teams can pin on us but in a mess of a season for us, we can come out with our heads held high on a couple of really poor aspects I’ll remember from 2021-

1-the play acting and football like antics that have crept in.

2-picking and choosing games to avoid, aka Covid problems.

As fans and as a club we can at least walk away with our heads up.

I saw Coote, Grace and Percival play acting to a level Neymar Jnr would be proud of. Same again tonight from some of the Saints players.

I don’t like the leg tackles on stationary players being held upright. If they’ve got a leg drive going then I understand. But it’d be more effective IMO to get back in the defensive line quicker than commit a 3rd man to the tackle just for the sake of putting them down, and I cringe at the increased risk of knee/ankle injuries. Soft yellow yes, and I agree it doesn't come if Massey just gets on with it.

I do agree but just can’t look past Massey staying down to earn the pen and then just cracking on. There’s one reason why he’s staying down and he gets what he’s after, so stops pretending he’s injured. We should avoid putting ourselves in that position though, you’re right.

I wouldn't get too excited about the lack of play acting, they will start doing it just like players at every other club. It's the way the game is going sadly.

Probably. I don’t see much of it from us at the moment though, in fact I can’t recall anything and even though that actually hurts us when you’re playing against teams like Saints, who are rolling all over the place and charging in on mass on the ref, I think we can take pride in it for now.

The Liam Byrne incident was correctly penalised and sin binned as you can't tackle below the knee when the player is being held up in the tackle

Not saying it wasn’t but there was a huge amount of play acting involved to ensure the ref had time to get the call in his ear.

the virtual card / 10 mins from the players is bugging me at the minute. i saw Zak do it last night as well as some Cas players after the penalty had been given. Just get on with the game and let the ref do his job. As fans we give refs enough stick without the players getting involved to get an opposition player binned or sent off

Winds me up something rotten this. Physical dissent is worse than verbal dissent as it encourages the crowd to get on the official's backs as well. The officials can't really punish it either as you can't reverse a penalty, and it isn't currently deemed to be enough for a bin. Having said that, I would be in support of them ruling that holding up the imaginary card is an automatic bin. It would wipe it out more or less overnight.