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LLD, on Jan 2 2008, 22:43, said:

I don't honestly think Dunfermline can have any complaints about the officials. I actually don't think the referee had a bad game, although the linesman on the West Stand side was a clown.

He was murder. In general I think the refereeing I've seen this season has been OK, but at both away games at Livingston the referee has been absolutely dreadful. The foul against Burchill after a perfectly good turn (given by the linesman) and the bookings for Woods and Murphy were all absolutely terrible decisions. He certainly wasn't out to be biased as when he did give free kicks our way I often had no idea what they were for, but in general I felt that more went against us than for us yesterday. In saying that though, it was quite astonishing that he played no injury time at all - I was expecting at least 4 minutes in teh second half.

RiG, on Jan 2 2008, 22:45, said:

Couple of questions:

1) Been mentioned here about Kenny and respect - why wouldn't the players respect Kenny?
2) Perhaps some of the players and now playing better simply for their futures as there could be changes afoot at the Pars with a new man in charge?

To be honest the big change that everyone seems to think has happened isn't as big as folk would think. We've won 4 in a row, but that's a bit deceptive. QOS at home - 2 pretty dreadful teams on the day that we were slightly the better of. Morton away - did very little in attack other than score a penalty and took a pummelling in the second half. Stirling at home - a bit lucky again, with another second half pummelling, with them deserving a draw. Yesterday was probably the most comfortable of the 4.