Bullyweeno1 Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 7 hours ago, Clyde85 said: I think he should have done better for the first goal too or am I being too harsh? Yeah thought he was poor on first goal yesterday Thought he was also poor at Alloa’s But on the flip side kept us in the game v Montrose 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 On 21/08/2021 at 17:46, C. Muir said: Falkirk must've served up some utter pish over the years if that was easily the best performance for years. Very much so! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 23 hours ago, David W said: Yeah, I have no idea what he has seen there, probably just assuming Nicoll must have been late because he usually is. The irony is that Nicoll would quite happily have avoided a booking and had us defending a free kick there if offered. I like to think I'm quite fair in calling out free kicks for us that are awarded when they shouldn't be, but that was an absolute stonewaller of a free kick. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FREDDYFRY Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Tbf that’s a fair challenge in Nicoll’s mind! While we persist with the likes of him in the side then that’s what we get.. all entirely self inflicted. Depressing times! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShaggerG Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Gaz said: It does look like Nicol got to the ball, you're just not allowed to wipe people out while doing so nowadays though! If that had been John Markie making that challenge in 1968 the ref would have waved play on. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Gaz said: Wasn't even a body check, he led with the elbow. Should've been a red card. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FREDDYFRY Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said: Wasn't even a body check, he led with the elbow. Should've been a red card. I agree, can we get a retrospective red and a 10 game ban please. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotchpie Posted August 23, 2021 Share Posted August 23, 2021 Ffs. Anyone else's bank statements say KFC £18? Must be a sponsor lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clydeside Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 I must admit to tuning out of how the rules have changed in the game over the past twenty years. No doubt things which were once allowed are now outlawed. However, I've watched that replay umpteen times over. While it had nothing whatever to do with the result I can't think why it's a free kick. Nicoll had been fouling Falkirk players persistently until then. That's true. But here, he comes across to the player side on and makes what a coaching book would call a block tackle (i.e. the side of his foot is used to stop the ball as it's being dribbled by the opponent). Yes, there's force enough to knock the opponent over. But that is applied in the course of disposessing the player, not before. There are no studs showing to the player. It wasn't a tackle made from behind. And I don't follow the comments about leading with the elbow. His elbows are faced to the camera. His arms are raised as he wades in. But again, never really before the ball is taken. As for it being a red. I trust that's posted as bait. In which case you've got one...! I imagine the referee judged that it was too forceful and dangerous for that reason. It's a pity if so because it's really difficult to play with any aggression or dig if you're penalised for everything outside of a neat interception in which there's little or no contact. And I suppose that a bigger player who generates a lot of force in the tackle will always look like he has brutalised a smaller player moving at speed from a certain angle if he goes over. All that said. I will grant that other nine out of ten times Nicoll goes in for that, we're at risk of going down to ten. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BullyWeeStonehouse Posted August 24, 2021 Author Share Posted August 24, 2021 It wasn’t a free kick for me at the time and nothings changed after watching the replay a few times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairn88 Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Never a foul, gets the ball first and nothing dangerous about the tackle. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 23 hours ago, badgerthewitness said: Wasn't even a body check, he led with the elbow. Should've been a red card. Will have to assume this is a wind up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 Definitely led with the elbow, just look at his flailing left arm. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 I mind Keiran Duffie charging across the pitch to make a perfect, glorious slide tackle on a breakaway forward in the left back area, only to be given a straight red. Ref said the speed was dangerous and reckless. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 30 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: I mind Keiran Duffie charging across the pitch to make a perfect, glorious slide tackle on a breakaway forward in the left back area, only to be given a straight red. Ref said the speed was dangerous and reckless. Courtesy of Collum versus Partick. McGovern saved the resultant penalty thankfully. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLClyde Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 3 hours ago, badgerthewitness said: Definitely led with the elbow, just look at his flailing left arm. no chance man. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiddy Posted August 24, 2021 Share Posted August 24, 2021 [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23][emoji23] no chance man. Flailing, like your defence of your player. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 (edited) While I remember - Wilson. Came on at 79 minutes, played 15 minutes (4 min injury time). Touched the ball twice - first touch was to head the ball straight back out of play at a throw in. Second touch was to Nesbitt in the lead up to the 3rd goal, couldn't call it an assist though. Didn't win any aerial challenges at all, made no tackles, didn't get near the ball apart from his 2 touches. Edited August 25, 2021 by Newbornbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco Posted August 25, 2021 Share Posted August 25, 2021 44 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said: While I remember - Wilson. Came on at 79 minutes, played 15 minutes (4 min injury time). Touched the ball twice - first touch was to head the ball straight back out of play at a throw in. Second touch was to Nesbitt in the lead up to the 3rd goal, couldn't call it an assist though. Didn't win any aerial challenges at all, made no tackles, didn't get near the ball apart from his 2 touches. That’s my first time seeing him and I really can’t see what he offers 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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