Was shocking. How many pulls on our players did he miss or ignore?
Yes, he also missed the definite penalty that Peterborough should have had (as opposed to the ones we appealed for which weren't actually penalties at all)
I think VAR would have given Blues two pens yesterday, both on Laird. The one from the corner in particular, Laird did chuck himself at the end but the defender was wrong side with both hands wrapped around Laird's waist - def pen for me. Agree that the posh one should have been given too
If the Peterborough one was when Jones was through, looked offside to me when put clear.
Didn’t see Amy replays if the ones on Laird
If the Peterborough one was when Jones was through, looked offside to me when put clear.
He was well inside his own half, definitely onside
He was rubbish. Blowing up for fouls at corners when Stansfield was being hugged to within an inch of his life. A scissor tackle on Laird, no yellow. Two big penalty shouts for us. I am not debating theirs because if we had been given and scored a spot kick the game would have changed.
Allowed a hell of a lot of timewasting.
I am still not entirely convinced it was a free kick for their goal either.
I thought he was poor and let too many little things go.
The worst decision for me came very early.
They passed the ball back and there was a defender facing their goal with Stansfield and I think Willumssun bearing down on him.
Under a bit of pressure from Stansfield the defender tried to turn and tripped over the ball. Willumssun would have been clean through in the area, but the ref gave them a free kick.
I thought it looked wrong at the time. On TV you can see Stansfield wasn't close to touching him and the defender just fell over.
It was an absolutely bizarre decision by the referee. He invented a foul where there wasn't even a hint of one.
I am not sure we would have scored or played better, but it was a properly awful decision. Up there with the assistant flagging Bowyer offside in 2011.
I thought the free kick for their first was very soft as well. Poku ran into Cochrane at least as much as Cochrane blocked him. Poku was had lost the ball at that point. I thought Cochrane played the ball as well. It's difficult to tell.
And the ref was rubbish for them as well. It lookee a pretty clear foul by Iwata.
I think a final deserves a better referee.
That's not taking anything away from Peterborough. They took their chances and won comfortably.
Ref was up there with the worst of the worst this season.
Absolute see you next Tuesday.
Finals shouldn't be given to clown's like him.
We were pretty crap as well which didn't help
Just watched the highlights back after hearing we were fortunate to not have a pen given against us - rubbish. Ref went to blow his whistle then stopped to allow Poku to have his shot. You can't then pull it back because he missed.
Yet Laird was manhandled and thrown over in the box and Anderson was shoved over minutes later and nothing was given. That alongside how poorly he handled the time wasting and not getting his cards out for their constant fouling, very, very frustrating.
Not blaming him as we also weren't good enough, but my word he didn't help us either.
I would if we didn't only test Steer 2 or 3 times. Got to be doing more if I want to blame the ref. Had we lost 2-1 I would've been much more on his back
When my lads were playing I’ve seen kids hit in the face and raised off their feet and carry on playing just crying. Not stop the fecking game for 5 minutes each incident for a tap with a balloon.