Yet again, at Brunton Park Carlisle, we had to put up with a poor standard of official. Whilst I do not deny that Carlisle United have been poor last season and this season, we are constantly subjected to very poor referees.
As hopefully your footage will show, the referee should have sent off one Exeter City player for a horrendous, late tackle from behind. Near the end of the game there was a handball from an Exeter player which the entire crowd saw, but apparently none of the officials did. There were other incidents, but these two alone should result in a frontal lobotomy for the Referee, Mr Pike. Or perhaps he should be impaled upon a pike......
Dave Atkinson
Yesterday was the time in 20 years I walked out of any football match.
Teale and Durnin warming up before the match on their own
Keen in goal who had a good game - never once attempted to grab a cross. The times he watched a cross or a pass into the box was unbelievable
Teale a supposedly experienced player just booted the ball up the field (fair enough) but a stupid back pass resulted in us losing a vital deserved point. We could have pinched all 3 points if only......
Brightwell - the Captain looked as if he did not care
Reid - did nothing brillant, but did the basics ie cleared the ball rather than passing it to a 20 goal a year striker(ala Shaun"im just here for the money" Teale).
To top it Weaver got player of the year(and deserved) for and I quote "his ever present performances".
On a positive note I have a gut feeling we will get 3 points off Darlo(teale owes us one) and Shrewsbury will not win again this year. I hope we survive i really do
Graeme Dixon
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