Re: Riley : Sun May 23, 2010 9:41 pm  

I had no problem with Smith's stance on the Riley decision, if he deemed it a professional foul, fair enough. Whether it's the first minute or last it shouldn't matter. It's the inconsistency that grates somewhat. You'd expect inconsistency from official to official, not set of six to set of six.

Re: Riley : Sun May 23, 2010 9:41 pm  

I thought he was joking tbh. These days we just can't read properly without fifty smilies

Re: Riley : Sun May 23, 2010 9:43 pm  

spot on

Re: Riley : Sun May 23, 2010 9:46 pm  

I think Riley got sin binned on purpose to get out of the sun...ginger hair and fair skin, not good in this weather!

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 12:11 am  

Riley raked the ball out. Or rather, he had hold of it when their guy tried to get up and the ball came loose and as Riley was the "Last man back" and was holding him down, he got 10 Minutes in the bin.

Spoke to him briefly after the game, he said he had no idea what happened, said he tackled him, went to stand up and the ball was loose and the officials saw it as a professional foul. He did add at the end that he enjoyed the 10 minutes rest in the bin.

I'm assuming the reason Hodgson didn't get Binned for a similar tackle was because the ball wasn't deemed "Stolen" like it was for Riley.

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 6:24 am  

Milly wrote:

I think Riley got sin binned on purpose to get out of the sun...ginger hair and fair skin, not good in this weather!

i thought he had been sent off to get cream on too, in a similar vain to a blood bin sub but they only had Mitchell to replace him who also has similar hair and skin issues

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 7:39 am  

The only difference I could put between the Riley decision and the Gilmour decision was the field position that each team had, Hudds were in our 20 and we were definitely on the back foot, whereas Hicks was only around the half-way line.

I don't know if this affected Smith's decision making or what. Some odd decisions yesterday, this is what we have come to expect.

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 12:07 pm  

DJ Birchy Ford Clinic wrote:

i thought he had been sent off to get cream on too, in a similar vain to a blood bin sub but they only had Mitchell to replace him who also has similar hair and skin issues

we could call it the "skin bin".....

I do worry for James graham in these conditions he's the whitest individual I have ever seen (well except for 'whitey' off "me myself and Irene")

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 7:05 pm  

just_browny wrote:

Riley's indiscipline is costing us, yet another sinbinning today. The hot-headed youngster needs to calm down before he does the team some real damage. After his scrapping against Catalans and his messing around at the PTB today I think Smith needs to sort him.

tell me browny..

"what drugs are you this week" ?

Re: Riley : Mon May 24, 2010 7:55 pm  

but if its a professional foul than its an automatic sin bin isnt it