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Post by eddie on Aug 31, 2013 16:22:09 GMT
Swans 0, Horsham 2. Once again Swans were reduced to 10 men before half time when Warren Gladdy was sent off for retaliation having been stamped on. The perpetrator of the stamping did not even get spoken to by the ref let alone anything else. Retaliation always warrants a red card but that was one of the few decisions a very poor official got right. We did not look ourselves before the red card against a poor looking Horsham who only looked any good when they had an extra man. Their goals were scored by the only decent players they had: Gary Charman and Scott Harris. For the first time this season I didn't enjoy the game.
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Post by 1066swan on Aug 31, 2013 18:40:35 GMT
Don't agree with your assessment of the opening spell, Eddie: I thought Swans looked clearly the better team until Gladdy went off. After that we lost midfield cohesion and leadership and an indifferent Horsham just stretched us in the hot sun. Agree, not a game to enjoy - times are tight and when I think of how long it took me to earn the money to spend on admission, food, petrol... wish I'd had a good reason to stay at home.
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Post by eddie on Aug 31, 2013 19:34:17 GMT
I agree with you though 1066 that we were clearly the better team in the opening spell, Horsham only threatening from set pieces. What I meant by not looking ourselves was that that flowing, passing football we've been playing wasn't so apparent.
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Post by 1066swan on Sept 1, 2013 4:43:17 GMT
Thanks Eddie - the only previous match I'd been able to get to was v Hythe, so I didn't have that comparison...
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Post by eddie on Sept 1, 2013 17:47:28 GMT
From a posting on the Horsham fans forum: "It'll be interesting to see if Amy and Cam's videos actually show the sending off incident in full. I certainly saw what happened and am grateful that the ref only saw their guy's indiscretion and not ours."
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Post by cambridgeswan on Sept 8, 2013 8:17:37 GMT
The video's on the Horsham website; excellent quality but, interestingly, it shows nothing of the red card incident.
Although I rely more on these videos than watching live to see Swans, they're telling me that we've got far more about us in terms of pace, skill, determination and patterns of play than in recent years. Just a pity that, totting up the minutes, so far we've played a quarter of our season a man down.
Reading how the Gladdy and Redley dismissals came about, I wonder whether we'll now suffer from being thought of - wrongly - as a dirty team. As a County referee I'll look at the teams' stats, cards etc before my match, not to prejudge what will happen but to give me an idea of what to expect. Who knows whether some referees might now have a subconscious prompt (not at all suggesting they set out to be biased) that we're the kind of team that gets reds?
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