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Re: Brighton vs Bournemouth - Paul Tierney (VAR - Jarred
Gillett)
DIR By: bmb
Date: January 20, 2026, 10:35 am
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> [quote author=bmb link=topic=7641.msg100503#msg100503
date=1768862317]
> [quote author=TA_Ref link=topic=7641.msg100500#msg100500
date=1768860423]
> I think the second half was really tricky to officiate,
especially with Bournemouth players throwing themselves to the
ground at virtually every opportunity (sorry bmb!). The play
acting from Bournemouth at times was shocking and I felt sorry
for Tierney with the amount of head injuries, cramp and other
acts of time wasting he had to deal with.
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I disagree there was embarrassing playacting - Eva was pushed,
Scott was pushed and kicked in the face accidentally - that's
hardly throwing themselves down. Tav doesn't go down without
reason, like all teams we have those who do - Tav isn't one of
them. Adli I think genuinely had cramp - not sure he's played a
full game yet & I'd love to see his running stats/distance
covered. Trouble is we play a high paced game and for a young
player with very little PL experience it's too much for them
physically. We used our only 2 senior subs (one who is returning
from injury), then an 18 year old bought in for the development
squad, leaving us with 4 academy players (one who we've had to
recall from loan) and a senior gk on the bench. When we hit this
stage last season (bench full of academy players) we went into
our best spell of the season so fingers crossed...
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That’s fair enough regarding the time wasting. It was just that,
from a neutral perspective, at times it felt quite excessive
although I do now realise how stretched your squad is so maybe I
was a bit hasty with my original comment.
I do agree Alex Scott got an unfortunate kick to the face and
obviously I don’t follow Bournemouth a lot so I couldn’t agree
if certain players were ‘one of them’ but it is part and parcel
of the game so I need to realise that. Tierney tried to let the
game go as much as he could but his hands were tied in some
instances when Bournemouth players were down.
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Tav by the way is being assessed for a hamstring injury.
Hopefully just a tweak at worst but another senior player who
could now be out for an extended time, and the latter is looking
the more likely. Not heard anything today about Adli but we all
believe it was just cramp last night.
Currently we have Justin Kluivert out until at least April, Ben
Gannon-Doak has been out since Nov, possibly back in Feb, Tyler
Adams (huge loss) out since Dec with a torn MCL, Enes Unal and
David Brooks will both hopefully be back end of Jan/early Feb,
Matai Akinmboni, out since November - no return date. Will
Dennis out for goodness only knows how long although we have
signed a back up keeper & are after another one, so that
position is covered.
And of course we sold Semenyo after his release clause was
triggered!
Ryan Christie, Lewis Cook, Alex Scott, Marcos Senesie and Veljko
Milosavlijevic - the 18 year old who came on last night all
returning from injury over this month so not yet match fit. It's
a bit grim but we are used to that! We're not a team to use it
for excuses or yell about how woe are we in the press like some
others. Arsenal last year were crying in the press about having
7/8 I think it was out when they played us - we had 11 fit, 1
senior goalie on the bench and the rest were academy kids, that
part didn't get mentioned! It's life when supporting a small
team, we don't have the depth of squad, unlikely we ever will,
our back ups are mostly academy & dev squad players. It is what
it is.
As put by my fellow Cherry:
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> A tired, depleted Bournemouth side did what they could to slow
it down and he proactively dealt with it using the only tools at
his disposal. Immediately talked to the captain when Hill took a
long time over a long throw in early in the second half.
Petrovic wasn't allowed to have too many slow goal kicks before
the card came out. Plenty of time was added on.
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We will have Tóth Alex make his debut at the weekend, 20 yrs
old, never played in the PL. We've also signed Ade Solanke - dev
squad but will be getting a very early chance to be around the
1st team squad.
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Re: Paul Tierney: Brighton - Bournemouth
DIR By: Arbitre anglais
Date: January 20, 2026, 12:32 pm
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> Got his first decision incorrect, looked at monitor for 2
minutes and got the 2nd decision wrong
> No penalty, no caution for me
> Player was never getting to the ball if there hadn’t been
contact
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Not seen it yet, but it makes no difference whether a player is
going to get on the end of the ball. A foul is a foul. The ball
could be 30 yards away; it just needs to be in play. It does
however often give a clue if player may exaggerate, as they know
they won’t get there anyway (or have no intention of ever
getting there, rather to win a soft foul).
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