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Tom Reeves - Sheffield Wednesday vs Ipswich Town
By: TA_Ref Date: March 14, 2026, 4:18 pm
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🎶 “We’ve got a pen, we’ve got a pen, we’ve got a
pen”🎶 - that was the chant from the away end as Tom
Reeves pointed to the penalty spot which led to Jack Clarke
scoring.
All jokes aside, I thought Tom Reeves put in an ok performance.
Nothing atrocious but not overly good either. I felt Tom found
it very comfortable to give free kicks to teams when they were
in their own half but in the attacking half, it felt his level
of tolerance was much higher. This felt like his foul detection
was rather inconsistent in moments.
First half was average - I felt there were a couple of times
when Ipswich should’ve had a free kick in the attacking third
(admittedly I was at the other end of the ground so my thoughts
aren’t particularly 100% accurate). There was a challenge on
Hirst that took place right on the edge of the penalty area
which to me looked like a foul. A couple of other interesting
decisions that didn’t feel consistent with what he was giving.
But he got through the first half relatively unscathed with no
yellow cards awarded.
Second half was ok with a few more incidents. Burns and Fusire
clashed around the 55th minute which resulted in the standard
action of a yellow card for both. As a Town fan, I felt Burns
was rather fortunate to stay on the field at that point because
I thought I saw him put his hand on the Wednesday player’s
throat in a bit of an aggressive manner. I didn’t see what
sparked the confrontation but it occurred right in front of AR2
Matthew McGrath so I assume the right decision was made. There
was a challenge on Jacob Greaves by Thornton which resulted in a
yellow card - I think some Ipswich players were asking for SFP
and a red card. I had a terrible view of that incident as the
Wednesday player was blocking my line of vision for point of
contact.
For me (easy to say as an Ipswich fan), I felt Tom was far too
slow to punish constant time wasting from Sheffield Wednesday,
certainly the goalkeeper Charles. He got away with a lot. One
Wednesday defender was cautioned for taking too long on a throw
but that was the only caution for that offence.
It looked like he got the Ipswich penalty incident correct live.
I was looking through the goal and was on the other side of the
box to me so I had a poor view. Upon watching the replay, I
think there was some contact but Clarke made a lot of a little.
Not awful by Tom Reeves. I think he is capable of making the
step up but needs some more regular championship games to keep
on testing him. A tad inconsistent at times but was good enough
in what was a largely drab and uneventful afternoon.
Nice to have a good away day too. A shame to see Sheffield
Wednesday go down in the manner that they are but all the
players and supporters were an absolute credit to their club
today. Hardly ever stopped singing and they pushed us all the
way. Credit to them and I hope they can make their way back from
a dark time. All the best to them.
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Re: Tom Reeves - Sheffield Wednesday vs Ipswich Town
By: rustyref Date: March 15, 2026, 1:38 pm
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I was there in the North Stand and thought he was pretty good
overall. Don't really agree on the timewasting, I didn't see
anyone taking an excessive amount of time, and also don't see
why Wednesday would bother timewasting. All they have possibly
to play for is to avoid the ignominy of finishing on minus
points, and the odd draw here and there isn't going to get that.
My immediate reaction on the penalty was it was a dive, but then
the complete lack of protest by Wednesday players made me think
I'd seen it wrong, understandable from the distance I was away
from it. But having now seen the replay it was a blatant dive,
Fusire did dangle a leg but Clarke then ran into it and flung
himself forwards. Interestingly when I met up with the Ipswich
fan friends in the pub after they said they they thought it was
a dive real time. With hindsight the lack of protests didn't
really indicate much other than the Wednesday players are
totally demoralised and don't really have any protest left in
them.
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