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Time will tell if the red card was deserved or not. If it doesn't get overturned it would be nice to have an explanation.

Another explanation in refereeing should be required for the Kone booking. If that was an elbow, by the standards that had been set by the ref, why was that only a yellow card?

Spoke with a Brum fan after the game and he asked what we thought of Dodds (because he is ex Brum). His opinion matched mine, tactically he is obviously well thought of, but in the media he comes across so inexperienced. The way he sways and touches his face in interviews would suggest he is not comfortable. Time will heal that, and time will tell if he is the right man.

He got everything right yesterday - the only thing I would maybe have done differently is started Grimmer in a game like that, and brought McCleary off instead of Fred (who looked our most lively outlet).

Directly from the FA website

Law 12: Fouls and Misconduct

IFAB Laws of the Game 2024-25

SERIOUS FOUL PLAY

A tackle or challenge that endangers the safety of an opponent or uses excessive force or brutality must be sanctioned as serious foul play.

Any player who lunges at an opponent in challenging for the ball from the front, from the side or from behind using one or both legs, with excessive force or endangers the safety of an opponent is guilty of serious foul play.

you mean any yellow cards?

Telling

That form table probably would have had Huddersfield top 2 after they beat us.

Or Orient before they just lost 3 in a row.

Current form has no bearing on the remaining games. The pressures of aiming for promotion/playoffs or trying to avoid relegation leads to unexpected results.

EDIT: ...in 2013 (12 years ago) Matt Bloomfield missed Wycombe Wanderers 1-0 League Two win over Fleetwood Town at Adams Park with a long-term pelvic shear injury.