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This is the incident I thought it was referencing due to someone saying Stroud is the ref.

Ha, my assumption on the disallowed goal, should have watched the link lol, someone referenced Stroud, who ref'd our game.

The ref actually got it right. Pinched the below from our site, someone looked up the interference rule. Definition of 'possession' by a goalkeeper "Once the goalkeeper has gained possession (also known as “control”) of the ball, an opponent may not interfere with or block the goalkeeper’s distribution of the ball. For example, players have a right to maintain a position achieved during the normal course of play, but they may not try to block the goalkeeper’s movement while he or she is holding the ball and trying to distribute it. Nor may opposing players do anything to hinder, interfere with, or block a goalkeeper who is throwing or punting the ball back into play. The goalkeeper has already gained possession and is granted up to six seconds to release the ball back into play by other players. A goalkeeper in the act of distributing the ball may not be challenged under these circumstances. (This includes trying to head a ball out of the goalkeeper’s open hand or playing a ball being bounced or tossed into the air by the goalkeeper.) An opponent does not violate the Law, however, if that player takes advantage of a ball clearly released by the goalkeeper directly to him or her, in his or her direction, or deflecting off him or her nonviolently” In yesterday's case, Rushworth definitely had 'possession' and 'control' of the ball with both hands but it was dislodged from his 'possession' by Ennis's head as he stood up. Yes, it was clearly unintentional but that doesn't matter, any infringement is still an infringement whether intentional or unintentional. In fact, free-kicks are probably awarded more often for unintentional fouls or handballs than for clearly intentional ones with the latter more likely to result in a yellow card. Maybe it was borderline at worst but reading that, I think the ref just about got it right.

Of course it had to happen now, just as we are next to play them. The number of times we see an opposition struggling only for them to change manager before we play them.

Yes he's been injured, came back today and not played well. As can be seen on our forum, someone started a thread after today's game about how bad he was. https://jackarmy.net/forum/threads/harrison-ashby.13222/ I must say though, we've had this before where a player we loaned was rubbish and came good after, Gyökeres is one

The sensible choice would have been to stick with the manager they had, who had them playing well and were 6th in the League, 14 positions higher than they are now, 15 games later.

He was totally the wrong guy, not his fault at end of day. We have slowly deteriorated year in, year out, since the Americans bought us. Have no faith in the next appointment, never know, may surprise us. Hardly anything left to sell now either.

The PGMOL has confirmed that not only was the second yellow that seen Swansea's Patino sent off in the first half against Sunderland but the first yellow was also an error by the referee. https://planetswans.co.uk/2023/11/10/madleys-mistakes-confirmed-by-pgmol-patino-misses-out-as-a-result/

Just two of Madely's gaff's Saturday How is he able to ref?

Robert Madley. He's doing us again. Every time he's linked to our games we know we're in for a rough time. Sent a player off first half for two of the softest yellow's ever. Just gave another soft yellow, none of them even fouls. Manager booked for complaining about the incompetency and now a free kick just outside the box and our player didn't even touch theirs. He's the most useless ref we've ever had against us.

He's not had the best of times, it was a funny loan as we had just bought Josh Key, a right back. Ashby started playing Right Wingback with Key playing Left Wingback. Even though he scored in one game, his form wasn't good and eventually Key was picked ahead of him in his normal position and Ashby dropped to the bench. Key's been injured the last couple of games against Watford and Blackburn, so Ashby's played. I missed both these games so can only go by the player ratings on our board. We lost at home against Watford and no player got a rating higher than 6.1, Ashby got 4.9, better than just 3 other players and he was subbed off on 79th minute for an attacking midfielder, probably chasing the game as we were 1 down. We won against Blackburn and Ashby played the 90 minutes and had a score of 7.2. Will see when Key returns if he manages to keep the spot.

Getting better

Ashby scores for Swansea

Hopefully he does well for us