Rovers v Bradford MATCH DAY THREAD

Players get all sorts of dogs abuse off fans and then people want players booked for cupping their ear??

Bloody hell, whatever next?

Is it "definitely a foul under the rules"? I thought the only law regarding handball was that it has to be deliberate? I would genuinely be interested to know if the rules have changed or a directive has been issued that justified the refs decision. 
At the time (from the dribuild) I had no idea why a pen had been given, thought it must have been a shirt pull or something. It was only after getting home I watched it back a good number of times - even though it didn't matter in the end I still couldn't understand the decision and thought the officials, linesman in particular were poor yet again.

I’d agree.

Well played by the boys today , was definitely a penalty although a bit soft. But everything else was great. Caught up with some mates , few pints , and can I say yet again the sausage rolls are bloody lovely ! Never used to eat at the mem , but I've been converted! Keep it up boys utg !!!

If you want to see some incitement then watch the Leeds Millwall highlights!

In real time it could be argued that it looked deliberate, without the benefit of replays the player looks like he is doing the old 'put your hand on the ball to stop it and quickly take a free kick' movement. I don't know if this is the law but just my own interpretation is that if the ball is going into the box and potentially creating a chance if a player puts his arm in the way and stops the ball (ie not ball to hand) therefore stopping a chance then the opposition has every right to a penalty in my view. I even think if a player slips and this happens then it is simply bad luck for the defending side. The emphasis should always be on rewarding the attacking side imo apart from incidences of close range ball to hand.

Wow just watched it. What a game. 

Just got back, a great game. Agree with most that’s been said and imo any player could have been MOM. After we realised that Bradford were bang average we went for it and thought we were the best team. For a team with money to spend, who’ve brought in a few players they weren’t very good. And their manager was out thought by DC. Sat at the far end of the Dribuild so couldn’t see the penalty to make a judgement. After HT they were never in it and RG and EH pulled their defence all over the place creating a lot of space for midfield to run into. I bet SS is still running around annoying someone somewhere!! Tom Broadbent was very good, for a large man he’s very good on the ball and brought the ball out several times and looked assured. Good to have extended his contract. Tom L distributed the ball from defence better and created lots of possession for the midfield. First time I’ve seen Bola from the start and after a hesitant first half was excellent in second half. Great save in second half by Smith esp holding onto it with their forwards there. LS was always a threat and deserved his goal and could have had others.
Two things that really annoyed, McCall spent nearly all the first half on the pitch or on the touch line and took no notice of the fourth official who spoke to him several times. How does he get away with it? And we had two free kicks at the tent end and each time the ref paced out the 10 mettrs. Their defence wasn’t the full distance back, the ref asked them to go back, they refused so he just put the line where they were! Pathetic, perhaps we could refuse to do what the ref asked.
Well done D.C. and the team completely outplayed a team costing a lot more but who seemed a bit disinterested.
UTG!

All in all a good day at the office, thought we played well and fought for everything. Nice to hear a few older songs second half and always lovely to see abit of karma returned on that cocky prick, charlie whats the score? happy days.