I know I keep going on about this but for Alty's sake can we please stop blaming match officials for everything.
Simply put - don't foul or show dissent and you WILL NOT get a booking.
Really very easy as a concept isn't it and if the players I referee on a Sunday can get it why the hell can't semi professionals and the intelligencia who watch Alty?
Simple answer and I'm sorry if I offend anybody - it's a bloody easy cop out to blame all the inefficiency, ineffectiveness and lack of discipline on somebody else!
Now were you actually at the game yesturday? So how can you give a viewpoint that what is being said is not correct? Unfortunately not all referees are as good as yourself, and make mistakes/errors/completly ignore whats in front of them/ or just bow to the home crowd, for example at the game yesturday.
No-one is ownly blaming the ref for our loss yesturday, there goal came from a move where the officials had no-bearing on the ball going in the back of the net. What most of the people who went yesturday are unhappy about are dishing out yellows for a small infringement (slight shirt pull within own half), yet letting a major infringement going unpunished, (awful tackle stopping player making byline, or body check stopping playing entering penalty area). Anyway without you actually being at the game, then with some justification we can give an opinion about the effectiveness of the officials, even if you were there, then you would be hard pressed to follow some of the decisions given.
What mainly annoys myself is the total lack of consistency we have in officials, yes they are not robots, and cannot be programmed to act the same. Yet they all have been trained in the same way, so should be dishing out yellows and reds for the same offences. I bet next week we see shirt pulls all over the pitch and no-one gets booked.