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I don't think Arnold fits in with our type of play.

I notice Ceesay isn't in Blackpool's squad at the moment...

Will the covers be on tonight as heavy rain forecast overnight?

Less than 50% chance of rain in Alty overnight according to BBC weather (which is usually more accurate than their football news !)

Maybe if we don't score first on Wednesday we'll contrive to actually win. We'll have Hancock and Williams available, and that should help.

Branson and Richman played OK individually, but we didn't function properly as a midfield unit. Johnston and Walters too often had to start from too deep. Hulme desperately needs to break his duck - he looks low on confidence to me. Another poor referee didn't help matters.

We started the previous two seasons like this, so I'm not panicking yet.

Unless we commit it!

I never had you down as a cynic Steve !

As I thought at the time, there throw in for the goal was a foul throw, with rear foot of the ground. More incompetence.

They took half a dozen foul throws - referees just don't seem interested in that offence nowadays.

An eccentric, but always a gentleman. RIP Steve.

I honestly believe I have never seen a more incompetent official over the entire 90 minutes of a game than the cretin we were saddled with tonight. Yes, we've had bad un's who've made two or three appalling decisions that have robbed us, but this idiot was simply bizarre !

Their number 9 flattened Hampson inside the first minute with what was practically a forearm smash. Ref thinks "I know it's GBH but it's too early to get the red card out." We've seen that before, but to ignore three further offences from the same player (one of them arguably a red card offence) defied belief.

Simon Grand used to be half decent at this level, but he's laughing at Chester for paying him to perform like he did tonight. Another who continued to offend as he pleased without adding to the yellow card he already had.

On the other hand, to book Hampson and Harrop for innocuous challenges after they'd been regularly fouled themslelves,  and White for delaying a free kick by around three seconds, was nothing less than perverse.

You just knew we'd get mugged in the unnecessarily long 5 added minutes (4 would have been stretching it a bit !).

Quite frankly, if he'd been bribed he could scarcely have been any worse.

Heartbreaking to lose two points when the whole team had performed so well. PP has to be very careful about criticising referees, so I'm going to say it for him :

"We were robbed of two points tonight by a team who should have been down to 9  men for the last half hour, and it was totally down to a referee who shouldn't have been let loose on a park pitch with jumpers for goalposts."

Johnson and Morley will be gone before Guy Fawkes night if that Chester team is the best they can offer.