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    ghk230473 wrote:
    Strasbourg Saint wrote:
    randre wrote:
    redduke wrote:
    Little Hitler wrote:
    I thought we had a bagful of chances. It was pretty much Reading all over again.
    So how many saves did their keeper make then? Sorry, Sharp just disappeared in the 2nd half, our best chances were all coming through Chaplow until his injury, and Guly ain't a wide midfielder is he. Once again wrong choice of subs from Adkins
    Who would you have put on for Chaplow then? How can you say yet another mistake by adkins, this man has got us to where none of us believed possible at the start of the season. Sorry, but you are so very wrong.
    Randre, I think we should just give up. Like you, I'm sick of people picking on Guly or saying that NA isn't up to it. Especially, given that they (or we) have no idea what's going on away from the matches themselves. For example, we don't know why NA had Bart back on the bench today but he will have had his reasons.

    As you say, we would have settled for this last August and no one could have guessed how Reading (even with the little bit of luck they've enjoyed) would have stormed their way into the top two.

    Not too high when we win, not too low when we lose.
    Sorry but I have had enough of " we would have taken this at start of season" b0ll0cks. We have been in top 2 all season without playing very well. West ham bottled it and to be Frank we have made reading look better than what they are, too many games have been thrown away.
    Premier league every thing apart from league position, let's not take 2nd best. IF we are promoted let's not forget these games and improve the squad accordingly.
    Oh my gawd. I actually agree with this. I see places / people we need to improve upon if we go up. And I HATE to say it, but one of those is Fonte."
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Lallana: It was "crazy" not to send off Hines

8:14pm Saturday 21st April 2012 in Saints News Photograph of the Author By Gordon Simpson , Senior Sports Reporter

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ADAM Lallana branded referee Tony Bates’ decision not to send off Middlesbrough defender Seb Hines as “crazy”.

With the scores level at 1-1 early in the second half, the midfielder was racing through on goal when he was tripped from behind by the Boro centre half just outside the area.

Bates gave the free-kick, but to Saints’ shock did not produce a card of any kind.

Although a covering defender was arguably coming across to prevent a red, the foul looked to warrant a yellow at the very least.

That would have meant a dismissal for Hines, who had been booked minutes earlier, and would likely have changed the entire complexion of the game, which Boro went on to win 2-1.

After the match, Lallana was at a loss to explain the decision not to dismiss Hines.

“I just remember taking a touch and looking up,” he said. “I was going to shoot, but I thought I was quite far out, so I took another touch further away from the defender, and just getting brought down.

“I remember straight away thinking ‘is it a pen, is it a free-kick?’ because I didn’t know where he was.

“Straight away in my head I’m thinking ‘He’s off’ because I remember a second before looking up and the keeper was just there.

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“So getting up and thinking ‘He’s going to pull a red out here’ to not give a card at all is crazy really. I don’t know what much else to say.

“I didn’t even know who brought me down. But if it was Hines he’d already been booked.

“I haven’t even seen it again, but I’m straight away thinking ‘that’s a straight red, I’m through on goal.’”

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