Exeter City vs Mansfield Town

[valefan16]

Should ban him retrospectively with the punishment Sweeney gets (3 match ban). Isn’t there a rule on this now?

 

[GTFCfish]

Wow Exeter fans are in a league of their own on here when it comes to denial.
I remember them calling us ‘cheats’ for having a player with one leg in the box while they were missing a penalty, but Bowman chucking himself to the floor to get a player sent off definitely isn’t cheating.
What a bunch of clowns.

 

[Trapdoor]

The ban wont get rescinded based on that footage. He backs into him leading with his elbow and Bowman goes down.

Maybe it's not a red but a yellow wouldn't have been unfair and the EFL do not overturn anything unless it's a nailed on clear cut wrong decision. Even then they sometimes dont overturn decisions. Theres enough in that for them to support the refs decision.

The moral argument about players going down softly will continue to rage on. We have opposition diving in our box week in week out as well. It's pretty rare to see refs pull out yellows for simulation at this level.

 

[Conker]

Exeter lot are usually a decent bunch but they are being ridiculous on this, flying high up the league and getting beyond themselves I reckon

The ban wont get rescinded based on that footage. He backs into him leading with his elbow and Bowman goes down.

Maybe it's not a red but a yellow wouldn't have been unfair and the EFL do not overturn anything unless it's a nailed on clear cut wrong decision. Even then they sometimes dont overturn decisions. Theres enough in that for them to support the refs decision.

The moral argument about players going down softly will continue to rage on. We have opposition diving in our box week in week out as well. It's pretty rare to see refs pull out yellows for simulation at this level.

BTW

https://twitter.com/x/status/1168915712230023169

 

[Indian Dan]

Heh, heh!

 

[Trapdoor]

Wow. Im amazed. That's pretty unusual behaviour from the regulator. Plenty of teams have had obvious miscarriages not overturned.

Good for Mansfield, feels bad for everyone else though when similar appeals fail.

 

[Conker]

Or maybe it was such a ridiculous decision by the referee and acting by Bowman the regulator which usually does not overturn decisions had no choice?

 

[Gladders]

Plenty of decisions get overturned, we've had a few over the years. When they are blatently obviously wrong decisions like this, they will be overturned. No surprise this one was.

 

[GTFCfish]

To find out for sure whether he cheated or not what we really need is an unbiased view from somebody known for talking common sense and who will always listen to both sides of a story and make a reasoned decision based on this.

So Devon_Lad, what do you think?

 

[Indian Dan]

The answer lies in the soil!

 

[denzel ecfc]

You all hate us don't you?
Don't worry we will start losing soon and you can go back to being nice to us again.

 

[Conker]

You all hate us don't you?
Don't worry we will start losing soon and you can go back to being nice to us again.

Hates Exeter nothing quite gathers hate like a nice L2 Devonshire club that have not even been successful in recent times.

Nobody hates Exeter, but the clouded judgement for that blatant play-acting is ridiculous.

 

[shoddycollins]

Hopefully Bowman will be banned now as that's supposed to be the punishment if you dive and it gets a player sent off.

I may be hoping that mainly because if he plays against us he will score a hat trick for sure on his first return to the club that released him as a kid.

Whatever happened to these retrospective bans though? When they were brought in a couple seasons back we had a player banned and then a morecambe player banned for diving against us within weeks. I can't remember a single incident of it last season though. Have the FA lost their bottle?

 

[shoddycollins]

I’m just saying what they were doing. So nothing for me to give over.

I’ve no idea what the CUFC chairman harped on about either, nor do I care. The bloke still thinks it’s 1970.

Pressley and Jenkins were both rather salty about Mansfield. They didn't accuse them of diving though, just gamesmanship.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Hopefully Bowman will be banned now as that's supposed to be the punishment if you dive and it gets a player sent off.

I may be hoping that mainly because if he plays against us he will score a hat trick for sure on his first return to the club that released him as a kid.

Whatever happened to these retrospective bans though? When they were brought in a couple seasons back we had a player banned and then a morecambe player banned for diving against us within weeks. I can't remember a single incident of it last season though. Have the FA lost their bottle?

Where is that written down? Also don't you think the EFL would have said that at the same time.
I wouldn't worry about him scoring a hattrick, he is hardly prolific, his main job seems to be winding up the opposition and fans....

 

[shoddycollins]

Where is that written down? Also don't you think the EFL would have said that at the same time.
I wouldn't worry, he is hardly prolific, his main job seems to be winding up the opposition and fans....

I don't know what the EFL have to do with it, discipline is the FA's jurisdiction. Do you not remember though? Shaun Miller when he was at us was the first player to be retrospectively banned for three games, I think a Watford player was the first Premier league player a couple of weeks later, got quite a lot of media coverage at the time. The rule is that a panel of former players and officials will look at contentious red cards and penalties and of a player is found to have acted dishonestly to influence the referee's decision then they get a three game ban. Don't think it's necessarily the same panel that handle appeals against bans so it could be that panel are looking at it now that the red card is known to be wrong.

Looking at the incident, I think if Bowman doesn't go down then the referee doesn't even see it as a foul therefore Bowman's dive is entirely responsible for Sweeney's red card.

 

[Tavyred]

You all hate us don't you?
Don't worry we will start losing soon and you can go back to being nice to us again.

If this is what being top of the league is, I want no part of it!

 

[Moomin]

Yes Bowman was a shithouse but it happens all the time.

In the first half Benning went down like he’d been shot and rolled around on the touchline and when the ref didn’t give the free kick he got straight back up (a miracle!). So attempts to con the ref happen all the time.

 

[Conker]

If you said Rose I would have believed you, Benning is probably the least likely to do something like Bowman did to deliberately get somebody sent off.

I bet whatever it was, it’s not comparable to what Bowman did.

 

[Trapdoor]

If you said Rose I would have believed you, Benning is probably the least likely to do something like Bowman did to deliberately get somebody sent off.
I bet whatever it was, it’s not comparable to what Bowman did.

But of course you have no idea because you werent there and didnt see it.

 

[Conker]

But of course you have no idea because you werent there and didnt see it.

ifollow

You even get the chance to replay anything too

 

[Moomin]

If you said Rose I would have believed you, Benning is probably the least likely to do something like Bowman did to deliberately get somebody sent off.

I bet whatever it was, it’s not comparable to what Bowman did.

Pretty certain it was Benning. It was on the touchline in the left back position and he certainly did his best to make it look like he’d been smashed to bits only to recover seconds later.