“I dont think we should blame the ref, weather it should of ben a pen or not, i think we should seriously worry about our own performance in midfield once again, awful display!! And to lee from bristol i think you summed up everything briliantly mate i really do......Why on earth was lee johnson not substituted, Gavin wiliams played him off the park and yet again as we see week in week out lee johnson is not taken off when he is by far our weekest player in midfield......And 3 free kicks on the edge of the box and the goalkeeper could of been sat in a deck chair........DO NOT LET LEE JOHNSON anywhere near the ball, he has had 2 seasons now at taken them and has not done anything form then, now lets see Lee trundle take them for 2 years and see the differance....but no it does no work like that he would only have to miss 1 and he would not be aloud to take another because his surname is not johnson??? And all you that say leave lee johnson alone he is our best player please please tell me what has he done in 2 years??? Tel me a game where his set pieces were brilliant?? Tell me a game where he didnt bottle out of challenges?? Tel me a game where he didnt constantly play the ball backwards or constantly give the ball away??? Tell me a game where he won a header and the ball went to one of our players???Because i cant think of any and i go to EVERY game home and away and have been a season ticket holder for a very long time Think back to the last 10 mins of the Norwich game when GJ pulled trundle back to feed Maynard some great balls where put through positive football! Not the negitive rubbish we see with Lee Johnson back there..................Still got faith in GJ but Gary You really do need to have a long hard look at your boy??”

“MendipMan, Wurzel Country

I totally agree with your comments, can't add anymore to it.”

“Saturday it was I didn't see it clearly but my heart was in my mouth from GJ. What happened to you win some you loose some!”

“I'm a City fan but I certainly don't become hysterical just because a referee might not give what we biased fans think should be a penalty. City, like all teams, will not get some they ought to get and (as at Barnsley) get away with not conceding a penalty they should have conceded. It's always been thus and always will be unless we reach the ridiculous situation of stopping a game to review a video every time a dubious incident occurs.
It's amazing how fans, who have never refereed a game in their lives and for the most part don't know all the rules of the game or the interpretations refs have been instructed to make, become experts when it comes to criticising referees.
Criticise Trundle for missing a gaping open goal if you want to moan about someone. Although I've never done it I recognise that refereeing is much harder than playing and refs make far fewer mistakes in games than do players. Refs also have to face outrageous gamesmanship and downright cheating at times from players.”

“Where's the controversy? Quite clearly this was the right decision for football ......”

“The ref wasn't the best for sure but it wasn't his fault Trundle missed from 2 yards and that GJ appears to be too pig-headed to substitute his son.

I thought Gavin Williams had a terrific second half, maybe even our best player, playing in the middle of midfield keeping the attacks going forward rather than checking out all the time as Johnson Jr does. He was one of the main reasons we created so many chances in the first part of the second half, Yet he's the one that makes way and Johnson Jr stays on.

It would be interesting to see how the team plays if Johnson Jr had an injury or was banned forcing GJ to give different players a chance in the middle (Williams/Noble).

One other thing that crossed my mind is are McIndoe/Williams/Johnson the best players we have for free kicks around the box. You can't tell me that Trundle doesn't have the technique to have had a couple of pops at goal last night a la Beattie.

In GJ we still trust but he seems to be making it hard for himself and the team......”

“Didn't Blades have a penalty turned down too?”

“Well by the looks of it its a case of " What goes around,comes around". From what i heard Barnsley should have had a clear cut penaltly against us,but never did,so can't argue the case!!”

“The penalty wasn't the only bad decision that he made during the game for both City and United and in my mind he isn't fit to ref any game including Sunday Football.”