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Completely agree! I just also agree with the questioning of those decisions that lead to such a result of 4-2! congratulations to your son and their team. hopefully these two teams will see each other again in another cup final, would be another good game. I’m happy to see your comment about them in defeat as a few comments have been made that Lanreath were not. I spoke to a few players from the lanreath team who were nothing but gracious and complimentary of dropship! I also spoke to a couple of the lads from dropship, their captain and striker being two who seemed to agree that the game could of gone either way and first half wise they thought lanreath would have finished it. Both the drop ship players were great lads and spoke of last years defeat and what knowledge that bought to this game.

As you mentioned, you missed majority of the first half where lanreath were completely dominant, as you mentioned the front of lanreath were particularly poor and missed opportunities which could of seen Lanreath go into half time possible 4-1. The first dropship goal came from a goalkeeping error. Dropships second goal was great football. Surely it was clear lanreath struggled to create anything the second half for reasons that come from the red card. Going down to 10 men against a strong team was not going to do them any favours. My original post centred around the fact that it was indeed the red card that changed the momentum of the game. As you also mentioned the ref was not looking at the incident as was keeping up with play. If he did not see the incident nor the linesman, how can you give someone a straight red? With regards to the ref knowing the boys names, my point is it adds to the belief held that there was a lack of credibility. For lanreath coming into this, surely they would find it more neutral if he didn’t know their names or if he did to not use them and call them ‘player’ like he was to the lanreath players? It was also mentioned by many other neutrals after the game that the ref struggled to keep control. The first half saw Lanreath play good football with all men on the pitch, they created more chances than Dropship and saw a very strong lanreath back line with the left back and right back controlling most of the play and creating chances. Lanreath captain and centre back was sin-binned. I spoke to him after the game and he was actually speaking to his assistant coach which the ref deemed the context was out of line and sin binned him. Lanreath were not able to create the chances they did in the second half when lanreath had all their men on the pitch. I think the dominate performance from the second half from drop ship was only available due to at times Lanreath only having 9 men on the pitch from possible dodgey referee decisions! Dropship played the game well the second half being able to take advantage of the 2 man difference. Agreement in the change of formation did not help lanreath but i suppose management were going to struggle in decisions when they at times had 9 men on the pitch.

I think most would agree, Lanreath were the better team in the final and the result does not do the game justice. Lanreath did lose their discipline which factor to the result but the referee decision making appeared strange which I believe is adding to a confusion of the credibility. The red card for example, I was stood near the linesman who said he didn’t see the incident, the referee went over to the linesman to see what had happened therefore he was unsure too. So to not have a clear imagine of what had happened but to only send the lanreath player and only book the dropship player is questionable. It is inevitable that the red card completely changed the momentum of the game. It also seemed a lot of decisions went Dropships way, after the game i spoke to a few of the lanreath lads, who in defeat were still gracious ( i have seen some posts who have said they weren’t) who stated the referee knew the drop ship players by first names which could suggest he knew them? There was a clear altercation on the right hand side where a drop ship player went flying in with an elbow to a lanreath players face, no card or foul? The ref was a very young man who seemed a little out of his depth for a cup of this magnitude. Congratulations to drop ship who capitalised on these errors which is no dig to them but I can’t help feeling the better team did not win that game. I would be interested to know if anyone else as a neutral feels a lot of decisions went against lanreath which added to their loss?