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00:00 Obviously, you're not proud of the players that were on the pitch, but also it was a game that's going to impact you if the Leagues become a league.
00:06 Yeah, look, it's sort of hard to kind of analyse from a football perspective.
00:14 You're kind of left with the result, which is obviously disappointing and, you know, you don't like to lose, particularly here at home.
00:23 I'm super proud of the players' efforts and will and desire and determination to still get something out of the game.
00:32 Like I said, there's obviously the fallout from our perspective, personnel-wise, which I guess we'll deal with in the coming days.
00:43 Is there any things out there that will help James Matheson or Mickie?
00:48 No, I mean, again, it's too early, but looking at Mickie, you'd think it's a pretty significant one.
00:54 So, you know, I assume he'll be out for a little while. Matt has got a knock on the ankle. We'll just have to see how he is.
01:02 Have you been very, not afraid to remember the season's leadership?
01:07 Frustrations, no?
01:09 No, you know, he's a physical guy. That's part of his strengths. And, yeah, today it was deemed he went too far.
01:18 You know, just got to cop it.
01:21 Can I ask you what you were booked for?
01:24 I think it was when the linesman sort of didn't put his flag up when I thought he was closing down Vic and he was offside.
01:31 And I think I went outside my technical area, which is fair enough.
01:36 I mean, you promised two servers of five to seven dollars for a million VAR checks.
01:41 Have you been involved in a crazier game?
01:45 No, but I think it's going to become the norm. I think it's where the game's heading.
01:50 I think it's unfortunately how we're going to have to, you know, sort of watch and participate in football from now on,
02:03 because, look, I've said it before, I don't like it. I don't like the standing around.
02:10 I don't like the whole sort of theatre around, you know, waiting for decisions.
02:20 But I know that I'm in the wilderness with that. I'm going on my own.
02:24 In my 26 years, I was always prepared to accept the referee's decision, good, bad or otherwise.
02:29 And I've had some shockers in my career, let me tell you, and I've had some go my way as well.
02:34 But I'd cop that because I just wanted the game to be played.
02:38 But when we're complaining about decisions every week, this is what's going to happen.
02:43 People are just going to forensically scrutinise everything to make sure that they're comfortable it's right.
02:50 And even at the end of that, we're still not happy.
02:53 So what does that mean? Well, that means that we're going to see a lot of standing around.
02:59 And I just think it's just diminishing the authority of the referee.
03:04 You can't tell me that referees are in control of the game. They're not.
03:09 The control is outside of that. But that's the way the game's going.
03:13 So you kind of have to accept that and just try and deal with it.
03:31 I don't know. But it seems like there isn't a great call for us to go back to accepting the referee's decisions for the majority.
03:46 I mean, I understand goal-line technology because that's a simple one.
03:49 That came in and no one's complained about it.
03:53 But in searching for this, like I said before, utopia of where there is no wrong decisions in a game, that doesn't exist.
04:00 It'll never will. But that's the road everyone wants to go down.
04:05 And like I said, some of it's self-inflicted because we all complain about decisions every week.
04:09 That's not new. We've been complaining decisions.
04:11 Like I said, I've been doing this for 26 years.
04:14 I've had managers and me included complain about decisions in the past, but we got on with it.
04:19 We didn't feel the need to find some miracle cure for it.
04:23 Now, like I said, I don't think that that's a viable option because we seem to have opened that door.
04:32 Cloud technology. Now we want transparency.
04:36 I'll guarantee you the next thing is we'll have referees mic'd up and explaining decisions.
04:41 There's plenty of other sports you can watch referees do that.
04:45 I don't think it's about football.
04:46 But anyway, like I said, I think I'm in the wilderness with that one.
04:51 Do you think that the Premier League managers should get together through the LMA and try and teach referees how to referee a game?
05:05 See, that's the problem. That's the problem.
05:09 Premier League managers should just manage their football clubs.
05:12 I've never and I never will talk to a referee about the rules of the game.
05:20 I was taught that you grow up and you respect the officials.
05:24 You know what managers do? I'll tell you what managers do, me included.
05:27 We try and find ways to bend the rules, to get around them.
05:30 Tell me what the rule is and I guarantee you'll have a room full of managers processing how can I get around this.
05:36 They're not the rule. We're not the right people.
05:38 And I get that people keep saying that. I don't agree with it.
05:41 What I want is the best officials always being up-skilled to officiate the game.
05:46 But I think it's so hard for a referee to officiate these days.
05:51 Their authority is just constantly getting diminished.
05:55 I just don't know how – like I said, I grew up afraid of referees.
05:59 They'd be like policemen, you know.
06:02 But nowadays I guess we talk back to policemen as well.
06:04 So maybe it's just – like I said, I'm old school, mate.
06:06 So I'm a bygone era and I just love the purity of the game.
06:10 But that's not what's going on. And part of this is my problem.
06:14 I've got to embrace it and find a way to work with it.
06:18 But it goes against everything I want to try in my team.
06:20 I want my team to play fast, attacking, high tempo, go at it football.
06:25 If we get a red card and it's a penalty against us, so what?
06:27 Let's cop it. Let's go again.
06:29 But then we have to stand around for two minutes to figure out whether something was offside or not.
06:33 Let the linesmen make the decision.
06:35 Remember, it used to be the benefit of the doubt.
06:36 Do we all remember that? To the striker.
06:38 We all lived with it.
06:41 The game didn't collapse.
06:45 But like I said, I'm like an old man shouting at the clouds, mate.
06:49 I'll cop it for that. But that's who I am.
06:53 OK, we'll leave it there. Thank you.
06:54 Thank you.
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