Joke of a decision. Amazing how other clubs get decisions overturned. Why they even think Chaplin would have dived when he'd have been clear though on goal

I really dont know. Plus what would he have had to gain in trying to get the player sent off in the last couple of minutes of the game, with the game already won?

Wast there ; didn't look a Red Card on the video but the Ref was quite close and clear in his decision at the time : it happens !
Of course it might just be that the Ref and officials had seen enough of the Bristol tactics and this ‘card ‘ topped off a feeling of frustration . Interesting KM went out of his way to praise Mr Youngs efforts to kep the game flowing .,
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Clumsy arms and legs challenge having lost control of ball in his Possession. Typical inept decision by the melts that be. Not that anyone really cares, 3 points and onward.

If we'd appealed that decision would have been turned down

I think they've run out of CBs for Saturday so it may have just been an act of mercy.

I don't suppose we were asked to provide additional evidence as we weren't the ones making the appeal. But if you watch it back on the 'Town in 5' You Tube video there is an accidental ankle tap which make Chaplin trip over his standing leg. maybe they decided it wasn't deliberate and so not worthy of a red.

I don't think it should have been a red card, but there was *accidental* contact which at pace was enough to trip Chaplin. Correct decision to overturn it but also poor from Barton trying to claim it was a dive, as others have said, Chaplin has zero motivation to dive and every motivation to be clean through on goal.

Fat boy tim. Get what ur saying but it was an obvious goalscoring opportunity, so whether it was deliberate or not doesn't come into it. So a red card all day. But good luck to them at the end of the day. The tried and got lucky.

Depends why it was overturned. The basis for being a red was whether Kilgour had prevented a clear scoring opportunity. The panel might have decided that was not the case (too far from the goal, going the wrong direction, someone might have been able to cover), in which case it becomes a fairly innocuous accidental trip unworthy of even a yellow.

Does not necessarily imply Chaplin dived, whatever Barton may say.

I have no problem with this decision, it made no difference to the game anyway and makes no difference to us anymore.

But you know, just know that the EFL would not have overturned it if a Town player had been sent off. They never do.

If we had appealed a decision like that, we would have got a longer suspension for a frivolous appeal. Bizarre decision but has no impact on us so never mind.

The player was sent off as he stopped a goal scoring opportunity, no such thing as accidental. He either fouled him or he didn't, if he did then it's red. So they're saying there was no foul here.

To be fair he ran into Chaplin, more of a coming together but he was last man so the ref has no choice. It definitely wasn't a trip as he wasn't looking at Chaplin

To those who assert that we would have lost the appeal if we were in Rovers' position, I assure you that you would certainly be supportive of our player if he said he didn't touch the attacker. If the defender says he didn't touch him, and the panel believes him, then fair enough. Personally I've watched it many times and I cannot be sure there was contact. Clearly I don't know what camera angles the appeal panel had.

No consistency with the EFL. Chaplin had his head up running full pelt and he was clipped from behind. Some sort of contact was clearly made. It doesn't look like a dive and why on earth would he dive with just minutes left and a clear chance to make it 3-0. Accidental or not it deprived him of a goal scoring opportunity so it's a red card. Are the words "I didn't mean it ref" now an acceptable excuse?

SouperJim - it doesn't matter if contact is accidental. Contact does not need to be deliberate to determine the foul. Like everyone else, interested to understand the reasoning for the red card being rescinded.

'No such thing as accidental '!! I don't understand that. I'd be horrified if one of ours had been sent off for something similar. And the answer to the question of 'why would he have died' is kind of obvious. He's a modern day footballer, and 100% of them are cheats. Having said that, this is an incident where accident and non cheating come together. Harsh decision, but now the proper outcome.

Chepstow blue - 100% are cheats, really? Why do you bother watching football?!

I'm afraid I agree with Chepstowblue. Putting this particular situation to one side for a moment, referees and FA panels are constantly forced into judgement calls based on modern day "gamesmanship". How often do we hear commentators say ".....if he'd gone down under that challenge" or "...perhaps he's been too honest"? Granted, we've seen some awful referees during our time in lge1, but throughout the modern game they are constantly being conned. It's like a challenge to players to gain those extra feet on the throw in, to push the ball to the very edge of the corner quadrant or get as far as possible beyond the magic spray line without getting rumbled! Even with the benefit of VAR in the Premier lge these players have become so "professional" at buying a foul it's still difficult to judge after multiple slow motion viewings, let alone a split second with 20+ thousand fans on your back! I have great respect for our manager, but would have even more if we became the club that stayed on our feet and didn't sustain multiple "facial injuries" every game!

Chepstowblue. If u bothered to think abouut the why would he dive question, ud have taken, as everyone else has, the situation into account. Last couple of minutes of the game, so nothing to gain by diving to get the player sent off. Especially with them already downt to 10 men. Chaplin would have been clear through on goal with a chance to score his 2nd of the night. So again, why would he dive? And to suggest every player in the game is a cheat? Really?

Well at least they can't claim this influenced the result, given it happened in injury time. No issue.

We were too good for them. Embarrassing cold comfort for Barton off the back of a footballing lesson.