Goddard & woods wrote:

Staggo wrote:Funny how perceptions can be so different in football. Now, we all know Danny Rose likes to go down easy, but we honestly don't see ourselves as that kind of team. We moan about teams like Wycombe, who have come to Field Mill and employed 'the dark arts', but I remember talking to one of their fans about it and he couldn't see why teams said that about them.

From our perspective, we thought Newport were extremely dirty and looked to rough up our players and prevent the game from flowing, which would have suited our style of play. With your pitch (which looked better, but was still very bobbly) this tactic is responsible for a reputation that I expect you probably don't feel is justified either. Just saying, perceptions and bias are funny things.

Both the potential red card and the penalty I have seen go either way for and against us to be fair to the ref ( and he was extremely poor ) he does not have multiple angle slow motion replays so both could have gone either way depends on his position and viewpoint. Anyway nice to see an opposition supporter come on here and try to give a balanced view without resorting to insults and name calling, don't get me wrong we have our own share of bellends who follow us but some of your fans including what looked like a 60+ year old were calling our supporters out for some after match fun and games when we scored. Already got my ticket for the 2nd leg and looking forward to a decent game with hopefully no trouble from either set of fans whatever the outcome.

Goddard & woods wrote:

Staggo wrote:Funny how perceptions can be so different in football. Now, we all know Danny Rose likes to go down easy, but we honestly don't see ourselves as that kind of team. We moan about teams like Wycombe, who have come to Field Mill and employed 'the dark arts', but I remember talking to one of their fans about it and he couldn't see why teams said that about them.

From our perspective, we thought Newport were extremely dirty and looked to rough up our players and prevent the game from flowing, which would have suited our style of play. With your pitch (which looked better, but was still very bobbly) this tactic is responsible for a reputation that I expect you probably don't feel is justified either. Just saying, perceptions and bias are funny things.

Both the potential red card and the penalty I have seen go either way for and against us to be fair to the ref ( and he was extremely poor ) he does not have multiple angle slow motion replays so both could have gone either way depends on his position and viewpoint. Anyway nice to see an opposition supporter come on here and try to give a balanced view without resorting to insults and name calling, don't get me wrong we have our own share of bellends who follow us but some of your fans including what looked like a 60+ year old were calling our supporters out for some after match fun and games when we scored. Already got my ticket for the 2nd leg and looking forward to a decent game with hopefully no trouble from either set of fans whatever the outcome.

Watchdogs wrote:If you speak to fans of other teams that watched the game, they suggest Newport were the more ‘naughty’ team.

Just a bit of perspective.