True - and let down by his assistants too - Pulis has just said this -

"We've just watched the video and the disappointing thing was the first two offsides as both Glenn Murray and Joe Ledley are onside. The linesman has given two offsides and both of them were on, through and past the back four onto goal.

"That was very disappointing and they were in the first quarter of an hour."

From the Holmesdale end i thought these looked dodgy decisions at the time, lino was awful.

I beg to differ if Rvp was there it wold make a massive difference. I'm feeling a tad of sarcasm in your post lol. If and it's a big if we had got Long and Jelievec or however you spell it there are so many more attacking options. I said it at the time for the money they were bought for was cheap. Especially as if they are the difference between staying up. We do sit to deep suck up the pressure and try and get goal on the break, good plan but we don't have the personnel to do it.

Having been to the match and seen 1st hand in holmesdale upper... the REF and linesmen were a disgrace... loads of big mistakes inc a definite penalty .... they were allowed to push shove and foul and get away with it....This did not help us at all.........

Edited by webferret (08 Mar 2014 7.40pm)

Yes we were the worst I've seen for ages don't know what was wrong we just couldn't get it together ...

Don't think that was such a terrible game. I'd agree that we were pretty blunt going forward, but still thought we shaded a very tight match against a good, obstinate team.

We just blinked first, gave them the goal thanks to one big mistake, and that decided it. Puncheon was rubbish all round. On the balance of play, it should have been 0-0, which would have been another valuable point.

Ref was piss poor, I used to really rate Howard Webb but he made a lot of baffling decisions with shocking double standards. Southampton committed and won a lot of dodgy fouls. I was disappointed in Lallana, he's a great little player but only seemed interested in getting cheap free kicks.

Have to say, Luke Shaw was mustard though. Him vs Wardy was a great tussle!

I was equally disappointed with how the fans, specifically in the mid and lower parts of the Arthur participated all through the match. I take pride in the 'sing all the time' motto, but today felt like it was 'sing when you're winning' atmosphere, which we weren't.

Just before the goal, we went down the left and the place was rocking like normal. Goal goes in. Everyone shuts up.

It was a crap game. The officials were bad, but they didn't change the game. The fans all together were poor from the start (compared to normal).

Ledley, Ward and Bolasie were the only positives you can take from the game.

Cameron Jerome will do one thing in about 6 games, today he beats a man and gets a cross straight across the 6 yard box and no one is in the right area to put it away. This cost us the points today, more than any crap refereeing decision did.

That said, I am still confident we'll stay up. Fulham are dead and buried now. Just got to hope that we will perform better than 2 other teams.