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It's a day for disappointment um Dan with Chris Mack and with Rob as well uh lost two one at home two spurs picked that one apart a a frustrating day at Elam Road we don't want to that do that game. We did well, didn't we?

But yeah, it feels like we're unlucky, but then at the same time, you don't just want to say every week, oh, we were unlucky. Like, it was also a part of that was self-inflicted. Like, maybe we should have just put the ball in the net a few more times. That would have helped. I also think, you know, whenever the,

maybe, I don't know about the second goal,

I think the first goal,

there was definitely a moment to just kick him. Yeah. Yeah. Just take someone out. It was, yeah, there were a number of kind of frustrating little, I suppose, like micro moments that influenced the game like that throughout. I mean, a lot of people were really, really frustrated with the ref,

just like having a quick scroll

through the comments

here on YouTube. And we might, I mean, I'm a little bit reluctant to pile straight into the ref because he's not the sole reason we lost today by any stretch of the imagination. You know, we get unlucky with the deflected shot. Second one deceives Dala. we're in two minds here,

whether there was a

deflection on the second one?

I think both were deflected.

Yeah, I've only seen the Kudos goal back once, and it didn't show me a replay, so I couldn't really tell. I couldn't tell if he'd just given Darlow the eyes a little bit. There's the missed chances. I think that sort of sums up all the various contributory factors. So let's get straight into the dickhead refurb.

That was a really frustrating performance by the referee.

Very, very weak in terms of giving things.

And it almost feels like there's an even higher,

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