Hill baited by ref's performance

Lee Thorpe and a late spot-kick from substitute Adam Le Fondre twice put Dale in front but Marcus Stewart's double gave Exeter a share of the spoils."In the grand scheme of things it's probably a point gained but in the context of the match it feels like two points lost," he said. "We can't keep conceding stupid goals if we are to earn automatic promotion."I felt the referee ran the game as safe as he could and at times he may as well not have been out there. You see it a lot at youth level and maybe that's where he belongs because it wasn't a good performance from him, it was safe, it was mundane."He didn't turn up and I'll have to check the referee's room to make sure we really had a referee out there. He may point to the fact that he didn't get too much wrong but he never made any brave, correct decisions."He was poor. It seemed to be from the referee's point of view 'pick on Lee Thorpe day'. Lee is a physical player, he's not a dirty player but every time there was physical contact with the opposition he had a free-kick given against him."

Source: Team_Talk