Steve Bone

said that the danger with an appeal is that you can end up getting a longer ban than you've got already

So we hope that that doesn't happen.

I don't think that will happen because I think that only applies if an appeal is seen as frivolous.

And I don't think this one is.

I think this is a debatable decision that the club want consideration given to being overturned.

So I'd be surprised if the appeal wins, but sometimes they do.

So, as I say, probably nothing to lose in appealing.

Yeah, yeah.

You get a lot of ex-referees in the media now, don't you?

And I do wonder what the present day referees think of it.

I mean, generally, the referees on the TV and on the radio and in the newspaper columns will side with the decisions that the present referees have made, won't they?

Sometimes they'll go against them and they'll say, oh, he's got that wrong.

which I shouldn't think goes down too well I just think it's another sign that everything is over analysed really I thought TV coverage of football was perfectly ok before we had ex-referees commenting on every sort of change of direction of the wind and everything else

So we won't worry too much about what Mr Hackett says.

He is about the only person I've seen come out and say that was a red card, stop moaning.

Yeah.

Well, you look at the extent to which TV has got its hands on football already.

You know, we've spoken on here about how they change kick-off times if they want to.

They'll delay a kick-off if the adverts are still showing on the TV.

You know, some people would say TV already runs football.