The standard of refereeing has been pretty poor, I agree. I'm just saying that to all the people who are saying we are getting fucked over the most (basically the bold in the quote above), you can't say that for sure unless you've watched pretty much every Serie A game. (where are you pencilpal?)
We should of had plenty of penalties but were given none. If that's not enough for saying "the refs have fucked us over" or saying it's been worse than just "pretty poor" then ok. But let's go back to your original question for a moment.
Honest question to everyone saying referees are fucking us over: given how we are playing, do you think we should be higher than 5th?
With my first reply I just wanted to answer and make the point that the referees have fucked us over (or just been pretty poor in your case then...), but given how we have been playing we still shouldn't be higher than 5th.
If we were getting shitty decisions and our league position was much lower than I think we deserved (like say 10th), then I might think we are getting more unfair decisions than others. But we are still 5th, and that tells me that the bad calls are more spread out in the league than some here might like to think.
C'mon we haven't played
that bad. I mean it's far from Inter standard but we find Genoa on 10th place. Looking at the whole season and remembering our good start don't tell me we have played as bad as Genoa standard. Being 5th with as many points as Hellas on 6th is bad enough, especially with Milan nowhere to been seen in the top.
I meant deserved as based on fair play, not on the quality of our play. And Shaun explained in another post why our style of play isn't leading to many penalties.
I'm sure Shaun made tons of brilliant points on why our play leads to no penalties. That's a different discussion though and nevertheless, fact still remains, whether our play leads to it or not; we have missed out on plenty of penalties this season.
And can you say no other team has missed out on so many decisive decisions as we have if you haven't seen them play? I don't know the answer to that.
Well how about we use some common sense? Being denied every single penalty is no biggie or what? I mean it's no problem if that trend happened to continue throughout the whole season, right? This is all normal and happens to every team. We play like shit so who cares if we miss out on a penalty or two... or ten.
Finally, it may look like I'm super worried or upset on the refs so I just want to it make clear that I think the way we play is way more worrying, and the fact that we didn't get a single shot on goal in the second half against Chievo is just terrible. However, us playing bad has nothing to do with not getting penalties when we are supposed to, which was what your first question was implying.
Honest question to everyone saying referees are fucking us over: given how we are playing, do you think we should be higher than 5th?
I'm not saying we are playing good, far from it, I'm not saying we "should" be higher than shared 5th place, but despite that I still think the bad luck we've had with the referees' decisions has been out of the ordinary. Fair enough?