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Claire Foy

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4 minutes ago, Roe said:

I'm not sure how people think being able to "appeal" like in cricket etc would help. These decisions people are talking about have already been reviewed and people will always disagree with subjective calls

Down the road AI may be the answer.  It would relatively straightforward to programme what is a hand ball, what is a foul etc.  It will almost certainly need refining and various iterations, but taking the human element out of VAR is the way forwards.

The simple solution to the VAR problem is to allow, as in cricket, the on field captain to call for a review of contentious decisions.  I would suggest one review per each half, to be retained if the review is successful, lost if it’s not.  As in cricket the review would be carried out by an off field official whose decision would be binding.   No need to send the on field ref to a monitor.  
 

The on field captain would be able to review any decision, including offside, handball, potential second yellow cards etc.etc and adds an element of discretion in the use of VAR.

Tutu

3 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Think it’s down to what squad we shape up this summer.  I don’t think we will be spending much, hence the look abroad, plus Bird is already signed.

What’s your view on Burgzorg Dave?  Fits the profile of what we’re looking for.  1 year on his contract at Mainz.  I thought he was impressive last Saturday.

14 minutes ago, REDOXO said:

All that celebrating at Plymouth when they beat Leicester and they are still right in the thick of it!

Celebrating staying up when you can still mathematically go down.  Who would do such a foolish thing?

Just now, Tim Monaghan said:

Finally it’s getting there. We should be walking away with another 3 points if it wasn’t for some shocking refereeing.

Cant wait for next season. 

COYRs

TBF Tim, you can’t blame the ref.  The linesman for their goal was shocking.   Thd Cornick goal looked on, but was much tighter.  That said the Lino should only give offside if he’s certain.   Looked like he guessed to me.

Robbed of the 3 points by two poor offside decisions.

Good point nonetheless from a good performance.

Clearly offside.

He tried that chip finish last week.  Lesson not learnt.

Ffs Mark Sykes

Not at all confident.

We could always confuse them by wearing our third kit.

Stadium of Light 

Deepdale

Carrow Road

would be my top 3

St Andrew’s would be the bottom of my list.

I’d go further.  Penalties after 90 mins.

Genuine question.  When games go to extra time, what percentage are decided during that extra time?  I would guess a lot less than 50%.

48 minutes ago, The Coach said:

At the moment front 3 should be Foden, Kane & Palmer.

Nay, nay and thrice nay, Foden is wasted playing wide.  He has to start at No 10 with Bellingham and Rice deeper.

The Grand National 

The US Masters

Arsenal bottling their league challenge.

On 29/03/2024 at 06:34, cidered abroad said:

Gow's first game was at Charlton last match of 1969-70 season. I guess that there weren't many City fans at the Valley that day.

Similar ending to this season. 5 defeats and three draws and we finished 14th in Second Division. Not much has changed!

The game in which he came to prominence was the 1st game of the following season, 1970/71, when we beat Sunderland 4-3.  Played an absolutely stormer iirc.

I’d like to see him start as a No 10 before making a judgement.

James and Williams together was a mistake.  I understand that with two rookie centre backs he wanted to have experience in front of them, but the knock on effect was playing Knight at No 10, a role which clearly doesn’t suit him.

The irony was that Roberts, and particularly Tanner, looked assured at centre back, which allowed him to bring on Mehmeti for Williams later on.  

Knight along side James, with Twine at 10, and Mehmeti wide left should have been the starting point.

Wiiliams off

Kinght drops back

Twine at No 10

Bring on Mehmeti

Can’t string two passes together 

Joe Williams is having a shocker 

A quick scan, but it would seem everyone except Blackburn, Millwall, Plymouth and Rotherham spent more on agents than us.

The problem is stats are easily manipulated and can be used to support just about any point of view.

QPR to Ipswich 4 games, 0 points, we definitely going to get relegated 

Leicester to Blackburn, 4 games, 10 points, the prem here we come.

I remember in the early days of wind farm development, some amateur psychologist did a study down in Cornwall trying to prove the negative impact of the wind turbines on the local populace and came up with the stat that 14 of the 15 local resident suffered depression due to the installation of the wind farm.

As was pointed out, since the psychologist didn’t do a comparative study beforehand it’s quite possible that before the wind farm was erected all 15 of the residents were depressed and the wind farm had actually cheered one of them up.

you pays your money and you chooses your stat.

3 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Remember seeing the original deal details, and thought it alluded to this.

Question becomes whether RTV has enough benefit for overseas (and VPN) alone to continue being its own service or not.

IIRC each clubs’ TV service will be able to show games to international viewers that are also being shown on SKY.  So for example, if our game with Cardiff is selected by, SKY if will also be able available to international subscribers on RTV ( and those with a VPN)