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JackofromSanJavier

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  1. The "10 yard" rule at free kicks.  It would be nice to see a ref actually take 10 meaningful paces after placing the ball, to show a reasonable guess at a proper 10 yards, rather than the seemingly disinterested 9 shambling shuffles. 

    Otherwise give the ref a digital laser measure.  From the placing of the ball, make a member of the defending side stand on the exact 10 yard dot and the ref then walks to him before spraying the line.  If the defending player moves during the ref's approach, shine the ba5stard laser in his eyes!  

    The current 10 yard amble absolutely boils my waters - but I am a grumpy old bugger anyway.

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  2. 3 hours ago, Sir Geoff said:

    A bit of insider knowledge on 3 peeps podcast let slip that one of the players out on loan was always late for training and found it difficult to get out of bed in the morning. No names mentioned but not too many to speculate from.

    And this is why my name will not be appearing in the retained list for next season……….Tired Good Night GIF by MLB

  3. 20 hours ago, italian dave said:

    If we’re talking things that annoy, the one that really gets me is the offending team players rushing to stand in front of the ball and stop a free kick being taken.  Not only are half of all free kicks the result is a deliberate attempt to break up play, but they then get away with stopping a quick free kick for good measure.

    I’d bring back that rule that allowed the kick to be moved forward 10 yards in an instant. 

    Back in about 2007 -8 I coached my team (in the United Counties League) to take quick free kicks if an opposition t*4t deliberately stood in front of the ball to delay things.  I'd mention to the ref before kick off that we're a 'quick free kick team' and that we spend long sessions getting blokes in position to receive it (plant the seed, eh?).  As soon as we knew that the opposition were into the delaying sh1thousery, the instruction 'Warwick' went out from the dugout.  This meant that as soon as our nearest player got towards the ball to take any subsequent free kicks, two others would run (shouting for the pass) into receiving spots (but impossible to get the ball to either of them if the 'mug' stuck his foot out whilst standing directly in front of the ball).  The running and the yells of our two lads was always far too much for the blocking opponent to resist.  Attempted quick free kick = blocked by the thick beauty who was then booked.  

    We did this in every match throughout the season, some sides took longer than others to stop the housery.  And some just didn't learn or didn't realise they were being suckered.  I suppose the average number of yellows for opponents was 5. per game  The most satisfying thing was to watch an opponent whining at the ref for booking him coz he'd deliberately stuck his foot out to stop the kick............and then doing exactly the same thing at the next free kck!

    Way more red cards were issued playing against my side than against any other clubs that season. 

    I may be a crap footballing tactician (I proudly admit it!) but being a behavioural psychologist has its advantages such as influencing the weak of mind to take the bait and my side finishing a healthy amount of games against 9 or 10 players!  Twas enough to get a points total to avoid what would normally (under my stewardship) result in relegation.

     

    Not knowing current rules, I don't know if the offence  would still attract a caution.  I'm old enough to be from the "If he's offside.....he's bloody offside".

     

     

     

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  4. Looking like it will blow a hoolie tomorrow.  Hopefully everyone stays safe and AG swerves damage.  My mates lad is flying down from Newcastle tomorrow in readiness to meet his old man and join the northerners in the Wedlock on Saturday.  Brown paper bag at the ready!

     

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  5. 4 minutes ago, Monkeh said:

    1-30

    Awful outnplayed city at its worst

    31 Cardiff scored

    Pearson out not fit to wear ther shirt

    32 kick off booooooooo

    33 goal omfhjakhfsseg

    33- 45+3 good combative mire like city

    Second half

    45-55 all Cardiff City are shit again

    55-63 city on top Pearson is a genius

    63 goal city amazing

    63-77 best team in the championship  

    77 goal

    77-90 city on top.playing with confidence a joy to watch

    90 Cardiff score I left as I couldn't hack the pressure

     

    City win

    Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

    And that sums the game up

    Over to you @BigTone I reckon........

  6. 22 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

    The stadium was finished on August 2nd 2021 (according to their lord and master), but I have yet to see reviews or pictures of it, let alone any discussion about it's impact on the fortunes of the club. 

    To be fair, I was expecting better floodlights than the ones they've put in the new stadium…...

    new stadium.png

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  7. 3 hours ago, shahanshahan said:

    Gillingham announced that Steve Evans left the club, however one person on Twitter replied with what appears to be a serious enquiry. Am I right in thinking this not to happen at our club, or others? ?

     

    Obviously Jo's beloved HotGal is a bit of a unit, then.  I'll have a scrobble around upstairs and see if I have any spare clobber that I could send him.

  8. 16 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

    Now you know it’s unlike me to be pedantic, but you never place a full stop outside of a speech mark at the end of a sentence ... ?

     

    I'm always struggling with the why and the wherefore of the Spanish question mark (¿) so I shan't lose too much sleep over the full stop thing.  Mind you, at 64 years of age, you've actually educated me on a shoddy grammatical practice that I've been using ever since I mastered joined up writing, so thanks for that @BS4 on Tour...

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  9. 11 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

    Took my car into that Mototech branch a couple of weeks ago - top service by top people - just thought I’d give it a plug ... ??

    Come on, Mods…..this is clearly a blatant advert for a business.  Please investigate what I strongly suspect is a breach of forum rules whilst I head out to Mr Doner of 183 Whiteladies Rd, Redland, Bristol BS8 2RY for a tasty, wholesome meal (collection or delivery available).

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  10. 13 hours ago, LondonBristolian said:

    Nicking this off Twitter but it's also an anagram of Erotic Almond so I'm not really sure what your point is...

    I'm fairly sure they supported T Rex at the Colston Hall back in the 70's

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