LazloW

I think there should be something akin to the "umpire's call" in cricket. If the margin by which they are offside is so small that no human could possibly tell the difference by the naked eye, then the decision goes the way the linesman called it. If that means making the lines a bit thicker or something else, then so be it. Other elements of VAR are there to (apparently) correct clear and obvious errors. While offside is factual, the decision today was not a clear and obvious error; he wasn't standing a foot offside and the linesman was asleep, it was millimetres. Allow for a small margin of error. As someone on Twitter said "I am VAR, destroyer of dreams!". Not how it should be.

Unbelievable. Turn the Man Ure game off at 2-0 to watch Liverpool 'cos it looked dead and buried and then hear its 3-3. Nagdammit!

The EFL will no doubt hide behind their usual "rules are rules... and the clubs make the rules" nonsense. Well, seems yet again that the rules are just plain daft. No common sense. Just about everything that comes out of the EFL, EPL and FA seems designed to make life for football fans worse and, with it, the game.

Love how after we've just won that people are already working out what we'd have to do to not go up! Blimey - talk about glass half full. We get at least a point and we're up (and we're playing Carlisle ffs). Let's focus on that? Not suggesting it will be a walkover, but I reckon if you said a few weeks ago that all we'd need to do is draw at home on the last day of the season against the bottom club, we'd be OK with that.

Can't be long left, surely?

We were probably always going to need 4 points from the last two games to be absolutely sure - too much to ask for Bolton to mess it up three home games on the trot (though there's still time). Obviously, would be nice for Bolton and Peterborough to hand it to us but always pretty unlikely. Main thing is, don't lose today....

How are a Bolton doing?

To reiterate....

This is why we should use metric. No fecker knows how long a yard is anymore!

Seems to their pattern for the last few games. Long may it continue.

Presumably so you don't miss Milleniumram's and Brisvegas' pre-game pearls of wisdom, unbridled optimism and, of course, their absolute unparalleled confidence in their opinions being the only ones that matter. I know that's why I keep refreshing anyway!

"Player welfare" - drives me nuts. Notwithstanding the fact that we are talking about playing football here, the Premier League teams all have massive squads and already rotate like mad. Nevertheless, this comes down to the managers and coaches not managing their squads appropriately. If you have to play 65 games a year, then you train and play like a team that plays 65 times a year. They should be able to manage that with their huge team of coaches, fitness gurus, health and nutritionists and all the technology at their disposal. Here is an idea too - play a style that doesn't need them to run 30 miles in a match. Adapt. Overcome. It really does p*** me off. Why also not just be truthful? Its about a few big clubs making more money. If its all about 'player welfare' then ban all foreign trips and extra friendlies. But of course, that wouldn't benefit the Big 6. Sickening. Hope they have to do an embarrassing climb down.

Cant believe he’s 29. Should have had a much better career - even if he is a regular premier league player, he should’ve been at bigger and better clubs (and maybe England). FWIW for the sake of his career, I think we kept hold of him a bit too long - he probably needed to move before he did. Oh well. I’m sure he’s still earned enough not to have to worry.