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    Grimbeard got a reaction from Patrick Rams in How is that offside?   
    I agree, chuck it out. And put up with the mistakes, isn't that what living with it means?
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    Grimbeard got a reaction from Patrick Rams in How is that offside?   
    If it's not an obvious howler, the original decision stands, and we live with it.
    Referee errors are just part of the game. Over the last 150 odd years there will have been thousands of wrong calls, but that's still better than the current system that's sucking all the joy from the game.
     
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    Grimbeard got a reaction from TimRam in How is that offside?   
    If it's not an obvious howler, the original decision stands, and we live with it.
    Referee errors are just part of the game. Over the last 150 odd years there will have been thousands of wrong calls, but that's still better than the current system that's sucking all the joy from the game.
     
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    Grimbeard got a reaction from bcnram in How is that offside?   
    The only opinion that would matter would be the ref's, just as it always used to be. But now he would have the opportunity to review his desicion to help eliminate glaring errors.
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    Grimbeard got a reaction from bcnram in How is that offside?   
    If it's not an obvious howler, the original decision stands, and we live with it.
    Referee errors are just part of the game. Over the last 150 odd years there will have been thousands of wrong calls, but that's still better than the current system that's sucking all the joy from the game.
     
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    Grimbeard reacted to ariotofmyown in How is that offside?   
    Isn't in MLS where they watch one replay in real time, and if they are sure it's wrong decision, they change it. Seems a better way of doing it.
    Remember the first World Cup they got VAR in, it was ace. Penalties given for holding in the box, so players stopped doing it. Don't remember any of this penalty handball or offside nonsense.
    How did it end up in this mess? Maybe a quick solution is to give teams a couple of appeals like in cricket. Let them use it on anything, corners, yellow cards. They'll use them up in first 2 mins appealing for a throw in.
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    Grimbeard reacted to Kernow in How is that offside?   
    VAR will be in the Championship before long, too. Football just seems to get less enjoyable as seasons go on, I don't know if I would want to be in the PL either.
    If you don't spend enough, you get battered, if you spend too much, you get punished. Oh and the only way to avoid punishment is to sell your best players to the top 6 to avoid more sanctions. Every season finishing 17th is a positive.
    I'd much rather the big clubs f***** off to the Super League, take their VAR with them, let football go back to how it used to be.
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    Grimbeard reacted to Highgate in How is that offside?   
    Yeah you can never be sure if the action has been stopped at precisely the right moment or not.  But if you introduce a margin of error, won't the debate just switch to whether the toenail was within the margin of error line or not, rather than whether it was ahead or behind the last defender?  Whatever criterion is used, whether it's offside by any amount, margin or error or 'clear daylight' between the players, the decision will often come down to judgement calls based on millimetres. 
    I'd be happy to bin VAR altogether and go back to best guess by the officials.  At least then people could go back to celebrating goals naturally when they occur.  
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    Grimbeard reacted to LazloW in How is that offside?   
    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.
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    Grimbeard reacted to Carl Sagan in How is that offside?   
    Not convinced they stopped the action at the right millisecond or that they were correct drawing them from the defender's foot when other ball-playing parts of his body looked closer to goal. Very cruel. The system cannot be accurate so should there be some sort of margin of error? 
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    Grimbeard reacted to ck- in How is that offside?   
    That’s true. And I accept that wherever you draw the line, there will be millimetre decisions. 
    My point was that this isn’t what the offside rule was for. It was to prevent persistent goal hanging with a defending team just hoofing the ball up to a player who was dawdling near the goal. 
    This seems to be against the spirit of that. 
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    Grimbeard reacted to alexxxxx in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    I haven't seen any of the penalties but I'm sure the refs got it right.
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    Grimbeard reacted to JfR in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    Personally, I think Forest's best course of action would be to leave all of their completely valid and eloquently expressed issues with VAR behind by moving from the Premier League to a different league that doesn't use VAR. Any suggestions?
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    Grimbeard reacted to Wolfie20 in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    The weekend just keeps getting better and better  😄
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    Grimbeard reacted to Shipley Ram in Serial Whingers Notts Forest playtime, which we simply cannot accept.   
    What an eccentric way to run a club, perhaps this is the answer

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    Grimbeard reacted to YorkshireRam in Paul Warne   
    Tell you what's amazing- how Bird and Hourihane have got 5G/7A and 5G/8A, respectively, when Warne's tactic is ''not to use them''... Outstanding goal contribution stats for central midfielders; almost like you're just generalising since Bird particularly has also played some of his best football in a Derby shirt this season. Funny that. 🤔
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    Grimbeard reacted to On the Ram Page in Paul Warne   
    Two of David Clowes’ aims when he took over the Club were to bring integrity and also establish ourselves in the Championship within 5 years. We didn’t get promotion last year, much to many fans angst. On reflection, it was probably a good job we didn’t. We would still have been working to a strict business plan which would have tied our hands in the transfer market to some degree and made the season very difficult.
    We have recruited quite a few players this year who will be able to play in the Championship next year. Some recruits haven’t been quite so successful. We will have a reasonable pot for transfers this year we have been told. Probably, Wildsmith, Nyambe, Cashin,Nelson,Elder,Ward,Wilson,Mendis-Laing,Blackett-Taylor,Sibley,Forsyth,Rooney should be ok in the Championship - I personally have more concerns about Smith, Collins, Barkhaizen, Thompson, Fornah, Gayle, Washington, Vickers.  We will lose Bird and Adams (for now?)
    I think, with some shrewd business, we should be able to put together a competitive squad.
    in terms of integrity, I think our progression has been amazing. There has been hardly any, if at all, negative news regarding our club in the media. The Management team all absolutely appear to be working together to a common goal. We have recruited (not to everyone’s like) good people, who want to play for the shirt, not just here for the money, as in the past. The Academy has made good progress in its rebuild and the are a few players who look to have good futures, hopefully as Derby players.
    At our best and most confident, we do play some exciting football, score goals and don’t concede many. Yes, we would like to see more of the exciting times but our main aim has been to get out of this difficult league this year. Too often in the past we have had a soft underbelly and have struggled against strong, aggressive teams. We currently have a side, which mainly, doesn’t buckle against this type of side.
    So I am happy with the progress of Derby County this last two years and look forward to what will happen next. David Clowes is a quietly shrewd business man and I think Paul Warne is an intelligent manager, who is a lot shrewder and football wise than many give him credit for. Not only this but he is a fantastic man-manager and team spirit builder.
    Can’t wait to see what happens next.
     
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    Grimbeard reacted to Srg in Paul Warne   
    Where's our Ipswich budget? There's a reason they've gone from this league straight to challenging for the Premier League.
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    Grimbeard reacted to Tamworthram in Paul Warne   
    Depends on your definition of “sizeable section of the fan base”. It only takes a dozen or so vocal individuals on social media voicing their opinion (which of course they are entitled to) to make it appear as if their views are reflective of a much larger group.
    My gut feeling is: a very small majority have total faith in PW’s ability to keep us in the Championship whilst at the same time playing decent football, a small minority want him gone now regardless, some have accepted he is here to stay next season but have already made up their minds that it’s going to be dross, but the overwhelming majority, whilst they may have concerns, think he deserves the chance to prove himself and are trying not to prejudge him.
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    Grimbeard reacted to jono in Paul Warne   
    I am not sure I agree with this angle. We certainly have better players than many; but the best ? I think that is debatable. Look at the midfield. The arrival of Adams has made a huge difference but prior to that I reckon or midfield was average. Bird is wonderfully talented but in this league often got out muscled and his skill wasn’t always enough for him to win those battles … so better or just good  ? Hourihan 6 years ago, yes a better player, but our Hourihan ? The one who gets caught napping against athletic sides ? A good player but “better” than the rest ?
    The only areas where I think we had demonstrably better players was defence and out wide. We Haven’t got the better strikers and we hadn’t (until Adams) got the best midfield. 
     
    Warne had “better” wide players and made best use of them to support our  lack, for much of the season, of a dynamic striker. This leads to a form of football that by necessity involves getting the ball in to danger areas via the wings and making good use of set pieces. All to create the greater number of chances to address those areas where we didn’t have “the best” players.
     
    Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see one touch midfield interchanges crafting chances with slick passing ; but too many of our players didn’t demonstrate enough of those skills either due to ability, age, or the type of opponent / type of football played in this league. 
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    Grimbeard got a reaction from Inverurie Ram in Paul Warne   
    I can't believe that there is another club in the world where, in our posistion, a seemingly sizable section of the fanbase would want the manager kicked out.
    Yes I suppose it would be nice to watch Jim Smith or peak Mac type football every week, but , how can I put this?
    We've got no feckin' money. Yes we may have a higher wage budget than many in this league, (or not, I don't know) but given the restraints and time frame he's had to work in I think P.W's done a crackig job.
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    Grimbeard reacted to Ewe Ram in Paul Warne   
    Paul Warne said you can’t play league one football in the championship and you’ll not get anywhere playing championship football in league one. 
    why do some people think he’s stupid?
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    Grimbeard reacted to Wolfie20 in Paul Warne   
    No - you're paying good money to watch YOUR TEAM play football. If you want to guarantee being entertained then spend it on going to a West End show or to the cinema - you have the choice! 
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