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20 minutes ago, oldtimeram said:
Offside should be the referee's call and VAR should not be used to determine if a player is offside by a finger nail.
Blue cards are yet another complication added to the game.
Football has survived fine for over 140 years and does not need any more stupid ideas being introduced
Which works perfectly well until the team you are playing scores a goal after being offside by a finger nail. Then the world is in meltdown.
My view on offside is that all they need to do is make it so that the player has to be completely (and clearly) offside rather than the other way round. It would encourage attacking football and shift the onus (yes, that reads onus) of blame. And with regard to technology you can then use sensors in the shirt (which are not possible on the current system) which is much more clearer and manageable as a technology).
As for the last sentence, 140 years ago we didn't have crossbars, or much more. Games evolve, even football.
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34 minutes ago, Comrade 86 said:
I don't really you can attribute his career to luck.
Which is why I didn't - I merely said he had a couple of moments, and that is all it was, that helped define him. Had Taylor not walked onto one, when Froch was well behind on the cards, had he been stopped in the first Groves fight (or Groves not been stopped) we would be talking about him in the same way as someone like Rocky Fielding or Callum Smith, game fellow who fought a good 'un but ultimately didn't get to the very top.
As it is we, as you say, remembering him for his wins against Kessler, Dirrell, Abraham and Bute (his finest night after Groves II imho).
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Carl Froch was a very lucky fellow, he was seconds away from losing against Jermaine Taylor. Had that happened no way would he gone on to have had the big fights that defined his career. That first Groves fight even he would have to admit it could have gone the other way, both in that he could have been stopped and then that Groves was when some refs would have let it go a bit more - who knows what might have happened.
I liked Froch's grit, he never knew he was beat, but it could so easily have been a far less impactful career. As for him ever being able to beat Calzaghe - oh don't even go there, no chance. And as for every clickbait article where he's rent a quote on who will likely win the U-18s amateur flyweight of Kazakhstan, he might want to take a moment to realise his view is of little to no interest.
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18 hours ago, Bigunder said:
Is that indoor market still there anywhere? Where can I find it?
Indoors?
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54 minutes ago, David said:
I have 2 mates that go through more TV's than Curry's as they try to outdo each other for the biggest and latest technology to the point where their living rooms look ridiculous.
Maybe you're judging the gift of life by slightly less material outputs than the number of televisions you possess? Good on you if that is the case, the older I get the more I try to focus in that arena. And I've yet to go to a funeral where the eulogy focused on how many cars or houses the deceased managed to accrue in their life.
As for Charles, or Charles Philip Arthur George, Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland. to give him his full title, I wish him a full and speedy recovery. I don't blame him for trying to access the best of healthcare available to him and, as a person, he strikes me as someone who does somewhere - underneath it all - see the anachronism that is monarchy. But, as others suggest, he's largely making the most of what the randomness of life has delivered him. It's not his fault he was born to be king, no more than it's some Brazilian kids fault they were born in a slum. Sorry, got a bit off track there but still - when you're on a roll you're on a roll.
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21 hours ago, Bob The Badger said:
You're describing the US model.
If you see the latest BUPA advert that is exactly where they want it to go - promoting things like access to GPs, palliative care, specialists access. It's abhorrent to watch as it indicates the plan coming together, underfund the NHS to the point it is no longer able to serve and then leave private companies to fill the gaps created by that underfunding. I don't think anyone denies that private health providers have a purpose - plastic surgery, electives etc. that we could never expect the taxpayer to fund. But when private healthcare providers are promoting core services as a subscription / insurance based service we know the tipping point has been reached.
In other news, over the last ten years private health providers have donated more than £800k of funds to the Conservative party over the past ten years. Not related to the above, of course.
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On 02/02/2024 at 20:51, Tamworthram said:
I used to enjoy The Apprentice but I think it’s well past its sell by date now.
It's a bit like Dragon's Den, and things like Big Brother before it. It's eaten itself alive in that there is too much awareness from the contestants on how to game the concept.
Specifically were The Apprentice failed was when it went from a 'job' to an investment - you now have people go through fourteen weeks of tasks and then Alan Sugar chooses to eliminate them because he doesn't like their business proposal, something he could have easily said in week one.
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He's only eighteen months younger than Chris Martin.....
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9 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said:
He doesn't even know how to fold his arms properly.
And has a tattoo that looks like Jesus offering you a fist bump
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We sold Todd to Everton when he was about 30 for £300k (please excuse if wrong, all from memory). At the time it was a big fee, I think the British transfer record was likely Steve Daley at £1.5m. They asked BIll Shankley if he would pay £300k for a 30 year old defender and he replied no, if it was Colin Todd he would pay double that.
I know there are a lot of Roy Mac fanboys (and girls) out there - and rightly so. But Todd was immense.
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19 hours ago, Van der MoodHoover said:
Bradley "Derby City" Johnson....
He wasn't the worst deadline deal day of all time, he wasn't even the worst deadline day deal of that day
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Hopefully a Gambial that will pay off
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Flora and Son (Netflix): Cheesy kitchen sink drama about an Irish girl who learns to play the guitar to either win back her husband or to impress her son or to fall in love with her online teacher (honestly, I'm still not quite sure which one it was). Eve Hewson*, the lead, is great and there are some classically good lines peppered with Irish swearing which always raises a smile. It's a bit predictable, more sugary than a bowl of Coco Pops but, despite it's obvious limitations, it's also able to put a smile on your face more than once.
Darren Moore / 10
* - fun fact, her real name is Memphis Eve Sunny Day Iris Hewson. Which might then not surprise you to hear her father is Bono.
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14 minutes ago, Animal is a Ram said:
Bradley Johnson did a Q&A in the hospitality pre-Cheltenham.
It interested me to hear that Lampard regretted his lineup in the final. He was trying to pick a team that would nullify McGinn and Grealish, hence Huddlestone's inclusion - instead of just leaving the team that finished the semi-final at Elland Road.
I just think that Villa team was better than our best XI, no matter what it was. I have no doubt what we started with was not able to win the game, I'm also certain in my own mind any other combination wouldn't have been either.
Many could argue we won the last ten minutes as soon as Marriott came on, we did. But I still think over the full ninety even that line up would have come up short.
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20 minutes ago, TINMANTED said:
i enjoyed lampards season,and he was unlucky losing mount,i do ultimately blame him for the position we are now in,picking that team at wembley
This one comes up again and again, it just feels like it has become the written history.
To remind:
- If you don't like the team Lampard picked on that day you don't like the team he picked in the SF (a) game (give or take - Marriott on the bench being the point I am making) vs Leeds. Given what happened there he'd have been equally slaughtered if he'd changed it.
- That Villa team was a whole hill of beans better than us, objectively. They had Grealish, McGinn, Abraham, Mings and a couple more (inc. Hourihane back when he could influence a game), it was about as good a Championship team as I can recall - I know we had Tomori, Wilson and Mount but still we had a few players who were well beyond their last hurrah (Huddlestone, Cole, Johnson).
If we played that game the other way round, a half dozen times over, I'd reckon we'd lose more times than we won (let's not forget they had beaten us 7-0 on aggregate in the league that season). Yes, it all went up a gear when Marriott came on but those rear view mirrors are great things that football managers do not possess in real time.
Not to say I didn't have my issues with Lampard but it is lazy memory (imho) to think it was all about the starting line up. We went in as heavy underdogs and we lost, as we were expected to.
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1 hour ago, Ram-Alf said:
A great player...imo and I don't chuck "great" around freely, Way back mid to late 90s I'm walking down St Peters Street with the then wife and a group of men stop us, They ask where was a good place for a few beers...somewhere quiet one man asked, I looked at the man and holy fcuk it was Dave Mackay, I sent them to O'Neil's in St Peters Churchyard ☺️
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25 minutes ago, DavesaRam said:
Suffice to say that on Saturday I was pining for the days of John Newman’s Derby County, it was that bad. I met John once, and that was way too many times, as he had the effect of sucking out the will to live of anybody who was unfortunate enough to get too near to him. But the football, although embodying Newman’s personality vacuum, was better than this troach.
Well thanks a million for bringing that memory back - that's Monday ruined.
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1 hour ago, Jourdan said:
@BaaLocks there’s one for you.
OK - fair point. Either a dopey comment or that person wasn't around watching Peter Taylor's 1980s side, Paul Jewell's car crash or possibly a couple of others sides since (Pearson springs to mind).
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9 hours ago, Nuwtfly said:
It was the constant veering for other jobs that annoyed me.
I remember him denying the reports that he was going to Celtic in an interview.
There were no reports 🤣
That's coz it was Rangers he was claiming to be being tapped up for (tbf that's what I remember but I can't vouch I am completely correct 🙂). What is amusing is that Billy is still at it, just last year he 'offered his services' to manage Rangers and has given a litany of interviews down the years about how he was approached (at an undefined time) to be Rangers boss but declined. He really is a very strange person in many ways.
As for his time at Derby, many are right in that the winning was fun and it was often late and close. Memories are strongly tainted by what happened after but even at the time I clearly remember it being a bit 'grind it out'. Ultimately, you'll get forgiven if you are winning but it was far from the most flowing of football, lots of hunkering down on 1-0 leads and those late wins, great though they were, came from us having stifled much of the match to that point.
Ultimately, it worked - and if Warne does the same he will be remembered as the guy who got us promoted. If he doesn't he'll end up pretty mid-table on the OP list in the memories.
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13 hours ago, Jourdan said:
I keep reading people saying ‘this is the worst football I’ve ever seen’ or words to that effect when discussing the football being played under Warne at the moment.
Go on, show one comment where someone actually says 'this is the worst football I've ever seen' or even words to that effect. People have issues with it, style or entertainment, but I don't see anyone calling it out as being the worst they've ever seen.
It helps frame the discussion if your view of the alternate, or aligned, view is grounded in some sort of reality and not just swayed to extremes to give you something to rail against (Heavens forbid that happens in todays society).
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2 hours ago, DRBee said:
You clearly unfairly prefer to reserve your vitriol for individual players , who are actually prisoners of the way Warne selects the team , the formation and tactics he employs. ( judging by some of your posts in other threads). Perhaps vitriol towards players is not a good idea when there is still much to play for and given the limited choices we have.
I don't think I unfairly reserve my vitriol, I fairly believe Conor Hourihane is not delivering for this team. Is he played out of position or in the wrong format? Well if I hire a plumber to do my electrics it doesn't matter, the fact is my electrics will be sub-standard and the plumber gets judged on that, not how good they are at plumbing.
Limited choices btw? We have a bigger squad than Peterborough, Bolton, Stevenage or Blackpool and definitely towards the top end in the division.
So you think we just clap every pass, even those that are intercepted, 'get behind the lads' (especially those that are prisoners) and then just go 'oh well, we gave it a go' when we come up short?
BTW - we agree there is much to play for, which is why it makes no sense to pile on Warne at this time. If he fails, that time will come. Before that, given we have to make the best of the playing squad we have, I see no issue raising concern if one of those players is not performing to a level needed.
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It's certainly not a good idea to point vitriol at our manager when there is still much to play for. That's just barmy. But we can be clear on what we think success looks like and what we would expect to happen if that success was not achieved. That's not vitriol either, that's expectation. For me, he has to get us up this season - if that doesn't happen then my expectation would be he is not our manager at the start of next season.
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1 hour ago, Jram said:
I’m going to be honest- the statistics you’ve used there are absolute nonsense. You could probably take any team in the world and pluck specific statistics like that which paint the team in a positive or negative light. It’s silly
In spite of that, there has been a drop in form in the last few games but that’s fine 🤷♂️ there’s no need to overreact, it’s football. We were inevitably going to have bad periods in the season, like every team. Like Warne repeatedly says, football is random, sometimes things go for you, sometimes they don’t.
I happen to agree about Hourihane, I probably wouldn’t have him in the team. But I think it’s fair to say 5 goals and 6 assists in the league is a good return for a deep lying midfield player. Warne has said a few times that he wants to win every game so presumably he’s willing to take the risk of Hourihane being a defensive weakness
They're nonsense and silly? Damn them facts eh, always making points you might not agree with.
As for Hourihane getting six assists, even five goals, for a player that takes many of the corners and set pieces for a club at the top end of the table I'd say that is hardly an astounding return.
In conclusion, I hope it all gets turned around, I certainly don't want us firing Warne and would be delighted to see him take us up and then consolidate in the Championship. For a club of our size, our support and our resource it really is the least he can be expected to do.
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Because at the moment you have two sensors in a line, and a very close line (width of a finger nail) - see picture one, no technology is going to be smart enough and today the sensor might be onside but the finger nail is offside. If you then have sensors - for example in the front of the shirt, and your requirement is completely offside you are looking for a single individual to be further forward than any other player (or all but one, by the strict rules of offside). If the onus is on a player having to be offside, whereas now it is on them having to be onside, you introduce more 'forgiveness' to the rule - innocent till proven guilty and all that. The ref ultimately decides what 'clearly' means - for me it means there must be grass between the attacker and the defender if you draw a line across. It's not perfect, nothing is, but it is a much, much, much more accomodating interpretation than the one that exists today. You'll all thank me one day.