Fylde should win the league. Full time professional and a high coin level behind them.
Not quite as bad as Salford were at that level, but there’s some quite creative accounting going on with Fylde
Fylde should win the league. Full time professional and a high coin level behind them.
Alleged creative accountingNot quite as bad as Salford were at that level, but there’s some quite creative accounting going on with Fylde
Alleged creative accounting
No one is as coined up as Salford!
Agreed. One of those clubs I’m not keen on myself. To be fair, we were the better team for large majority of the match. Our rustiness of not playing for 2 weeks didn’t help. I fancy our chances ourselves this year. Best squad on paper we’ve had since being in non league and we don’t have the burden of 125000 rent anymore.. Good luck in the FA Cup today.Fylde should win the league. Full time professional and a high coin level behind them.
Agreed. One of those clubs I’m not keen on myself. To be fair, we were the better team for large majority of the match. Our rustiness of not playing for 2 weeks didn’t help. I fancy our chances ourselves this year. Best squad on paper we’ve had since being in non league and we don’t have the burden of 125000 rent anymore.. Good luck in the FA Cup today.
Impressed with the forwards you have however the back 5 you have looked a total bombscare and after you went one down you completely lost the plot and that couldve been double figures.
All the best for the rest of the season but get it up you for the 'poor league one side' comment when the draw was made.
Arsenal 1-2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Our first win away at Arsenal, since September 29th, 1979 through two great team goals by Pedro Neto and Daniel Podence - which sends us 6th place and 4 points from the top.
Totally overshadowed however by a sickening head blow to Raul Jimenez, who is responding to treatment in a London hospital.
Besides the injury, and I hope Raul recovers, that was a pleasing result for many.
it looked very bad. The protocols for head injuries in football need looking at.
I think it's clear and obvious the VAR experiment has failed.
I'm at the point I don't bother celebrating whenever Liverpool score, because I expect it'll be ruled out because somebody was a millimeter offside in the build up.
I think it's clear and obvious the VAR experiment has failed.
I'm at the point I don't bother celebrating whenever Liverpool score, because I expect it'll be ruled out because somebody was a millimeter offside in the build up.
Clear and obvious doesn’t apply to offside. It either is, or isn’t. The fact that they’re able to make better quality decisions is a good thing, but there’s a massive issue about the way they demonstrate it to the fans
Spot on. I’m not the biggest fan of VAR, but accept it has got always decisions like offside correct.Clear and obvious doesn’t apply to offside. It either is, or isn’t.
"Forwards curve their run where naturally their body comes forward, and a lot of the disallowed goals we've seen this season have come from the lines being drawn at the top of the body. But he's curving his run, and if you draw the line at where the feet are planted, many of these goals wouldn't be disallowed.
"I wonder if this is something worth experimenting with. By having a line from the feet, there would still be a yes and a no."
it is almost as if some of us said this was going to be a disaster and take so much of our enjoyment as fans away. it was brought in to keep people who consume football on TV and who are easily led by loud mouthed "experts" happy not fans who go to the games.
if we have to have the thing it should be a review screen for the ref to look at to help him decide. I said we shouldn't bring it and i think we should bin it.
Regarding offside it's the armpit, testicle and shirt sleeve nonsense, generally not parts of the body or attire that you score with. Dermot Gallagher offered this today, I think it's possibly a way forward.
But would it make a difference? I don’t think so - with any line decision, sooner or later an example will come up where the attacker is just the right side of the line, and one where he’s just the wrong side of the line. All Gallagher’s idea does is move the line a few inches.
Look at it another way - an attacker being offside is either poor play from him, or good defending. Most strikers don’t NEED to be that close to being offside. If they were a foot or two further back 99% of the time they’d still get to the ball first
Clear and obvious doesn’t apply to offside. It either is, or isn’t. The fact that they’re able to make better quality decisions is a good thing, but there’s a massive issue about the way they demonstrate it to the fans
I remember similar reactions when the back pass rule was changed, and I'm told there were also objections to the change to three points for a win. I don't think anyone would seriously suggest reversing those changes now.
VAR certainly isn't perfect in the way it's being used, but give it five years and all this talk of "ruining the game" will be embarrassing to look back on.
VAR is still being bedded in. Like a pendulum, the application seems to swing from over zealous to insufficient every few weeks. We saw it with the definition of handball being changed after a few weeks. But this is almost all the subjective decisions, not the objective ones
The biggest mistake they’ve made is having the bedding in period live, in public, and impacting games. They should’ve had a parallel dry run for at least a season, using ex refs to operate it, and ex managers and ex players and maybe some journalists to assess it. Then once the teething issues were ironed out it could be used in anger
The other massive failing is not having the ref and VAR mic’d up like in rugby union. That way the fans - who are ultimately paying the bills - at least get to understand the rationale for the decisions
Thus I agree with. As much as Rugby (particularly the posh code with two too many players ) is about as interesting as an audio-only presentation on the history of the University Boat Race, it's remarkable to see players built like brick outhouses being put in their place by a referee who's about one third their size. Compared with the histrionics seen from top level footballers it's a much more civilised sport (until the game restarts, at least).The other massive failing is not having the ref and VAR mic’d up like in rugby union. That way the fans - who are ultimately paying the bills - at least get to understand the rationale for the decisions
Thus I agree with. As much as Rugby (particularly the posh code with two too many players ) is about as interesting as an audio-only presentation on the history of the University Boat Race, it's remarkable to see players built like brick outhouses being put in their place by a referee who's about one third their size. Compared with the histrionics seen from top level footballers it's a much more civilised sport (until the game restarts, at least).
But a few questionable decisions don't "ruin the game", they're just part and parcel of the game, by nature of how the rules are open to interpretation. Before VAR there were still plenty of decisions that were obviously wrong with the benefit of TV replays- those decisions weren't "ruining the game" either, they were part of it.