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Well, when your 2 centre backs go missing I dare say it’s a night for firsts. seconds and thirds…

Bellissimo.:lolol:

VAR enhancing the fan experience.

For an architectural comparison, if you form a brickwork opening for a new window, you tend to make the window 20mm smaller so that you have a 10mm manufacturing tolerance around the frame. This analogy sums up VAR and offside for me, they have an opening in a wall, but they’ve ordered the...

Agreed. Think most of us are debating the technology, it's accuracy and how it's deployed. Whether it evened out, was or wasn't offside isn't really the point.

I kind of like cricket's answer to this conundrum - how much of a cricket ball needs to be shown to be hitting the stumps that the technology can reliably overturn the on-field decision. What we have lost with VAR that other sports have retained is the sanctity of the on-field official's...

Doesn’t change the limitations of the technology. Use it in a way appropriate to its accuracy.

Agree. Pundits and people on here saying ‘it was offside’ - not really grasping the limitations of the technology.

Trouble is VAR isn’t accurate enough to make these calls. 2 frames on and the ball is still in contact with the player’s boot as he passes it and the attacker is onside. The accuracy of this system is dependent on 2 key things: 1. Which frame the operator decides to freeze. 2. Where the...

A little way off getting the 1.21 giga watts for time travel.

We do have nuclear powered submarines - the advantage for these vehicles is they can be cooled by the sea in the event of an emergency. The same tech could probably power ships, however it’s incredibly expensive and I doubt international ports would be too keen on various nuclear reactors...

Thing is no one goes. Clubs don’t sell out cup games and need to offer cut price tickets. Football is so expensive that fans make a choice and they generally prioritise league games over cups. We can all shout and moan about replays, but of more concern is the empty seats for FA cup ties -...

Hates Trump and his Russian supporting acolytes you mean?

No. I think they will think there were opportunities to have overperformed / overachieved but we haven't taken them. Plenty of moments we could have progressed in cups, or had a few more points - but that doesn't equal underperformance. I'd find it hard with the squad we have that a season spent...

When you say learn from Poyet, I think we did, but not in the sense of things said to the media. I think what TB learned from Poyet was that if you give a manager everything they want, control over transfers, who is sold, who is bought etc. etc. and they fail to deliver but take no...

Because Chelsea courted him, his form dipped and the manager decided to pick another player in his place. RDZ still picked RS, and he still got the Wembley semi-final, clearly a player RDZ still wanted around. Amazing the narratives that come out.

What’s the threshold for that, 3 replies? :lolol:

Newcastle spent the best part of £180m 22/23 and £150m 23/24. Isak was what, supposedly £70m. Good old Eddie getting on with it.

I can’t get my head around your expectations if you’re seeing this season as underachieving. Must be record numbers of teenagers being used and minutes they’ve chalked up, sometimes our key player needing to play right back. Huge credit goes to the coaching staff for making you believe kids...

I’ve never got too worked up about what managers say in press conferences. I’ll leave whether he’s offended Tony or not to Tony, I’m pretty sure he has a handle on things. With flair, passion and a sprinkle of genius comes a bit of volatility. As fans just got to roll with it a bit. We are an...