Greg

gis a job

Nominated for save of the season on MoTD for tipping one over the bar that was straight at him against Man City.

Liquid football Alright Alan?

Already seen it a few times tbh. Morata at Chelsea for one.

Debt may be cleared but this doesn’t solve the problem of the likes of Cattermole and Rodwell still there on huge wages. They are still in the shit and it will take a while to sort that out.

Because he didn’t bring him down? Cresswell slid to block the cross, Sterling turned and Creswells legs were in his way so instead of just stepping over he threw himself to the floor. Well done referee.

Just the language the mackems used in their statement.

We are leaving Europe though? Aren't we? No. We are not.

Joselu on.

The first half was poor. I don’t know how anyone can argue otherwise, we had no intensity and didn’t really compete. Been a bit better second half.

Here’s Slim.

Loads of empty seats as well. Have we gone all Arsenal?

Awful 45.

Fouls on Gayle on edge of the box twice now and referee giving us nowt.

Dumett

Lush ball from Lejeune.

Howay.

Use the match thread now: https://www.newcastle-online.org/forum/index.php?topic=100334.msg6706985#msg6706985

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Don't think you understand the topic.

What rules are actually different due to the presence of a 4th official though? It's the same as those numpties behind the goal, they barely even do anything. I'm not saying this is my only issue with VAR btw, obviously. It's just a pretty fundamental one that people who only care about the top flight seem to dismiss too easily IMO. Football is massively popular because of how inclusive it is at all levels. What rules are different with a VAR? The VAR is still making the decision / advising on the 'game changing incident' against the same set of rules / laws?

Well it is fair because the other teams they are competing with for promotion don’t have access to it either. Do you also disagree with the use of 4th officials given they aren’t used in every league?

Again, read what I put properly and you’ll see thomas and I agree on the stat I was discussing. We’re discussing and disagree on the interpretation of the data though. Fair enough, but I think your overall tone was unnecessarily aggressive when discussing a tech that's been used and nearly perfected across other sports. "VAR IS CRAP!" is an unnecessarily general statement that's nowhere near true. It can be perfected in those sports, because they are suitable for it. Football isn’t. It is. You just need a designated VAR ref that communicates with the on-pitch ref when called upon rather than the on-pitch ref taking ages looking at the videos. That's the main issue. If you had a designated VAR ref constantly looking at the replays it'd take seconds to solve something. This is what we've had in the trail in England and it has taken a lot longer than seconds. The on-pitch ref always No watches the replays in the matches I've seen. Just not been the case here.

Again, read what I put properly and you’ll see thomas and I agree on the stat I was discussing. We’re discussing and disagree on the interpretation of the data though. Fair enough, but I think your overall tone was unnecessarily aggressive when discussing a tech that's been used and nearly perfected across other sports. "VAR IS CRAP!" is an unnecessarily general statement that's nowhere near true. It can be perfected in those sports, because they are suitable for it. Football isn’t. It is. You just need a designated VAR ref that communicates with the on-pitch ref when called upon rather than the on-pitch ref taking ages looking at the videos. That's the main issue. If you had a designated VAR ref constantly looking at the replays it'd take seconds to solve something. This is what we've had in the trail in England and it has taken a lot longer than seconds.

Must be pretty serious for the police to send in the crime scene investigation team.