Keefaz

Lucas is a shocking player.

Rubbish tackle. Red all day long.

I find it impossible to believe, tbh.

If he'd followed it up by jumping into the tackle to retrieve the ball and getting sent off, he'd have summed up his entire Toon career in two seconds.

My example with the five year old waving the knife was better, tbh.

It's nowt to do with intent. If I bollock a five-year old for mindlessly waving a knife around, it's not because I think his 'intent' is to stab his sister: it's because it's dangerous, man.

Can we not get Kai to do one of his frame-by-frame analyses?

No you didn't, man, ffs.

Why? Not every potential leg-breaker is because the player is fucking evil or out to kill the opponent. People are clumsy, they're over-eager, etc. The end result of a over-eager tackle which breaks a leg is the same as the Roy Keane leg-breaking type of tackle. So are you saying we should judge the tackle on the intent? Or the outcome? Or all possible potential outcomes? If it's dangerous, it's dangerous regardless of intent.

This, however, is balls. His intent was what he executed: take advantage of a loose touch by jumping in front of the player and hooking the ball. It was still dangerous, however. If it goes wrong then you send him off. It's like any tackle man. If you slide in the box and win the ball, it's no penalty. If you slide in the box and miss the ball, it is a penalty. There's no, "Oooh, but he might have got the timing wrong let's give a penalty anyway". Same should apply here imo. What about if you elbow/punch someone and don't make contact? Eh? But that's clearly intent to hurt the other player. There was no intent whatsoever on Tiote's part to hurt their player, he didn't hurt their player, and he won the ball cleanly. It's the act which gets punished, not the outcome though. So all tackles should be a yellow or red card? Yes. Yes they should.

Why? Not every potential leg-breaker is because the player is fucking evil or out to kill the opponent. People are clumsy, they're over-eager, etc. The end result of a over-eager tackle which breaks a leg is the same as the Roy Keane leg-breaking type of tackle.

This, however, is balls. His intent was what he executed: take advantage of a loose touch by jumping in front of the player and hooking the ball. It was still dangerous, however. If it goes wrong then you send him off. It's like any tackle man. If you slide in the box and win the ball, it's no penalty. If you slide in the box and miss the ball, it is a penalty. There's no, "Oooh, but he might have got the timing wrong let's give a penalty anyway". Same should apply here imo. What about if you elbow/punch someone and don't make contact? http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1545000/images/_1546081_keano300.jpg

Although it was a good tackle, it could easily have gone wrong. Nee chance of it getting rescinded. This, however, is balls. His intent was what he executed: take advantage of a loose touch by jumping in front of the player and hooking the ball. It was still dangerous, however.

Honestly, that's disgusting. Fucking terrible, tbh.

Shocking keeping.

Can't believe how bad we've been.

Absolutely raped today.

I bloody hate Stevenage.

Lollo.

Oh, the moon. Smashing.

Utter balls.

What was that?

Think I'll just go stab sporks in my ears for fun.