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No he doesn't. Whoosh! Nah, I realised, I was just playing along!

Yes! And a little crown for sensible, balanced posters!

No he doesn't.

Too hot? Too hilarious.

Well yeah.

I saw that on the highlights at the time, I spat my tea out.

Bah humbug!

Sure you're all right, it just doesn't happen very often. I think it makes sense that intent is important.

Don't think there can be a penalty if no contact is made between two players, surely? Can someone who knows the actual rules clarify? He could have cleared it up by running into the keeper like most players do, and leaving a leg dangling.

However, most other clubs have overspent just as much, they've just used better financial management to handle their debts. Wouldn't that suggest that most other clubs haven't overspent? If they've spent within their means to repay their debts then that's not really overspending. What Portsmouth did was spend far beyond their ability to ever repay, even if they'd managed to get into the Champion's League their earnings wouldn't have covered their expenditure. They might point to their plans for a new stadium, but they've not been filling their current one so it's debatable that they'd have been able to meet their best possible income projections. Yeah, fair point. I think there will be other clubs where the debt levels turn out to be unsustainable though, Pompey are just the first and worst example.

However, most other clubs have overspent just as much, they've just used better financial management to handle their debts.

IMO his all round game has looked very poor in a lot of the games this season. However, he's very young and has all of the physical attributes to become a good centre forward. Good to see him picking up goals and improving his confidence. Better service seems to be coming in now as well, he has a greater number of better chances for headers etc. I'm not 100% convinced he's going to make it long term, but I fully hope he does. I'd be tempted to just stick with him as first choice next season and cross my fingers that he carries on his form.

He tends to drift inside anyway, leaving us a bit exposed down the wing. He also doesn't seem to have the stamina to really track back like wide players need to. Would love to see him play central for the rest of the season, with Pancrate filling in when Routledge is out.

I don't think he looks effective out wide at all. He still puts in the odd decent ball, and his set plays are generally decent, but I'd say you're only getting about 50% out of him while he's out there.

Couldn't agree more. He generally looks lost when he's asked to play wide and it's not hard to see why, he's physically not built for it. Same goes for Barton, but similarly he's been asked to play wide far too many games in a Newcastle shirt, usually to accomodate Butt, Smith or Nolan in the centre. Thirded, he can't impose himself on the game out wide, he doesn't have the physical strength or the pace. Down the middle he's better than any of our other midfielders.

Very disappointed with the FLS this weekend. I thought we would have proper extended highlights, but they rushed through the goals really wuickly and that was it.

Relegation was looking a distinct possibility under the last regime as well, to be fair. I don't give him much credit overall, but if he's made massive mistakes then he is making very small steps towards putting them right... that's all.

Those are all decent arguments, not the sure the idea of reviewing the decision while play continues is feasible though. So would you review other decisions... handballs, dives, fouls etc? I guess that could be done just as easily, and the video ref could stop the game at any time. If anything has happened in the meantime (a goal, a booking etc) then it could just be disregarded?

Surely if it was only for this season he would deserve much higher than a 4? We're top of the league and we've made some good signings.

I'd say about a 4 overall. His intentions when he bought the club were alright I think, he was just naive about staying up without spending anything, and being a friend of the fans. We are headed back to the premiership now, time will tell if we can survive this time. Whether this is by accident or design I don't know, but he has to be given some credit for the end result anyway. Almost every other decision, he's got wrong.

No I wouldn't, that's why I'm against video replays. I would rather everyone sucked it up and got on with the game. There are a lot of game-changing decisions, why only refer goal line calls to video?

The beeping thing is harder to argue against, if it's accurate.

So why don't you like that particular piece of technology? A few reasons... I'm not expecting anyone to agree with me though. One, I think there's no problem to be solved. Goals been wrongly given or not given happens so rarely that it isn't worth taking the first step towards more video technology by introducing this. It will inevitably lead to requests further down the line for video for all sorts of other incidents. I would rather just put a stop to it now. Second, when does the decision get referred? What if the ball hits the bar, bounces down over the line and out. The goal isn't given, the other team go down the opposite end and score. Do we wait until the stoppage in play, rule out anything that happened in the meantime and award the original goal? Or is it the referees decision to refer something? What if the incident above happens, but this time the ball comes out to an attacking player. Before he can put the rebound in the ref stops the game to consult the TV official. Then the original shot turns out not to have gone in, what happens then? Also, there are a lot of decisions where even viewing the replay doesn't answer the question. I know I spend a lot of my time shouting at the TV because I totally disagree with a pundit over a foul/dive or whatever. What you'd be doing is taking the responsibility away from the referee and put it onto the video officials. Basically, I just think the football is a sport where the game should flow as much as possible, and it doesn't have as many natural stoppages. Also, I think people just need to accept that referees are human and respect their decisions. If the referee doesn't give a goal, it isn't a goal... should be as simple as that IMO. Not sure if any of those are convincing, but they're my first thoughts.

Didn't think I needed to specify that I was talking about video technology, as that's what this thread is about.

I'd much rather not have technology in football, pleased with this.