Kid Icarus

Just now, Aiston said:

 

It went through 3 or 4 of our players first...not easy for a keeper to see.

Easy for a good keeper. Pope 100% saves 2 and 3.

Just now, Aiston said:

 

The first 2 goals weren't his fault

 

And he AND THE DEFENCE weren't good for the 3rd.

The 2nd went through his digestive system and out his arse. Anything that isn't directly shot at his arms has a very good chance of going in. 

There's your bad performance Eddie, get him out, as he should have been in the first place. 

Absolutely shocking. 

7 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

What does he think has happened here...

 

I missed it right up until this angle like.

The set up looked completely off from the start. Shite performance ironically until we went behind. Better after it but still not good enough really, think the final balls have been good but noone in where you would expect.

That aside, usual fare with them getting every decision from the ref and being really unlikeable.

13 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Aye they'll need to fill the unbearable cunt up with hot air again before his next outing. 

1 minute ago, Andy said:

 

See it feels the opposite to me, I feel like there's a dodgy decision almost every single game of football I watch. Aye it's nice when it goes in your favour, but even then I'm not sure it's worth it. 

Just in general or through VAR?

Ends the season with the KI award for highest match rating average. Well done Tino, your medal's in the post.

2 minutes ago, Andy said:

I don't believe anyone can watch a game of football and find it more enjoyable with VAR than without, and that's the crux of the issue really. There are so many issues with it that stand in the way of spectacle - not being able to celebrate goals, play being stopped for minutes on end while they go to the far end of a fart to try to find a reason to overturn something, and most importantly, blatantly incorrect decisions still being made at the end of it all anyway.

 

The human elements will never be removed for the majority of decisions. I'd rather the human element just be "referee or linesman fuck up", at least then you can say "well they only seen it once". It's far more annoying when they still fuck up having watched an incident 99 times over. 

 

Things like the pantomime of sending the ref to the screen, and the shit in-stadium communication make it even worse. 

 

If automated offside is fast and works well, then use that. Everything else, put in the bin. 

As a neutral definitely, but I find it more enjoyable when Newcastle aren't shafted by a shit decision because VAR comes to the rescue. It's not perfect, when wrong decisions are still made with VAR it's even worse, but it does feel rarer.

I'm pro VAR but the argument about it being human error that's the problem not VAR makes no sense.

There's no non-human VAR.

Gut feeling isn't great about this one.

1 minute ago, midds said:

Joelinton reducer in the first 5 mins. First one's free - smash. 

He's on the bench 

Very surprised by Joelinton not starting. He loves ragdolling this lot.

Could do without that rat being fit, like. 

For me the biggest issues are offside and hand balls. One takes too long and uses an ineffective and pedantic looking method, the other too broadly open to interpretation.

Offsides are a yes or no, so bringing in the system used in the World Cup and Champions League hopefully moves them into the realm of goal line technology where they're universally accepted and almost taken for granted.

Hand balls need to go back to interpretation of intent in all cases, including when scoring goals. It won't be perfect, but it'll be better than what we have now.

Fix them and imo you remove a huge part of the problem with VAR.

Will be absolutely staggered if they vote to scrap it. 

I was going to say that stuff like this makes us compromised, but they did that by buying our football club tbh.

21 minutes ago, Pablo said:

I wish opposition fans didn’t want to come. We give up our seats for their support to have a nice weekend away. Let them enjoy Liverpool instead and encroach on the Kop.

Who on here really gives a toss about what away supporters want. We can fill their allocation 15times over with passionate supporters who are locked out.

Are you alright?

6 minutes ago, madras said:

There were 1237 respodents to the annual survey. Is that representative enough given the demographics ?

My understanding of 'the law of large numbers' is that generally anything above 200 is considered representative of a group providing there's nothing untoward going on with participant selection. It can be manipulated but considering NUST's survey was sent out to all members and is six times that number I think the only demographic that might skew the results is that it's been filled out by the demographic of people who tend to fill in surveys

Aye he's proper gone in the huff there like. I see his point, but he's alienating himself and has a pretty short-sighted view on things if he thinks beating Man City, staying in the same position they'd be in if they lost, and handing your bitter rivals the title constitutes winning. 

9 hours ago, JJ7 said:

‘the vast majority (almost half)’. Aye, ok.

It represents almost half of the respondents from a quarter of the possible age demographics. Could be wrong but I think outside of voting systems majority just means the most.

Would Pope be alright with being number 2? He's a fantastic goalkeeper and would definitely fall into the too good to be a number 2 category. 

3 hours ago, Coffee_Johnny said:

I remember that already relegated side who beat them 5-1 on the final game of the season. Meaning that Arsenal finished second and they finished third. 

So do I, it pales in comparison to losing to this Sheff United side at home.