Optimistic Nut Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Really hope St-Etienne finally make the Champions League this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Totally with Rory Smith on this, it's fucking preposterous. Totally agree with that. The obsession with "his nose was 1 cm offside!"-style controversies is missing the point of what the offside is supposed to achieve. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I agree, but what's the alternative? Whenever you have a black and white rule, you're going to get people slicing up time and space at microscopic levels to see if the rule was in violation or not. Is the alternative more based on intent? How would you legislate this? A striker has to be actually goalhanging to be considered offside, but if he's marginally offside when he takes off to chase a throughball, we should let him run and score? I'm not sure there is a laissez-faire way to implement this. You're only going to create more controversies. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segun Oluwaniyi Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I understand the romantic sentiments regarding the "spirit" of the offsides rule, but what exactly are people suggesting the rule should be? It is fine to play by the rule of " Don't hang near the goal or we will smack you/no longer play with you" in a casual game, but this is not realistic for serious football. By definition, the offside rule will refer to a certain absolute point (based on the position of defenders) that your body or certain parts of your body will not be allowed to cross. It will inevitably be a matter of a heel or a nose being 1 cm in a certain direction unless you are asking the linesman and referees to make even more difficult judgement decisions than those they are already tasked with. The rule is perfect as it is, and if VAR is going to become the standard, the issue is how we apply VAR. We have seen this issue seriously hurt NFL, a sport that brought video review in decades ago. The standard has to be that there is a decision made by the linesman/referee (or an egregious incident missed) that VAR can demonstrably prove to be an error. If we are just looking to VAR to actually be the arbiter for any difficult decision where the differences are microscopic and difficult for the bare eye to see, the sport will be seriously damaged and the officiating badly compromised, as in the NFL. edit: Essentially I agree with DJ_NUFC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 I feel it's the "clear and obvious" part that should be the focus. The Kane offside wasn't clear and obvious. Whatever the linesman gave should've stuck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Totally with Rory Smith on this, it's fucking preposterous. Totally agree with that. The obsession with "his nose was 1 cm offside!"-style controversies is missing the point of what the offside is supposed to achieve. Me too when it’s put like that. Should be the opposite way, if any part of the forward is online with the defender it should be onside. If there’s daylight then it’s offside and you’d think VAR could work for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 This comeback against Levante is going to be pretty pointless if we end up expelled from the Cup... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 This comeback against Levante is going to be pretty pointless if we end up expelled from the Cup... Could be a blessing in disguise though, means yous can focus on staying up and not run the risk of picking up any injuries or players being tired due to extra games/extra time. It’s the same with us mate, I wouldn’t worry about it. A good cup run and a trophy would be lovely though for both our clubs. Ah, there is always next year eh! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Forgot Tim Krul is at Norwich now. Hope they get promoted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Couple of decent goals, Krul maybe could have done better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 And another! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 All the goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Got a feeling Leicester will win this 2 or 3-1. Their attack looks pacy as fook. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Looing forward to seeing Harvey Barnes, he looked dead exciting for WBA and Barnsley Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Classic Danny Simpson defendng Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Barnes gives the ball away, gets Mendy booked. Wolves all over Leicester for about 2 minutes after and score. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Patricio. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Class start this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tribesman Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I reckon Wolves can push the likes of Arsenal or Spurs for a top 6 spot in a few years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I reckon Wolves can push the likes of Arsenal or Spurs for a top 6 spot in a few years. They've got the squad/manager/budget/connections to do it next season tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 I reckon Wolves can push the likes of Arsenal or Spurs for a top 6 spot in a few years. We were lucky they couldn't get Nuno straight away and went for Zenga. Promotion would have been a lot hairier. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Shame Moutinho didn't get a move to a real top club. Lovely player Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Urgh. Wolves. It’s not some sort of fucking fairy tale given the cash they’ve got. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderson Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Far too easy that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted January 19, 2019 Share Posted January 19, 2019 Rafa's next job could be available soon Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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