Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I didn’t realise that there was a near full round of Championship ganes on today. I’m also suprised Sky have decided to show none of them. Presume they're only going ahead because the teams were knocked out in the last round. Impossible to predict which games could have been selected for tv. True. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I didn’t realise that there was a near full round of Championship ganes on today. I’m also suprised Sky have decided to show none of them. They have two on tomorrow Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Happy annual Not-playing-today- Day everyone! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Anyone watching the Hearts match? Hearts are playing away to Ross County and have decided to play in their light blue away kit, despite Ross County playing in dark blue. To make it easier so there isn’t a kit clash, Hearts are playing their maroon home shorts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Some random players up there at the minute. Caulker at Dundee, Ngog at Ross County, you wouldn't have thought 2-3 years ago people like Naismith & Lafferty would be playing together at Hearts, etc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wormy Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Swansea looking awful. How many times are they going to try and switch play across their defence and let a Wednesday player chase the ball down? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Anyone watching the Hearts match? Hearts are playing away to Ross County and have decided to play in their light blue away kit, despite Ross County playing in dark blue. To make it easier so there isn’t a kit clash, Hearts are playing their maroon home shirts. This doesn't make sense. How can Hearts be wearing two different kits at the same time? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 SW defending deep and Swansea are just not creative enough, and too slow getting ball into space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Anyone watching the Hearts match? Hearts are playing away to Ross County and have decided to play in their light blue away kit, despite Ross County playing in dark blue. To make it easier so there isn’t a kit clash, Hearts are playing their maroon home shirts. This doesn't make sense. How can Hearts be wearing two different kits at the same time? The bit about Maroon shirts was meant to say shorts, but autocorrect decided to change it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 So VAR was used last night at Chelsea, but not today; and been used and equally not used in previous rounds. Similarly in the League Cup. Surely this is questioning the integrity of the competition - offering up certain teams the use of VAR but no others dependant on stadium location. You've got to enter a competition and it's a fair level field for all, no matter external circumstances. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 So VAR was used last night at Chelsea, but not today; and been used and equally not used in previous rounds. Similarly in the League Cup. Surely this is questioning the integrity of the competition - offering up certain teams the use of VAR but no others dependant on stadium location. You've got to enter a competition and it's a fair level field for all, no matter external circumstances. It’s a complete farce. I get that you can’t really implement it in the earlier rounds, but if you insist on using it then it should be used from a certain round in all matches, even if that means just using it from the semi’s when all the games are played at Wembley. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Is it not just a trial thing at the minute though? No point rolling out the technology everywhere if they decided to scrap it. I miss the days when Hillsborough, Villa Park, etc would be used for FA Cup Semis. Even if the crowds were lower it added something imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Strange that VAR was used at Stamford Bridge last night and not with our game there too Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This has been awful Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This Sheff Wed - Swansea game is utterly horrendous. Can see it finishing 0-0. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This Sheff Wed - Swansea game is utterly horrendous. Can see it finishing 0-0. Good. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinport53 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This Sheff Wed - Swansea game is utterly horrendous. Can see it finishing 0-0. Mawson injured and a replay would be good, man Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I fucking abhor the system to be honest, it's just an extra level of human officiating. There will be one seminal moment in a game where by they royally fuck up and confuse the players, and hopefully it'll be canned. Can respect that the FA want to use and trial it, rather than simply let Johnny Foreigner do it. They seem to egotistical to just allow others to trial it, and then work of their findings. Seems that they think they clearly know how to do it better. Watched a Juve game at the start of this season, they scored a header from a cross and the goal was eventually disallowed because of a foul was called a couple of passes earlier in the build up. Complete different phase of the game, and unfair advantage for the defending team, totally negating their sporting failure to defend resulting phases of play. Recon the Premier League are having none of it at the moment, seeing the state of ongoing mayhem happening in Seria A, Bundesliga, and Eredivise. La Liga are bringing it in next season. Biggest thing I hate about it is that it's used here and there; normally at the bigger grounds in games involving big teams. Either offer it out to a level field (all games in the competition - clearly impossible), only at Wembley for the Semi's, or simply not at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Speaking of FA Cup matters. If Spurs do get to the next round of the cup then it’s likely that our match against them will be postponed, with a date in the middle of the week before our final game being the likely alternative date. This is despite us being pencilled down for a Friday night game with them. How come because they progress we are the ones who end up getting the more inconvenient fixture. Surely it would be possible for them to play their FA Cup game on the Sunday or Monday night after our Friday fixture. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
xLiaaamx Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I f***ing abhor the system to be honest, it's just an extra level of human officiating. There will be one seminal moment in a game where by they royally f*** up and confuse the players, and hopefully it'll be canned. Can respect that the FA want to use and trial it, rather than simply let Johnny Foreigner do it. They seem to egotistical to just allow others to trial it, and then work of their findings. Seems that they think they clearly know how to do it better. Watched a Juve game at the start of this season, they scored a header from a cross and the goal was eventually disallowed because of a foul was called a couple of passes earlier in the build up. Complete different phase of the game, and unfair advantage for the defending team, totally negating their sporting failure to defend resulting phases of play. Recon the Premier League are having none of it at the moment, seeing the state of ongoing mayhem happening in Seria A, Bundesliga, and Eredivise. La Liga are bringing it in next season. Biggest thing I hate about it is that it's used here and there; normally at the bigger grounds in games involving big teams. Either offer it out to a level field (all games in the competition - clearly impossible), only at Wembley for the Semi's, or simply not at all. So you're saying that fouls in the build up should be ignored and Juve should have got the advantage? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.Spaceman Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This Sheff Wed - Swansea game is utterly horrendous. Can see it finishing 0-0. Mawson injured and a replay would be good, man I wasn't complaining! It's another reason why we should be okay this season. There is absolutely no way that Swansea team should be finishing above us. Think it's them with West Brom plus one of Huddersfield, Stoke and Brighton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 This Sheff Wed - Swansea game is utterly horrendous. Can see it finishing 0-0. Mawson injured and a replay would be good, man People said that after their Wolves & Notts County games but all it's done is helped them keep an unbeaten run and grow in confidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbemba Youre A Womble Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 I f***ing abhor the system to be honest, it's just an extra level of human officiating. There will be one seminal moment in a game where by they royally f*** up and confuse the players, and hopefully it'll be canned. Can respect that the FA want to use and trial it, rather than simply let Johnny Foreigner do it. They seem to egotistical to just allow others to trial it, and then work of their findings. Seems that they think they clearly know how to do it better. Watched a Juve game at the start of this season, they scored a header from a cross and the goal was eventually disallowed because of a foul was called a couple of passes earlier in the build up. Complete different phase of the game, and unfair advantage for the defending team, totally negating their sporting failure to defend resulting phases of play. Recon the Premier League are having none of it at the moment, seeing the state of ongoing mayhem happening in Seria A, Bundesliga, and Eredivise. La Liga are bringing it in next season. Biggest thing I hate about it is that it's used here and there; normally at the bigger grounds in games involving big teams. Either offer it out to a level field (all games in the competition - clearly impossible), only at Wembley for the Semi's, or simply not at all. So you're saying that fouls in the build up should be ignored and Juve should have got the advantage? Where do you draw the line? How many passes and phases back are acceptable? Build up to a goal can start from a goal kick. Saying that at some stage you've got to accept that if the on field referee doesn't call it, it's just unlucky, and accept that a defending team should have defended better. Stopped the pass into the player, then stopped the cross etc. Was only called back because it was a goal, if it hit the post nobody is calling for play to be re-officiated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Anyone watching the Hearts match? Hearts are playing away to Ross County and have decided to play in their light blue away kit, despite Ross County playing in dark blue. To make it easier so there isn’t a kit clash, Hearts are playing their maroon home shirts. This doesn't make sense. How can Hearts be wearing two different kits at the same time? The bit about Maroon shirts was meant to say shorts, but autocorrect decided to change it. Well you are wrong. Their home shorts are white, they are the normal away kit shorts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 What was the last FA Cup round 5 game we played? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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