9 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Can I just ask is there any member who has bought a season ticket this coming season who didnt this season?

Not yet, but strongly considering it. First one since the Hughes days.

Bit of a commute from my ends but work hours settling down makes it a bit more viable nowadays.

You lot bickering, strawmanning and downright picking on each other makes this site unreadable at times.

Might be getting a few more season ticket holders, but we won’t get many more forum members.

Gutted about Barnsley tbh.  

A handy away day for me down here and I have a good friend that is a massive fan and I would have loved to have mullered them after they pasted us last season.

Good honest old fashioned club.

But Horwich then. 

Yay.

2 minutes ago, Oldgregg86 said:

Anyone thinking we can sign the likes of Alex song are in for a very disappointing summer

Agreed. 

And anyone that thinks that we should haven’t learned much either.

If “Bolton Road/Blackburn Aces” doesn’t slow down then I’m going to pass out at the first away game next season. Getting silly now.

I voted for him on the Twitter thingy.

Does he have his own song yet?

Delighted for Stanley.

As an Accy boy it’s like seeing your local pub team in the same league as Sunderland next season!

Coleman needs a statue.

Just now, Silas said:

To stop bad decisions and make the game fairer. 

Particularly game changing decisions.

For all the stick it gets recently it can actually work.  

Was watching an MLS game this last week where a stupid penalty was given by lino flagging. Sliding tackle in box, bounced up off defenders knee onto his hand by accident.  But obviously,  ref had to take linos word.

Went to VAR, took about 30 secs , penalty overturned, game back on. 

Don't we all want errors like that stamped out?

You know what? Not particularly.

And certainly not at the expense of the game itself.

The amount of terribly soft decisions I've seen already from VAR don't sit right with me, and still it is a subjective decision to even go to the screens - this won't stop cries of cheating or bias at all, in a lot of ways it will make for even more conspiracy theories.

The more I think about it the managerial referral idea would be a horror show too.

Plus, there's nothing better then getting a bad decision going your way! They even themselves out.

Olsson dived!

10 minutes ago, Silas said:

I'm not sure VAR is the issue, it's the incompetent morons in the hierarchy of football that seem incapable of implementing it. 

It's not a popular view, but I would be a fan of giving managers 2 challenges per game (red cards, yellow cards, penalties, goal reviews for fouls - not offsides as it's become a mess. Just stick with lino decisions, you'll win some, lose some. )

This takes it totally out the hands of the officials who are clearly struggling to decide when and when not to use it. And you generally don't get more than 2 contentious decisions against you in a game.

The main  argument I have heard against this is managers abusing it. i.e. Mourinho challenging a blatant yellow in 89th min of game to break up the flow and get to have a sideline chat with players.

Easily resolved for me. Have a Monday panel, and if they decide a manager has abused it VAR challenge privileges revoked for 1 game.  Do it again in a season, revoked for 2 games etc etc.

Once a team has a dodgy penalty and/or red given against them in a game and they're powerless to challenge it, they'll soon learn not to abuse the system. 

 

Edit- Oh, and after the challenge the VAR makes the decision. None of this ridiculous running to side of pitch to look at a monitor.

Manager challenges, ref signals VAR so fans know. Minute later decision comes back, ref signals it, game moves on.  

I see your logic and perhaps this would be an improvement, but I just don't understand why it needs to be done at all.

Unnecessary complication and fanny on for what reason?

To stop managers and armchair fans whinging? Too much money at stake in the big games? Is it for a sponsorship revenue stream? 

The decisions that VAR is tackling are completely subjective. This just passes the contentious decisions further up the chain. The logical conclusion of this is a commitee that awards goals and results after the game has been played.

Bad decisions even themselves out, and human error is part of the beauty of the game.

It's just football, the way it should be.

I'll never get on board with this tripe.

What would have happened if the ball came back off the keeper/post and into play?

What half are we in??

I’ll take the title of Luddite proudly, I hate VAR with every fibre of my being.

Bang for buck, Jordan Slew.

1.1million for a teenager that less than 7 years later plays for Radcliffe Borough.

All above board of course.

edit - he did go on to achieve something though:

“In March 2015 he was caught by police speeding at 156 mph in his BMW M4 on the Cambridgeshire section of the A1, in what was the fastest recorded speed on a public road in the UK for more than three years”

43 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

How much of a joke is it that Sky have put on Sunderland away at Fulham on a Friday night with 3 weeks notice?

Does this mean that the Charlton fixture is set in stone?

3 minutes ago, DE. said:

Our old friend Jason Steele getting himself sent off today by somehow misjudging the flight of the ball, coming out of his area and then handling it. Amazed we were actually given money for him.

Just seen it. Absolutely horrendous mistake that would be embarrassing in Sunday league.

We wouldn’t even be in the play-off positions if he was still here.

Thank Christ for David Raya and Simon Grayson.

1 hour ago, perthblue02 said:

Probably not in the Celeb category, but just announced Mark E Smith (The Fall) has died. Always looked forward to a new Fall album as John Peel once said about them , The Fall, always different, always the same

Have to say I’m gutted about this. He seemed indestructable, a proper force of nature and irrepressibly unique.

Divisive, but in my opinion a fantastic character/musician/poet/frontman the likes of which don’t come around often, and will leave a huge void in the world of indie music.

A right keaner too.

RIP Mark E Smith

Love this

New Leeds badge. Jesus Christ.

36 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Outsourced? I assume to Alan/Neil Yardley’s company? Not much else for them to do without Radio Rovers or big screen coverage, I suppose.

Yeah that was my assumption. Bit weird intit. Anyone know how to do a poll?

Well, it’s a start.

We need to put a poll up I reckon to gauge the true popularity of goal music - decent sample size on here.

I will not rest. Be the change you want to see in this world. Feel a bit like a young Mandela tbh

24 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Regardless of whether he went down or not, are you saying the defender didn't put his arm on him to deliberately stop him breaking clear?

 Is that not a foul?

Any 6ft+ centre forward worth his salt would not be affected by that amount of contact.

The only reason to go down is to win the penalty.

Games gone.

Just now, Hasta said:

If Morata had been trying to sprint clear and had put his arms on a defender like the defender did for the "penalty", the ref gives a free kick every time.

If the ref decided not to give a penalty fine but to book him, when the hand on him a clear run, is obvious, was ridiculous by the ref. He had n need whatsoever to book Morata and that ultimately led to Morata's rant and sending off.

He got the Willian penalty wrong as well and also failed to give a clear Chelsea free kick at the end when they were down to 9.

Ref had a shocker whilst trying to get his 5 minutes of fame on the Beeb.

 

Ah come on Morata took off like Superman!

No wonder players dive theatrically if that’s what constitutes a foul in so many eyes.

I think the ref got everything right tonight, bar maybe the Willian decision. But it wasn’t “clearly and obviously” wrong, still debatable, so won’t be overturned. Waste of time all round.

I've only gone and ruddy bloody tweeted one of the media & communications guys. Got it off my chest at least.

-edit- 

Remind me to hold him to this

GET RID OF IT. HATE IT.  TINPOT.

Surely with the improvement in the PR/Social Media/Marketing lately we can reach out to someone to put a stop to this nonsense.

33 minutes ago, Garage Flower said:

Pavement! Bloody hell. Can’t see it taking off even if I am a fan myself.

Haha I know. Can sing it to meself I suppose.

Uwe Rosler said it best for me after the game -

 “Can they really say it was onside, or are they guessing?” he said. “Sometimes even VAR is not clear. In general – don’t complicate football too much. The game is beautiful. Let it be pure.”