Lingard’s was better.

We probably aren’t the priority on the production line. No reason not to start marketing it though. Probably still waiting for an agreement with the sponsor. Personally I’d be down on day 1 for three sponsorless shirts.

Hot on the heels of increased season ticket prices (marketed as a price freeze), the club have now increased has begun marketing the match day entry use of the Blues Bar at £2.60 [per game] - and that’s the member rate. This is marketed as being good value - maybe even better value if we go far in the cups and if you attend friendlies. A quid was too much. https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2018/june/blues-matchday-memberships-now-available/ Waggot really seems to be going after the coin of the loyal following.

Surely to Zeus we can’t be outspent by Bolton. And they’ve already brought in Oztumer.

He got a massive break playing Tunisia and Panama though. That really has given him a honeymoon start. Im a bit disappointed that he didn’t test the strength of his squad against Belgium and I guess his thinking is that his first XI is still unbeaten and fit. I would have preferred to have played Japan than Colombia though. Not convinced about Brazil either, Sweden could be a tougher team to face. Let’s see if we can get past a very strong looking Colombia side though.

Welbeck just summed up England’s night. Glad I’ve not paid any money to watch this shizzle.

Remind me again - which one’s the poor man’s Heskey. There’s several to choose from. Just glad Alexander-Arnold has gone off.

This game’s crap let’s eat the seats.

Definite penalty for me then. Ive not actually seen the incident.

It was a generalisation. ‘Last’ should have said ‘past’ - bloody autocorrect!

Indeed. The weak point in most systems is human beings. Some of the VAR officials don’t seem to be competent. Or because of the “beauty” of football opinions, one person could be adamant that an incident is a penalty when everyone else in the room disagrees. This creating doubt and removing the “clear and obvious error” elements. It has been more successful than I expected. The reaction from the Korean players awaiting the outcome was the other positive of the system. And it was the right outcome.

This is why I like VAR. In the last a dodgy decision from a weak linesman would have given the ‘bigger’ side and advantage. Probably leading to them winning. It seems more objective now.

It doesn’t work perfectly on cricket. It’s mathematics giving a most probably outcome. Variations in the surface of the crease could impact spin, trajectory and pace but it is seen as successful because it has been in use for some time and their has been trust built up. I agree that protocols for its use in football need to be looked at but the vast majority of its decisions have been correct and gave contributed to a fantastic World Cup. Where it has fallen over has been what it has always been - poor decision making from officials. Both in the application, and review process.

Best away kit we’ve had imho. And astonishingly was never put on sale.

This is fast becoming a TLDR thread! Thanks for all the memories, Dunny. Next.

VAR certainly isn’t making the game as sterile as it was feared by some. However, a bad referee will still be a bad referee even with a better tool at his disposal. And tonight’s candidate was a duck egg. What doesn’t help though is that the referee is not being given a view of the most conclusive angle to base his decision on.

We’ve only played two games!

Not with the new turnstiles. Vinje would be red flagged when he tried to get in on JAL’s concession ticket.

This isn’t a dig at you but this kind of comment really grates. If Venkys had long gone and we were on the road to recovery and having to balance the books then I would fully agree. However, our owners are more than wealthy enough to provide funds to help us to compete and don’t. Other clubs’ owners find a way. They won’t. And still we have “we’ve been given no indication that the owners want their money back” hanging over our heads. Our “realism” is an artificial one based on having rich owners that have no interest in the club (or football) and who have created an environment of poverty while they inject just enough annual funds for survival - all due to their own stupidity and arrogance - and expecting us to be grateful. Its like North Ko-rao.

I’m not expecting much relaxing!

At some point Venkys are going to have to spend real money if they want to compete for promotion. Which, I think we all agree, is the only way they are getting their money back. The amount required to compete is getting higher and higher each season so you’d have to say that the timescales to spend (relatively) big are either ‘soon’ or ‘never’. If it’s ‘never’, and they are hoping for a Blackpool style miracle then they are in for disappointment. The only alternative - to them spending - is to nurture a talent that leads to a multimillion pound sale. Who is that going to be if our market is loans and freebies (rejects) and Mowbray doesn’t trust the youth / youth system and our most talented players run their contracts down? And if we are playing the game of flirting with relegation to L1 each season then we continue to flirt with academy rule changes and EPPP constraints.

Don’t

Debatable.

Who on earth is Sanal Sel?