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He's clearly a decent player, it's the application side that really needs work. He has a very prevalent trait of losing the ball and remonstrating with himself instead of chasing to try and win it back - see the Spurs winner last week and 3 or 4 occasions last night. We need to be battling for our l...

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5 at the back was the right thing to do. The two late subs were not. We used to see games like that out under Dyche partly because we didn't make subs, despite many people clamouring for them. The players on the pitch are deep into the game, they know what they're doing and anyone coming on isn't go...

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Both him and JBL were unnecessary subs but Tresor's lack of effort or indeed anything else was a disgrace.

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Rancid. His attitude while they were checking the equaliser summed him up. He let their centre halves foul Foster all night long and worst of all was not booking their player for one of the worst dives there's ever been. Have they still not cottoned on that if you don't punish it they'll keep doing ...

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It's been near-death for some time but var has finally killed the Premier league for me tonight. Whether we deserved to win or not is moot; referees should not be deciding the outcome of football matches but it's every game now. That's a foul at every level of the sport, from kids to pub to semi-pro...

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The OG libero. Slightly better than Chris Waddle in that role.

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Wonder how this may interfere with Luton's accommodation plans too? I'd assume that they were probably booked into Crowood for the night before the original fixture like a lot of visiting teams this season. This hotel is always busy, wondering if the management are frantically cancelling bookings w...

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No I think the point is very much the same: it was not that they were bad players just never given the time they needed to come good, Alan Lee was improving and I remember thinking ‘too soon’ when we binned him. Whittingham was only a two month loan if memory serves. The point was about our record ...

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Both were shite for us though, which was the point.

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Viewing figures. Same reason every Man Utd cup tie bar a couple has been on telly for the past million years.

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Good morning Mrs T.

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Better than many we've had this season but still below the required standard. Booked Cullen for a perfect ball-winning tackle but ignored clatterings by Spurs players that got nowhere near the ball, the one on Zaroury, right in front of him, a prime example. Tresor booking was right but he didn't bo...

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Decent performance on the whole tonight, it's never easy when you change half a team, not least for the rusty players coming in; much harder to make their mark. We defended well enough and carried a threat going forward bit, whilst it's a one in a million strike that has won it, it's really a case o...

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Making it up as they go along.

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Agree totally with this. The number of times I've heard from various people that 'those in the game' or have 'been involved in the game' know best. Just doesn't make any sense. It's so annoying to listen to and can easily provoke an unnecessary argument if opposed. Used to be an argument regarding ...

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Another blatant dive, not called out and punished by the completely incapable officials. All that technology to help them and they're still choosing to ruin the game by endorsing cheating.

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I remember you said that before. Because it is, especially at the top level where they get all the extra help they need. It's harder to get things right lower down but they make a decision and that's it, on we go with the game, as it should be. But at the top there is really no excuse, especially n...

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Most referees are football fans and have likely played football but probably not at any significant level. How many fans on here have not played football yet sit in judgement of players and referees? More to the point, how many people on here have actually had a go at refereeing? Try it. Watch a ga...

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But the referees (through the instructions they have been given) reward that cheating. If cheating was punished rather than rewarded it would be a much more risky option and far fewer players would do it. There's pretty much no downside to exaggerating or initiating contact so why not do it? Exactl...

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You're right, the correct but less amusing example would be air traffic control, where highly trained and experienced professionals make split-second decisions in a high data environment but importantly, are not and have never been pilots. The idea that referees cannot officiate because they have n...

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CombatClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:58 am
"Has that surgeon ever been in a car crash? No?! Well I don't want them operating on me if they haven't had a car crash to a meaningful standard, how can they understand, it let alone operate at the top level?"

That makes zero sense but nice try.

You don't operate on a car crash.

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 31, 2023 2:15 pm
I literally can’t believe what I am reading

Arguably our best player

Nowhere near our best player. Wasn't even last season.

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The trouble with this is its identifying a trend which makes the refs job harder whilst blaming them for it- it is the players' fault - and setting them a "no mistakes " threshold, whilst simultaneously forgiving our players mistakes of effort or intent, rather than mere decision making. It is a do...

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Our players are absolutely not to blame here. Could they have done better? Yes, probably but they're human beings and made honest mistakes so it's excusable. What is inexcusable and indefensible is cheating, and then not identifying and dealing with such blatant cheating. It needs calling out at eve...

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claretspice wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 31, 2023 10:43 am
Should VAR have intervened to allow that goal?

Yes. We want the right decision, even if its against us. That has to be the aim and if we're going to persist with var that has to be the approach.

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I don't think then penalty is a pen - it is extremely soft - but it's not a clear and obvious error once given. Sorry spice, its 100% the epitome of a clear and obvious error. You can slightly excuse Attwell for giving it in real time (but not much given his positioning) but anyone who has ever pla...

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 31, 2023 9:24 am
He’s clearly a good manager.

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Well my point is that there’s zero evidence base he would’ve made a difference. To be honest I’m not even sure if he were banging them in in the Bundesliga it’d provide an evidence base (Weghorst has a good record in the Bundesliga), but the fact he’s not being picked in that league (a worse league...

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Correct but the Bundesliga isn’t higher quality than tge Prem, which is my point. We have no evidence base to suggest he’d be making a big difference for us this season. That he isn't getting many minutes for the team at the top of that league doesn't make your point though. If he was playing regul...

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Thought as much.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 30, 2023 11:04 pm
This is the same Tella that hasn’t broken in to a Bundesliga side (much lower quality than the Prem)

He hasn't fully broken into the team top of the Bundesliga, level on points with Bayern Munich.

I think we can be confident that Bayer Leverkusen are a bit higher quality than Burnley.

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I didn't see it at the time but when he went back to book Berge for the first one, did he also book the Villa player for clattering Gudmundsson, which was a worse challenge than Berge's?

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Not surprised he's only 41. He was the original fast tracked ref wasn't he? You can't make it to the PL as a ref in your 30s and have had any meaningful experience of playing football. That's why these guys are all so poor.

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We've played pretty we today against a decent team and for significant amounts of time we were the better side. Given away two soft goals, and been done over by the officials again with two of the worst decisions you'll ever see. Shame as we did so well to get ourselves level and didn't deserve to l...

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A disgrace to an already disgraced profession, along with whoever his minder was on var.

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A new low today, that was completely indefensible. Corruption? Ineptitude? Both? The standard of refereeing has never been worse and var has only compounded the problem. PGMOL can't sort it out because they are part of the problem. It needs a complete overhaul and Howard Webb isn't the man to do it ...

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First time I've seen a competition where you'd be best off aiming for the no prize slot.

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1st half we started brightly then they scored and we lost it for pretty much the rest of the half, inviting unnecessary pressure exactly where we shouldn't be. 2nd half started well enough, then they scored but the rightly disallowed goal really galvanised everyone and we played really well after th...

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Have a day off lads.

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I don't think the total number of referees in this country has a bearing on how good the top referees are. According to a Guardian article, in 2021 there were 24,500 referees in the England, 40 of them elite. Of course it does. Less refs means less competition, lower standards and unworthy promotio...

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:55 pm
Our team today had what, two players in common with our team last season. We didn't play a back 5 or a front 4 capable of doing what we did last season. We don't have those players anymore.

Exactly this.

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dougcollins wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:06 pm
I thought that was the best thing he did.

Tells you how bad he was.

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Thought we had a good one when picked out two blatant dices from Everton early on but it soon proved the opposite; a largely rancid performance. One booking all game for arguing is pure lol and he's another with no idea of how to play advantage. Just having the ball isn't necessarily an advantage an...

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We played some good football at times and were unlucky with a couple of chances but Dyche did the job he does on teams like us and once we'd gifted them 2 there wasn't really any coming back. Trafford 5 no point in doing the remarkable if you can't do the basics. The first goal is a tall player winn...

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Both culpable. It's a poor choice of pass, especially when O'Shea can see the full picture better than Berge can, which gives him little option but to come back towards O'Shea. Second touch is abysmal but it's O'Shea who has put him in that position. Thing to remember is that they are being told to ...

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Weak as they come. The first McBurnie booking was bizarre; its either violent conduct and a red card or nothing. As it was he was giving nothing for about a minute until someone obviously whispered in his ear and he had to fudge it. Clearly hadn't seen it himself. The seven is a straight red as well...

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If you've been paying attention the last few games then this has been coming. Yes, Sheffield Utd are a pub side at this level and they've got one of the thickest players around in McBurnie but you still have to beat them and from 15 seconds in it wasn't really in doubt that we would. A solid base at...

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It's too close to give a pen although for that but, once again, refs are looking at slow motion replays and looking for specific things- arm in unnatural position, made the body bigger etc - so you can see why he's given it from some angles. Doesn't matter it came off his chest btw, that's not in th...

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And the irony of your best seasons in the Championship is they all lead back to the Prem. So I guess you have to work out what you want. I guess we could be a PNE, treading water down there if you prefer. Not sure what your point is here as that's nothing we don't already know. There were plenty of...

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