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Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:53 pm
by Vegas Claret
City 1 up v Leicester and the ground is seriously empty :shock:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 7:56 pm
by Vegas Claret
let them off, apparently a ticket price protest

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:11 pm
by ElectroClaret
Saints 1 Palace 0

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:12 pm
by ElectroClaret
Industrial challenge by Tarks.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:12 pm
by Vegas Claret
Tarks is lucky

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:13 pm
by claret wizard
That should be a red for Tarks, nasty cowardly tackle.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:13 pm
by distortiondave
Tarkowski with a good old fashioned proper ball winning tackle but is probably lucky to avoid a modern day red card.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:13 pm
by aclaretinstevenage
Tarkowski should be off after that tackle.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:13 pm
by ClaretTony
A bit fortunate there was Tarky

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:13 pm
by NewClaret
Tarks should be off. Very bad challenge. Lucky boy.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:14 pm
by NewClaret
ElectroClaret wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:12 pm
Industrial challenge by Tarks.
“Industrial” :lol: :lol:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:15 pm
by Leyland Claret
Red card all day. Endangering an opponent. Irrelevant that he got the ball

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:15 pm
by Buxtonclaret
He's got away with one there.
Straight red for me, any time.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:15 pm
by TPClaret
Very good tackle but the follow through was ridiculous. Should be off

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:17 pm
by distortiondave
It wasn't 'very bad' or 'cowardly', IMO. He came in with force, but won the ball as clean as you like well before the opponent got there.
I can totally see the argument for a modern day red card, and if the ref had sent him off it wouldn't have been overturned, but that kind of tackle is what football is missing.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:17 pm
by ElectroClaret
Citeh 2 Foxes 0

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:18 pm
by daveisaclaret
It was a great tackle, but it was a choice to put his studs through the bloke's leg afterwards. Can't really believe they've not sent him off.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:18 pm
by Goliath
Tarkowski does that tackle most weeks. He's genuinely dangerous and cowardly is the exact word to use. He knows what he's doing, and he does it in situations where he knows he can't get hurt. He will break someone's leg some day and still people will say he won the ball so it's OK.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:19 pm
by Poulton-le-Claret
Got the ball ref

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:22 pm
by CoolClaret
Naughty that from Tarky

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:24 pm
by wilks_bfc
Ipswich 1 up at Bournemouth

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:28 pm
by jrgbfc
Tarks seems to get away with murder. How is VAR not overturning that?

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:33 pm
by ClaretTony
Beto should have scored

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:35 pm
by claret wizard
distortiondave wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:17 pm
It wasn't 'very bad' or 'cowardly', IMO. He came in with force, but won the ball as clean as you like well before the opponent got there.
I can totally see the argument for a modern day red card, and if the ref had sent him off it wouldn't have been overturned, but that kind of tackle is what football is missing.
April Fools was yesterday.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:37 pm
by RVclaret
Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:40 pm
by NewClaret
ClaretTony wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:33 pm
Beto should have scored
He’s in great form. Causing Liverpool all sorts of problems. Top signing by Dyche.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:42 pm
by NewClaret
RVclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:37 pm
Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.
I think this is the first time uptheclarets is in unanimous agreement :lol:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:42 pm
by IPAclaret
Bad challenge and should have gone no doubt but to describe him as cowardly is ridiculous

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:43 pm
by Jimmymaccer
RVclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:37 pm
Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.
Looking forward to next season where VAR only get involved in the clear and obvious…………

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:44 pm
by NewClaret
IPAclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:42 pm
Bad challenge and should have gone no doubt but to describe him as cowardly is ridiculous
Ah, spoke too soon :lol:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:45 pm
by distortiondave
meh

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:53 pm
by wilks_bfc
Theres a difference between he should have been sent off and he could have been sent off.

Could he have been sent off for it? Yes
Should he have been sent off for it? Maybe, but on one of those rare occasions the officials have used common sense in that it wasn’t out of control, malicious or intended and it was his momentum after clearing the ball

We saw those challenges often enough from Tarky whilst he was with us, one in particular against his current employers.

We weren’t saying he should have been sent of after those.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:57 pm
by Tricky Trevor
Dipped into Derby v Nobenders during HT and Eustace has had a rotivator on that cabbage patch pitch. Won’t suit our passing at all.
Derby 2 up. Looking for 4 straight wins.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:57 pm
by StuWestMidsClaret
Wasn't malicious :lol:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:58 pm
by RVclaret
Tricky Trevor wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:57 pm
Dipped into Derby v Nobenders during HT and Eustace has had a rotivator on that cabbage patch pitch. Won’t suit our passing at all.
Derby 2 up. Looking for 4 straight wins.
Just about to say the same re. the pitch. Another shocker.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:59 pm
by Tricky Trevor
wilks_bfc wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:53 pm
Theres a difference between he should have been sent off and he could have been sent off.

Could he have been sent off for it? Yes
Should he have been sent off for it? Maybe, but on one of those rare occasions the officials have used common sense in that it wasn’t out of control, malicious or intended and it was his momentum after clearing the ball

We saw those challenges often enough from Tarky whilst he was with us, one in particular against his current employers.

We weren’t saying he should have been sent of after those.
Rubbish. The raising of his boot after playing the ball was both malicious and intended. Very lucky fella to still be on but one where VAR won’t overrule the ref.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:59 pm
by RickyBobby
RVclaret wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 8:37 pm
Unbelievable that Tarkowski got away with that. Very dangerous and lucky he hasn’t seriously injured MacAllister.
Premier league, corrupt as…
The only reason not to give that is corruption. There is no other reason. How Mac Allister hasn’t broken his leg is a miracle. A true horror challenge.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:01 pm
by fatboy47
The day that kind of challenge is legit will be the day that players like Benson, Anthony and Edwards will no longer have a place on the pitch.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:02 pm
by DAVETHEVICAR
We say our referees are awful but that clown at Liverpool is worse than any we have had and the guy on VAR is dreadful
Most obvious red card and a leg breaking tackle
Hope both are denoted to League 2 for a month

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:04 pm
by Dyched
Leg breaking?

The guy is literally still playing :lol:

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:04 pm
by beddie
I’d like to hear an explanation from the VAR team as to how Tarkys tackle wasn’t a red. Doesn’t that prove the point that’s it’s down to opinion rather than the rules. It’s shocking.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:12 pm
by distortiondave
fatboy47 wrote:
Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:01 pm
The day that kind of challenge is legit will be the day that players like Benson, Anthony and Edwards will no longer have a place on the pitch.
That kind of challenge has been legit since football was invented until about the last five years, and even then it's legit in most of the pyramid, and most players at all levels of the game don't suffer career ending leg breaks and most pick themselves up and carry on playing. Just like MacAllister did.

It's certainly a modern day red card, I'll not argue that, but it's not even against the spirit of the game never mind the content of the laws.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:17 pm
by Buxtonclaret
Brilliant goal!

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:18 pm
by ElectroClaret
Great goal Liverpool.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:21 pm
by Conroy92
Should be offside. This interfering with play rule needs looking at. Tarks has to challenge due to the offside man. That's enough to have affected it for me.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:26 pm
by Claretincraven
Why wasn’t that offside. Played a pass to a player in an offside position. The games lost to the law makers.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:28 pm
by Vegas Claret
I see Derby are 2 up v PNE, gonna be another tough away game for us

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:29 pm
by boyyanno
Yeah the way the rules are applied in some of these situations is awful in my opinion. That should never be allowed as a goal but there's been lots of them over the season.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:30 pm
by Conroy92
These poor decisions are also supported by the new measures of not flagging an offside until the player touches the ball.

It's been an exceptionally poor change to the rules.

Re: Tonight's footy

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2025 9:34 pm
by Poulton-le-Claret
Some goal from Tonali if he meant it

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