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West Ham are getting a little bit of form together and their manager knows the league and how to grind out wins/draws Spurs are lucky. Wolves and Burnley are all but down and only one place left, but a few teams fighting for it. I don't think Spurs have the right man in charge either. All these left field managerial appointments in fitba, show the folk in charge haven't a clue what they are doing. It would not be a surprise to anyone if Spurs went down. It just has a feel of inevitably about it. Seems a long time ago now, that they were one of the breakaway European Super League clubs.

Yes it is becoming something of a saga.

So any development on Sandro? We’ve been so public about him I would have thought he’s a shoe-in. Out of work since Oct so can’t see any gardening leave issues. it’s hard to get a grip on his history, as Panda has already pointed out. Kept Mainz in the German top flight which was seen as a success of sorts as a small club in a cut throat league. Hertha were a shit show before he arrived so his time there was chaotic. No idea what he did in Moscow or NY but they have had a lot of managers in their short history, looks like they change them every year to 18 months and they’ve never had much success. It’s all a bit unknown, could go either way.

AI needs to visit Northfield then. Because I had by first "square go" there in the 60s although admittedly it was a game affair because I was only about ten. As a reliable source of information AI is currently about as useful as Wikipedia. Do you seriously thing 'square go' is a specifically "weegie" term? Come on you can't be that daft. There's a myriad of things to pull me up on but that's definitely not one of them

Preaching to the converted here buddy

I’m not sure either but I’m certain it should involve a leather glove and pistols at dawn. Modern football demands statistical analysis to provide evidence of success or failure beyond goals scored. I guess it’s part of the disease that money brings, along with VAR where big investments require certainty and security around everything to justify and protect their spend. That said, we are clearly far too light middle to back and so easy to cut through. Maybe we need to start winning those duels/duals/jewels

Here's the AI answer for you bud. A "square go" is a Scottish slang term for a fair, one-on-one, bare-knuckle fight between two people to settle a dispute without weapons or intervention. It is commonly used as a challenge in, or originating from, Glasgow to face someone directly.

I suspect "a duel" is the phrase 'wokinginashearerwonderlwand' thinks Aberdonians use instead of "square go". Apologies if you didn't see the comment I'm referring to. If you haven't that will have made absolutely no sense at all.

I should fucking think so. I couldn't sleep last night for wondering what constitutes a duel.

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As someone who regularly goes to East End Park as well all Scotland home games and the occasional Dons match, I can assure you that games without VAR are a much better match going experience than those that have it. The Pars late winner against Hibs would probably have had a 5 minute VAR check before any decision was made rather than just looking to see if the linesman has a flag up before celebrating. I was at the Dundee game with the autistic chap I look after and had to try and explain to him what was going on with the long check for the penalty and red card. Get VAR in the bin. IMO

They'll be fine. Although when I first saw them play down in England they were in the old second division.

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Not so sure their run in doesn’t look good. Game against Forrest in two weeks will be massive. 11 without a win now.

They won't go down.

Further prove if it were needed that VAR has been introduced solely for the entertainment of the armchair fan.

Pretty sure the rules are that if the stadium has VAR capability and it’s on TV it has to be in place for the game. Assume Dunfermline won’t have it?

In fairness to them, they did qualify some of it around the role players have on team/defence etc. for example, Milne is there for positional awareness and clearing rather than ‘battling’. Agree, these stats are only a part of the picture (RIP Ebbe) and no surprise, just thought they were interesting…apologies, will try harder next time

I read somewhere that while our game in deepest darkest Fife won't have VAR the other quarter finals will? That's not right is it. It just can't be. Surely it has to be all games with it or all without. After all the game played with VAR is a markedly different beast to games played without it. That's one of my main objections to VAR. It's creating a two tier game. Football should be kept simple and be fundamentally the same at every level from Sunday morning pub games through to the top leagues. VAR absolutely blows that idea or at least the pretence of it clean out of the water.

They really are in freefall.

Spurs looking championship bound on tonight’s showing. 1-3 down to Palace at home. Down to 10 men as well.

The same way flu shots are, despite each form having been invented that winter. The mRNA vaccine had indeed been in the making for a decade. As far as I'm aware, it hadn't been through trials for much, or perhaps any, of those years. You wouldn't ordinarily expect a decade of trials for such things, I'm not sure that figure is relevant.

How could the vaccine have been years in the making when covid had only been invented a few months earlier?

I'd probably only single out Killie away as a game that I struggled to stay positive in this side of new year.