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I don't disagree with your final sentence but I'd also say how about we give him a chance to settle into what is clearly going to be his new position and let's call it at the end of the season? I would agree Clarkie can pick a better pass but Aouchiche is technically a better player to my eye. He also looks a confidence player and I'm really interested to see how does in the next few games. One thing is for sure going by his celebrations with the fans, he fucking loves it.

I think they paid a bit over 2 mill for him but 1.5 is the agreed fee we have with them should we wish to make the transfer permanent.

It may surprise you after our chat on the St Mirren thread but overall I agree with this, the technology isn't there yet and especially for leagues that are having to go down the back of the couch for shrapnel to just be able to afford the most basic system. That's not to say I don't think they help themselves with the way they operate it but I don't think VAR can ever be a 'good' thing until technology gets to a stage where the referee is literally an AI able to make 100% accurate decisions in milli-seconds. Whether not having a human refereeing team on the pitch at all is desireable however is another debate

Saturday was the first time I thought "maybe"with regards to paying that for him. He's really started to settle into that box to box CM role and I personally think he's looking far more relaxed in his own skin too which can only bode well. If he keeps progressing as he is he may end up making 1.5 mill look a snip cos the boy clearly has talent.

Aww, thanks Goldie. Really appreciate that

Going to put in for the lottery and see what happens basically. No idea what the odds will be but the stadium holds 65k and with Haiti on the US travel ban you would think the chances of a brief are reasonable. Morocco are a bit of an unknown in terms of how many they will bring but, again, given stadium size chances of a brief are hopefully reasonable.

So, who's all going? I'm booked up for ten days in Boston and it's not cost me as much as I feared it would. Return flights and accomodation coming in about 2k for a ten day stay though nothing fancy accom wise. Just need to get tickets for Haiti and Morocco now

Say what you like about Goodwin but at least he had it about himself to resign when it went tit's up with us. I think it's admirable that he didn't make us sack him so we had to pay him off and he will always get some goodwill from me for that.

Aouchiche has been excellent and not just because of his 2 very well taken goals. It's certainly the first time I've watched him and thought "maybe he is going to show he's worth the agreed fee".

me and my pal are looking to base ourselves out of Baltimore to save some pennies. I have family that lived there for a while and they rave about the place.

this has been so fucking cringe

There's plenty of reasons we have VAR not just offside calls. Yeah that's not how it would work, why would you start the clock when the vidoe tech is arranging the replays for watching? I would see it as the ref watches the game alone on a two screen setup. When a replay is asked for the VT arranges that and sends it to the refs second screen and the clock starts. Send him three angles at once and he can move it forward and back in time, it's really all you should need. If deemed worthy before the clock is out it is sent to the refs screen. The only time the fans should even know it's been checked is when the ref gets called to the screen. Clear and obvious is what it was supposed to be for though and I don't find it particularly nebulous. If Var officials have to resort to drawing lines to tell whether someone is off or not then, imo anyway, it should be benefit of the doubt to the attacking team and play on. I disagree, I think it would remove some controversy because it would eliminate long delays and re-refereeing of the game. I never said it would solve subjective decision making 2bf but that's not something that can be solved anyway. I do, however, think it would encourage a bit more pragmatism into the VAR process and cunt tech for cunts as it may be I don't think that would be a bad thing. Ok you're entitled to your opinion re celebration but I think you're a bit off with how it would go. When a goal gets reviewed we usually have a good idea already if it was going to be or not and celebrations can be muted as a result. The only time you get a proper bounce these days imo is a goal from outside the box as you're not worrying about offside and the player is usually in a bit of space so unlikely to be commiting a foul. Var's biggest sin for me. FWIW I actually largely agree with you about VAR but I just don't see it going anywhere anytime soon.

Disagree. The boundary for clear and obvious is a person's eyes and brain working together to make the judgment. I can usually tell on the first replay whether a decision is correct. 2bh 10 seconds to make the call is generous and you could argue 5 would be enough. Regardless though it would stop the re refereeing of the game from the VAR official because they simply wouldn't have the time to. No big delays and yet still able to bail the ref out when they have had a mare is what fans wanted from Var in the first place. The Lazetic goal is actually a good example as it's a really tight call. It's certainly not instantly obvious whether he's on or off and var officials would soon learn to not even bother looking at decisions like that imo. They would instinctively know there's no point poring over millimeters because they would never have the time to come to a conclusive decision. If that was the case your prediction of fans counting down is unlikely 2bh (aside from the fact that to do so they would need to know when the var ref actually started watching replays... ) as on marginal calls the var ref would not need to use the allocated time to say "play on". We get it Rico, you don't like VAR. It's unlikely to be going anywhere though and getting the rid of the big delays would make it easier to live with.

Whether fans blame him or not my feeling was when seeing him at ft on wed that I think he defo blames himself. What's most frustrating for me is I thought he looked far more like himself against Livi. If he has a poor game against Dundee then you could argue he should probably be dropped for a few games as his confidence will be shot.

Or at Uefa and Fifa