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Reply | Toenail offside BIN VAR NOW
at 10:01 22 Apr 2024
"benefit of the doubt should go to the attacking team" - agreed, but this is proposing a change to the offside rule, not VAR. [Post edited 22 Apr 10:11]
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Reply | Toenail offside BIN VAR NOW
at 18:51 21 Apr 2024
Bear in mind that VAR will be semi automated for offsides next season. Fewer delays and better communicated. Perhaps with higher frames per second this would be adjudged level, but that's not a reason to ditch VAR completely. It's a reason to continue improving VAR. Who chooses the frame when the ball left the foot? If it was the frame before, perhaps this would have been on. If it's impossible to tell, then lines should be an average (possibly weighted) of several frames.
But better to occasionally get these borderline decisions wrong at the behest of a machine (mostly) than make absolute howlers, which often occurred pre-VAR. Howlers, which on average favoured the big clubs and home teams. It's a physical impossibility for a human lino to simultaneously see when ball is kicked and whether attacker is beyond last defender. VAR might not be 100%, but it's much more accurate than a human with a single pair of eyes. And it's not bent.
It might have spoilt a fairy-tale moment for Coventry today, but football refereeing shouldn't care about that. It's sport, not contrived theatre. If it had been a last minute Man Utd goal ruled out, we wouldn't be having this conversation. [Post edited 21 Apr 18:54]
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Reply | Ali Al Hamadi is a great signing
at 08:34 1 Apr 2024
People forget he's carrying an adductor injury, which is why he's not been playing for Iraq. Yet he's top scorer in the Championship in goals per minute, albeit a small sample:
https://footystats.org/england/championship
His four goals have come from good poaching instincts. Much more to come. I think we'll see a much better player come August. |
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Reply | Walton
at 15:33 31 Mar 2024
Nobody is undropable, and Hladky is only 19th in save percent this season - https://www.fotmob.com/en-GB/leagues/48/stats/season/20721/players/_save_percent
But those Opta stats don't judge the keeper's sweeper metrics.
Walton has always been, and continues to be the better shot stopper, and was instrumental in our promotion last year. Hladky was statistically the worst keeper in L1 during his first spell for us, completely lacked bravery coming off his line, for crosses, and when diving towards his posts. I was extremely worried when Walton got injured. But Hladky this season is transformed. Even during his dodgy initial spell, it was clear he had outfield-level ball skills. Among the best I've ever seen in a keeper. Much more courageous now. When he's on form, he suits our style better, even considering he's a few percent shy of Walton's shot-saving. By my count, he's caused two goals due to bad passes. Still far outweighed by goals created, but also by avoiding conceding due to our defenders having confidence to pass back and retain possession when we'd otherwise concede throw-ins & corners. I wouldn't have been bothered if Walton had been started at one stage this season, and I still think the margin between them is fine, but Hladky continues to just edge it. [Post edited 31 Mar 16:05]
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Reply | Mr Bates vs the Post office
at 00:17 9 Jan 2024
Amazed that this scandal didn't break in 2009 after Computer Weekly ran the story. What were the rest of the media doing? Computing was far less sexy in those days I suppose, something geeks, not gazillionaires did. Still, other than Private Eye, asleep at the wheel.
I worked for POL IT while Paula Vennells CBE was in charge. The most incompetent people I've ever worked with. Their main analyticsdata science system ran in Microsoft Access. It was about a decade later than I'd seen this archaic software used anywhere else. I was nowhere near Horizon. Knew nothing about it. POL had layer upon layer of IT supplier vultures feasting on POL's technology apathy, and I was far removed. POL should have made tech their core competency. It was long after the 2007ish digital revolution when successful companies in their position started developing their own software. Instead they outsourced everything. POL's anti-tech management had a massive heavy drinking culture. Senior managers lapped up the wineoyster bar schmoozing scene. They didn't give a f#ck. Just signed the cheques and hit the bar at 5pm. Suppliers followed their lead. I wasn't surprised in the slightest when, some years after leaving, I found out about this scandal (I hadn't read the stories in CW & Private Eye before I joined).
Royal Mail divested POL around then and by comparison they had actual software engineers who understood and liked technology on the payroll. You could tell the distain RM tech had for their counterparts at POL.
Who gave Vennells the CBE in 2019? By then, POL had already lost the civil suit and had to pay > £100m. It was known that she lied to the Treasury Select Committee. Honours system is a cess-pit. We have a culture of venerating the undeserving in this country. If it's okay to give head of state to a single rich family, then why not hand out gongs to people like Vennells? Makes you sick. We'd be so much better off as a republic. |
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Thread | Those Were the Days needs a rebrand
at 16:27 26 Oct 2023
Last 30 games form, we're the best in Europe by 12 points. Twelve. Drink it in. What we're living through as Ipswich supporters right now is very special, regardless of the league half these results were in. |
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Reply | Cobbold Stand redevelopment
at 15:21 6 Oct 2023
Can clearly see how many obstructed-view seats there are. It's a wonder they didn't make the Pioneer a cantilever. Sheff Weds had one back in 1961, so the construction tech had long existed. Maybe we'd have bankrupted ourselves even worse! I suppose you could consider it semi-cantilever as the obstructing pillars aren't at the front like older stadia. |
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Reply | Cobbold Stand redevelopment
at 13:10 6 Oct 2023
"only way I could see us doing this is keeping the lower blocks open then building above" - this is a good way to skirt around the stupid FIFA regulation that forces new stands to leave at least four metres of dead-space between touchline and stand. Proximity is crucial in stadium design. It's not a new stand, it's just an extension, honest gov. |
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Reply | HS2 Embarassment
at 16:55 5 Oct 2023
Brexit costs 4% of GDP, or £100bn per year according to the OBR. Take that amount out of any economy, and national embarrassments happen, such as inability to connect our major cities with modern transport links. Have you seen the bond markets? The brexit bus should have had an alternative slogan: "We'll be completely skint". |
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Reply | The days of deciding to come to PR at 10am on a Saturday gone
at 11:32 23 Sep 2023
Agreed. We were pulling upper 30,000s when population of Ipswich was much lower. Bear in mind that when crowds reach 26k or so, there are a few thousand restricted view seats, which deter some from coming. Cobbold needs a rebuild. Upper tier is too far from the action due to the wasted space on roof of executive boxes. Restricted view seats need removing.
I hope ifwhen this happens they can treat new Cobbold as an "extension" to the existing stand, not a rebuild. This will work-around the stupid FIFA regulations that force new stands to leave at least four metres of dead-space between touchline and stand. Proximity is crucial factor in design of stadia. Just ask Juventus fans. They hated their Stadio Delle Alpi so much because of pitch distance, they moved out to another one and Delle Alpi was eventually demolished! |
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Reply | TownTV Review
at 11:45 16 Aug 2023
Biggest problem is unlike last year's iFollow service, the new TownTV coverage has no rewind. Was great being able to catch-up eg missed goals if had to step away, or review controversial incidents in the game. Hope rewind is on QTV's roadmap to re-add. |
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Reply | I can't see how they are arguing against that being red! (n/t)
at 16:54 29 May 2023
And this on the back of a semi, when Weds were given nine mins of added time to score their equaliser of the alloted seven. Then having gone behind again in ET, they dragged back the Posh striker when through on goal: textbook pro-foul and red card. Nothing given. The powers that be really want Weds in the Championship. It's BS. [Post edited 29 May 2023 16:58]
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Reply | Stadium development thoughts
at 17:34 27 May 2023
Yeh I'm not a fan of corner development anyway. Accoustically, better to to have walls, and there's nobody further from some areas of the pitch than those at the rear of a corner section. One of the most important factors in stadium design is proximity. Crucial for fans to feel involved, part of the event. That's why overlapping tiers are preferable, although this conflicts with prime positioning of executive boxes. Steep rakes are good, shallow bad. But steep costs more because you have to build taller. [Post edited 27 May 2023 17:43]
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Reply | Signing Hirst
at 15:53 27 May 2023
Yes I'll be supporting Leicester to stay up. They'll be more likely to bring a striker in with top-flight pedigree, and let Hirst come to Town (permanently). |
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Reply | Penalties it is.. (n/t)
at 22:55 18 May 2023
However many mins added time you want Weds. Should have been down to 10 at 5-4 down in ET too. Third rate third division refereeing, so glad to be out of this league. |
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Reply | Gregory
at 22:21 18 May 2023
Own goal specialist? This thread has cursed him. |
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