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25 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:
Sarwar openly saying "we need an election" rather than simply saying Yousaf needs to go, which if he's being serious rather than just ramping the pressure up through rhetoric does seem a gamble - an election that makes them the largest party now can backfire on them long term.
Unless the thought process is simply to force Yousaf out without leading to an election with the SNP remaining in power, then you have enough time for leadership in general and Westminster election losses to taint Forbes or whoever else takes over as FM (which even with the Greens against could happen with support from Regan or abstention from Lib Dems). Possibly they'd rather that than Forbes or another coming in after Yousaf takes the fall for losses at Westminster with the SNP getting a new leader bounce at the same time as Labour's popularity potentially falls due to being the UK government.
Would the Scottish Parliament rules not mean that if we had an election now there would still be another in 2026?0 -
Another minute off the bench for Johnston last night too - he's now had 14 sub appearances alongside his 2 starts in the league this season.
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2 hours ago, kingjoey said:
In other words, the VAR system is pointless. What am I missing here, If it isn’t able to make accurate offside decisions why is it there?
It can probably make decisions more accurately than a human making it live, and this semi-automated version will be better than the version that requires someone to draw lines, but it is definitely not able to make decisions with 100% certainty despite claims to the contrary.0 -
It's not similar at all if you have two extra defenders in the squad. McTominay started the Czech game in midfield so it's not as though he was being taken purely to play at the back.
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It's not clear if he's actually ever going to be a "proper" West Ham player. The club never announced his signing, and it was only discovered by the Austrian media because paperwork for the move was lodged with the Austrian FA. It seems to be part of a link-up between the clubs, so time will tell.
He had actually been out of form and dropped for a while recently, so it's good to see him back in the team.
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20 minutes ago, AndyDD said:
Three right backs (Hickey and two covers), Tierney, two left backs (Robertson and one other) and six centre backs takes you to twelve without it being especially outrageous or ludicrous.
Taking five wing-backs and seven centre backs is clearly ludicrous, especially when we only play with two wing-backs and three centre-backs and have others who can cover there in a fully blown injury crisis.0 -
22 minutes ago, coprolite said:
Two points will always be in a line with each other. What are you blathering about
We're not just talking about forming a straight line from two points, we're talking about two players being in line with each other from an offside point of view (ie both an exactly equal distance from the goal-line).0 -
At the last tournament, he already didn't use two of those 10 defenders at all (Taylor and Gallagher), and only gave one some minutes at the end for experience (Patterson), so it would be a fairly big departure from that.
If you want to take an extra right-back, fair enough, but even at that you're still not getting to 12 unless you also pick 7 centre-backs which seems ludicrous to me.
We already have Tierney, Hendry, Porteous, McKenna and two of Souttar, Hanley and Cooper, so I don't see why we would need any additional cover at centre-back. Getting three injuries in those postions would be extremely unlikely, and even if we did then you have guys like McLean and McTominay who have experience playing there before.
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My favourite from him was when he claimed he could have coached Scotland out of our Euro 2020 group.
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57 minutes ago, Ginaro said:
The fact you think they judge offside when the ball leaves a players foot makes your entire post worthless and just confirms my point about fans being ignorant about the laws and VAR. You also just ignored the fact that the lines are made thicker in order to account for a margin of error.
The laws of the game are very clear that offside is about when the ball is "played or touched", which obviously by any sensible reading of the English language should be the moment it leaves a player's foot, head, knee, shoulder whatever. The fact that the practical process of VAR is different from that actually proves the point that it there is still imprecision in every offside decision.0 -
5 hours ago, RandomGuy. said:
The fact they can't accurately capture the correct frame for the ball leaving a players foot is 100% fact, and you doubting it makes your entire post worthless. Cameras aren't quick enough to capture every single millisecond of play, so more often than not there will be a frame missing of the moment the ball is hit. When you're going to centimeters measurement wise it makes all the difference.
It's why they're going to automated systems for offsides at the top level. Everything will be tracked and measured individually by 30+ cameras, so a model simulation of the game will take place a fraction of a second slower than the real thing, and they can use that model to show everyone's position the exact moment the ball leaves a players foot.
We'll not be able to afford that, obviously, so we'll be stuck with a shite outdated VAR system and our refs can't even use the excuse its to help them get UEFA/FIFA gigs, as using a different system means they'll ruled out.
No they can't. It is exactly that, a statistical model. It doesn't have some magical ability to actually fill in the gaps in between the frames, there is still going to be some level of inaccuracy baked in to that.0 -
I don't think he used the expansion to 26 to "take 3 younger players along". Patterson was the second choice right-back and would presumably have been picked even if it was a 23, I don't think he was a "bonus" player. Turnbull definitely was, and then one of Fleck/Gilmour, since I think only one would have gone otherwise. I'm not sure who the other beneficiary was, probably James Forrest, who'd had a fairly injury ravaged season and had only played once for Scotland in about 18 months.
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5 hours ago, Thistle Bonnet said:
They recovered from administration with no points deduction the following season by offering better deals to two Thistle's players and then voting to waive the 10,000 seater rule and relegate Thistle.
Correctly voting against continuing the protectionism of that rule did not help Motherwell in any way - indeed it made their chances of future relegation higher.0 -
7 hours ago, AndyDD said:
We had 11 defenders in the last squad, out of 25, for 2 games.
26 spaces to fill for the euros squad, and I doubt we're going top heavy with strikers.
McGinn, McTominay, McGregor, Gilmour, McLean, Christie, Armstrong, Fraser or maybe Brown, Adams, Dykes, Shankland.
I'm not sure who, if anyone, goes along on top of those names as additional midfielders or strikers, meaning the rest is going to be defenders and goalies.
We also had 4 goalkeepers in the last squad, but we won't be taking 4 to Germany with us. I think that was about avoiding having to "drop" someone prematurely if there ended up being injuries anyway.The last Euros squad only had 10 defenders in it out of 26 players, albeit McTominay also played centre-back at the tournament. There were 4 full-backs and 6 centre-backs (including Tierney). Even if you add an extra centre-back to account for McTominay, that's only taking you to 11.
Clarke is loyal to his core group of players, but there has always been a cut-off point for that loyalty, and players have eventually been dropped, including guys like Palmer being binned for the last tournament when he could obviously easily have been taken ahead of someone like Turnbull who was a new face to the squad.
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52 minutes ago, Quentin Taranbino said:
Was looking at Lewis Morgans stats earlier - (20 goals in 44 appearances in the MLS for New York) and it got me thinking of Johnny Russell who I think was doing some mental numbers over there in the run up to last Euros but of course didn't get a look in.
Russell scored 16 goals in MLS in the 2021 season, but all of them were from July onwards. Prior to the Euros squad being announced he hadn't scored a goal in 8 months (albeit much of this was the close season and I think he may have been injured right at the start of the season).1 -
I don't think we need 12 defenders in the squad for 5 places.
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31 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said:
There will come a day when football uses AI to genuinely measure all this stuff, won’t there?
The semi-automated offside being used in UEFA competitions and due to be introduced in England next season is basically this - as far as I'm aware it requires a model to predict the position of players in between frames of the camera.0 -
7 hours ago, 10menwent2mow said:
If they can't be in line then why do we get dead heats in other sporting events??
Because they only measure to the nearest hundredth or thousandth of a second and don't have the precision to measure smaller times/distances.1 -
Someone asked a question, I gave them an answer and you disagreed with me.
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It's still optional, the competition rules can vary from it if they wish, it's just "up to a maximum of five". In terms of the squad size, I don't see it as a bad thing for us, it definitely gives Clarke some more options and also the possibility of giving our injured guys a bit more of a chance.
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Thought he was generally a decent player for us in what was not the best era of Scotland teams.
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4 hours ago, kingjoey said:
I'd have loved Brechin to back to the SPFL to show that it can be done. Is there any team North of Dundee that you don't have an issue with?
There is no club north, south, east, west or in Dundee that I don't have a grievance against, that's surely how football works.0 -
3 hours ago, kingjoey said:
Interesting. You've just rewritten the Laws of Physics in one fell swoop.
I would argue it is mathematically impossible for two objects in continuous space to be absolutely in line with each other. They might be in the same place to the nearest centimetre, or to the nearest millimetre, or even to the nearest 100th of a millimetre, but if you continue to increase the precision you will always be able to separate them.
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3328594/why-is-the-px-x-0-when-x-is-continuous4 -
1 hour ago, AndyM said:
This is certainly true. We are served atrociously by SkySports and they underpay for the rights massively . Their overlooking this season of 2 Edinburgh Derbies for games involving whoever v Rangers/Celtic was poor decision making. Next year we'll also have Dundee Derbies. No doubt these will be similarly overlooked depending on who Celtic or Rangers are playing.
They probably won't be because the new TV deal will kick in next season and Sky can pick more games per season. The 4 games per stadium deal imposed by the clubs in the current deal is the main reason those Edinburgh derbies weren't shown.0
2023–24 Highland League Chat
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The statement claims they failed to apply for a grace period from the SPFL which seems like a bit of an oversight.