Football League 2016-17

Here's a little interesting GLT bit of trivia:
Hawk-Eye
The first match to use the Sony-owned Hawk-Eye goal-line technology was Eastleigh F.C. versus A.F.C. Totton in the Hampshire Senior Cup final at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton in England on 16 May 2012. Although it used Hawk-Eye, the system had no bearing on the referee's decisions and the system readings were only available to FIFA's independent testing agency.

And why was the first test at St Marys.? Because the company which invented Hawk-Eye, in 2001 while they were based in Romsey, operate out of Winchester. Sony bought the whole kit and caboodle in 2011.

The South's contribution to football. We've always been innovators.

From 2014-15, St Mary’s became the first stadium in Europe with LED floodlighting, 64 years after The Dell, made history as the first in England to have permanent floodlights installed.

 

Yeah, **** you Everton!!

 

Offside technology, now that would be something special.

 

Apparently, that's in the pipeline. You've probably seen that players often wear little modules inside black vests in training. They also do it in certain matches. Yes, they are for fitness markers for the players, but they could be also used as offside sensors. There are a few local positioning system [LPS] systems in development, and I believe there are occasional tests of the system and hardware. They're still a few years away. To be really effective though, the sensor hardware in the players kit would have to be practically woven into the fabric. These days, that's perfectly possible. It just has to be reliable. All that shirt pulling.!

 

Yeah, if it could record all that shirt pulling and man-handling in the box as well... some clubs definitely wouldn't want it...

 

Bye bye, Blackburn...

You employ a decent manager in Owen Coyle, then back him with £250,000 in the Summer transfer window [that's barely sufficient for L2] and recoup £10M. To League One you deserve to go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39044853

 

They want Nige apparently.

 

After 7 managers I think they just want the next one.

Pearson or Adkins.?

 

Adkins

 

Really?

He did well at Burnley in their championship promotion year but that was 8 years ago and they did go straight back down. Since then his biggest accomplishment is 14th with Bolton, only to take them down the following season. Then he got sacked from Wigan and couldn't make it in America.

I'd say the bigger reason for deserving to go down is hiring him in the first place!

 

Nobody is going to do anything with the backing he had.

 

And there was me feeling their net position after Summer transfers and new managers sounded vaguely familiar

 

http://www.skysports.com/football/n...rovers-appoint-tony-mowbray-as-new-head-coach

Blackburn go for Mowbray

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/15109483.Martin_Allen_parts_company_with_Eastleigh/

They could do with Nigel!

 

Really odd decision to replace Coyle with Mowbray. They both have similar records and play the same style of football so it doesn't make sense to me.

 

Why doesn't anyone want Nigel?

 

Sadly he hasn't had much success since leaving us....together we were the perfect storm.

 

Wouldn't exactly back him to do well there either... needs a well run club perhaps lower down the pyramid.

 

Brighton beating Newcastle 1-0. This would be a great result for Brighton giving them a 4 point lead at the top.

 

I see Gallagher is back for Blackburn 0-0 so far.