Match Day Thread Brighton v Saints Sunday 21st May 2pm

Shame that someone else's stewards didn't confiscate all the other turds we've stuck on the pitch this season.

 

In Portsmouth they're famed for ****ing fish.

 

Weird how many Brighton fans didn't stick around for their lap of honour yesterday. Know it's not a great journey but it's probably their best ever season and thousands leave early? Bizarre.

 

Yeah noticed that on the telly. Really emptied out.

 

Mrs Jab has me on a seafood diet, seafood and eat it. Defunkinglicious.

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But it's also a bit weird to have a lap of honour when it's not your last home game of the season.

I can see it both ways.

 

Interesting to read this having studied Biology to A level make in 1985. All the things we learned about classication have subsequently been found to be obsolete. I was given a book for Christmas about "Birds of the Mesozoic" and there is a lot of information regarding what constitutes a bird. It is really fascinating but the illustrations seem a bit like resonstructing the whole of a turkey from the left overs of your Christmas dinner. This is the first time I had come across the description of Clades - DNA really starting to pull apart the old consensuses on classification. Not sure I can follow the classification argument in it's entirety but I think birdwatching in those times would have been an interesting if potentially dangerous pastime.

 

I didn't realise that tbf, forgot they had one in hand. Still a bit odd in circumstances though.

 

Still not as weird as the number of species of crabs that are not in fact crabs.

 

Starfish are no longer called so, they’re sea stars.

 

Not a lot of people know that.

 

There's lots of chocolate starfish in parliament.

 

Glen, thank goodness, only has one more game involving the interaction of SFC and VAR to put up with for a while:
http://leagueoneminus10.blogspot.com/2023/05/premier-league-match-37-brighton-3.html

 

Thought I’d watch motd2 just to see how tight the offside was. Millimetres, if. FF to the analysis………. not one single word on Saints! I suppose we deserve but pretty poor imo.

 

I'm pretty the technology isn't even accurate enough to judge it when it's that tight. It's basically an educated estimate and you could probably pick a different frame to get the other result on the tightest ones.

Did I dream it or did they say they were bringing in a margin of error? Can't see how that doesn't fall within it if so.

****s. Still not happy about it tbh.

 

I think I've seen more VAR goals from Saints that have been chalked off than those we actually scored. Maybe it's been a long season and I just want it to END!!

 

I just don’t know how that can be deemed as offside. Absolutely ****ing ridiculous

 

I'll reiterate what I've said before: should be a margin of error to account for the difficulty in drawing accurate diagonal lines, and it should be judged based on players' feet only. One, because it's easier to measure, but also there is no advantage gained by having any other part of your body offside. You don't run on your shoulder.

Instituted properly, VAR is better than many of the complete lino howlers that happened previously, but the current system is extremely silly.

 

Would be better than what we have but I still think the line tech isn't really needed imo.

I still think the var should get two replays to see if somethings clearly wrong, as in the vast majority of cases if its enough to gain an an advantage then it's easily visible within seconds of seing it again.

To fulfil the rule's purpose we don't need to be acting clever measuring everything down to the last mm. We just need to apply the clear and obvious mantra to offsides.