VectisSaint

Not in the u23s squad tonight either (Marcus Barnes is on the bench, no loan to Monaco as yet then). Can only think Hesketh is injured, if we had released him I'm sure an EFL club would have snapped him up. Love the new openness from the Club ?

Should we rest Hojbjerg as well then? Gets booked more often than OR. Djenepo as well.

Taken a long time to respond. Yes there has nearly always been offside, it has always been there to prevent what we know as goal hanging, even before the modern laws were.odicied. It is the only reason for the offside law. Clearly you have no understanding of the Sheffield laws, nothing to do with a region, it is where and how the game of association football developed. Involved in Sunday League thanks in the 80s, lines didn't even exist then, it was just the job of the opposition manager to give everything possible to stop the opposition scoring, most of them wouldn't have re ognised the offside law if it came up and bit them in the bum.

We look appalling with a back 3 as well. It could just be that we are appalling.

We don't have anyone with the title "coach" or "assistant manager". Like KD, DW and CF he will be a First Team Assistant Coach. The Coach they are assisting is Ralph. You may be right that because Rohl was Assistant manager RK is not a direct replacement, whether he is seen as senior to the 3 other assistant coaches remains to be seen, but it seems to be the inference from the announcement in the Echo "Saints have appointed Richard Kitzbichler as the new assistant to Ralph Hasenhuttl". Anyway, bottom line is that he has replaced Danny Rohl in terms of numbers, whether or not he has replaced his role, which was the point of your post (numbers of bums on seats in the dug out)

He has replaced Danny Rohl, so no more than there would have been. Whether Craig Fleming gets a seat is another matter, as he was promoted to first team during the summer.

Are you sure it was Saints and not some dodgy call centre in India (or China) trying to fix your Windows PC.

But have KELME managed to apply the logo to the Espanyol shirts? There don't seem to be any available from the club store with the LD Sports logo on them, they all still have the Mexican tourist board logo in the pictures with a note saying the shirts are no longer in stock with the same "attributes" as the picture.

His first inclusion in a squad was for the EFL Final at Wembley. Of course he didn't get on the field. Assume for that he received a losers medal. Was a decent player ut was too small to be a effective CB in the PL, he was better at RB or at least on the right of a 3. As a RB though his legs had gone by the time he rocked up at SMS.

It's not actually as clear cut as that. Training compensation is due when a player moves either during or at the end of his contract. If he was offered an extension and declined it then it is almost certain that training compensation is required to be paid by Celtic. Also as the transfer is international it makes it more likely. All that said, because there is no fee and because he was only at Saints for 3 years, the compensation payable is not likely to be very much, St Joseph's should also get a cut, as they should have done when he signed professional for us. This is what I can make out of the varoous legal stuff rated to this that can be found on the Web.

Thought Ralph didn't drink

Would be very surprised if we let him go. Did well when he came on yesterday. We're not exactly strong in central midfield. Of course he could go to Scotland but this sounds like someone trying to make up a story.

What was his yellow card for? Haven't seen it mentioned.

No limit, but higher rate taxpayers can only claim the difference between the basic rate and their marginal rate, so not as tax efficient for high earners as you migh expect.

That was before the Burnley game.

Didn't really fulfil the promise, did he.

They aren't out of Europe. Europa League.

Messrs Bramall and Young proved right.

Haven't rested many.

This was a report by the AAIB. Not by an interested party.

Bury should be allowed to fold, and their FA Cup results expunged, especially the 1900 final. Retrospective award to the beaten finalsists.

Well you got that right.

Well, apart from Feyenoord and Preston.

He was partly at fault for the 2nd goal as well, both Vestergaard and Bertrand were not picking up the Burnley strikers' runs.

Have to call you out on this. Yes, offiside in various forms dates from the codes of football played at Eton and Harrow, and pre-dates the split between rugby and association football, but the various rules or laws varied greatly between the various codes and were influenced by other laws such as not being able to pass forward (not just rugby but in the original draft rules of association in 1863). Sheffield rules had no offside rule at all. They had players called "kick-throughs" positioned permanently near the opponent goal (goal-hangers as we used to call them when we were playing kick abouts with jumpers for goal posts). The offside rule was included in the original laws of the game in 1866, but was fundamentally changed in 1925 when the requirement for the number of defenders was changed from 3 to 2 and this resulted in a huge change to the game, where goal scoring increaed hugely. Changed again in 1990 to say a player was onsied if level with the last defender. Bottom line, offside law now is nothing like what it was in the 19th century, and is most definitely there to counter the tactic of goal hangers or their proper name, kick throughs. The most important point though is that the law was never meant to be based on the precision that is now being demaded with VAR - that has really only come about with the change in 1990. I don't recall people referring to daylight between defender and attacker, but the point is that the attacker should not be offside unless he is gaining an advantage. Having a tone nail ahead of a defender gains no significant advantage. It should be left up to the referee and lineo to determine if a player has gained a significant advantage or not and not by some video enhanced technology. I'm in favour of VAR for most apsects, but its application to offside is just fundamentally stupid.