Lord Duckhunter

Covid wise there will be, I doubt any club would falsify Covid results. What can they do? Get somebody who has Covid to take the test for somebody that hasn’t. However, that’s a dangerous route to go down, particularly if the bloke pretending the test is his, then catches it. I’d imagine a conversation along the lines “You know shelvey had Covid 3 weeks ago, well he’s gone and got it again”, wouldn’t go down particularly well with the league. Id have thought during conversations with the Gov or PHE, reporting accurately Covid numbers would figure quite high up. The only falsification they can really get away with is non vaccinated players being in contact with positive people. That’s pretty hard to disprove. I guess the issue is with injuries, but they’re really subjective. The tears and pulls are easy to prove, but knocks and slight strains pretty impossible because players will play through them. How can a doctor tell someone with a “knock” he’s fit to play, If he says he isn’t?

Did they postpone a load of games before doing that, or was that rule in place from the start? The league made a rod for their own back by postponing games a couple of weeks ago. Had they said then that teams had to play regardless of numbers, then they could insist Newcastle do this time. The sure fire way to a court case is allowing Brentford to postpone, but not allowing Newcastle to.

The way things are going there’s going to be 30 odd games postponed, good luck with proving this one was any different than any other.

This is just not true. The league rules state the club need to supply “Supporting medical information to verify the status of each unavailable player, which will be reviewed by the League’s medical advisers”. Their website also states that not having 13 players is only 1 reason applications are accepted, they state that games have also been postponed recently for other reasons including, “Where the status of a COVID-19 outbreak within a club’s squad remains unclear very close to a match. For example, where there remains a concern that not all COVID-19 infections have been identified and there is insufficient time to resolve that concern before kick-off. - Where the club does not have sufficient time to safely prepare its players in the lead up to a match. For example, where the UK Health Security Agency has requested the closure of a training ground and suspension of group training following an outbreak during the preparation period ahead of a match.” Just calling people cunts without know the full reasons for the postponement, without knowing what evidence has been presented and what checks were made is pretty ignorant imo.

Bless…

Dear god. There were different rules in place last season, and 20 odd games hadn’t already been postponed. It is not “cheating” to request a postponement, they haven’t cheated anymore than Brentford cheated when they requested a postponement. Posters anger is aimed in the wrong direction, once the league started allowing postponements teams will request them.

Ralph grasped it, he admitted he made a mistake. He agreed with us, it was the wrong formation for that game. What more evidence do you need that you’re wrong, when the bloke who decided the tactics held his hand up. #cult

Not at all. The criticism was about playing it away at Liverpool, with people pointing out that it may not be the best idea to try something new up there. Nobody criticised the principle of getting away from his obsession with 4-2-2-2, just the timing. Matching up spurs at home, is entirely different to doing so at Anfield. Anyway he himself said is was a mistake, so is Ralph also fickle?

That’s exactly how I saw it. Do people really believe lurch has come across a new tactic, like getting the ball into the corners and shielding it, we’ll now see goalkeepers aiming for touch whilst a team is hanging on. Revolutionary tactics!!!! Perhaps the people who claim it was deliberate can explain why he didn’t boot it further into the stands as opposed to it only just going.Hell, he should have launched it over the Kingsland.

Would they be some keen to play if they had Watford at home as opposed to Utd away. Anyway, I’m sure their supporters will be delighted with their “integrity” seeing as their 3 down after 35 mins.

There’s nothing racist about it at all. If the Euros were played during our season and as a result European players missed domestic games, the moaning would be exactly the same. Some chumps see racism everywhere.

That’s where you’re wrong. Kat was a bit of a minger, but I thought she was a really decent owner. I’d take another one of her in a heartbeat. I’d be wary of a fit filly to be honest, as it shouldn’t be about looks. The best female boss I ever had looked like a gypsy’s dog, but she didn’t half inspire people to work for her.

Why wa$ chel$ea match not po$tponed, when they reque$ted it?

So the league were right in not allowing them to postpone game. Amazing how Newcastle can pull the wool over their eyes, but not Chelsea 😂

What makes you think that’s not the case? The league refused Chelsea, allowed Brentford, how does that fit with the “big club bias”. I’d imagine they’ve looked at Newcastle’s case in exactly the same basis as they looked at those 2. As I said, there’s been nearly 20 call offs so far, I doubt there’s much difference between any of them. It’s certainly not a conspiracy or a big club bias.

Nice man, pretty average first team manager. Cheap option who only got the job on the back of his excellent work with the nippers.

Only 50%? Where i was it looked more like only 25%. Even saw a number of stewards not really wearing them (tucked under their chins).

I look forward to the “right decision” merchants backing the referee when we have a goal disallowed for a soft as shite challenge on a keeper.

I don’t recall too many people getting so upset when the first game was called off , now because it’s Newcastle everyone is up in arms. A precedent has been set and we’re now nearly 20 postponed games in. Had it been us proposing a postponed game and the league said “fuck off and play otherwise we’d deduct 3 points”: everyone would be up in arms, citing the normal anti saints agenda of everyone. The way this things spreading, it probably will be us in a couple of weeks wanting games off. Then as now it’s up to the league to decide, not a one eyed supporters forum. You can’t bet your life the posts will be slightly different when it is us.

That’s what started the argument on this thread, the ridiculous notion that the referee was biased. Fuck me, we’re a provincial club that nobody really gives a shite about, why do people think the referees and administrators are always against us? To me it was a 7/10 decision, most refs would have blown for the foul, occasionally one wouldn’t. Personally, I don’t want fouls given for that sort of shite, but that ship sailed years ago. The bloke hardly touched him, he should have held onto it regardless of whether it was a foul or not. As the great Sir Geoffrey would have said “my mum would have caught that in her pinny”.

I think saying it was deliberate is being slightly generous to the big fella. He was clearly aiming for Broja who was hugging the touch line. I’d imagine the thinking was Broja would win it , they’d win it but head it out for a throw in, they’d win it but the result would be another headed battle in midfield or it would go straight out of play. They were playing the %’s imo. One thing I did notice at West Ham was Forsters kicking got worse the longer the game went on,same again yesterday. Wonder if lack of games and being injured has something to do with it. He definitely was more accurate earlier on in both games.

What a load of pony. They’ve already got rid of the double jeopardy of a penalty and a red, hence why he got a yellow. VAR look at every single red card and “back it up” already, that’s the rules. They don’t look at yellows. Your suggestion you shouldn’t get a yellow for persistently giving away free kicks, time wasting, kicking the ball away, showing dissent, blocking the taking of a quick free kick, is just laughable.

I’m struggling to understand the “big team bias” when Brentford had their game called off and Chelsea didn’t. Then there’s posts stating the league haven’t got much of a clue and are being played, with others stating Chelsea played a full side after being denied a cancellation. Surely that’s proof that the league do in fact know what they’re doing.

They’d have 2 more fit players Einstein