Chindie

Well i think the point is you dont appeal unless it's totally neccesary. How often do you see 3 major incidents in one game which would be appealed? If they don't use their appeals wisely, then it's their own fault surely. Is it not possible for 4 completely valid incidents requiring appeal to occur in a game? Especially since, with any form of technology coming in, sooner or later it'll be used for every aspect of the rules. Appeals based system is moronic. The whole thing is frankly stupid because it won't work without fundamentally making the game a different beast, but appeals are just mindnumbingly poor as a solution.

Indeed, or to stop counter attacks. It'll become tactical.

So what happens when they've made 3 appeals and the ref makes an absolute howler later on? You've solved nothing, just added a new tactic and ruined the flow of the game. Leave the game alone.

How does that solve the issue of poor decisions? It doesn't have to be introduced at all.

Incidently, is this not worth merging with the 'Refs, etc' thread below, as thats basically a technology debate as well.

agreed it is tiresome ...:? I mean I agree but the fault lies firmly at your feet.

OT, but worth mentioning, can we please put the bloody Darren Bent meme to bed?

Unless you are at the receiving end of 'controversy' in a game. Nope, thats part of the character and joy of the game as well. I'm convinced that people who want tech don't 'get' this.

No no no no no no no, the games not for turning.

Don't really care. I'm not even that sure about marriage. Other issue is in some accents my surname sounds like slang for a form of sexual activity. For example in a Stirling accent it sounds we discovered it sounds like a colloquialism for wanking.

He's a top 10 in the world striker. All that needs to be said really.

Mike's more or less right with that story, they basically constantly get his name wrong.

I'm reminded of a Billy Connolly skit about the way young blokes fight these days. They start off with the raised voices and the sound of people backing off, followed by them both running away from each other, assessing the situation, and coming back all guns blazing.

What do you call an epileptic in a wheelchair? A Transformer. Won us the quiz joke round a couple of times. Other winners (for other people) What's more horrible than a barrel of dead babies? The live one at the bottom trying to chew it's way out. and Women's rights. I didn't particularly find either of those funny but raised a laugh for pretty much everyone else in the pub.

Blackburn were linked to Guti a few weeks back. Even had Sam talking about him and how he'd love to have him, ala 'Arry.

To be fair Smalljob, you think we didn't land on the moon so I'm not sure how much you're going to convince anyone on this one.

This.

I believe they do count as one your 5 pies a day In other news I've just been for a blood test, who'd have have guessed blood letting would be so fast. Last time it took ages, and filled up a vial that was probably best described as a Coke 2l bottle.

Triboluminescence is the phenomenon of a material glowing when it is broken or rubbed. An example is the 'smash glow crystal', a type of crystal that, funnily enough, gives off light when it's smashed. It isn't understood why this phenomenon happens but it's speculated that is due to the breaking electrical charges as the material is manipulated. I imagine that not only is this information useless, even if you could (and ) make smash glow crystals they're completely useless.

I wouldn't have made the god argument. Anywho, global warming has never been my massive forte... I do believe that getting away frommassive oil consumption is a good idea anyway, just because it will run out. Best get the ground work done, global warming or not.

The van outside Subway City sells Mother and Daddy **** too.

I'll be going for 100% over the next few days. And no doubt some achievement hunting - got Unnatural Selection today, finally.

Which is what we should, and I suspect will, do. Pay the money we want, which will be much more to our liking than yours, or jog on.

No he didn't say that mykeyb.

It wouldn't be different in terms of the first one Chindie. MON wouldn't sign Ozil this summer because he wont sign anything without premier league experience, regardless of how good they are in the world cup. Anyway this is about as boring as you searching the internet for negative Apple articles to post No it would be different Jez, because you weren't, in your third statement, referring to Ozil, you were being general. And in the first one you seemed to think, rather more than Ozil being a bit out of our league, we wouldn't sign him simply because he hadn't played in the Prem. Except that we have, and do, sign players with no Prem experience. It doesn't make any sense Jez, and it's really tiresome. And I don't search the net for anti Apple articles, I happen to come across them in my other browsing, thank you, so that's another thing you're about as accurate as a blind archer with.