Vincent Vega

@dave u Any chance of updating the Pickems so we can put in this weekend’s games Dave? Cheers

There is hope.

I think Tariq’s tongue was firmly in his cheek, but this reply by Nick Harris is still majestic.

I see someone from the club has allegedly been leaking today that Nunez was 100% on Klopp and that the data nerds had identified Nkunku. Pretty poor if that is coming from the club.

The one thing I really want to see from the end of this season is Arsenal failing to win the league on the final day. They might have been disappointed last season, but they don’t know the disappointment of losing the league to those Abu Dhabi cheats on the final day. I will enjoy the schadenfreude of that. Oh yeah there is another I’d like to see, and that’s that our fans and the club give Klopp the send off he thoroughly deserves against Wolves.

If we had just won our first home game against an opponent since 2010, I’d expect us to show a bit more humility.

They’re out to maim us tonight.

The state of their support. Rabid doesn’t even come close.

I read an article in The Times the other day about how VAR can be improved. They spoke with Peter Walton, Richard Scudamore, Jacqui Oatley and Connor Coady. These remarks from Peter Walton were pretty unbelievable in my view. I mean, the Rugby League refs are happy to do it and most of them sound like they’ve just walked out of a Victorian mill. If anyone wants to read the article you can do so here. https://archive.is/ecKEz How communication can be improved So it sounds like we could quite quickly shift the line back closer to the original VAR. But one of the big failings has been communication, particularly inside stadiums. Oatley: “Yeah, this is such a key part because we spent the first part of this discussion talking about accuracy. Then we said, well actually it is 96 per cent accuracy after VAR. So it’s not actually accuracy that’s the problem, it’s the perception of this decision-making.” Fans inside a stadium can be left with very little information. Walton: “IFAB is acutely aware of this. They are looking at various projects around the world in various leagues to see if they can come up with the answer to communication. One is the referee announces what the decision is and why. That’s fraught with danger of course because not everybody is articulate as the next person so you need almost a script to work to make sure you get the right wording through. That was something that we were looking at, and something that I think is worthy of a try. “The other thing is that people want to see the incident. Yes, you can’t mandate every Premier League ground to have a screen. I don’t think Manchester United or Liverpool have got screens, but apart from them two everybody else that has got a screen why not show the still or why not show the actual action again in real time?”

At least I spelt his name right on this thread.

I’m not sure there’s a plethora of candidates that fit your criteria Kev. Alonso one day? Maybe, maybe not. Most of us are struggling to come up with suggestions, I know I am. I’ve kept quiet because there isn’t anyone out there I can see as streets ahead of everyone else. I was all in on Alonso but once he ruled us out, I couldn’t say who I wanted. I could say for certain who I didn’t want (Mourinho, Tuchel etc).

They’re undoubtedly a bunch of entitled cunts, but I’m not sure any of the managers they’ve appointed since Ferguson left would have gone on and achieved anything if they’d been given more time.

The major problem the Mancs have had is that they have appointed managers totally unsuited to the demands of the fans to play in an exciting front foot way, then signed crap players for lots of money and given those players megabucks so they can't get rid of them.

I said when the Mancs appointed Heisenberg that I would be wary of Dutch managers as they are very rooted to a specific way of playing and don't deviate from it. This is why Ten Hag has done most of his transfer business in the Eredivisie because he wants players who can immediately fit into his system and style of play, and he's even made a pigs ear of that. Hopefully the fella we're targeting is the exception to the rule.

Impressive speech here, delivered in perfect English.

I doubt he'll be fit, he was knocked out cold on Sunday and had to be stretchered off. I'm sure the concussion protocols mean a player can't play again for a week if they're out cold.

Interesting article on fixture congestion from Opta.

Where Forest lead…..

I’d like to see the figures on how many times the refs have been sent to look at the monitor this season. I bet those figures are well down on previous seasons? When was the last time it happened in one of our games? Was it Spurs away when we got shafted with the Curtis Jones red card when they showed a still of his studs hitting the other player’s leg? The lack of being sent to the monitor tells me that they’ve agreed between them not to do it unless absolutely necessary. Every week I watch Match Of The Day and am amazed at the penalties that aren’t given, and no referral to the monitor.

He’s very good at carrying the ball forward, needs to work on his decision making though.