Tonight's Football

[jaffka]

the dingles play the other dingles on sunday, a blackburn loss and they will be singing appleton out

[BWFC_Insane]

the dingles play the other dingles on sunday, a blackburn loss and they will be singing appleton out

I suspect most of them already are.

3rd when they sacked Kean, 3rd.

End of the day they are fecked until someone else buys them.

[jaffka]

the dingles play the other dingles on sunday, a blackburn loss and they will be singing appleton out

I suspect most of them already are.

3rd when they sacked Kean, 3rd.

End of the day they are fecked until someone else buys them.

it is a divided camp, much like we were with Megson.

[as]

the dingles play the other dingles on sunday, a blackburn loss and they will be singing appleton out

I suspect most of them already are.

3rd when they sacked Kean, 3rd.

End of the day they are fecked until someone else buys them.

Few of them saying that Venky's are leaving and administration beckons

[Beefheart]

A mate of mine who supports Blackburn, and tends to know what he's on about backs Appleton. Says they need to get rid of the likes of Etuhu, Murphy, Dunn and Pedersen but there's a core of younger players there that could do wel.

[BWFC_Insane]

A mate of mine who supports Blackburn, and tends to know what he's on about backs Appleton. Says they need to get rid of the likes of Etuhu, Murphy, Dunn and Pedersen but there's a core of younger players there that could do wel.

Appleton seems to talk a good game, in terms of the whole "I'm going to be honest" thing.....

I'm not sure that is always a positive thing cough *MikeNewell* cough.

Time will tell. It's madness how that club is run though, and Appleton should be given, plenty, plenty of time to sort it out.

I suspect he's the best manager by some way they'll get. Which must be a pretty sobering thought for their fans!

[jaffka]

A mate of mine who supports Blackburn, and tends to know what he's on about backs Appleton. Says they need to get rid of the likes of Etuhu, Murphy, Dunn and Pedersen but there's a core of younger players there that could do wel.

Appleton seems to talk a good game, in terms of the whole "I'm going to be honest" thing.....

I'm not sure that is always a positive thing cough *MikeNewell* cough.

Time will tell. It's madness how that club is run though, and Appleton should be given, plenty, plenty of time to sort it out.

I suspect he's the best manager by some way they'll get. Which must be a pretty sobering thought for their fans!

He has been brought in because of his experience if dealing with a club in administration which is what beckons next season. Their gamble of spending big has failed

[Harry Genshaw]

Spurs 0-3 down with the game level on aggregate

[Annoyed Grunt]

Just seen that.......Bale not playing......

[ChrisC]

Just seen that.......Bale not playing......

Suspended.

[Prufrock]

Mark Halsey, bless him, really is a wank referee. Stroke of genius getting him to train with us!

[Harry Genshaw]

Mark Halsey, bless him, really is a wank referee. Stroke of genius getting him to train with us!

Easy to see why he didn't see it though tbf.

It's the Assistant Referee that has no excuse. Right in front of him. I swear since they stopped calling them Linesmen, they do nowt other than check for offsides and flag whichever way the refs pointing.

[Prufrock]

Mark Halsey, bless him, really is a wank referee. Stroke of genius getting him to train with us!

Easy to see why he didn't see it though tbf.

It's the Assistant Referee that has no excuse. Right in front of him. I swear since they stopped calling them Linesmen, they do nowt other than check for offsides and flag whichever way the refs pointing.

I'm always wary of giving refs a free pass for incidents that happen 'on the ball' as it were. If you can't see the ball then nine times out of ten its because you are stood in the wrong place. I'd certainly agree that his assistant was better placed though.

No excuses on the blatant Figueroa handball.

It's not just today though, he's shite, bless him.

[BWFC_Insane]

Mark Halsey, bless him, really is a wank referee. Stroke of genius getting him to train with us!

Hmmm it was a "bad miss".

But I quite like Halsey's style as a ref, he tries to give players the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't go round waving yellows and reds and tries to let the game flow.

Doesn't always work in his favour, but I think we're so conditioned now to seeing a ref give a yellow for virtually owt, and not thinking twice about sending players off, that Halsey gets criticised for letting stuff go.

Personally I'd rather a few more like Halsey than loads Mike Deans for example.

Oh and the challenge, as bad as it was, I'm still not convinced it was totally intentional.......perhaps I'm a bit naive.....

[bobo the clown]

Am I the only person thinking the tackle was unfortunate rather than malicious ? This kid is being hung out to dry by everybody, but he actually took the ball before his lunge followed through & hit the player's leg.

No, not a great one, but it's far from some of thoseon the, frankly brilliantly titled, "worst tackle ever" thread.

[BWFC_Insane]

Am I the only person thinking the tackle was unfortunate rather than malicious ? This kid is being hung out to dry by everybody, but he actually took the ball before his lunge followed through & hit the player's leg.

No, not a great one, but it's far from some of thoseon the, frankly brilliantly titled, "worst tackle ever" thread.

Phew, I thought it was just me in that camp.

It was dangerous and deserved a red.

But as you say, he took the ball and I'm not convinced it was anything other than misjudged. He went for the ball, in a dangerous way and caught a player I don't think he meant to.

Red would have been deserved, but far from the "terrible" tackle the media are making it out to be.

I would also say that IF that is deserving of a very lengthy ban, then Nani's against Real Madrid deserves an even longer one. As that was the same, except it was an even higher foot and potentially even more dangerous. Doubt the media will be on that bandwagon....

[Athers]

Quite simply it's about tackling safely. Making a tackle with bad intentions is obviously not safe, but so is making one with poor technique that vastly increases the chances of causing injury.

I don't think anyone would enjoy seeing McManaman run out for the FA cup final, to prevent it would require an 11 game ban.

[mrkint]

Yeah. It's recklessness rather than malicious. I guess it would be similar to the Eduardo incident? Though obviously that had worse consequences for the poor fecker on the end of it.

[BWFC_Insane]

Quite simply it's about tackling safely. Making a tackle with bad intentions is obviously not safe, but so is making one with poor technique that vastly increases the chances of causing injury.

I don't think anyone would enjoy seeing McManaman run out for the FA cup final, to prevent it would require an 11 game ban.

I really don't understand that way of thinking.

Bad tackle as said, probably not malicious. Far worse will have happened on Saturday with less severe consequences.

11 games? Nah. 3 for me. At most.

[boltonboris]

Mark Halsey, bless him, really is a wank referee. Stroke of genius getting him to train with us!

Hmmm it was a "bad miss".

But I quite like Halsey's style as a ref, he tries to give players the benefit of the doubt. He doesn't go round waving yellows and reds and tries to let the game flow.

Doesn't always work in his favour, but I think we're so conditioned now to seeing a ref give a yellow for virtually owt, and not thinking twice about sending players off, that Halsey gets criticised for letting stuff go.

Personally I'd rather a few more like Halsey than loads Mike Deans for example.

Oh and the challenge, as bad as it was, I'm still not convinced it was totally intentional.......perhaps I'm a bit naive.....

Which is great.. Except he misses key incidents consistently.