Relegation 2022/23

DanEFC92 · March 17, 2023

blue to the bone said:
So this just affects us.
Strange take. I'd suggest it affects Newcastle a bit more

God, obviously. This is an Everton forum. I'm thinking about that this game effects us as well.

DanEFC92 · March 17, 2023

Tony’s Carp said:
To be fair the decision that helped Newcastle beat Wolves helped us, and that was a shocker too. The system is just broken and feels like it's getting worse.

It's made the sport worse for sure.

matty1878 · March 17, 2023

come on you geordie gimps!

Wat Tyler · March 17, 2023

Kylito said:
I am so done with Forest. Genuinely the jammiest team going.

If we stay up and they stay up, I’ll feel that they will have some trouble next season.

Drico · March 17, 2023

I'll settle for a draw here.

Forest are doing nothing on the road, so every time they fail to win at home they are slipping ever-closer to peril.

Exeter_Gently · March 17, 2023

Drico said:
I'll settle for a draw here.

Forest are doing nothing on the road, so every time they fail to win at home they are slipping ever-closer to peril.

Good take

blue to the bone · March 17, 2023

DanEFC92 said:
God, obviously. This is an Everton forum. I'm thinking about that this game effects us as well.

Ya. It does. But I don't think a decision taking in a game we aren't playing by var does so solely with us in mind.

MikeH72 · March 17, 2023

Newcastle are toilet brush.
@Brennan

Miked1e · March 17, 2023

MikeH72 said:
Newcastle are toilet brush.
@Brennan

Massively….

They will be out of the European places by the end of the season.

Ring master · March 17, 2023

Forest have had the equivalent of nine lives

MikeH72 · March 17, 2023

MikeH72 said:
Newcastle are toilet brush.
@Brennan

Get in, cried it in.

Miked1e · March 17, 2023

In other news re Newcastle….. is it a co-incidence that Gordon isn’t in the squad this last week considering the Cheltenham festival is on!???

Just saying…

Tony’s Carp · March 17, 2023

Drico said:
There is no doubt that VAR is now just a tool for the football authorities to control the narrative.

Given the money in the game, the incentive is definitely there for nefarious practice. I am not saying this is what is actively happening in every VAR booth - it isn't. But given the ludicrousness of VAR since its introduction, I have no doubt that FIFA, at the very least, see it as a tool for "drama" and "suspense".

I find that I can no longer spontaneously cheer a goal now as I fear it will be immediately subject to a VAR check and I will be subject to impotent fury and disappointment. A passion killer.

Exactly - a game like this, with a team going for CL and one battling relegation, this result is worth potentially tens of millions to each club, not to mention the billions probably riding on this on global betting markets. And you have decisions being made on a basis no-one really understands by people you can't see, and even if there is no corruption whatsoever it leaves it so much more open to that suspicion.

It shouldn't be interfering with that goal, it shouldn't have interfered with Gray's goal last Saturday, it should at most be interfering on very narrow and strictly defined grounds, where a decision is objectively wrong, or where the referee himself asks for the assistance. It was supposed to help matches but right now it feels like it's controlling them.