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[Toonpack 12332]

3 minutes ago, Craig said:

I’d rather have 100 PL goals chalked off than see one Newcastle player hospitalised because of the linesman going too late with his flag.

 

Your logic only holds if players only clatter posts/get hurt when there's an offside not given. Offside or not, foul or not, players get hurt.

[Toonpack 12332]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Craig "IT'S A POTENTIAL DEATH TRAP" Hayton

 

Raise the safety flag !!!!

[Toonpack 12332]

New linesman flag prototype spotted

[Craig 7707]

3 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Your logic only holds if players only clatter posts/get hurt when there's an offside not given. Offside or not, foul or not, players get hurt.

And your logic only holds because it’s not involving a Newcastle player. 
 

if that was Isak in hospital now there’s no way all of you would have the attitude “tough shit, it’s one of them things”

[zico martin 107]

8 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

 

Your logic only holds if players only clatter posts/get hurt when there's an offside not given. Offside or not, foul or not, players get hurt.

And if its blatantly offside why did the player(s) still carry on resulting in the injury?

[Craig 7707]

5 minutes ago, zico martin said:

And if it’s blatantly offside why did the player(s) still carry on resulting in the injury?

Play to the whistle.

[Toonpack 12332]

11 minutes ago, Craig said:

And your logic only holds because it’s not involving a Newcastle player. 
 

if that was Isak in hospital now there’s no way all of you would have the attitude “tough shit, it’s one of them things”

 

If players only got hurt when play possibly should've been stopped you'd have a point.

[Craig 7707]

Just now, Toonpack said:

 

If players only got hurt when play possibly should've been stopped you'd have a point.

Disagree that it invalidates the point.

[ewerk 34592]

3 minutes ago, Craig said:

Disagree that it invalidates the point.

How often does it happen in a game? If players routinely play 95+ minutes in a match then the amount of time played (and risk of player injury) is reduced by a tiny amount by changing the protocol. It’s using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

[Craig 7707]

Well now you’re talking about percentage of risk. That’s distinctly different to my point being invalid.

 

Look we disagree on it, and unlikely to get to a mutual agreement. It’s not an exact science and can be looked at from different points of view. 

[Gemmill 53244]

% of unraised flags resulting in serious injury will be miniscule. 

[ewerk 34592]

2 minutes ago, Craig said:

Look we disagree on it, and unlikely to get to a mutual agreement. It’s not an exact science and can be looked at from different points of view. 

 

It's okay to be wrong.

 

[Craig 7707]

7 minutes ago, ewerk said:

 

It's okay to be wrong.

 

Glad you’ve conceded 

[Craig 7707]

On a serious note, let’s hope the lad recovers well. Very reminiscent of Given’s injury v West Ham all those years ago.

[wykikitoon 24033]

I think Wenger recently was advocating for the rule to be daylight between the players.

[Toonpack 12332]

2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

I think Wenger recently was advocating for the rule to be daylight between the players.

 

Bit awkward for evening games mind

[Alex 38078]

Point is, giving the obvious decision here would have prevented this. Ordinary open play when no offence has been committed is different because the officials should not be intervening then. It’s somewhat similar to someone being called a ‘good ref’ because letting niggling fouls go is ‘letting the game flow’ when it is in fact likely to just wind players up and cause a bad tackle or reaction. I suppose it come down to opinions though and I can see the argument for this with offsides. The latter example I gave annoys me a lot more