Northern Red

It'd be nice if the FA took this opportunity to send the England team around the country again. By all means play the Ireland game at Wembley because it should sell out, but no reason the other two can't be played elsewhere.

16 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Nope, that’s probably our allotted four.

3 against top four sides & one to knock off a game for Rotherham & ourselves.

Incredibly unimaginative by Sky.

I reckon they might show the Leicester game on Good Friday. It's already been moved to an early KO.

31 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

I've looked at it again now and with what I saw with my own eyes I definitely think it was hand ball. 

Looking at the highlights tho I thunk there may actually be two handballs. One from Origi who was credited with the goal and possibly from the No 8 aswell. But that could just be the camera angle. 

But as we are little Bristol City we'll never get to see the VAR video. 

I can only assume that VAR didn't have an available angle to definitely say it was hand ball. 

The bit in bold is the key point. Because they've not given it on field, the VAR has to find something that would overturn that call. We have to assume they haven't been able to do so.

11 minutes ago, reddogkev said:

Countryfile, damn good post, enjoyed reading that.  Where was the game played?  

The HPC.

We have to assume that the other angles that VAR has access to will show that it was okay.

2 minutes ago, nickolas said:

Settle for 12th!!!

Weak player. Weak mentality. But hes academy so lets not slag him off!

Bell is a forward, there'd be an expectation that he'd take one.

Just now, Shauntaylor85 said:

We all knew he would miss. Shame. 

1 minute ago, arrytheb said:

Let's not make anyone a scapegoat eh!? 

Good luck with that...

5 minutes ago, Olé said:

On Wednesday 28th February. Since when has the Fifth Round been played midweek?

It was last season for starters.

8 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

No, but I also don't think it's unreasonable to compare a performance by a team one place below us against one we very recently faced with ours is it, especially when ours was particularly poor.

Of course it's not, but there's never any attempt at understanding different situations or context. And when it's on the back of multiple threads being steered into the same argument again and again, it gets more than a bit boring after a while.

West Ham beat Arsenal, so by the logic being displayed by some that makes us better than Arsenal, right?

Excellent, another thread turns into a whine.

Tidy goal.

And there's our mention!

4 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

Don’t want to criticise, and whatever happens from here they’ve already done much better in this series than I thought they would, but that Root innings was seriously grim. England’s greatest ever batsman really doesn’t need to flail around like a tailender surely, regardless of how aggressive you’re attempting to play.

That Crawley DRS was a bit dodgy mind..

I'm hoping that was down to him being bothered by his finger and not thinking he'll be able to hang around for long.

Ah well.

100% convinced that Bairstow isn't given out on field if the Crawley one hadn't been overturned.

Pretty much sums it up:

For some reason, replays seem to be nowhere near as widely televised as the original ties which are pretty much all available somewhere.

From memory, last year's replay at Swansea wasn't shown at all, anywhere, and we had to rely purely on radio coverage.

The aforementioned Kasvosve is the No.17 in this clip, from the recent Youth Cup game against Charlton.

23 minutes ago, 22A said:

When Big Brother first aired, you the viewer could use the red button on your remote and choose from which of eight cameras you wanted to watch. Could we have that introduced for sports events?

Sky were doing that on football 20+ years ago.

1 minute ago, Redtucks said:

No mention of Ayman Benarous???

 

Because he hasn't played for 2 years and we have absolutely no idea how he'll come back, if he even does.

Last time people started flapping about relegation we won 3 on the bounce. A repeat would be nice.

29 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

As it stands one of those hasn’t played in nearly two years now (he only made 7 starts ever when he did), another in Naismith is rarely available.

I would start by seeing anything I got from Benarous now as a bonus & tell Naismith (& Mehmeti) they can leave if anyone is interested.

As previously discussed, there’s a decision to be made on Bajic too. Only those seeing him in training know the answer there though, as not his fault he’s second choice & Max is someone with a great availability record.

Re Bajic - the lack of interest in signing another keeper does suggest that they're seeing enough from him to think that he can step in if anything happens to Max, for a short while at least.