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Snatchday 1: Nottingham Forest Vs the PGMOL

Alf-engelos Mindminackers

The Artiste formally known as "Wanksy"
I’m not sure building consensus with the competition during the season would ever work though, clubs will only act in the self interests of itself anyway during the season

Applying game theory here. Refs balance out poor decisions with “favours” on the pitch and throughout the season. This creates mutual rewards for all, long term, all clubs get along nicely. What’s happened here is that Forest feel it isn’t working and they’ve got the stats.

You can’t have a billion £ industry dependent on this, but it’s what we’ve got lol
Good point, but surely there's enough clubs who have had it with Top 6 bias to form allegiances here?
 
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I'm Red Till Dead

Stuart Pearce
I keep re-reading that, and to me it just seems awful.

We've both backed down, yet still pointed the finger in the same Tweet. Shown weakness, yet invited more conflict.

Am I reading that wrong? It's been a long day already lol.
I don't know, but this shouldn't be our fight alone. Other teams and their fans should be getting involved now it's out there as there has been lots of whispering from them all season and now someone has flagged it up they should get behind it. The refereeing quality isn't in line with the League's prestige.
 

Alan Akbah

Geoff Thomas
Well doesn't it to you?

I'm inviting people to giving me an alternative perspective. Like I said, it's been a long day, maybe I'm just nackard and not processing it right.

If the club keeps doing shit things though, I'm gonna keep seeing shit things.
It's certainly more reasoned and it seems to now just ask for things to improve.

I read it as backtracking to an extent, while I thought it was daft to post yesterday I don't want them to back down now they've pulled the pin.
 
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sammy the snake

Jack Armstrong
Can't unfcuk this fcuk up.

Batten down the hatches as war seems about to kick off.

I agree with the sentiment, but the timing and platform of their release was poor. Pre-meditated IMHO. This said, bring it on.
I’m going to keep on repeating game theory.. sorry

Forest are spot on with going for right now, don’t hold up and keep drip feeding the f*** up on twatter, maximum impact, maximum effect. It’s a good strategy
 

Redemption

Chief Eye Roller
29 years ago a single footballer took on football and won his case, leading to the creation of the Bosman rule.
That's completely different.

There was already an established legal framework of employment law across the EU. Bosman's case was that the contractual obligation forced upon him by Standard Liege prevented his free right to association and enitlement to Freedom.of Movement.

This is nothing like that.

I'll gladly eat humble pie if this turns out to be a key turning point in football. But I doubt I'll have too.
 

Lefkasman

Ian Bowyer
No one cares.

The tribal loyalties are too strong. Most fans would rather laugh at Forest than engage in any form of solidarity.
It's not from what I've seen on YouTube today in fact it's been just the opposite

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Erik

oopsy daisy!
LTLF Minion
I don't get why so many of you are happy for us to be the sacrificial lamb here?
Whether you like it or not we very definitely are the sacrificial lamb and the EPL are going to wade in and make certain they bury us with another points penalty, this time for bringing the game into disrepute.

We may as well go for the nuclear option because we are screwed anyway.

They will punish us to the maximum if only for one reason -

Good point, but surely there's enough clubs who have had it with Top 6 bias to form allegiances here?
Not when they see what they do to Forest.

They will take one look and whatever support we have will fade back into the trees.

We may as well go all in and when we get record deductions go legal and expose the fraud that is the English Premier League for what it is even if (at risk of mixing metaphors) the football equivalent of Samson.
 

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
I've not read this whole thread, but I don't see why we cant rotate refs around European nations? French refs in England one year, then Italian, German, Dutch etc. If our refs are happy going to the UAE for a few games, why not send them to Dresden & Dusseldorf
Speaking on behalf of the Bundesliga, I am not, but we don‘t want your piss-poor officials here, thank you very much!
 

NFFCForeverRed

First Team Squad
Does this mean we can never have a Derby or Leeds or Leicester or County or Mansfield fan as a Ref or lines person or 4th official or VAR. Or ever having anyone who supports any team within about 5 or 6 places of our current position in the league. And then apply the same sort of rules to every other team in the league. Or does it just apply to us ?

We are thrashing about desperately clutching at straws. We want the Everton match replayed. We want some of our FFP points back. We want some nice people officiating our last 4 games (preferably ones who don’t like Luton or Burnley). And of course if none of these happen we will want a court somewhere to say everything is unfair and we were robbed and that someone else should go down instead.
This sort of thinking is absolute nonsense.

What we really need is for our players and manager to get on with what they are employed to do and win just 2 more games.

Absolutely right, 100%. We have been rubbish on the field, end of story. Marinakis is desperate to blame everyone but himself.
 

oobidoobi

First Team Squad
Ive Never really liked goldbridge but this is brilliant
Still watching, but interesting bit (8mins) about the bi-monthly meeting between broadcasters and PGMOL re previous weeks talking points and the Talk sport warning MG got
 
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