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Post by artvandelay on Jun 29, 2024 20:03:13 GMT
This is an easy route, it cannot be more setup for us to be in the final. Anything less is an utter disgrace with the talent we have. I'm sure we'll do it, not least because i've got QF and Final tickets and want to venture out for the games This may be a reason, perhaps, why those of us not from England enjoy when it all goes tits up!
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Post by cufctheparrot on Jun 29, 2024 20:23:31 GMT
So, I've got to ask the question: has anyone ever been at a match that's been delayed because of thunder and lightning? No, but I was delayed in going on Popeye and Bluto's bilge rat barges ride in Universal Studios because of it. My level of disappointment was probably on a par with those in Dortmund. On TV they said if lightning’s with 10 miles it can cause a delay. Seemed like quite a range, I thought it was around 3 miles distance around parks in Florida, 10 miles would lead to so much down time. I trust when you got on Bilge rat you got more soaked than standing in a storm?
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Post by imp566 on Jun 29, 2024 20:25:36 GMT
Does make me smile, they take the players off because of fears for their safety in an electric storm, while 60,000 fans take their chance in the stadium.
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Post by peu04e on Jun 29, 2024 20:36:39 GMT
VAR is so ridiculous. Sorry if that's been mentioned before.
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 29, 2024 20:39:09 GMT
Stonewall penalty. As clear a handball as you'll see.
The commentator is right though, it's absolutely ridiculous that the rules say that should be a penalty.
Andrew
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Post by El Goodo on Jun 29, 2024 20:44:55 GMT
Does make me smile, they take the players off because of fears for their safety in an electric storm, while 60,000 fans take their chance in the stadium. The physics of it are quite a lot different being in a covered, steel-framed concrete stand than on an open pitch wearing shoes with metal studs.
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Post by flouncingarburyboy on Jun 29, 2024 20:57:03 GMT
This is an easy route, it cannot be more setup for us to be in the final. Anything less is an utter disgrace with the talent we have. I'm sure we'll do it, not least because i've got QF and Final tickets and want to venture out for the games This may be a reason, perhaps, why those of us not from England enjoy when it all goes tits up! I'm English born and bred so must confess that part of me also enjoys it when it all goes tits up. Might not win the Euros but we'll have certainly won the arrogant, entitled, 'we must win cuz we're England' tournament. Again.
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Post by cufctheparrot on Jun 29, 2024 21:10:10 GMT
Does make me smile, they take the players off because of fears for their safety in an electric storm, while 60,000 fans take their chance in the stadium. The physics of it are quite a lot different being in a covered, steel-framed concrete stand than on an open pitch wearing shoes with metal studs. The physics also say that with all of the lightning protection and earthing on the roof of the tall stand high above the pitch there as absolutely no way that is hitting the ground. I can understand matches being delayed in small grounds with no or low stands but not in 50,000+ grounds with stands all the way around the pitch
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Post by El Goodo on Jun 29, 2024 21:16:33 GMT
Sure but why take the risk, small though it is, for the sake of a 20-minute delay?
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 29, 2024 21:20:18 GMT
Feel for the Danes here. They've lost their heads at the end and it could've been 3 or 4.
The offside for their goal was an offside and the penalty was a penalty but I remain unconvinced framerates are high enough for the technology to be that precise...not when you're talking half a toe length anyway. In my complete ignorance I don't know how they generate that CGI image either, or how accurate it can possibly be.
Those are the rules though so it's clearly offside and they've shown why.
The penalty should be nonsense too. The rules have been rewritten for VAR to microanalyse and the snickometer makes it even more joyless - it's a clear penalty, though. They proved that too.
Andrew
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 29, 2024 21:23:08 GMT
"Sure but why take the risk, small though it is, for the sake of a 20-minute delay?"
Indeed, a danish player - Jonathan Richter - was hit by lighting in 2019.
He was placed in a coma and had part of his leg amputated as a result.
Andrew
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Post by cufctheparrot on Jun 29, 2024 21:36:31 GMT
"Sure but why take the risk, small though it is, for the sake of a 20-minute delay?" Indeed, a danish player - Jonathan Richter - was hit by lighting in 2019. He was placed in a coma and had part of his leg amputated as a result. Andrew I’m not saying it was necessarily wrong to stop the game, despite it being a minuscule risk of a lightning strike, and it could be argued trying to play football in a rainstorm should also be stopped not just because of the risk of injury but because it affects the quality of what is happening on the pitch. As for Jonathan Richter, the ground he was paying in was not one with tall stands, so on the centre of the pitch you are far more at risk of a lightning strike than at the bigger grounds.
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Post by cufctheparrot on Jun 29, 2024 21:39:50 GMT
I quite enjoyed seeing Denmark lose tonight after all the winging from them that went on after they lost to England in 2021.
Germany back to looking good and against a better team than Scotland, the chance of a Germany France semifinal is looking interesting.
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Post by davidrv on Jun 29, 2024 21:41:09 GMT
In the itv studio they’ve been arguing for 20 minutes now about 2 var decisions that were correct. What we now have is var ruining the flow of the game, ruining the game in fact, and even when it’s right the pundits bleat on as much as they did before var. Get feckin rid of it
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Post by Andrewlang on Jun 29, 2024 21:43:36 GMT
"As for Jonathan Richter, the ground he was paying in was not one with tall stands, so on the centre of the pitch you are far more at risk of a lightning strike than at the bigger grounds"
Yeah, but I guess it's incidents like that which set the protocols and ultimately make the game safer. I was surprised at how efficiently it was all handled tbh.
Andrew
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