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Jamie87

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  1. Not sure it's that far away. Agree there will always be bias in any trained model based on the inputs its trained on, but over 30 years worth of televised football captured and a panel of referees picked from every league would surely reduce its bias. At least it would remove any feeling that a decision was swayed by external factors (conspiracy or otherwise).
  2. What about an AI based VAR?
  3. Longstaff is the best product from our academy in arguably over a decade. He's obviously a massive fan and comes from a Newcastle mad family. He gets a pass from me on making the odd blunder just for that. But when you add in the fact he works harder in that mid 3 than anyone else, covers such a huge amount of grass, and seemingly has an immaculate attitude, I really think he deserves his place in the team currently and some of the criticism is way over the top. He's only 25 and working under a good coach now, he still has head room. Also, it's documented that online criticism and comments in the media caused him to have a bit of a personal crisis recently. We should back him and hope he continues to grow.
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    João Pedro

    https://www.footballmanagerblog.org/2022/01/joao-pedro-fm22-wonderkid-report.html He's an FM22 wonderkid. He's the next Ronaldo. Chill.
  5. The contrast to a Steve Bruce press conference is nuts. He's articulate, intelligent and deliberate in what he's saying. It's so refreshing.
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    David Squires

    I think it's pretty funny. It's also something we are going to have to get used to. We've been the underdog for so long now, we've got used to cynicism and snarkiness aimed at other clubs, but not us. Now we're "the richest football club in the whole world", we're fair game. Comedians, cartoonists, etc. tend to punch upwards, not downwards. Our potentially elite status is going to bring this kind of stuff. It's a trade I'm happy to make.
  7. If you want an organisation to do the things you are talking about, then start one, join one, or become an NUST member with a view to drastically changing its remit. People tried to change NUST into something else, and it failed because they didn't have the backing of a majority of members. Maybe that makes NUST more pedestrian than you want it to be, but it's what the membership, the people who have signed up and paid, want. If we're going down the mad analogy route, then your stance is like wanting the National Trust to stop climate change, and then describing them as not fit for purpose. At the heart of this though, is a fanbase turning in on itself. Which I think is a symptom of fans feeling impotent when going up against Ashley, the club, the league, the FA, the government. I should say, that despite my defence of NUST, I would still support more radical protesting of all those things.
  8. I'm just an ordinary member. Not mates with anyone on the board. I just know what I signed up to. A supporters trust with a democratically elected board, who purpose is to reflect the wishes of its members. If the membership is unhappy with the board and leadership, they will be replaced by the democratic process. I'm not twerking for anyone, but if that thought excites you, bash on. If communicating that Bruce isn't popular isn't enough, then what do you want them to do exactly? And have you joined and voiced this opinion?
  9. I think even the most passively interested football fan knows that we want Ashley out. The trust have repeatedly reported the dissatisfaction of its members with the running of the club. They write letters (some you might not see) on a regular basis. They petition the appropriate authorities (i.e. the Review of Football Governance). They are polling their membership for sentiment around Bruce at the moment, and I don't doubt that that will feed into some sort of communication with the club. They have to respect the will of the membership. They can't just shoot from the hip.
  10. I've handed over £1. The membership has a cost (an extremely low one) as to avoid being spammed by ilegitimate members (i.e. mackems just signing up to mess with polls and surveys). I know we're in a shit time as a country financially, and I don't want to downplay that £1 might be a lot of money to some folk, but it is just £1, a year. So I think I have got something out of my £1. Even if I hadn't, its a democratic system, where the trust are beholden to their membership. If they bow to outside pressure, what exactly is the point in having members? Members clearly do influence decision making in NUST and that is only right.
  11. NUST can't be an aggressive protest group. It's not within their remit. They are a members driven trust, with a democratically elected board, who have to abide by certain rules to continue being part of the FSA and to be seen as a legitimate entity when talking to the FA, the Government, the PL etc. They are there to represent the views of their members in the best way they can. If people want an aggressive protest group, unbeholden to rules and decorum, then start a bloody protest group. No one every claimed NUST was that, ever. If you want a group that's going to blockade buses, invade the pitch, throw tennis balls, picket the PL office, bombard media outlets etc, then start or join a group that can be that. I honestly despair at the shit people get for giving up their free time. They were elected. They are not paid. They are doing what they can out of love for the club. And they get pelters for it. And by the way, other voices on Social media do have a business interest in their "fan advocacy", they literally are making money out of it - but the same brigade calling NUST no good, worship the ground that these "true fans" walk on. Give your head a wobble if you fall into that category.
  12. But their stance is that they've merely applied their own Rules and Regulations, to which NUFC signed up to. There is an agreed process to handle disputes; the arbitration process, to which NUFC also have signed up to. The legitimacy of our CAT claim seems to hang on the fact that SJHL (erroneously) didn't sign up to the PL Rules and Regs themselves, but rather NUFC and Mike Ashley did. The fact that NUL, SJHL and MASH sit between those two entities in a legal straight line of hierarchy meant that there was no "horizontal" contract constituting an agreement from SJHL. So our case is reliant on SJHL being legally separate to NUFC and Mike Ashley, and hence no beholden to the rules. Which seems an oddly inductive state of argument as the whole fucking mess is about the legal separation of PIF, PZ Newco and the KSA state. Again, I point to the fact that this has become a legal battle of technicalities, which has no moral or emotive reasoning attached to it. Fans are just left in the middle hoping for the best.
  13. I should also say, that on balance, I kind of agreed with the PL, regarding a stay for the CAT case. If arbitration goes in our favour, then why would CAT continue to be an issue. NUFC signed up to the PL Rules and Regs, and part of that is following the arbitration rules. We're trying to sneak out of them by saying "but but but, SJHL didn't technically sign up to them", even though we know they should have. If I wasn't a football fan, and especially an NUFC fan, I'd probably side with the PL on the basis that we are in an arbitration process that needs to be resolved, and we signed up to that process. Don't get me wrong, I think the PL are a corrupt pit of self serving lizards, but I think they have a case to get this thrown out. I hope to high heaven I am wrong. Also, this whole thing has dragged on now so much that I'm starting to be less pro-consortium, on the basis that MA has had (as per reveal in yesterdays proceedings) other "serious offers" on the table. So we are currently swirling the PL toilet bowl with the likely flush of relegation coming, in order to hold out for the consortium who are fighting a legal technicality. At this point, I'd take a new sensible and less wealthy owner, if it meant change came sooner and the long term survival of the club wasn't being risked. I don't think we bounce back from a 3rd relegation, and I don't see KSA buying a Championship club. So I feel like we're putting everything on this takeover - it's oblivion or ascension, no inbetween. That is a shit place to be as a fan. The current NUFC owner is massively responsible for that, the PL are responsible for that, and for me so are the consortium. If they walked away proper, then another buyer can step in. As it stands we are in an enforced limbo as a club, and have become a political football. Fans ultimately are being shown to not matter, to anyone.
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