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How many of us are on their site? It's just so tempting.
 
munksyb said:
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It’s like a tinpot version of the Russian infiltration on social media. Pigs think if they give themselves a name which is either a play on words for a Blades player, or just literally the name of a Blades player, they’ll fit in. I’ve no idea how hard it is to join the forum and think Foxy and Linz do a cracking job of running it anyway but it did make me wonder if it could be made harder to sign up.
 
Given how many of the SnortBeasts were watching us on Saturday, it’s hardly a surprise. Pig at work who usually never mentions football (tick) happened to ask if I enjoyed Wembley. Also a mention of attendance (tick). Strangely enough, a Norwich fan on the call was taking the piss out of him for a Blades match being the highlight of his season.
 
LondonBlade89 said:
It’s like a tinpot version of the Russian infiltration on social media. Pigs think if they give themselves a name which is either a play on words for a Blades player, or just literally the name of a Blades player, they’ll fit in. I’ve no idea how hard it is to join the forum and think Foxy and Linz do a cracking job of running it anyway but it did make me wonder if it could be made harder to sign up
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200 loyalty points or your out 😂
 
LondonBlade89 said:
It’s like a tinpot version of the Russian infiltration on social media. Pigs think if they give themselves a name which is either a play on words for a Blades player, or just literally the name of a Blades player, they’ll fit in. I’ve no idea how hard it is to join the forum and think Foxy and Linz do a cracking job of running it anyway but it did make me wonder if it could be made harder to sign up.
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The best way to fit in is to constantly complain about how rubbish our manager and players are, something a visiting Wednesday fan would be doing anyway!

To quote Orwell: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
 
Chimpan-A said:
The best way to fit in is to constantly complain about how rubbish our manager and players are, something a visiting Wednesday fan would be doing anyway!

To quote Orwell: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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Just for clarity, using your example, is the man a Blade and the pig a pig? If so, I disagree with Orwell. You can definitely see the difference.
 
The Bohemian said:
Just for clarity, using your example, is the man a Blade and the pig a pig? If so, I disagree with Orwell. You can definitely see the difference.
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The point is that you can’t tell, based on what they post, if both are posting negative content about players and manager.
 

Chimpan-A said:
To quote Orwell: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
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Ne'er knew he was a Blade. I knew him who wrote Lord of the Flies was though.
 
raimond said:
Ne'er knew he was a Blade. I knew him who wrote Lord of the Flies was though.
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Think it fair to say he wasn't a fan of Sheffield.

"Even Wigan is beautiful compared with Sheffield.

Sheffield, I suppose, could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World: its inhabitants, who want it to be pre-eminent in everything, very likely do make that claim for it. It has a population of half a million and it contains fewer decent buildings than the average East Anglian village of five hundred. And the stench! If at rare moments you stop smelling sulphur it is because you have begun smelling gas. Even the shallow river that runs through the town is-usually bright yellow with some chemical or other. Once I halted in the street and counted the factory chimneys I could see; there were thirty-three of them, but there would have been far more if the air had not been obscured by smoke. One scene especially lingers in my mind. A frightful patch of waste ground (somehow, up there, a patch of waste ground attains a squalor that would be impossible even in London) trampled bare of grass and littered with newspapers and old saucepans. To the right an isolated row of gaunt four-roomed houses, dark red, blackened by smoke. To the left an interminable vista of factory chimneys, chimney beyond chimney, fading away into a dim blackish haze. Behind me a railway embankment made of the slag from furnaces. In front, across the patch of waste ground, a cubical building of red and yellow brick, with the sign ‘Thomas Grocock, Haulage Contractor’.

At night, when you cannot see the hideous shapes of the houses and the blackness of everything, a town like Sheffield assumes a kind of sinister magnificence. Sometimes the drifts of smoke are rosy with sulphur, and serrated flames, like circular saws, squeeze themselves out from beneath the cowls of the foundry chimneys. Through the open doors of foundries you see fiery serpents of iron being hauled to and fro by redlit boys, and you hear the whizz and thump of steam hammers and the scream of the iron under the blow. The pottery towns are almost equally ugly in a pettier way. Right in among the rows of tiny blackened houses, part of the street as it were, are the ‘pot banks’—conical brick chimneys like gigantic burgundy bottles buried in the soil and belching their smoke almost in your face. You come upon monstrous clay chasms hundreds of feet across and almost as deep, with little rusty tubs creeping on chain railways up one side, and on the other workmen clinging like samphire-gatherers and cutting into the face of the cliff with their picks. I passed that way in snowy weather, and even the snow was black. The best thing one can say for the pottery towns is that they are fairly small and stop abruptly. Less than ten miles away you can stand in un-defiled country, on the almost naked hills, and the pottery towns are only a smudge in the distance.

When you contemplate such ugliness as this, there are two questions that strike you. First, is it inevitable? Secondly, does it matter?"
 
Well, thanks for that...

It didn't matter about pigs saying anything, weve managed to cheer them up yet again, most of us knew we would and travelled down all the same, knowing we'd have egg on our faces again all summer... cheers chris for the second half defending show..

What surprised me is the neutrals, none of them were wanting us to win, possibly because the damage weve done to our reputation with the batterings we took last time, ans some because we're seen as a thugs team now...

But, I (and I'm not alone) think the powers that be still have it in for us after taking them to task them over tevez, If Sunderland had scored that goal on Saturday, there wouldn't have been a VAR judgement, it would have stood.

That is one of the most bent decisions we've ever seen, we can put it alongside the Villa goal where the goalie is holding the ball behind the post, and the Lundstram 6 foot long toenail at Tottenham..

Co-incidence?
 
Tezza1889 said:
Co-incidence?
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Yes

Tevez was nearly 20 years ago FFS

Offside was harsh, but I’d have been screaming for it other way round

Villa was shit, but fuck ups happen, Villa vs Man U Sunday?

Problem with loads on here is always the victim

We could have used the VAR decision as motivation to score again, but we backed off and invited the predictable
 
I’m a bigger blade than McCabe me and if you were at Swindon 5-5 second half open terrace like me you are too
 
I think if those on here who are claiming our second should've been chalked off and would have been screaming for it to be if Sunderland had scored it, they should go and try finding similar examples of goals volleyed in after a cleared corner, with a random player in an offside position but not obstructing the goalie's view, and put some stats up of how many stood versus ruled out.
Ours would I imagine be very much an outlier most would not even be checked with VAR.
Any goal we scored where VAR is in play takes 10 minutes to review looking for the smallest excuse to rule it out. It's as bent as fuck.
 
LondonBlade89 said:
It’s like a tinpot version of the Russian infiltration on social media. Pigs think if they give themselves a name which is either a play on words for a Blades player, or just literally the name of a Blades player, they’ll fit in. I’ve no idea how hard it is to join the forum and think Foxy and Linz do a cracking job of running it anyway but it did make me wonder if it could be made harder to sign up.
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Sign up criteria…

Were you there for Port Vale at home…
 
Gordon Freeman said:
Think it fair to say he wasn't a fan of Sheffield.

"Even Wigan is beautiful compared with Sheffield.

Sheffield, I suppose, could justly claim to be called the ugliest town in the Old World: its inhabitants, who want it to be pre-eminent in everything, very likely do make that claim for it. It has a population of half a million and it contains fewer decent buildings than the average East Anglian village of five hundred. And the stench! If at rare moments you stop smelling sulphur it is because you have begun smelling gas. Even the shallow river that runs through the town is-usually bright yellow with some chemical or other. Once I halted in the street and counted the factory chimneys I could see; there were thirty-three of them, but there would have been far more if the air had not been obscured by smoke. One scene especially lingers in my mind. A frightful patch of waste ground (somehow, up there, a patch of waste ground attains a squalor that would be impossible even in London) trampled bare of grass and littered with newspapers and old saucepans. To the right an isolated row of gaunt four-roomed houses, dark red, blackened by smoke. To the left an interminable vista of factory chimneys, chimney beyond chimney, fading away into a dim blackish haze. Behind me a railway embankment made of the slag from furnaces. In front, across the patch of waste ground, a cubical building of red and yellow brick, with the sign ‘Thomas Grocock, Haulage Contractor’.

At night, when you cannot see the hideous shapes of the houses and the blackness of everything, a town like Sheffield assumes a kind of sinister magnificence. Sometimes the drifts of smoke are rosy with sulphur, and serrated flames, like circular saws, squeeze themselves out from beneath the cowls of the foundry chimneys. Through the open doors of foundries you see fiery serpents of iron being hauled to and fro by redlit boys, and you hear the whizz and thump of steam hammers and the scream of the iron under the blow. The pottery towns are almost equally ugly in a pettier way. Right in among the rows of tiny blackened houses, part of the street as it were, are the ‘pot banks’—conical brick chimneys like gigantic burgundy bottles buried in the soil and belching their smoke almost in your face. You come upon monstrous clay chasms hundreds of feet across and almost as deep, with little rusty tubs creeping on chain railways up one side, and on the other workmen clinging like samphire-gatherers and cutting into the face of the cliff with their picks. I passed that way in snowy weather, and even the snow was black. The best thing one can say for the pottery towns is that they are fairly small and stop abruptly. Less than ten miles away you can stand in un-defiled country, on the almost naked hills, and the pottery towns are only a smudge in the distance.

When you contemplate such ugliness as this, there are two questions that strike you. First, is it inevitable? Secondly, does it matter?"
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Yes, but I bet he went on a cold rainy day. It’s lovely in summer!
 
vas borbokis said:
I think if those on here who are claiming our second should've been chalked off and would have been screaming for it to be if Sunderland had scored it, they should go and try finding similar examples of goals volleyed in after a cleared corner, with a random player in an offside position but not obstructing the goalie's view, and put some stats up of how many stood versus ruled out.
Ours would I imagine be very much an outlier most would not even be checked with VAR.
Any goal we scored where VAR is in play takes 10 minutes to review looking for the smallest excuse to rule it out. It's as bent as fuck.
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I am a blade through and through and it's not a who is a bigger blade contest here however when I was younger, I would be blaming the referee for x,y,z, I say I grew up in the Warnock era although I went to my first games in the Mid '90s, my first long term manager was Warnock. I started going with mates rather than family and travelling away throughout that era and beyond and into league 1 etc. After settling down and watching, I pointed out on the forum with the screenshots (and I was there at the game) in theory going by the Laws of the Game is the referee right.... Yes..... Do I agree with VAR (not under it's current guise) for me personally the Laws of the Game are too grey. When you are looking at line of vision and interfering with play, there is no context as to, is line of vision where the keeper in this case is directly looking forwards? or does this extend to peripheral vision? or just physically looking at? With interfering with play, with it being a keeper is it the potential of where he could dive for a save baring in mind Souza was only 3 yards to his left in an offside position which in this case is reasonable to assume that is what the referee is going at.

If there wasn't VAR in place however the goal is given and can pretty much guarantee like you say there will be loads of goals a season that VAR could be interfering with that haven't. By "communicating" to the crowd as the referee didn't actually make it anymore clearer, as it wasn't exactly a full explanation saying Souza was within x distance of the keeper and therefore interfering with play or Souza is in the peripheral vision (as he was level with the keeper).
 
LBA_Blade said:
I am a blade through and through and it's not a who is a bigger blade contest here however when I was younger, I would be blaming the referee for x,y,z, I say I grew up in the Warnock era although I went to my first games in the Mid '90s, my first long term manager was Warnock. I started going with mates rather than family and travelling away throughout that era and beyond and into league 1 etc. After settling down and watching, I pointed out on the forum with the screenshots (and I was there at the game) in theory going by the Laws of the Game is the referee right.... Yes..... Do I agree with VAR (not under it's current guise) for me personally the Laws of the Game are too grey. When you are looking at line of vision and interfering with play, there is no context as to, is line of vision where the keeper in this case is directly looking forwards? or does this extend to peripheral vision? or just physically looking at? With interfering with play, with it being a keeper is it the potential of where he could dive for a save baring in mind Souza was only 3 yards to his left in an offside position which in this case is reasonable to assume that is what the referee is going at.

If there wasn't VAR in place however the goal is given and can pretty much guarantee like you say there will be loads of goals a season that VAR could be interfering with that haven't. By "communicating" to the crowd as the referee didn't actually make it anymore clearer, as it wasn't exactly a full explanation saying Souza was within x distance of the keeper and therefore interfering with play or Souza is in the peripheral vision (as he was level with the keeper).
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Go to 3.30 in that video. Pretty similar as player is offside, then kind of crosses the vision line.

Goal stands.

Patterson was unsighted by many players. Vini was almost utterly immaterial to the outcome.

German ref says it was tight but keeper saw the initial shot and is not getting to it, anyway.

Ergo: They decide as they please. You can always justify anything. But some swallow the shit show on the premise of a concept of justice that NEVER can exist when half of the tightest decisions are down to opinion.

I remember year 1 where the excusesologists said offside is black and white. No it isn’t. Even that, along with pens, hand balls, clear goal scoring chance is softened up to allow whatever the game needs.

City were going to win the cup anyway. Let’s not send Deano off.

The 200 million game? That shouldn’t be done and dusted after 35 minutes. We can chalk this off.

The one thing worse than VAR are the people clinging on to the concept it is fair, better and WANTS to be consistent. It doesn’t and isn’t.

It is designed as a situational tool for controversy and TV discussions.
 
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ChrisBlade said:


Go to 3.30 in that video. Pretty similar as player is offside, then kind of crosses the vision line.

Goal stands.

Patterson was unsighted by many players. Vini was almost utterly immaterial to the outcome.

German ref says it was tight but keeper saw the initial shot and is not getting to it, anyway.

Ergo: They decide as they please. You can always justify anything. But some swallow the shit show on the premise of a concept of justice that NEVER can exist when half of the tightest decisions are down to opinion.

I remember year 1 where the excusesologists said offside is black and white. No it isn’t. Even that, along with pens, hand balls, clear goal scoring chance is softened up to allow whatever the game needs.

City were going to win the cup anyway. Let’s not send Deano off.

The 200 million game? That shouldn’t be done and dusted after 35 minutes. We can chalk this off.

The one thing worse than VAR are the people clinging on to the concept it is fair, better and WANTS to be consistent. It doesn’t and isn’t.

It is designed as a situational tool for controversy and TV discussions.
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And as an aside: a week on, I prefer our league to the Prem because of VAR.

But I am staggered how many of our fans - a club that was the guinea pig for several rule changes for VAR back then - who have suffered an extraordinary amount of VAR oops, sorry, yep, needs a tweak moments - still view it as as an addition to football that is given a conceptual second chance.

It should not be. It kills the experience and shifts the feeling of quick anger at incompetence into discussions of willful inconsistency or bias. On top of killing goal celebrations- a fundamental unacceptable trade off not worth it even if they hypothetically were to get 100% correct.
 

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