[Lord Snooty]

Ball Boy or Brooky the kit man to be thrown under the bus for this one?

There was a spare ball out there. When the ball went into the Kilner Bank, a ball boy threw a different ball back. It happened again, later in the second half. So now the correct ball is back in play.

However, the ref now intervenes and kicks that ball off, the correct one. A new one comes on from the halfway line.

So, has the ball boy picked up a rogue ball, maybe one that was left over from the warm up or even last week's dizzy penalties? Or has Brooky given the 4th official a rogue ball?

Are all the balls Hawk Eye balls with the chips in?

Or is it something completely different?

[theo_luddite]

All the balls have the "chip" in them. For some reason the "chip" in this one stopped sending signals when it went into Blackpool goal area - well according to the bollox from Hawkeye, Hawk-eye or shit-in-me-eyes what ever they call themselves. How does it suddenly stop being tracked when it was tracked all over the pitch whenever it was put into play? Don't put the blame on our staff for a failure of technology and the useless PGMOL officials for their collective failure. Still no excuse for the blind mice not to see it. xxxx me how far over the line do you have to be with the ball in your hands, especially the blind mouse with the flag on our side of the pitch?

[Lord Snooty]

Cricket, tennis, rugby, hockey and many other sports have all used the available technology with very few mistakes.

How on earth can football, the richest sport in the world, consistently get it wrong so many times?

[Lord Snooty]

Nicely written tribute to Eleanor Haigh.

"Eleanor passed away close to her adopted home in Manchester at Salford Royal Hospital in the early afternoon of Friday 2 September after significant damage to her brain was caused by a short and wholly unexpected battle with an infection that shared the characteristics of meningitis or encephalitis."

https://www.htafc.com/news/2022/septembe...nor-haigh/

[jjamez]

Do the balls have chips in? The cricket and tennis balls don't, so I don't see why football would

[theo_luddite]

How else do they track them? Them little balls is too small, covered by cameras. Football should be the same but they don't use the same technology

[Lord Snooty]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal-line_technology

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Cricket and tennis does the ball's predicted path.

[theo_luddite]

We've loads of camera positions but they only ever have cameras in them when we're on the tellybox. You can't monitor the exact position of the ball from the one official camera on the day in the Kilner Bank (or whatever it's now called) like on Sunday. Tennis and cricket need at least 3 cameras and likely have far more for accurate ball tracking. Shite-in-the-eyes (aka Hawk-Eye) have already said their system stopped tracking the ball in the Blackpool goal area. The questions are how and why? The question to the EFL is how can the game be fair when you rely on failing technology and then award the match points based on this bollox? It surely should be replayed with or without this technology and everyone in full knowledge of this.

This is two games v Blackpool and one v Forest (worth far more) where we've been on the end of a piss poor ref, so called technology and crap EFL decisions. It seems to becoming a bit of a habit on their behalf.

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After that rant, Eleanor Haigh seems to have made one helluva'n impression on everyone that met her in the short time she was around whether it's Town's young un's, the "Press" or visiting clubs.

[WakeyTerrier]

They're not going to replay the game on the back of one failure /mistake. We've been diddled, it happens every now and again. We just have to accept it and move on

[theo_luddite]

They won't replay it because it's Huddersfield v Blackpool. If it were Liverpool v Man City there would be a whole different discussion going on.

But then again, they've got VAR which gets everything right doesn't it? Oh, hang on a minute.