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See his other tweets mate. He's a statistician/researcher for Opta (or used to be) so probably has better access than anyone else to all the pool of data to scour through!

Fantastic news. Hope this doesn't make people complacent especially up to and during Xmas though thinking they can do whatever they want just because a vaccine, for up to 20m people, is now available.. It's not a license for that but it is the most promising sign of beating this virus since it took over. Very well done to all the scientists and researchers and volunteers involved. Hope more vaccines can follow soon.

@Toinho is from Perth. Definitely saw him in a red dress in that video.

Trying to work out what's happening here and I'm lost line going down Watkins' left sleeve Blue line going from edge of sleeve of West Ham player Watkins is being fouled/held That rule they brought in about a point on the upper arm being used as a barometer for what's legal or not was always destined to fail - the addition of using sleeves as some kind of measure to help with that doesn't help either considering sleeves will move about during any moment in the game and aren't going to be in the same spot on each player as we see above. This is partly what I was on about earlier as well. The angle of this still doesn't help as it alters the perspective of what it would look like if it was level and it might actually clear up the confusion we both have. The more I look at the above the more confused I get

Yep. 4 home games against Burnley, Villa, West Ham, Fulham. Only 3 points return from them is shocking for where we want to be and break in the top 4/6 regularly as a club. It's just not good enough. It happened last season around this time of year. Dropped points at home to Norwich (and lost away), Southampton, Brighton, Burnley away, Watford away, Bournemouth away (the worst collapse you'll see in a game for a while). Just has to be better, simple as. It renders games like the Man City, Arsenal & Leeds victories pointless. Negates the good work we do when we lose games, especially at home, to sides we should be beating.

This is literally us One extreme to the other.

Was Suarez' ban longer at that time because of previous offences? I can't remember what order he did all his shit so not sure if the racist staff was after any biting incidents. As above, context is probably key.

Think there was plenty of conversation just about totally different stuff (not VAR officials). Ironically offside decisions, penalty decisions, red cards. There's probably no way to actually evidence whether there was less chat during or post-game. Plenty of contentious decisions were chatted about. What is frustrating VAR was hopefully going to limit the controversies and cause less 'debate' or arguments about it. Definitely not done that!

Because the angles have to be right and sometimes the perspective isn't there from certain angles. Ideally, for the above to work without lines, we'd need the kind of cameras they have at the Olympics in 100m races which moves on a bar to determine, at the end if necessary, who wins a race if it's very close to being level. My point being that you have to have cameras in line with the last line of defence/or above the linesman moving constantly. At the moment we have an aerial angle on most VAR pictures which could show a player to be on/off but bring it down to a level that's actually in line with the players/linesman and it can be a totally different picture.

But we've seen VAR overturn decisions, correctly in my view either for defenders/attackers, that have been incorrectly made by an on-field referee. On top of that, we've seen referees being made to look at monitors when the decision is quite clear to make from the VAR official - this wastes further time. I don't mind offsides being looked at again, but not to the extent they're being looked at now and games being delayed for 2-3 minutes sometimes. If there's even a doubt it should be looked at, then let a VAR official look at it. I don't understand why an on-field referee is told to look at offside decisions on a monitor - he's not going to see anything different from what the VAR official sees, is he?

Yes but only after everyone else in a higher priority has had access to it.

Same. The length of time taken for some decisions is negatively affecting how VAR is perceived. Delay of the game isn't great from a fan's perspective. How do you decide what length of time to give refs though? And does that factor in allowing referees to see their decisions on a monitor too?

Struggle with the short ball so badly. Aus set up well to coax our players in playing them.

We do like to make it hard for ourselves in the first ODI now this one. Australia generally tough to beat on home turf though, even if there has been the odd defeat recently.

Is that for this season?

Fantastic end. I don't follow Rugby League much at all but even so you can still see the drama. Like someone who doesn't follow football and sees the 'Aguerroooooo' goal against QPR. Love it.

That's more like it. As you were

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This bit is done! @Rab can do the rest!

Look at him Am embarrassment

Just seen R rate is now between 0.9 and 1. Hope it stays that way. Points towards this latest lockdown working?