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40 minutes ago, LaSambadeStGermain said:

I actually don't know but that was an example. Basically my point with it was that I believe referees could still make errors in their decisions with video technology. I don't watch rugby league so I couldn't tell you about the forward passes or the rules of video technology. What I can tell you is that the offside rule shouldn't be bent to pander to that. Of he's off side when he receives the ball, it shouldn't be a penalty.

 

Yes, referee's could still make errors, video technology isn't completely definitive, at the end of the day, it's still a human decision after reviewing whatever incident. Rugby League won't rule on forward passes because with all the angles on offer to the video referee, each shot can be deceptive and the decision can take much longer to rule upon. I'm sure there would be certain things the video refs in Football couldn't rule upon. The rules haven't been changed in Rugby League to pander to the video referee system and any video ref system in Football wouldn't have any rules changed.

1 hour ago, LaSambadeStGermain said:

Maybe it won't kill the game but it will damage it. Since the beginning of time we've had to deal with bad referee's. It could profit all it can in other sports all it wants but I am pretty certain that it will just hurt the game.

 

It was used at the club world cup, and the main example was the Atletico Nacional vs Kashima Antlers game. They used video technology to give Kashima a penalty for a player who was clearly offside but yet they did not see that and only saw the foul so it won't perfect referee errors, if improve it at all. Would also be a massive waste of time in a sport where the clock doesn't stop and the officials decide the added time at the end.

From my point of view, video technology isn't necessary and would just make the sport worse. I don't mind goal line technology as that actually guarantees to correct a referee error, video technology won't guarantee that.

I don't know about other sports but in Rugby League, the video referees cannot rule on forward passes so was the video ref in that match you mention allowed to rule on offsides? 

11 minutes ago, LaSambadeStGermain said:

- Universitario de Deportes are a bigger club than Leicester City (keep the term in mind. Bigger, not better)

What's your definition of 'bigger' though?

Ebbsfleet United to win to nil (vs Bishop's Stortford) 5/6 £5 returned £9.17

It ended 8-0 to Ebbsfleet. 

Had an inner ear infection myself, absolutely horrible. My balance was all over the place for a week or so. Get well Dickie.

Going to Rome in April with the girlfriend. It's her birthday present but somewhere I want to go as well so it's worked out well. 

Apart from that, I've got nothing else booked up but I'm planning another weekend abroad later in the year and a trip to Europe for Football in September/October. I also quite fancy Cologne again to see FC Köln but I'll see what happens with that. 

Swindon Town v Sheffield Unitee

Blackpool v Stevenage

Sutton United v Forest Green Rovers

Over 1.5 Goals - £10 returns £21. 

Won £4.40 from a £2 stake betting in play yesterday that there would be a goal in the first half of the Morecambe v Yeovil game. 

Also won £13.82 from a £2 treble on Rugby League today. My day would have been topped off superbly if the 14/1 shot I had in the Rugby League would have hung on for two more minutes but instead they had a man sent-off and conceded on the final whistle to lose. 

I'd have Celtic and Rangers in the Premier League. 

Doncaster Rovers v Cheltenham Tow

Luton Town v Stevenage

Forfar Athletic v Edinburgh City

Over 1.5 Goals - £5 returns £11.02

Never looked too much into the A-League but I do know the MLS has been a goldmine for goals in the past. I also think Scotland is pretty good for goals as well, there always seems to some fairly high scoring games there. 

I just stick with Over 1.5 Goals betting these days. I've tried the silly accumulators that might come off once a season if I'm lucky and the smaller trebles or four folds that aren't much better but I find I'm quite successful with an Over 1.5 Goals treble that, more often than not, comes in in excess of Even money. This isn't going to make me a millionaire but I'm fairly consistently doubling my stake money on a Saturday, which I'm more than happy with. I could add games to my vet and go bigger than a treble but I think that's greedy and hardly worth the risk. 

I usually do my own research into O1.5 goals and actually find it quite rewarding when it works, which is nearly every week. I think I've not won once in the last eight trebles I've placed.