Time to tip everyone - some tough choices this weekend I reckon https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/
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2010 - the player who took over was Lee Westwood for 17 weeks followed by Kaymer, Westwood, Donald, McIlroy - a golden period for European golf. In fact no American was number 1 again until Woods in 2013.
2014 - the player who took over was Adam Scott for 11 weeks followed by Rory for a year before Spieth first hit number 1.
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@DaGrubster said in EPL 2023/2024:
This is a quote from Michael Oliver from a few years ago. I’m not sure if the same rules apply at the moment but you can see why Nottingham Forest were able to raise questions about the allegiance of the VAR official.
"I never referee Newcastle games. We have to declare if we have an allegiance to any club or if a family member works at a club. You can’t do any match involving that team and I can’t do Sunderland, either, for obvious reasons.
"Because Newcastle are invariably involved in a relegation battle, when you get to March or April, it means I can’t referee anyone around them towards the bottom three.
"If Newcastle needed a point to survive and the team they were fighting to get above was say Villa, I couldn’t referee Villa’s game either. I wouldn’t want to. It’s not worth the hassle."
No idea if the same rules apply for the ref in charge of VAR - they aren't meant to be making the decisions as such, such decide whether to refer back to ref to make a call. Or draw lines and not entirely sure how much control they have over that and how much is automatic.
I should at this point state that I am a Notts County fan and we are duty-bound to dislike the mob from across the Trent. But Forest have been hard to like this season (bar Chris Wood) for their whining and employing of a ref - and complaining about their points penalty having spent a ridiculous amount last season.
Liverpool are out of the title race now unless both Arsenal and City slip up more than once - Liverpool's maximum is 86 points and given the relative goal difference, they would need Arse to get 8 points from 4 games and City 9 from 5 to finish above them.
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@mariner4life said in Golf:
ok so who was good then for a bit, but would be a surprising choice.
Vijay?
Some rando who i remember having an awesome run like Davis Love III?
Vijay is correct. He took over from Tiger in 2004 and then they swapped it between them a few times until Tiger's 2005 run.
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@mariner4life said in Golf:
wait, no it won't, he would have been before that 99-04 stint
Spot on - Tiger went on his 99-04 run having taken over from Duval.
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
hhhmmm, trying to think, Phil, Bubba and Els spring to mind, but not sure, will have to think on that.
In my best clickbait voice "The answers may surprise you!"
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@taniwharugby said in Golf:
@KiwiPie and the issue with Shuffler right now, is there will always be a bit of an asterisk next to him name given he is rarely playing Koepka, Rahm etc.
Sure he likely would still be winning what he is winning, but the WGR do have a bit of a gap with the LIV stuff.
I saw a stat recently saying Shuffler would need to stay #1 for the next 500 weeks or so to match Tigers reign, which is pretty astounding.
Tiger at number 1 - his long reigns, he reached number 1 eleven times.
264 weeks from August 1999 to September 2004.
281 weeks from June 2005 to October 2010.
60 weeks from March 2013 to May 2014.683 weeks in total - over 13 years! Scheffler has done 84 weeks already, another decade at number 1 and he will be getting close! He's already at number 6 for weeks at number 1 (after Woods, Norman, Johnson, McIlroy, Faldo) and as you say, without the LIV golfers, it's an easier feat.
Bonus point if you can name the 3 different men who were next number 1 at the end of those 3 reigns. I'll post the answers today some time.
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There have been a few golfers since Tiger's long period of dominance who have briefly threatened to take over. Rory, Spieth, Koepka maybe - but their supremacy soon faded and they fell back into the pack of contenders again. It only needs one part of your game to become shaky and you cannot dominate consistently.
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@DaGrubster said in EPL 2023/2024:
Forest raised the objection of having the VAR involved as he was a known Luton fan. (All refs are meant to declare their allegiances) it was ignored and then they were fucked over by him (in their eyes).
That was the outrageous part of their social media posting 5 minutes after the game - they have since walked that back but too late. The fact that he is supposedly a Luton fan is no reason to remove him from that game - where would it end? What about if he was a Burnley fan? You would quickly be ruling out officials for all sorts of games.
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@Bovidae said in EPL 2023/2024:
An important win, and good for the GD.
Arsenal definitely aren't losing the title on goal difference. Not unless something truly bizarre happens.
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It also shows that Forest are owned by a Greek mogul and trying to control the referees is his modus operandi
Hence Forest employing celebrity referee Mark Clattenburg as a "consultant".
It doesn't mean they don't have a point about the system but insinuating that the VAR official was biased as he is a Luton fan is going way too far - and wouldn't a Luton fan have preferred a draw in that game.
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All the results are up for the weekend https://thesilverfern.com/tipping/
Another tricky week for tipping - most tippers picked 3/4 but there were hardly any margin picks. The exception was @voodoo who had 3 maximums as well as 2 category picks for the best of 55. @sportboy passed 50 yet again picking 4/4 as did Fiamacho and @Hurrycanes. Worst was Rico#1 with just 7.5 and 1/4. Missing tippers were @Tim @Joan-and-Mary @frugby @SouthernMann
Overall Victor retains the lead with Waynes World half a point behind and Triple T just a point back in 3rd - it's very close at the top. Kirwan and Bart round out the top 5, Fiamacho is up to 7th.
Barbarians have probably already sealed their top 4 spot with their 9th win in a row but then there are 6 teams separated by just 7 points and fighting it our for the other play-off spots - South Island have 3 wins in 4 games after losing their first 5.
(@OomPB has already tipped early this morning before the new tipping form was made live - please resubmit now the new form is live)
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Nothing like a historic late winner in an FA Cup semi-final being disallowed for a narrow offside after huge celebrating - it does suck the joy out of watching football. Why did the EPL turn down the semi-automated offside being used at the World Cup? At least that decision arrives fast enough.
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Don't forget to tip - last week of just 4 matches, back to the full programme next week https://thesilverfern.com/tipping-submit/
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@bayimports Yes Palmer 20 goals with 9 pens, Solanker 17 with 1 pen, Watkins zero pens. Good performance by young Chris Wood there.
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@African-Monkey They could all be gone by this time tomorrow - in which case it is pretty certain (apparently) that Germany will get a 5th UCL place and Villa and Spurs and head to head to get 4th
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@DaGrubster said in EPL 2023/2024:
One of the buys of the season that is for sure.
And potentially young player of the season/golden boot!
England do have a real crop of young talent at the moment.
Top scorer list without including penalties - if the season stopped now, Watkins is my golden boot winner.
Watkins 19
Solanke 16
Haaland 16
Bowen 15
Foden 14
Son 14
Isak 13
Salah 12
Wood 12
Palmer 11
Nunez 11 -
Saw the highlights of the Chelsea game and Palmer looked like he was being controlled by a FIFA 23 expert with the defenders being controlled by a novice - he just seems to have so much time to do exactly what he wants. I did presume that when City sold him, there must have been a reason - you can see why they sold Sterling, Zhinchenko and Gabriel Jesus - but maybe the bid was too generous for a novice and the player wanted to go. Palmer seems to play in his own bubble and not be affected by the general chaos around him.
That penalty fiasco reminds me of when Swansea won the League Cup by beating Bradford and Nathan Dyer wanted to get his hat-trick with a penalty when they were leading 3-0
That was an awful display of petulance - souring what was (and will probably always be) Swansea's only major trophy victory.
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@bayimports I think Man U's penalty probably was a pen as Smith made a move towards the ball with his arm - undeserved though as United did nothing in the 2nd half. The overturned pen for Bournemouth just about correct as well if you go strictly from when contact was initiated. Unlucky for Bournemouth though, so much the better team.
Ten Hag lives in his own delusional world with his post match comments - he just complains about their bad luck and how they could be in the top 4 race - I reckon he is lucky they are as high as they are.
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What's even more remarkable about Alonso at Leverkusen is that he took over in October 2022 with them 2nd from last and took them to a Europa League spot. They are unbeaten all season in 2023/24 so far - League, Cup (final to be played) and Europa League (into the semis if West Ham can't get past them).
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