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He has to earn his place after the few games Daka has had.

Coady had to start getting more involved in time. I presume Souttar will be off in January (and to the Pacific cup i think). Justin has played a lot of games and i think they will be managing his game time more than others, so Faes is the one who comes on that left side. Its a game or so too early for Doyle to start.

He's played once in the last 5 days! You cant expect more from him surely!!! Probably did his shoulder in pulling a cracker.

Lets do this!

Always thought he was seen as an interim appointment, and expect him to be gone soon.

Best team in the league

1 win in 4 for Leeds. I don't get it. If there are the best team in the division why do they keep on messing up?

Gerrrrrinn!

Not watching this one (watching Leeds as they are the best team in history), but the recent forest games i saw under Cooper they looked terrible. Nuno is a poor appointment, and i think if Luton can take Sheffield today they are in big big trouble.

Preston can't finish.

Were we? I honestly couldn't fully remember where we were and just checked that Brendan took over of the 26th Feb 2019 and we were 12th, on 32 points 8 points above relegation. Cardiff ended up relegated 3rd from bottom on 34 points. We would have had to have gone on an 11 game run getting less that 2 points leaking a goal difference of 30 to have been relegated. Things weren't great, but we weren't in a relegation battle. Don't deny a change worked out for the next few seasons, but wish Top had been as cut throat with Rodgers as he was with Puel.

He played in the last game. Surely he is due a rest.

Big day for our defence. If we can keep them at arms length and frustrate, then it will create lots of opportunities for our wingers and KDH on the counter transition. I don't think we will go straight at them, i think we will stick to our usual plan of trying to retain the ball and frustrating them. Wouldn't be surprised if we are 1-0 down at half time, but i back us to win 2 or 3-1. I think we have too much for them and need a bad day at the office to not get something from this.

Have you never been subjected to someone at the KP should 'just get it forrwaaaarrrd' when we play all this tippy tappy sh1te? During that move, someone shouted 'just shooooot'. The move was lost in a lot of people. I only realised how good it was when I saw the aforementioned tweet.

I suppose i mean 'never' under the Stockley Park regime. The miniaturisation of Tech and the implementation of AI are 2 different streams (although, i argue the smartphone hasn't changed much in the last 5 years). AI to interpret law, rules and individual intent in sport is another step change beyond the capabilities of those implementing VAR. I mean, these are people who seem to 'get off' drawing sh1tty lines on a graining video to determine offside when the technology already exists to do it in near real time. How would they deal with a machine that tells them to send off Man City players when they do one of their early cynical fouls on a counter attacking team because it understands what the player did better than they do. If one of the tech giants does implement an AI that can judge rules/law based on its understanding of the situation (intelligence, not inferring from trained models), and can accurately determine a player should be sent off for foul play instantly, or that handball was intentional, then the technology should be implemented in far more places than just football. Football won't be driving that technology. My frustration is the VAR team should use what is available to implement quick decisions where next to no interpretative information is needed (offside is one of these), and then all the information they have could be used for retrospective punishments leaving the on pitch officials to judge the game the best way they can. Promising that 'one day' it all might come good isn't right imho, we shouldn't be waiting several minutes for an offside decision in 2023/4. Also, am i the only one who thinks its rubbish that VAR officials manage their part of the game off site in Stockley Park? I've always felt that those officiating the game should work as a team and manage the game together. I don't understand why they can't do their bit from a dedicated room at the ground, and physically interact with the on pitch officials pre match, at half time and for the match retrospective. Technology or no technology, good communication is always key.

Unless we build true AI (not the existing Generative stuff, and not ML modelling) that we give the authority to make interpretive decisions on our behalf, then the decisions will not be instantaneous. The problem you will have is that ML will need to be trained on a huge variety of scenarios based on the the rules, and whilst there is the opportunity for the machine to make the wrong decision (because a scenario is introduced its not been trained on, or the rule of the game has an interpretive angle) the 'demand' will be for people to step in. Thing is, if we build that true AI, decisions on the football pitch will be the least of our worries.

We are never going to get to the position where possible red card moments or borderline handballs are going to be instantaneous. AI would have to be trained on every possible scenario and there will always have to be some interpretation. As we have seen with generative ai, its all too happy just to make stuff up when it doesn't understand, so in these instances there would have to be involvement and as these moments are always subjective, there is always going to be the arguing we have today. Personally, have the instant offside tech (nobody can still adequately explain to me why we don't have this now in the PL) and goalline stuff and scrap everything else. I would actually prefer much tougher decisions on players post match. If players received more bans for that second yellow they didn't get on the field, or received retrospective bans for simulating or out of site behaviour, then i think that would actually go a long way to cleaning up the game,

Was excellent and pitched perfectly. Aherne was incredible funny, gorgeous and incredibly smart. Tragic loss.

Feking Sprouts. The one time of the year i eat the bastards and im letting off all sorts of noxious gases.

Merry Christmas all! I hope you are all singing Leicester songs, and that you leave the table 5 minutes before everyone has finished their meal.

Not sure. We had 35 and didn't get in but i swear some with less said they got offered ST. We have 55 now so hopefully nailed on for next year?!

See how much distance their Number 9 covers during the whole move, just running around chasing the ball! Its a joy to see how some of the movement pulls opposition players out of position. Mavadidi makes a run a few times and each time the 2 marking him end up making space which Faes arguably goes on to exploit, and Winks does it on pass 18 when he drags players in with him which creates space for when we recycle the play.

Sunderland?

Dont disagree. We are nearby now but for a while travelled about 130 miles for the game and always stayed till the end but sometimes was getting home really really late! If we had young kids, it might have been a different story. Was just saying i can't get angry at anyone who travels a long way.

I don't like it when people leave early, but i'm not enjoying this self pitying assumption that its somehow limited to Leicester fans. I've been to loads of grounds where people are streaming out early. People do have things going on in their lives - the lady behind us has to get to work and a family near us travel a long way. It's hard to get angry with them over it. We stayed after the West Ham game and people on here called me a melt. We knew it was the last time we would see Maddison and Barnes. Although, a video of us was plastered all over Sky Sports News and a picture of my boy trended on TikTok ) so maybe should have left early!