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[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

EFL starts this week...and it's VAR-free. Sunderland and Grimsby are my punts for this season on Season Handicap and Outright markets.

Just as an aside, these guys are good:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLi4ccCSo1F7C_9Djbu_aWA

Edit: By the way, Sunderland's new boss is Regis Le Bris, the fella Marco was tipping to win the Champions League with Lorient a couple of years ago.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Edit: By the way, Sunderland's new boss is Regis Le Bris, the fella Marco was tipping to win the Champions League with Lorient a couple of years ago.

So what happened to the revolution?

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

So what happened to the revolution?

It got transferred to the north east of England.

Sure where else would you want to be throughout the winter?

 

[Philby]

EFL starts this week...and it's VAR-free. Sunderland and Grimsby are my punts for this season on Season Handicap and Outright markets.

Works out at 0.4 incorrect key decisions per game.

Having experienced VAR that's a acceptable level of errors that I'd be happy to accept. Especially when so many are very marginal calls either way.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

I'm seriously going to try to avoid attending (easy) or watching (maybe not so easy) VAR governed matches indefinitely.

We'll see how it goes.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Few specials on the charidee shield today.

Bruno SOT 2/1 Paddy
Haaland to score 7/4 paddy shops

I'm guessing Haaland to score or assist is out there somewhere, as it's on MB, Betdaq and Smarkets.

Still though, I'd be very wary of them in what is a glorified friendly.

 

[Happyhonkaman]

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Works out at 0.4 incorrect key decisions per game.

Having experienced VAR that's an acceptable level of errors that I'd be happy to accept. Especially when so many are very marginal calls either way.

Definitely - get rid of VAR

Mad to listen to some eejits proposing it for GAA

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Marcus Rashfird is one of the most frustrating players to watch if you're a united fan, but 100/1 for top goalscorer is a mental price IMHO (ladbrokes)

Son @ 34.0 is my other pick.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

Marcus Rashfird is one of the most frustrating players to watch if you're a united fan, but 100/1 for top goalscorer is a mental price IMHO (ladbrokes)

Son @ 34.0 is my other pick.

As brilliant a finisher as Son has been, his underlying numbers have dropped away. I'd love to be wrong, but I think he has more of a chance of completely falling off a cliff, in terms of goal numbers, as he does of being top scorer again.

A lot of competition there now also. It wouldn't do him too much harm to be rotated, although I'm sure he'll start the season in the front line, just hopefully on the left.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

As brilliant a finisher as Son has been, his underlying numbers have dropped away. I'd love to be wrong, but I think he has more of a chance of completely falling off a cliff, in terms of goal numbers, as he does of being top scorer again.

A lot of competition there now also. It wouldn't do him too much harm to be rotated, although I'm sure he'll start the season in the front line, just hopefully on the left.

I agree about Son. It's purely about the price though.

Same with Rashford. He could easily score 4 goals for the season, but 100/1 for a guy who scored 30 goals the season before last is nuts IMHO..