The EFL show our club management in a good light. Hull fans have already bought tickets, booked trains etc and they are the ones most clearly entitled to be there. The team's preparations are messed up if they don't know who they will face. I just hope it doesn't end up costing us too much, given money that could have gone to all 72 clubs will now go to lawyers and paying settlements.

“ The complaint also details concerns surrounding Mr Rowley’s attendance at the club’s end-of-season staff event, accompanied by Yeovil Town FC’s Head of Recruitment, where interactions with contracted Walton & Hersham FC players took place despite clear indications that their presence was not welcomed by club ownership.”

EFL statement suggesting potential disruption to the Championship playoff final schedule.

Spart - agreed. VAR should not have got involved, but having got involved, they should have taken LONGER to look at it, because, as you point out, the attacker has forced the defender's arm upwards.

What Hash said.

This topic comes up every now and then. WFC and AFCW are obviously different legal entities however we are both the same 'community'. AFCW is the spiritual continuation of WFC. WFC was Wimbledon's football club and so are AFCW. In that sense we are the same club. But of course yes, as legal entities we are entirely separate.

Regarding the "handball" last night, it appears that the defenders' arm is pushed up into an "unnatural" position by the Celtic player beneath him. That should've been taken into account.

Players and managers will always find a way to get around any new rules, just like they did with keepers being told they can take the kick from either side of the 6 yard box when they take the kick from the opposite side from where they collected the ball just to time waste from a rule that was supposed to speed the game up. They need to re-word the rule to state that the kick is taken from the nearest side of the 6 yard box from where the keeper has collected the ball, regardless of which side of the goal that the ball originally went out of play.

Spit - Sanchez is a legend of "Wimbledon" and WFC and not an AFCW legend. Wimbledon fc won the FA cup for Wimbledon, AFCW did not. I certainly don't claim that Sanchez played for AFCW or that AFCW won the FA cup, but "Wimbledon" did win the cup for Wimbledon.

Players who stand right in front of the ball to stop a free kick being taken quickly must be the thickest. All the guy taking the kick has to do is blast it into his body and apart from a possible postponement of his love life he also gets booked. Don't know which is the most stupid though, the bloke blocking the kick or the kicker for not thinking of this simple remedy. Is it still 10yds? I stopped trying to keep up with change when we moved from b&w to b&y.

Players still take their shirts off after scoring even though it's now always a yellow card (see Celtic last night).

It didn't take too long for players to realise that kicking the ball away and waving for a card would get a card. Do the same for cormers amd it'll soon stop.

Jersey boys been put into the isthmian south central division next season some grounds we hit in the early days bring back some memories including Hartley Witney where they put a free shuttle bus from Whitchurch to the ground

Have to agree with Laurie [Link]

Obviously Ai refs for consistency next

a4e and Airsy - you'd need four assistant referees then or mostly they'd just be guessing where the ball went out. Although you do get long kicks into touch in rugby it tends towards slower movement up and down the pitch than football so one person can laregly cover the whole side.

The problem is that no foul is committed until the corner is taken and then several occur immediately and simultaneously.

Simplest thing on the position that throws are taken from would be to have the lino stand in/mark the position where it's to be taken from and then either step back from the line or move 5 yards up the line so as not to impede the thrower.

*yards not years

There are so many things that need to change - the way a goalkeeper sits down “injured” so that the team can get a tactical talk from their manager needs sorting, for example. That’s easily fixed by making a rule that no players can go to their bench when a keeper is sitting down for “treatment”. Another is the way a keeper has two defenders in their box when taking a goal kick, only to wave them away and finally take the kick, thus wasting sometimes a full minute - easily fixed by stating that the keeper has to kick the ball within 4 seconds of placing the ball onto the 6 years line. Next is the taking of throws from the wrong position, stealing yards along the line - fixed by something similar in rugby at lineouts, whereby a mark is made by the lino, and a reversal of the throw is immediate if the thrower steals more than a yard. The corners thing is way too complex, but awarding more defensive free kicks is probably the answer, as it’s less controversial than allowing a goal after a full minute of chaotic shirt pulling and players being tripped up, etc….

I did hear a suggestion that a new rule was being mooted that throw ins would no longer be allowed to go into the 18 yard box.

Would help if most fans knew what a foul throw actually is as well. Instead of screaming every 5 seconds for no reason other than it looks odd to me.

We do need throw ins to be managed better in terms of time and where. If we’re going to pick on keepers about time why don’t outfield players get the same count down when they’re free to take it. Also if you take more than 5m from where it was given it should be turned over to the opposition. It used to be a really good play to pin someone down into their own corners of the pitch. But now, put it out for them to have to throw in at the corner, they’ll take the throw from almost half way anyway.

By committee...

Agree with TF on that very point of cheating.