Luton town in the big time

[That Fat Centre Half]

Thought we were excellent today, always going to have ride your luck a little bit in these games and we did a story missed a couple of presentable chances, but we earned that bit of luck with our work rate and effort.

Thought Barkley was absolutely superb and pulled the strings really well, showed that bit of composure to start off the counter which we scored from. Any other midfield player we have I’m pretty sure just hammers that away.

Yes a little disappointing at the late goal but it didn’t feel like one of those late draws that feel like a defeat.

 

[oakroader]

JUST ANOTHER 34 POINTS TO GO....THEN WE'RE SAFE...

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Frustrated United for much of the game yesterday and in it to the end. For that we can again be proud. Kabore and Barkley stepping up and Clark back for some minutes also positives. The Ryan Giles situation continues to be weird, not even first choice sub when Doughty went off injured. 5m quid for a bench warmer so far.

The Morris header the only real chance we had and for sure again we rode our luck at times, Kaminski looking a quality pick up making some good saves and that’s somewhat the gameplan, keep it tight and hope one of the few chances we create goes in. Worked against Liverpool to an extent.

 

[Super_horns]

Well you are out of the bottom 3 now !

Everton will probably take that punishment though.

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

The footage they have released is pretty jaw dropping to be honest and makes me a little surprised something like this hasn't happened before. The communication between all involved is absolutely terrible, multiple people talking at once, no clarification or read back going on. Basically what absolutely NOT to do when communicating in a time critical situation.

Clear radio communications is, and has been, a solved problem in industries like aviation for literally decades. Even in sports like cricket and rugby the communications are incredibly proscriptive to provide clarity. These guys have wrapped themselves up in the language like "check complete" without having a good comms process in place like professionals. Shambles.

Finally looking toward industry on these things it seems. A

Airline pilots enlisted to help Premier League officials - The Times

British Airways pilots have been enlisted to help improve the communication of Premier League officials during VAR reviews, The Times reported, after Liverpool wrongly had a goal disallowed earlier this season due to a blunder.

www.reuters.com

Crew Resource management is so so important and what the VAR/Ref are doing is very similar to the communication style used by aviation. Should have been thought of long ago

 

[Super_horns]

Doesn’t matter what they do as it’s not going to stop subjectivity in the decision making which is whole crux of VAR.

People aren’t going to agree with decisions regardless of how well or poorly they operate it.

Having said that clear lines of communication might help avoid basic errors and give the officials more confidence in each other .

 

[That Fat Centre Half]

Fantastic win. Barkley is just absolute class apart, so much calmness and control when he has the ball.

Felt very like the Burnley game where we get a goal only to have an absolute worldy go in against us. Showed great great character to deal with that and come back and win. To do it without Nakamba too.

Really need to have a right footer back at RWB. Was obvious all afternoon that we were imbalanced due to that and with Osho at LCB it was a bit odd looking and we struggled to build. Having said that game felt quite even and for me Barkley was the best player on the park (until Olise popped up from nowhere!)

 

[oakroader]

cheers to manchestdoor yanited
every bit of help is appreciated