VAR (PL introduction 2019)

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

I've only watched one game (last Sunday's final) with it in and it helped validate a goal in 10 seconds that might have otherwise been incorrectly ruled out. I didn't really notice any difference to be honest.

I didn't even know it was in use! But then again, the IPA beer was strong!

 

[GSW Blue]

The reason VAR is even being trialled is because of the piss poor standard of refereeing. No surprise that our shit officials are making a bollox of it.

 

[johnnytapia]

Ha! Ha! The VAR love-in is suddenly turning to shite. Just like I predicted. It’s fucking abysmal; totally ruins the flow of the game. “But it will ensure the correct decision gets made and it will only be a few seconds”. How wrong you have all been proved time and time and time again. Tonight’s game is simply more fodder for all of us who correctly knew that VAR would be the death-knell for the game as we know it. The sooner it’s binned the better.

 

[johnnytapia]

They're desperate to screw it up.

The only thing to screw VAR is VAR itself. The game has been perfectly brilliant for over a century, human error included. But no, we want perfection. And to watch the ref with his finger in his ear waiting an eternity for what might or might not be the right decision. A bit like, er, the way it’s always been when some decisions go for you, some go against. The sooner it gets canned the better.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Ha! Ha! The VAR love-in is suddenly turning to shite. Just like I predicted. It’s fucking abysmal; totally ruins the flow of the game. “But it will ensure the correct decision gets made and it will only be a few seconds”. How wrong you have all been proved time and time and time again. Tonight’s game is simply more fodder for all of us who correctly knew that VAR would be the death-knell for the game as we know it. The sooner it’s binned the better.

so there were 8 incidents reviewed by VAR which were judged correctly and you're complaining about 1 out of 8 that took a bit longer than the rest to sort out

 

[BerkshireBlue]

so there were 8 incidents reviewed by VAR which were judged correctly and you're complaining about 1 out of 8 that took a bit longer than the rest to sort out

sorry make that 9

 

[johnnytapia]

so there were 8 incidents reviewed by VAR which were judged correctly and you're complaining about 1 out of 8 that took a bit longer than the rest to sort out

About the same % that would have been judged the same way without VAR. It’s gash.

 

[ballinio]

Sooner they abandon it the better, ruins the game .

 

[BerkshireBlue]

About the same % that would have been judged the same way without VAR. It’s gash.

yes but the % that weren't were called correctly so you're point is???

 

[BimboBob]

It's not going to be abandoned. Teams and sponsors want to cut out the mistakes because that costs them money. It's all about money. Money is everything these days. So it's here to stay.

 

[i kne albert davy]

yes but the % that weren't were called correctly so you're point is???

Well we used to have shite refs now we've got shite VAR as well just a few more useless tossers on the payroll and a few more drinks breaks.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Well we used to have shite refs now we've got shite VAR as well just a few more useless tossers on the payroll and a few more drinks breaks.

VAR shite because it gets the decisions correct?

 

[i kne albert davy]

VAR shite because it gets the decisions correct?

I'm not sure it does.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Well we used to have shite refs now we've got shite VAR as well just a few more useless tossers on the payroll and a few more drinks breaks.

Refs been in use for 100 years

VAR been in use for less than a year

Needs time to improve and speed up, unfortunately we got moaners who will never accept change for the good.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Refs been in use for 100 years

VAR been in use for less than a year

Needs time to improve and speed up, unfortunately we got moaners who will never accept change for the good.

Its a matter of opinion whether its a change for the good or just a change the game seems to have gone from strength to strength over the last hundred years, sometimes the phrase don't mess with a good thing rings true.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Its a matter of opinion whether its a change for the good or just a change the game seems to have gone from strength to strength over the last hundred years, sometimes the phrase don't mess with a good thing rings true.

Fans constantly booing decisions, after match mangers in bewilderment and anger at refs, confusion, and worst of all teams losing vital points and matches based on errors from the Ref ...lets not try and change this though ! Unbelievable

 

[i kne albert davy]

Fans constantly booing decisions, after match mangers in bewilderment and anger at refs, confusion, and worst of all teams losing vital points and matches based on errors from the Ref ...lets not try and change this though ! Unbelievable

So fans booing decisions is part of the game,well I suppose we can all stand wait a few minutes in silence and just nod oh well that's right then, anger at refs personally I enjoy that part of the game manager bewilderment and confusion there was certainly none of that tonight was there. The peoples game is now just becoming a TV business. Unbelievable.

 

[BlueHammer85]

So fans booing decisions is part of the game,well I suppose we can all stand wait a few minutes in silence and just nod oh well that's right then, anger at refs personally I enjoy that part of the game manager bewilderment and confusion there was certainly non of that tonight was there. The peoples game is now just becoming a TV business. Unbelievable.

You sum up my impatience point. All these things can be ironed out over time. It will never be perfect but it will be a dam sight better than one bloke guessing decisions by 22 cheating players.

 

[i kne albert davy]

You sum up my impatience point. All these things can be ironed out over time. It will never be perfect but it will be a dam sight better than one bloke guessing decisions by 22 cheating players.

From a success point of view I'm struggling to see how it gets any better, the games gone from groups of lads paying to kick a ball around a field too a multi billion pound World wide business with players being paid untold fortunes in less than a hundred and fifty years. Still if it becomes too sterile and loses its appeal we can always say at least every decision is spot on well at least in opinion of VAR.

 

[bluethrunthru]

simply it needs to be slicker with the crowd kept in the loop as to whats going on. Why it can't just be 4th official and monitor at pitch side watching the feed we get at home relaying a view to the guy in the middle is beyond me. They have taken something and made it way way more complicated than it needs to be.