Var debate 2019/20

[waspish]

I don't mind that as long as it is applied equally to everybody.

It will be, they run offsides through software to accurately get the offsides correct.

 

[SebastianBlue]

It will be, they run offsides through software to accurately get the offsides correct.

Within a margin of error (undisclosed).

Which makes these *very* marginal decisions suspect, regardless of consistency of application.

 

[waspish]

Within a margin of error (undisclosed).

Which makes these *very* marginal decisions suspect, regardless of consistency of application.

Fair point but it will benefit Us more than it wont think we will get record penalties this season! That incident on Mahrez we seems to have at least one of those per game.

 

[bobom]

I feel there are two options. Either you leave it entirely up to technology, and learn to live with it. That jars at the moment, because we're used to a margin of error of maybe a 6-10 inches at the moment and this has suddenly been reduced to 6-10 mm.

The alternative is to set a margin of error for the linesmen, and go with the on-field decision provided an error doesn't exceed that. Say, a linesman can be wrong by 10cm each way, and we live with that scale of human error. Greater errors are corrected by VAR.

The VAR only approach is that it's always right, but slow and interfering. The latter means fewer interruptions, but you have to live with the odd error.

I think I'd prefer the latter...

 

[SebastianBlue]

Fair point but it will benefit Us more than it wont think we will get record penalties this season! That incident on Mahrez we seems to have at least one of those per game.

I certainly hope that is the case!

 

[citizen_maine]

I feel there are two options. Either you leave it entirely up to technology, and learn to live with it. That jars at the moment, because we're used to a margin of error of maybe a 6-10 inches at the moment and this has suddenly been reduced to 6-10 mm.

The alternative is to set a margin of error for the linesmen, and go with the on-field decision provided an error doesn't exceed that. Say, a linesman can be wrong by 10cm each way, and we live with that scale of human error. Greater errors are corrected by VAR.

The VAR only approach is that it's always right, but slow and interfering. The latter means fewer interruptions, but you have to live with the odd error.

I think I'd prefer the latter...

You'd still have to wait while they check to see if it exceeds the 10 cm margin of error

 

[Machiavelli]

Technology = good
Officials = bad

 

[eastmanc]

I get that more decisions will be more correct but the problem for me is that it will suck some of the joy and spontaneity out of the game. If you can’t celebrate a goal then for me that’s a big problem.

 

[M12Blue]

I feel there are two options. Either you leave it entirely up to technology, and learn to live with it. That jars at the moment, because we're used to a margin of error of maybe a 6-10 inches at the moment and this has suddenly been reduced to 6-10 mm.

The alternative is to set a margin of error for the linesmen, and go with the on-field decision provided an error doesn't exceed that. Say, a linesman can be wrong by 10cm each way, and we live with that scale of human error. Greater errors are corrected by VAR.

The VAR only approach is that it's always right, but slow and interfering. The latter means fewer interruptions, but you have to live with the odd error.

I think I'd prefer the latter...

That’s a great shout

 

[rambo]

There should be a similar system in place to the one seen in cricket.

If it’s an extremely tight call, the original decision should stand.

^^^^^^^^
This is exactly how it should work