Alty Taylor demoted this weekend

[mcfcphil]

Always found this a strange approach.

Like with teams and players, surely the time judge is after a season.

If a ref has been shit over the course of a season then he gets relegated to the championship and another ref gets promoted.

Demoting a ref after one poor performance just comes across as playing to the galleries and largely pointless because he’ll be back reffing in the premier league again next week.

 

[Iassel]

Damn right it was controversial in that it wasn’t a penalty at all. Shows VAR up for the shit show it is because, even though they could play the incident through in slow motion and from ever angle, they still backed up their blind chum out on the field of play.

PGMOL are a laughing stock. Weekly demotions and apologies but then all is forgotten and their cosy little club carries on as if nothing has happened.

The lack of VAR intervention wasn’t Taylor’s fault.

I think most of us can see why a penalty was given initially. What was weird was the lack of scrutiny from VAR, so it should really have been that VAR operative that had the weekend off.

Gillett on VAR hasn’t been demoted as he followed the rules as Webb has laid them down.

VAR under Webb is only allowed to overturn an on-field penalty if the evidence is incontrovertible that it was a wrong decision.

Whilst we could all see that at best it was incredibly soft, if not an outright dive, none of the angles could 100% say there wasn’t contact made so they had to leave it with the onfield decision.

As that was clearly wrong, and Taylor had the best angle of anyone to see, he carries the can.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Gillett on VAR hasn’t been demoted as he followed the rules as Webb has laid them down.

VAR under Webb is only allowed to overturn an on-field penalty if the evidence is incontrovertible that it was a wrong decision.

Whilst we could all see that at best it was incredibly soft, if not an outright dive, none of the angles could 100% say there wasn’t contact made so they had to leave it with the onfield decision.

As that was clearly wrong, and Taylor had the best angle of anyone to see, he carries the can.

Simply having contact does not negate a player diving, which is what happened here.

The force of the contact did not equal the swan dive that happened subsequently.

Taylor can miss or misread that on field. VAR can see clearly that it is a dive.

 

[Iassel]

Simply having contact does not negate a player diving, which is what happened here.

The force of the contact did not equal the swan dive that happened subsequently.

Taylor can miss or misread that on field. VAR can see clearly that it is a dive.

VAR clearly couldn’t see it was a dive as the angles from the ‘right’ side were too far away to 100% confirm as such and therefore VAR has to go with what Taylor says.

As usual, the issue is in the application of VAR and the rules Webb puts in place.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

VAR clearly couldn’t see it was a dive as the angles from the ‘right’ side were too far away to 100% confirm as such and therefore VAR has to go with what Taylor says.

As usual, the issue is in the application of VAR and the rules Webb puts in place.

That’s your opinion and may well be true. It didn’t make it right, however.

 

[hertsblue]

O'Neil mentioned the three teams who had the decisions against them and how those three referees were demoted. The referee who gave them a bad decision was ignored. Can't remember the match but It'll come to me eventually.

And just a few weeks later as we made no fuss or make any complaint, we have him yet again v Bournemouth

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Pawson has always been a twat for us. Always allowed Merlin to be kicked from pillar to post. Worst “referee” around right now.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Suppose the rags have been whinging.

 

[LongsightM13]

Some brass neck on them Yam Yam cunts at wolves, complaining about a decision against Hwang
Don’t recall them moaning about him dodging a stonewall second yellow against us. Before scoring the winner

 

[Impeccable One]

Not really punished as he still gets to referee and presumably gets paid for doing it.

And the Pies at Preston are the dogs bollocks (not literally) [emoji16]

 

[Scottish Cityzen]

I saw the incident live, Gillet took ages reviewing it to the extent that the commentators expected it to be overturned or at the least he’d go to the monitor.

Is it possible that Gillet suggested that Alty go to the screen but he refused maintaining his initial position.

In that scenario Gillet has done nothing wrong and Alty has failed to follow reasonable protocol given the situation?

Like others have said I’m not sure what the benefit is of these short term demotions.

 

[BrianW]

An example of a ref who should be demoted to Hough End where he could ref Dog and Duck v Red Lion.

 

[Stephen230]

According to the ESPN guy, it isn’t a punishment. He says it was planned well in advance. Top officials do occasionally do Football League games.

And of today’s seven Premier League games, six of the them have Football League referees as fourth official. Which leaves vacancies to fill further down.