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Football is fixed blog
- Thread starter squirtyflower
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squirtyflower
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Yep, I’m always impressed with the reffing of rugby matches as everything is there in the open for all to see and all to hear.The rugby model is there tried and tested and guess what it WORKS! No excuse not to use it.
squirtyflower
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So who to? And why has nothing been done about it?
- Various groupings, the government, PGMOB, some clubs, clients of the blog writers
- Money, also the reason it exists in the first place.
So who to? And why has nothing been done about it?
money my friend money!So who to? And why has nothing been done about it?
Blue Elvis
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The rugby model is there tried and tested and guess what it WORKS! No excuse not to use it.
Sadly as a Bradford Bulls fan I can categorically state that you can still get unbelievable decisions by a video ref even when everyone in the ground can see the video ref is wrong. Rugby League is even more bent than football.
100% accuracy is an illusion as long as human subjectivity is involved.IMO we need to change the rules of the game eg for offside and determining the intent of a player so far as fouls & penalties are concerned.
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Until officials are held to account and var will go some way to helping that then the same bullshit is going to keep happening and if var can get it right 99% of the time it's got to be an improvement on the shit we have to witness at the moment.Sadly as a Bradford Bulls fan I can categorically state that you can still get unbelievable decisions by a video ref even when everyone in the ground can see the video ref is wrong. Rugby League is even more bent than football.
100% accuracy is an illusion as long as human subjectivity is involved.IMO we need to change the rules of the game eg for offside and determining the intent of a player so far as fouls & penalties are concerned.
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MillionMilesAway
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Sadly as a Bradford Bulls fan I can categorically state that you can still get unbelievable decisions by a video ref even when everyone in the ground can see the video ref is wrong. Rugby League is even more bent than football.
100% accuracy is an illusion as long as human subjectivity is involved.IMO we need to change the rules of the game eg for offside and determining the intent of a player so far as fouls & penalties are concerned.
CTID
On-field Rugby league reffing is often very poor. Overall, things have got better with a reworking of the video ref procedure. I have the impression that there is occasionally an odd obstruction decision which looks marginal. Generally these seem to favour WIgan/Leeds (the two richest clubs), although my team St Helens get the odd one as well.
It's just consistently weak though, rather than the on-field ref making wrong decisions.
Blue Elvis
Well-Known Member
Until officials are held to account and var will go some way to helping that then the same bullshit is going to keep happening and if var can get it right 99% of the time it's got to be an improvement on the shit we have to witness at the moment.
Totally agree with you on the need for massive improvement , which is why City voted for VAR & the usual suspects didn’t.
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Blue Elvis
Well-Known Member
On-field Rugby league reffing is often very poor. Overall, things have got better with a reworking of the video ref procedure. I have the impression that there is occasionally an odd obstruction decision which looks marginal. Generally these seem to favour WIgan/Leeds (the two richest clubs), although my team St Helens get the odd one as well.
It's just consistently weak though, rather than the on-field ref making wrong decisions.
As Bradford Bulls fans we are all too familiar with decisions consistently and incorrectly going the way of Leeds, Wigan and Saints in particular. Enjoy the bias in favour of your team while you can ha ha ! If only City got half as much bias in our favour we would be unbeatable.
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