VAR Discussion Thread - 2023/24 | PL clubs to vote on whether to scrap VAR (pg413)

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Its idiotic to say appalling officiating and failing technology is good for the game as a spectacle.

In your opinion, yes.

I‘m not sure anybody is suggesting that poor officiating or technology failing is good for the game though.

 

[bluemoon32]

I'd love a ref, just once, to say similar to " did you see that left back, shit he was, mistake after mistake" or " did you see the formation that manager played, huge fucking error, hasn't got a clue" or " their forward couldn't hit a barn door he's so shit" etc etc etc.
I'm not condoning var fuck ups but there are numerous fuck ups in a game, the only ones we really talk about are the refs or var officials.

 

[abu13]

They could sort a lot of this out quite quickly by handing over the instigation of a VAR call to the managers, each game a manager can make 3 calls for a VAR review, they can use it for whatever they want. I would give them 30 seconds to lodge an appeal for a review, if they can t make the call in that time then it isnt clear and obvious.

Edit: I would also have the refs miked up like in Rugby.

 

[Andy TheCatalyst Morrison]

Show me a player clearly diving with no contact and getting awarded a penalty from last couple seasons.

I could show you plenty pre VAR.

Easy, Rashford v Forest (I think). The contact came because of the dive.

 

[Colthekid]

Its idiotic to say appalling officiating and failing technology is good for the game as a spectacle.

Plenty of appalling officiating happened before VAR. Many would say more so than now.

 

[stonerblue]

Show me a player clearly diving with no contact and getting awarded a penalty from last couple seasons.

I could show you plenty pre VAR.

sheff weds v wolves this weekend

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

sheff weds v wolves this weekend

There was contact, albeit minor.

Think it was for Sheff Utd too.

 

[Cassandra]

but what are they doing wrong?

they review dangerous challenges and have a clear view of all angles.

they review the most fractional offside decisions.

Vast vast majority of the time they get it right (I'm guessing and could be completely wrong but around 95-97%)

For the sake of waiting a few moment I'd rather know decisions are being checked, even if it's a frustrating wait or a rare completely wrong outcome.

I don’t think it is so much what VAR is doing wrong as that the laws of the game are so variably applied and so “clear and obvious” becomes almost impossible to define. Previously there was the escape clause that the ref only had one view in real time. Now VAR has removed that we see the that the laws themselves are inadequate.

 

[Gazza]

Not sure calling people idiots because they have differing opinion to you is great for the discourse on this thread.

If being an idiot is defined by simply having a different opinion to other people on this site then you sir would be everybody's idiot.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

If being an idiot is defined by simply having a different opinion to other people on this site then you sir would be everybody's idiot.

Thanks mate. Means a lot.

Perhaps you’d like to add something pertinent to the debate?