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

[TinFoilHat]

I see it's an FSG article.

Nothing to see here.

 

[west didsblue]

Make the offside lines thicker and go with the linesman’s decision if they overlap at all.
Howlers would be identified quickly and close ones would go with the linesman quickly.
TV frame rates mean there is a margin of error anyway.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

It will be kept. Wolves missed a trick by not adding a third option: fan led root and branch review of how it operates with a view to simplify and strengthen the role of on field ref

 

[MCFC1993]

 

[Elliot houghton]

Think it should be what it first said it was going to be for clear and obvious errors not for the tightest offsides

 

[Bluemanc100]

I agree but it's been in operation for 5 seasons now and it's still controversial, and decisions are taking longer than they should be.

Only here.... it works fine in other countries...

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Only here.... it works fine in other countries...

Except Sweden who’ve dumped it

 

[Northblue]

Fair points made by wolves tbf

 

[abu13]

No need to get rid of it, just need to sort its shit out.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Except Sweden who’ve dumped it

They need to allow the automatic offside function and as I've said many times, broadcast the dialogue from the officials and VAR team verbatim then there is absolutely no hiding place... They should also be happy to overturn a ref's decision if was wrong in real time...

 

[Inter Me Nan]

If you gave me some plumbing tools and sent me out doing jobs I'm going to make a pig's ear of it unlike somebody who's trained to use them and knows their shit.
Sort out who's using VAR.

 

[urban genie]

Fair points made by wolves tbf

They have a valid point its reasons for it have been long over shadowed by incompetent at times secretive officiating it was never meant to micromanage all decisions or let off refs who are mates.
Remove it, review what it's for, retrain those using it, return to using it later

 

[jordtheblue]

Fuck VAR.

Awful for the match going fan, completely destroying the game. 5 years is a long enough trial.

Get rid. Fair play Wolves!

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

Getting rid of it would be pathetic.

 

[Gaylord du Bois]

Get rid of Wolves. Backward cunts.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Be careful what you wish for.

This.

The yanks are pushing it I have no doubt about it.

 

[TShed]

Introduced to avoid admitting how poor the standard of refereeing a game in real time had become, then to only discover the same cunts were as inept when watching the same game through the eye of a camera. Nowt wrong with VAR just the useless governing body (EPL) and their useless lackeys

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Nothing wrong with VAR. Everything wrong with Webb and the incompetent, bent cunts he "leads".

 

[dadnlad]

Thought that semi-auto thingy was coming in next season?

doesnt work in crowded penalty area apparently

 

[urban genie]

When you have:

Stuart Atwell
Chris Kavanagh
John Brooks
Darren England
Paul Tierney
Craig Pawson
Simon Hooper

led by Howard Webb and John Moss


then unfortunatory VAR will never do the job intended effectively.


I am happy to keep VAR if these were all binned off instead