VAR Discussion Thread | 2024/25

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

VAR is football's version of Problem -> Reaction -> Solutionism.

1. Create a problem - create an environment for bad referee decisions.
2. Create outrage over bad decisions (sports media obsessing over it and calling for a solution to the problem they created)
3. Create a solution for the problem that wasn't a problem to begin with, that causes more problems!

Sounds like the fast thinking based path of noth the offside rules and FFP

 

[bluethrunthru]

 

[richardtheref]

So the FA assume 2 lower league teams won't be playing each other in the latter stages

 

[TinFoilHat]

So the FA assume 2 lower league teams won't be playing each other in the latter stages

They know.

Already planning City V United part 3.

:)

Here's hoping a draw like that occurs in the 5th round to piss them off.

 

[bluethrunthru]

So the FA assume 2 lower league teams won't be playing each other in the latter stages

that was my thought - its ££££'s at stake not the romance

 

[Gordyola]

We need to get rid of VAR not add more to it like challenges, there is so much wrong with this idea Let the officials get on with their job like they did for over a hundred years VAR has made things worse and the offsides taking 4 minutes to decide is frankly madness when it is clear that using videos with some bullshit tech to allow for parallax is shear madness Then the use of VAR to determine if there has been a clear and obvious error by a ref yet intakes five minutes of slow motion repeat and free frame to decide is a total contradiction. There are so many anomalies as to how it is used as well eg VAR cannot help with a two yellow card situation that leads to a red yet it looks at reds
The inch high Lino on Sunday taking ages to put his flag up, not his fault working under instruction

But we are stuck with it because its more money for the officials and extends their life in the job

 

[Stephen230]

So the FA assume 2 lower league teams won't be playing each other in the latter stages

No, they’ve stated that if any lower league clubs gets drawn at home in the 5th and 6th rounds, they’ll make the ground VAR compatible especially for the occasion(s)

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

No, they’ve stated that if any lower league clubs gets drawn at home in the 5th and 6th rounds, they’ll make the ground VAR compatible especially for the occasion(s)

What happens if that ground is incapable of housing the full complement of VAR hardware (A bit like Clanfield)?

 

[Stephen230]

What happens if that ground is incapable of housing the full complement of VAR hardware (A bit like Clanfield)?

I imagine they’ll make do as best they can.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

I imagine they’ll make do as best they can.

So it doesn't "Ensures that there is a consistent refereeing approach for all clubs taking part in the same stage of the competition" then?