VAR thread 2022/23

[BlueHammer85]

 

[Ballymagash Blue]

So everyone's wrong but you.

Not a fair comment GM. Support for VAR is growing, and those that don’t have it want it.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Not a fair comment GM. Support for VAR is growing, and those that don’t have it want it.

And not sure how many times I have to state that VAR isn’t perfect, still needs improvements and can understand the anger when they don’t get it right

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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If he’s not offside, having VAR or not wouldn’t make much difference, unless he’s a cyclops and can know for sure he’s 2mm onside.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

You have to have some pretty amazing trust in people's latent bias and motives to think it's not legitimising certain preferred and/or desired outcomes.
You're better men than I.

 

[ROCKET80]

And not sure how many times I have to state that VAR isn’t perfect, still needs improvements and can understand the anger when they don’t get it right

I like the idea of VAR, it's the current implementation of it that sucks. It seems the English football authorities have gone out of their way to make it harder for refs, players and fans.

VAR shouldn't overrule the ref, it should highlight things he needs to look at again, then when the ref looks at the incident again (with the 4th official and/or assistant refs) we hear them discuss it, then explain why they are sticking with or overruling their original decision.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

In one word, manipulation.

 

[Stephen230]

Although, I suppose there's a fine line between VAR being controversial and being blatantly corrupt..

It’s not really a fine line though is it?

You’re talking about the difference between differences of opinion and a mass conspiracy involving hundreds of not amazingly highly paid people, all compliant and all sworn to a life long pact of secrecy. Where if any one of them was to ever come clean, would bring the whole game crashing to its knees.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

This is what VAR is very good at. Making people remember certain injustices and forgetting where it works well.

I‘m sure you could run a stats model and see there is some rag bias, but you can’t prove corruption.

If it is there to help the rags, it’s not doing a very good job!

It doesn't need to help them all the way to the top, does it, but I think there's no denying that it most certainly helps them.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

So everyone's wrong but you.

...and alan.