VAR thread 2022/23

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

You are now using the words that commentators use. If they replaced told to go to the screen to advised to take another look to see the other camera angles of the incident.

As I suggested before, if more decisions were sent to the monitor and the ref had the final say, I think most people would be happier.

Sure. Let's interrupt the flow of the game even more to compensate for the poor standards of refereeing.

Or... how about maybe... I don't know... IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF REFEREEING???

 

[Eds]

Just in case anyone says the ref didn't have a clear view

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Sure. Let's interrupt the flow of the game even more to compensate for the poor standards of refereeing.

Or... how about maybe... I don't know... IMPROVE THE STANDARDS OF REFEREEING???

To how you want it? Is that why it’s annoying you?

Pretty much everybody barring a few city fans were happy with the outcome of the decision as it made the correct decision in most peoples’ eyes.

What we are trying to debate is why it was deemed clear and obvious.

I would surmise that the take away from this would be that the referee was too hasty with the red card and that a yellow should have been shown, rather than how clear clear is.

 

[Phoenix900000]

Part of me thinks if the ref gave a yellow instead of a red to Tripper and then was called to look at it again on VAR it would of been changed to red.

I think VAR intervening yesterday made the ref second guess himself cause to me that challenge on KDB was dangerous.

Plus I am not a fan of this notion of "Well it didn't cause an injury therefore it's alright" is that what it takes for it to be red. I guess it's alright to challenge knee high cause the tackler didn't cause serious injury do me a favour.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I won’t clog up the thread anymore today. I’ve made my points. It’s fine that people disagree with me too.

Everybody is entitled to their own opinion. Others are allowed to disagree with it too.

Let’s just do it civilly.

Have a great day all.

 

[Cassandra]

Absolute farce

I think that VAR actually intervened in the second challenge to bring about a change from Yellow to Red!

 

[Lavinda Past]

It's a subjective issue. A decision made in a split second. My immediate thought was that it wasn't a red. The referee's immediate thought was that it was a red.
Ask 10 VAR referees and a thousand fans and you'll get split opinions. The assessment of any challenge is subjective.

Decisions should be left with the match referee and their assistants. If they're not in charge of the game, they may as well not be there.

Personally, I think VAR is a farce that has ruined the game, introduced purely to give TV pundits something usually remarkably unnewsworthy to talk about.

Today's newspaper, tomorrow's chip paper. Leave it in the past and move on.

 

[Stephen230]

City players seemed to be suggesting that Almiron's goal was handball but VAR just checked the offside and nothing else. Haven't seen a still frame or slo mo to determine what part of his body it hit. Strange that those types of VAR decisions get studied in detail for other teams (in red).

VAR are constantly checking everything. Of course they checked for handball. They like everyone else watching on TV would have seen it clearly wasn’t handball after one quick replay.

 

[richardtheref]

My opinion on yesterday was a penalty for Newcastle, what was Stones thinking of. To me the Trippier tackle was a red but as some have said a tackle is always subjective. However, why does VAR now show the ref still images of the incident??? How does this improve VAR

 

[KentBlue]

If those operating VAR were to do the job correctly Wilfred Zaha would be sent off every game. Just watching the highlights on MotD he spent more time on the ground than the grass did. Every bloody time someone tackled him down he went, no attempt to remain upright and continue play. Mirror image of the Ladyboy and that other diving non-entity at the rags.