VAR thread

[BobTheCharmer]

Hopefully it will ruin a load of games early doors and they can **** it off altogether.

[Exiled_red]

I support Brisbane. Been a season ticket holder for 5 years. While they have gone backwards, which I can take, the VAR kills it. It takes too long, you don’t know what’s happening and even if it is a correct decision you can’t help but feel you’ve be done. I remember reading that Brisbane had been on the wrong end of more mistakes than any other team. Don’t know if it’s true but it feels like it.

One problem is they show the replay of a goal and you can see somethings off and every knows it but they don’t check. Players have started waiting for replays and saying to the ref look can you check it but they don’t. It just frustrates so much and takes away some of the drama and fun. Then when it all looks good they check and it goes on and on. I sometimes feel like the refs are protecting each other and not making any changes when they should.

Penalties are the worst because one refs says yes but the other says no so no one is happy in the end. It was supposed to be clear errors but even those aren’t changed. The number of dodgy penalties still given and not overturned is ridiculous. Doesn’t stop blatant diving.

I could rant for ages, I just hate it and don’t see it working. I mean two grand finals with VAR and both times it’s ****ed it up!

Unfortunately it sounds like I fear, it seems clear to me from the limited use of if for English clubs in England and Europe as well as the world Cup, that despite various different interpretations/uses of VAR it seems that no one has got it right either in what it is used for or how it is used.

The original idea of VAR correcting the clearly wrong decisions seemed a good one, and may be applied correctly here as I can't recall any VAR cockups (I don't follow Australian football so don't know about the issues you mention there). However the main talking points are the application of VAR to certain circumstances and not to others. It seems to me that the rules of the game were written in an era before such technology and were never really meant to be applied so rigorously as someone being a cm offside or a GK's boot being off the line. No doubt the statistians can tell you that it has overturned alot of incorrect decisions, but no-one wants decisions microscopically examined at the expense of the excitement of the game

[Exiled_red]

Hopefully it will ruin a load of games early doors and they can **** it off altogether.

It might ruin a load of games but I don't see them changing what it is used for as that will be deemed unfair, at best they will be able to clarify the interpretation of it's use.

[BobTheCharmer]

Every game in the women's world cup is being dominated by VAR. It's a heartless soul destroying introduction that adds nothing and only detracts from what we all enjoy.

[Kenneth]

I think the on-field referee was the biggest issue in the England game tbh. And the fact that Cameroon had several nutters in their team.

[BobTheCharmer]

I think the on-field referee was the biggest issue in the England game tbh. And the fact that Cameroon had several nutters in their team.

Yeah those things contributed. But to rule out a goal for offside which was ridiculously close is crazy. Trying to get perfect decisions is going to kill the game.

Now VAR is rearing its head in the France Brazil game and ruling out a goal for very little again. Football was enjoyable last season without it and all the previous years. Football should be about emotion. It's not a game of chess. It's not required.

[Exiled_red]

Yeah those things contributed. But to rule out a goal for offside which was ridiculously close is crazy. Trying to get perfect decisions is going to kill the game.

Now VAR is rearing its head in the France Brazil game and ruling out a goal for very little again. Football was enjoyable last season without it and all the previous years. Football should be about emotion. It's not a game of chess. It's not required.

[Charly]

Said that from the start.

Also Dont like the idea of such a massive difference between var at the top level and lower leagues. by all means use the goalline tech. not a fan of how its being used and the instinct will be to increase its use, as it has on penalties.

[Exiled_red]

What are people thinking about it after the first few games? While it was funny to see Sterling's goal chalked off I don't think that a decision that tight can be called accurately. Ultimately that decision came down determining where his arm ended and his shoulder began, as well as identifying the exact moment the ball was played.

Does anyone know what the supposed margin of error is for VAR?

[Mark79]

I really can’t be arsed seeing the game be delayed for 5 mins to determine if the seam of a player’s shirt is offside.

[Tribute]

VAR can **** right off. Yes, it may get to the right decision 90% of the time but as we saw in the City game with Sterling's disallowed goal, there's still interpretation on whether it was a sleeve, arm, shoulder, something you can score with, some part of the body you can't, shoelace, finger, ponytail... the list is bloody endless.

I stopped watching the City game at that point and didn't watch any of the other weekend games not because VAR technology is or isn't great/****e. But more because it has actually completely killed any enjoyment in a game waiting 3 mins+ to see if a goal stands or doesn't. VAR seems to be lording it over every decision... it kills any ability to celebrate a goal until the euphoria of scoring the goal is long since passed.

Not for me, I'm afraid. Will only watch our games from now on - can't be arsed with the technology interrupting every single emotive part of the game...

[RedReet]

Bit dramatic after 1 week, is it not?

[Buzzo]

[maxwellbaxter]

Would love to see someone given offside with a Carlos valderrama style hair style

[Tribute]

Bit dramatic after 1 week, is it not?

...I stand by it. It's utter wank and killing the enjoyment of the game.