Yes but that’s our complaint. Those rules are dumb.
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As I said, if you allow train drivers to make a call, they will hire more redundant folks to guide a system which can be self reliant.
If you allow me to implement technology, the count of ref will be reduced to just 2. One on the field and other behind the screen.
But the people in charge at pgmol have no interest in doing that. So it isn’t pertinent.
Autumn international Rugby has been on this weekend and it isn’t perfect but how is it with much less money at it’s disposal that rugby nails the VAR and TMO combo, straight forward and transparent explanations from the ref on field.
Showing it’s really not that fucking difficult.
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So after the two challenges the ref can just make a bullshit call and you have to suck it up?
Sounds great.
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I read about it earlier. It mentioned that the VAR would be removed, and refs would review the footage once it is challenged.
I like the idea of challenges(especially if you continue with ‘can’t review second yellow’ bullshit), but I don’t like challenges without any VAR.
It puts the entire onus of understanding rules and calling for challenges onto the coaching staff. That’s unfair. The coaching staff shouldn’t have to distract themselves to understand the nitty-gritty of rules. We have refs for that. There will be several instances where the coaching staff misses a finer detail and fails to challenge. Let them focus on footballing tactics. Clubs will end up hiring a Referring coach to have a dedicated set of eyes and increase their operational cost.
The challenges should be for any oversight and allow clubs to get their word out & bring focus on said oversight.
At present, the challenge system is only intended for use in leagues with fewer resources, ideally with no more than four cameras, rather than top divisions like the Premier League
Makes more sense
They have a captains challenge in the NRL in Aussie and tbh I think it works well. You get 1 per game. If you challenge and win, you keep your challenge and if you lose, that’s it. All scoring plays are also automatically reviewed.
We had it in rugby too for a while but rugby is run by dinosaurs so barely any good ideas are implemented long term, which is probably a big reason why more people seem to be league fans here in NZ now.
Last night showed how valuable VAR is and how poorly implemented it is that we need a set of non-VAR games to give us all a reality check.
The only thing VAR would have done last night is chalk off a goal that should stand anyway if the offside rule wasn’t so shite.
Blame the rule, not the correct enforcement of the rule.
Literally blamed the rule.
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Praise the correct enforcement of the rule
No, I don’t agree with it.
Absolutely nothing last night to convince me of the value of VAR.
Mistakes with it, mistakes without it, all the same.
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Less Mistakes with it, More mistakes without it, not the same.
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Kills the enjoyment of the game a bit for me though. Having to sit through a VAR check before I can celebrate a goal doesn’t sit quite right with me.
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I don’t think so buddy.
There’s zero chance I will actually do it, but I’m sure if we took all the ‘mistakes’ from manual refs in 2008 and compared it to the combined (ref + var) mistakes from 2023, you’d be looking at a similar volume if not more now.
The only thing it will be useful for is offside and that will be when it’s automated, not this line drawing sheeeeeeite.
There is actually data available for that.
And we don’t even have to look it up. We only need to ask - How many incorrect offside calls were made in 2008 compared to 2023?
We both can accept that 2008 incorrect offside calls will be n times more than that of 2023.
Heck, we can ask that for last week.
How many incorrect offside calls in PL with VAR last week?
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How many incorrect offside calls in PL last night?
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