Blatter calls for goal-line technology - amazing!

[Iggle Piggle]

Horrible idea.

If teams have 2 offside reviews per match, then you can guarantee almost every time a goal is scored they'd be using the review on the offchance of getting it overturned, especially if the goal reviews are late on in the game. Would you fancy waiting for a "green light" from an offside review judge in order to celebrate a goal ? It would remove all spontaneity from a goal celebration.

Offside can be a very contencious decision anyway, what with phases of play, interfering with play etc. Its still down to interpretation, and a TV replay won't always give you a black and white decision.

Yes but you need to think of this the other way round.

Palace score a 90th minute equaliser and thier fans go mental with a rendition of Tom Hark or other such celebrations associated with no mark tinpot teams. Gus mentally gets up of the bench signals that he wants a video replay. An anxious wait and various hand bags ensue. Video Ref say yep its offside. Albion fans go wild with chants of 'you thought you had scored' and various hand signals towards the holmesdale end before we leave the ground and stand staring at a Police horses arse for an hour whilst waiting for the home fans to disperse fire bombing thier own town and anxiously checking the last train times.

Now I love the sound of (most of) that.

 

[Easy 10]

A transponder alone can't. that's why its a combination of local area tracking AND multiple cameras.The camera tracks the ball too, despite that having no transponder, etc fitted. Its terribly clever, and TERRIBLY complicated.

Good luck getting all that installed at Underhill and Spotland.

 

[Easy 10]

Yes but you need to think of this the other way round.

Palace score a 90th minute equaliser and thier fans go mental with a rendition of Tom Hark or other such celebrations associated with no mark tinpot teams. Gus mentally gets up of the bench signals that he wants a video replay. An anxious wait and various hand bags ensue. Video Ref say yep its offside. Albion fans go wild with chants of 'you thought you had scored' and various hand signals towards the holmesdale end before we leave the ground and stand staring at a Police horses arse for an hour whilst waiting for the home fans to disperse fire bombing thier own town and anxiously checking the last train times.

Now I love the sound of (most of) that.

Some of that has its merits I grant you. In that scenario, much hilarity would ensue.

But its still too much of a price to pay to have a large number of goals (probably the majority) referred upstairs before being officially endorsed.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Good luck getting all that installed at Underhill and Spotland.

Well quite.

Its not really for calling offsides, although its perfectly capable of doing it.

It intended to be installed at top-spec training facilities. Tracks everything in real-time, and saves it to numerous dull databases that give the coaching staff stats on distances covered, player speeds, heart rate graphs and so on, and so on. It not actually very exciting.

 

[Easy 10]

Well quite.

Its not really for calling offsides, although its perfectly capable of doing it.

It intended to be installed at top-spec training facilities. Tracks everything in real-time, and saves it to numerous dull databases that give the coaching staff stats on distances covered, player speeds, heart rate graphs and so on, and so on. It not actually very exciting.

A bit like OPTA then ?

 

[Insel affe]

Sounds like the ideas on here are going to turn our game into a more american style stop start soccer ball game which I would hate every ten mins we have to wait for a decision to come through from who knows in a little room. Nope not for me. what would we moan about if all bases where covered.

Anyway who cares what the odious little man thinks or says, it was offside anyway and I dont care because Italy here we come.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

A bit like OPTA then ?

Sort of. Its more complex. The tracking tech is very sophisticated - tracks to 4cm or something daft - way more accurate than actually needed for football. But then it is used for other stuff too.

 

[trueblue]

What? Are you sure about that? I thought you had to see air between the attacker and defender in order for it to be offside. Or did the rules change again?

That very sensible 'daylight' thing changed quite a while back. As far as I can remember, the most up to date definition is that if any part of a player's body that's he able to score with is offside (so anything except his arms), then the flag should go up.

I don't doubt the technology Hans Kraay's talking about is very clever and all that but do we really want technology covering offsides? For me, I'd rather just stick with goal-line technology and leave the rest as it is. I think things like fouls are too open to interpretation and context to be judged on video.. although I'd give out retrospective bookings for diving if a player goes down when there has clearly been no contact at all.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I don't doubt the technology Hans Kraay's talking about is very clever and all that but do we really want technology covering offsides? For me, I'd rather just stick with goal-line technology and leave the rest as it is. I think things like fouls are too open to interpretation and context to be judged on video.. although I'd give out retrospective bookings for diving if a player goes down when there has clearly been no contact at all.

Agree entirely

 

[blackprince]

The BBC are reporting that Hawkeye and GoalRef have been approved and could be used in the premiership as earlier as the coming season.

 

[thony]

BBC Sport - Premier League could use goal-line technology in 2012-13

"This is about having the right technology helping the referee in a relatively rare occurrence - the scoring of a goal."
...Hope it's not such a rare occurrence for us this season!