nickbrighton
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- Feb 19, 2016
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Whats the point? About time the PMGOL commitee just announce the results ahead of games-save so much time and angst. A bit like the pools panel
The officials should be executedVAR is turning so many games into a farce. In theory it’s ok but we lack the officials to implement it.
a little harshThe officials should be executed
It's the only waya little harsh
Perhaps the on-field ref can be allowed a limited amount of monitor reviews.
Those are the referee's penalty flags which they toss on the field when an infraction is detected.Must admit haven't followed the NFL for a while. When I did I thought the "flags" were a dull yellow, bit like duster.
As highlighted today by the commentators, they need someone that has played the game in there as well. Robbie Earle could see it wasn't a pen to them by the way Milner challenged Mudryk (planted his foot, and challenged via the upper body shoulder to shoulder way before any tangle of legs that occure at the same time Steele is getting to the ball), yet the twunts that have probably never kicked the ball, even at Amature level, thought otherwise.
This is one of the biggest issues with VAR. The dramatic decline in standards of on-field officiating now they have the system to bail them out. From Pawson’s angle it may have looked like it hit the arm but the lino has no excuse. Right in line, 10 yards away, unobstructed view and does nothing. The thinking’s not as sharp as it was when there was no other option but to be really, really focussed. It’s a classic example of ‘too many cooks…” and the more they try to fix it, the worse it will get.The decisions today from the Chelsea pen to the end of the game were insulting to Brighton and any reasonable fan.
How on earth was the official called to the monitor to look at that, when it quite clearly hit him on the head. And then give a drop ball.
Whole thing stinks.
No, that isn't the issue. Some ex-pros thought it was, some thought it wasn't. Therefore, whichever way the on-field ref. gave it wasn't a 'clear and obvious' error. Simply put, in those circumstances, VAR should have kept its nose out of it.Yet other pros thought it was, there is the issue.
No, that isn't the issue. Some ex-pros thought it was, some thought it wasn't. Therefore, whichever way the on-field ref. gave it wasn't a 'clear and obvious' error. Simply put, in those circumstances, VAR should have kept its nose out of it.
Maybe they need someone at Stockley Park, not of the PGMOL, to tell them what they should look at and what they shouldn't.
Exactly. This thread is repeating itself now, but to re-state the problem with VAR (in it's current form) is nothing to do with the competence or otherwise of the officials (they're humans and thus will make mistakes), it's nothing to do with imaginary lines, it's nothing to do with time limits or challenges, it is simply the fact that at the moment it is being asked to do the impossible which is to adjudicate on subjective decisions. And, unlike the on-field ref, it is expected to get it right 100% of the time. Which it can't as it's impossible. Hence these constant discussions every Monday morning - and not just on here.No, that isn't the issue. Some ex-pros thought it was, some thought it wasn't. Therefore, whichever way the on-field ref. gave it wasn't a 'clear and obvious' error. Simply put, in those circumstances, VAR should have kept its nose out of it.
Maybe they need someone at Stockley Park, not of the PGMOL, to tell them what they should look at and what they shouldn't.
Yes - if the lino had immediately said 'no ref - it hit his head', then the ref would have overruled himself immediately and we would almost certainly have had the corner kick.This is one of the biggest issues with VAR. The dramatic decline in standards of on-field officiating now they have the system to bail them out. From Pawson’s angle it may have looked like it hit the arm but the lino has no excuse. Right in line, 10 yards away, unobstructed view and does nothing. The thinking’s not as sharp as it was when there was no other option but to be really, really focussed. It’s a classic example of ‘too many cooks…” and the more they try to fix it, the worse it will get.