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Son Spurs said:
Wolves actually make a good point there about how alot of the discourse nowadays post match becomes about VAR decisions. It's just not interesting content. You want to see tactical analysis, breakdowns and performance reviews not about whether or not somebodies toe was offside.
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That is true but unfortunately, the biggest reason why we ended up with VAR in the first place was the discourse post-match from the lack of analysis and only focussing on contentious decisions, even when there wasn't anything contentious. Over the past 2 decades, it has got progressively worse to the point many were sold the falsehood that VAR was a solution to what was media hyping up around "wrong" decisions. Even now people fail to understand that most decisions aren't black or white/wrong or right, but they are interpretations of the law.

The PGMOL have been shambolic themselves by constantly changing the thresholds, and the actual laws of the game so much that it is almost impossible to remember what the current laws are (eg handball).
 
Sir Alfred Conn said:
Sky love it because it causes controversy and enables them to have have endless debates on the various VAR decisions.
And we all know how much influence Sky have over football
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Agree. But interesting tonight on the United coverage all of Rooney, Keane and Cole came out saying they hate it and want rid. I was surprised they didn’t follow the company line but they were very strong on it.

Also they said that the officials should be asked their thoughts on it. I bet they hate it. All it seems to do is give them more criticism and abuse.
 
Rocket said:
Leave goal line tech and bring in automated offside. If you can get ball out of play working I would use that too. Leave the binary decisions to computers. Leave opinions to the on field officials.
The rest can do one. Give the ref's their bollocks back.
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opinions are binary too mate. People will either agree or disagree about any given situation and that includes the people inside the var studio.
 
You can't go backwards now. What they need to do is improve the process and demand a much higher standard of refereeing. They need to reinforce the idea that the referee on the grass is the one who runs the game and the assistants are just that, assistants. They are not there to re-referee the game.

Too many referees are choosing not to blow their whistle and leave big decisions to the VAR, Michael Oliver in the NLD is a perfect example. He was 5 yards away looking straight at Davies getting kicked in the balls, he didn't even consider blowing his whistle. He didn't want to do his job and make a match-changing decision. That's got to stop. Referees need to grow a sack and VARs need to stop wasting so much time and refer the referee to the monitor much quicker.

If the process is to only intervene on "clear and obvious errors" then they should be able to quickly spot those and direct the referee to the monitor for HIM to review. We don't need to wait 5 minutes for the VAR to decide whether to send him to the monitor or not. The referee IMO shouldn't even hear their discussion, it influences them too much and all referees apply the laws differently. The VAR should have 30 seconds to decide if a review is needed and then all the referee should here is "review recommended". If someone's going to spend 5 minutes looking at a replay it should be the ref, not his assistants.
 
May as well get rid of it. It’s easier to accept three officials getting something wrong in real time than 6 or more officials getting it wrong after many replays and several minutes. Not to mention inconsistent application of the rules or just not looking at some things.
 
kingdawson said:
believe me when I say we are going to get absolutely shafted without VAR (even more then we already currently do). Be careful what you wish for.
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I'm not sure if we will or not but I agree that all getting rid will do is open up a new can of worms.

It's easy to think that we'll all be "Hey-ho, human error, you win some you lose some, still, better than VAR innit" when the inevitable next human error shafts your team.

We all know that won't be the case.
 
I'd love it if we binned the whole thing.

I was in favour of VAR initially as I wrongfully thought it would only been used to intervene when real howlers were made. I also didn't realise it would be used to measure offsides to the the most ridiculous of fine margins and take foreever.

Get rid.
 
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