The VAR Blunder Thread

Australian Football
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Also, players are frequently petulant fucks that refuse to believe they are ever in the wrong. Such a system would make them put up or shut up.
Shane Watson looks like Nostradamus by comparison.

Not saying it would work mind, would be another mechanism where the implementation of the review would be too slow and hold up the game.

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Football is a low scoring game, so with a 3 challenge system, you may as well challenge every goal that you concede.

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It would have to be one challenge and have to be directly relating to a goal- ie penalty given or not given/ goal line

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For me that doesn’t fix the fundamental issues that the referees are responsible for adjudicating and the players are responsible for playing. Would anybody seriously be happy if we lost a grand final to an obvious Victory handball, having previously used our reviews unsuccessfully on extremely tight offside calls?

We have the technology to eradicate all clear errors. Why would we introduce another layer of complexity instead of just doing it?

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If it is here to stay, we have to restrict it to catch the ‘Howler’… but there’s always going to be some debate as to what that means…I propose:

  1. 3 people in the room - a ref, an ex-player and whoever is operating the video. They make the call whether to overrule the ref
  2. Has to be unanimous decision - ie. if there is any debate, it is not a ‘howler’
  3. They can view 3 replays and that includes slow-mo. If it takes more than that, then it is not a ‘howler’
  4. 20 second ‘clock’ to change the decision; otherwise refs call stands

The point being that we should assume the ref is right and everyone celebrates and runs back ready for kick off. We are trying to use VAR to pretend we can get every decision 100% right, when so many are grey.
Despite their failings, the refs are in the best position to make a call real time and anyone that has followed the game understands that.

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Maybe I would give a little more than 20 seconds, although I love the idea of the clock. Perhaps the clock can be shown on the screen as well to encourage fan participation. 30 seconds seems reasonable. If its not obvious after 30 seconds, its not an obvious error.

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Yeah, could be 30 seconds… they could just back-test some ‘howler’ decisions and work out how long is reasonable.

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Call me crazy, but how about we start with getting the refs to be better? The assistants to be better? Ban ratpacking the officials and bin the stupid VAR thing until such point that the refs are completely crap and than being complete crap at being VARs?

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Problem is, while we think they’re terrible, they’re not that much worse than the officials in the top leagues in Europe. There are frequent dubious calls in the EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, and fans are always complaining. Look at the dodgy penalty in the Man City UCL game overnight.

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Agree. If the gulf in class was big, you’d see a transfer market in refs … not gonna happen

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Nonsense! I believe in some South East Asia countries, the ref transfer market is known as kelong.

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The VAR has been alright recently. Still could be quicker in the decisions by letting the VAR or 4th official make the call. But happy that they are pulling out of contentious calls

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The referee overturning his handball call on Friday night and Chris Beath sticking with his original call yesterday were both very good uses of VAR. If it continues to be used like that then I have no problem with it staying.

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Since when is this Very Arsehead Rort going to STOP,now they want to rule on 50/50 balls no where near the goal…that Perth player is more at fault from what I saw???

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So they’ve admitted the red card to Lowry was wrong, but just so the insanity can continue he still has to serve the suspension. :+1: