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VAR - Love or Hate?


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Falcow

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What would it have taken for the ref to send him off,Mason having his leg broken I presume.
It's not like the ref didnt see Mason going down but in fairness he may not have seen the challenge in real time which is where VAR needs to step in.
 

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The point of making it a red is to deter those tackles, not when it is a broken leg.
 

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I sense that all fans across all clubs are growing increasingly frustrated about the lack of consistency in this VAR madness
The FA needs to have weekly reviews of all controversial VAR decisions and clarify why the decisions were made. The NFL is brilliant at this and there's rarelt any doubt of why a decision was made
In the PL the line seeks to vary from week to week or even game to game. No consistency, no clear line and no damn logic is present in any way at all.
 

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VAR is a fecking joke, I can't believe they didn't think that wasn't a sending off, Romeu almost broke Greenwood's ankle.
 

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Easy way to fix VAR is simply use it correctly. They review and advise ref if there is something to look at. On field ref makes the call simples.

All this nonsense of not wanting to overturn refs decision is a joke.

Its just making the whole of English football look inept
 

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I like the NRL version. Ref makes a decision when they refer to VAR and then there as to be clear evidence to overrule the original call.
The clear and obvious error bit hasn't exactly worked well in England.

It's a combination of issues, the refs are a bit shit and going against another ref is a bit like wanking in front of your nan, you¨ll do it but only if it's an emergency.

Mike Riley has made a mess of things, especially the pitchside monitors. They'll happily spend 5-6mins drawing up lines to see if the tip of a players knob is an inch offside or not, but allowing the ref 2 mins to jog to a monitor on the side to review a situation is considered too time consuming and ruins the flow of the game.
 

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It's not like the ref didnt see Mason going down but in fairness he may not have seen the challenge in real time which is where VAR needs to step in.
Yeah they should have told him to go and have a look at the screen but didn't think it was worthy for some daft reason
 

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The clear and obvious error bit hasn't exactly worked well in England.

It's a combination of issues, the refs are a bit shit and going against another ref is a bit like wanking in front of your nan, you¨ll do it but only if it's an emergency.

Mike Riley has made a mess of things, especially the pitchside monitors. They'll happily spend 5-6mins drawing up lines to see if the tip of a players knob is an inch offside or not, but allowing the ref 2 mins to jog to a monitor on the side to review a situation is considered too time consuming and ruins the flow of the game.
Please clarify the emergency which would necessitate you wanking off in front your nan?
 

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I'm fairly sure I'm wrong on this but there is the faintest idea of a slip or double movement on the Romeu red.

It's a very good example of how VAR ref doesn't want to overrule Ref #1.

To which the obvious answer is the pitch side monitor but that has problems for authority and player behaviour I think they would say.

I'd focus that by asking what is VAR saying when he sends Ref#1 to the screen. They're obvs very keen to avoid this anyway.

Except when they said they would but still carried on not doing wasn't it?
 

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Didn't want to start a new thread but is Walker-Peters handball not a red card offence? Surely it was an intentional handball to stop a goal scoring opportunity. I thought that was a part of the rules, like the last man tackle?
 

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That was an incredible decision there for the foul on Jesus.

It even looked nailed-on in real time, never mind in any of the five angles they showed afterwards.

Shambles.
 

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Why wasn’t there any discussion of Alexander-Arnold’s horror tackle last night in any post-match analysis? It was a clear red card and even in real time, it looked quite bad.


What are these clowns in Stockley Park watching?!
 

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That's a palace penalty for me. Don't know if the VAR bottled it as it would have cancelled out our goal or if he just doesn't know what he's doing.

We're so lucky with VAR. :lol:
 

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Looked like a penalty to me yeah. Hard to justify VAR (seemingly) not even having a look. We've definitely not been unlucky with VAR in general. The only good thing I can say about it.
 

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Didn't the ball only go out of play when Rashford scored after the penalty appeal?
I think that scenario has happened before. If it is a penalty they chalk off the goal scored and bring it back for the pen.
 

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Yeah, should have been a penalty in my view. Can’t understand why it wasn’t given.

Why wasn’t there any discussion of Alexander-Arnold’s horror tackle last night in any post-match analysis? It was a clear red card and even in real time, it looked quite bad.


What are these clowns in Stockley Park watching?!
Mane’s kick out at Holding as well.
 

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I don't think you can tell what's happening. You're just assuming there's a trip somewhere - presumably just before he falls over.

What actually happens - not a clue.

Also the 2nd angle looks totally different.
 

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It's getting boring now, every week they miss blatant fouls. Incompetence or corruption, i don't think i even care anymore. They should all be fired on the spot but we all know it's not happening. The league is going to be about how much a gap can you create before the referees feck you over.
 

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That's harsh for Palace. Millimeters probably.
Anyways, the rules are the rules and they are the same for everyone.
 

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Haha, we're so freakishly lucky. Conspiracy theories bound to begin. VAR is so silly.
 

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:lol: it's good for us but it's shit that the only use of VAR is to be a complete killjoy, taking away goals for such pedantic reasons.