Official VAR thread

[bluesball]

Without asking the TMO or the bunker did Barnes make any decision of his own back in the rugby final. The answer is no . Best referee in the world is a joke.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

I agree with most of that.

Id watch all Munsters games, Irish internationals along with whatever else sky have on.

For the most part the Video ref works fine.

Football seems to have taken the aspects that work and ditched them for VAR . Id have the ref and VAR miked and those watching on TV can see the rationale for decisions in real time. You may not agree with it but you can see at least how theyve reached their decision.

It makes a difference.

You or I might be accepting, but the general football watching public...give me a break. In most countries, the general fan culture is aggressive tribalism.

Barnes received family death threats in a sport where we've been led to believe the watching public are a higher breed of individual. Mic-ing a soccer ref would just be giving them more rope to hang themselves.

Enough is enough now. Time to admit it's all wrong...though I know there's little chance of that.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

They're not going to ditch it.

They'll plough on.


I think this guys puts it well

https://twitter.com/x/status/1722549251345924295

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

Manchester United ruined my life.

M8, could you confine you perma rattled state to the United thread please?

 

[Hank Scorpio]

If only we could go back to the glory days of some teams being allowed to foul with impunity, constantly dive for penalties and sometimes getting penalties when they forget to dive (Rooney v Bolton). I want those days back.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

No.

Dress it up whatever way you want. The final decision will always be a subjective one made by an individual (or group of) human(s). There will NEVER be consistency and always be controversy in this case. There's just no getting away from that.

The myth of Rugby being the exemplary older brother has just been destroyed this last month, by the way.

Two completely different games too. Rugby has always been a stop start game. Football never was. Also, rugby is a relatively high scoring game, football is not.

The one to three goals you get in most matches, should be times of celebration because they are so bloody rare, instead of being ruined by VAR checks killing the joy.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

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Even in the VAR thread the guy is rattled out of his tiny mind.

 

[Nollaig O Muracu]

We need to back off a bit. Expectation has far exceeded what's plausible in terms of what we can expect from refereeing performance. It's been a total frenzy for years now, and I'd imagine it's only having a detrimental affect on refereeing numbers, which is an existential threat to any sport.

Can't remember which game it was but UEFA were advertising for referees the other night. You'd have to have some masochistic tendencies to want to become a ref nowadays.

 

[Cloudy O'Ranieri]

They're not going to ditch it.

They'll plough on.


I think this guys puts it well

https://twitter.com/x/status/1722549251345924295

Almost fully agree with that tweet...although I'm not at all sure about the part where he says "nobody wanted it in the first place".

It came about because people were scrutinising refs to death and thought the solution was going to be simple.

 

[J.R.R. hartley]

I don't agree with something.
Here's a tweet from some smc off of Twitter that backs up my point.
And not just any smc, the one that makes videos when we win.