Is it time for Technology?

[Allezfan]

Fair enough, apologies for jumping down your throat there Cena.

But the standard of reffing in the lower league isn't going to get worse by increasing the standard of reffing in the higher leagues by introducing GLT. There's already a difference in that in the prem it's prfessional expeirenced refs and in the lower leagues it ain't. Giving prem refs access to GLT but not giving it to lower leagues refs is going to make that difference bigger, I agree. But it already exists and it has always existed and if you are going to increase a quality gap doing it by improving the better one is much better than worsening the worse one.

And I don't think it makes lower league football less attractive to have poorer officials then the top games who are more likely to make mistakes, (in this example because they can't refer to GLT) because that has always been the case. Nor do I think it will make top league football more or less attracive to have better officials with technological assistance. I don't think it will effect how entertaining the game is at all, just how fair. The reasons people go or don't go to matches at any level won't change due to GLT, imo.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Every introduction of technology, step by step, will reduce the ability of referees to gift astounding decisions to Liverpool Franchise Club, in important games.

That is a primary reason to support this.

The bonus is that with each technology step they become even less likely to start reappearing in important games..

 

[TheBlueGibbon]

We might manage to win a f*cking derby at home if it's introduced. The ref can't [Poor language removed] us over then (as easily).
Rodwell's red card for instance, or god knows how many penalties and red cards, such as the Clattenburg derby.

 

[njligernj]

Goal-line technology will do nothing but create divisions within the game, and it won't stop there. The game will become dull and uninteresting when everything gets referred to technology.

I genuinely don't understand why football will be impacted in such a drastic way when this hasn't happened elsewhere when they introduced video replays. If football wasn't so afraid of change then instituting the changes I mentioned in my earlier post would save SO much time the ref could spend five minutes staring at replays and you'd still have more actual football being played in each game than you do now. All the arguments with the ref, faked injuries, time wasting and so forth ruin the game far more than watching a replay ever could. There are a lot of things we could do to address those issues which would help the flow of the game and result in more actual football being played in a football game. The NFL changes more rules every year than football has in the last ten-twenty years and almost everybody agrees it has helped make the game better (whether you like the game itself or not is irrelevant).

did i say `throw ins`? you mentioned it twice.

You didn't but it was mentioned elsewhere in the thread. I should have been clearer that I was speaking to people in general and not directly to you with that one.

like you say `the stupidest people in the world run football` are they really stupid? or just corrupt?

Like everything in life it's probably a little bit of both.

 

[toffeejack]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18719396

got home and read this....seriously wtf, i am all for the correct decisions being made, but doing it half way through a season is one of the most moronic things i have ever heard. Who seriously thinks it is a good idea to change a league half way through, ffs.

 

[EFCNIK]

My only concern is that, like Cena says (Cena Says- An excellent way to end the Late Night Cena show btw, with a bullet of wisdom) that in 10- 15 years time it wont just be goal line decisions that is decided by technology, it will be everything. Every time there is a debatable foul it will be referred to technology. It will just ruin the game. Part of the magic of football is human error. I know that sounds bad but it's true. How boring is it going to be if we never get terrible decisions against us, or get jammy decisions for us?

 

[zed]

My only concern is that, like Cena says (Cena Says- An excellent way to end the Late Night Cena show btw, with a bullet of wisdom) that in 10- 15 years time it wont just be goal line decisions that is decided by technology, it will be everything. Every time there is a debatable foul it will be referred to technology. It will just ruin the game. Part of the magic of football is human error. I know that sounds bad but it's true. How boring is it going to be if we never get terrible decisions against us, or get jammy decisions for us?

thats why i re-new my season ticket year after year. theres nothing better than Mr Maninthemiddle getting it wrong.

 

[Chang Elephant]

thats why i re-new my season ticket year after year. theres nothing better than Mr Maninthemiddle getting it wrong.

True, Clattenberg got a few decisions wrong, but we loved him for it.

 

[Cena]

You won;t get an angry snarly Goodison again with technology making sure every decision is correct

 

[Seamus Colemole]

You won;t get an angry snarly Goodison again with technology making sure every decision is correct

What about the Rodwell red in the derby last year? If atkinson called it a red but we appealed or whatever and it went to video ref and the video ref agreed?

If thats how it would work, sounds like we could still get screwed and suffer dodgy decisions.

 

[Cena]

What about the Rodwell red in the derby last year? If atkinson called it a red but we appealed or whatever and it went to video ref and the video ref agreed?

If thats how it would work, sounds like we could still get screwed and suffer dodgy decisions.

Again, with technology, we'd of been relegated in 98.

Swings and roundabouts, I just personally feel the game is going to suffer now that technology has been brought in, mayb not straight away but long term it will unravel.

 

[Allezfan]

If you're in favour of bad decisions Cena are you against training referees? Should we encourage them to get it wrong?

 

[Cena]

If you're in favour of bad decisions Cena are you against training referees? Should we encourage them to get it wrong?

When did I say I was in favour of bad decisions?

 

[Allezfan]

When did I say I was in favour of bad decisions?

This quote here 'You won;t get an angry snarly Goodison again with technology making sure every decision is correct ' implies that you think removing incorrect decisions from the game will make it worse, therefore you're in favour of them.

 

[Seamus Colemole]

Again, with technology, we'd of been relegated in 98.

Swings and roundabouts, I just personally feel the game is going to suffer now that technology has been brought in, mayb not straight away but long term it will unravel.

Would we? Maybe technology over the course of the 97/98 season may of reversed a wrong decision against earlier in the season which stopped us picking up 3 points? If and buts i know but its not as clear cut as you say it is, and even if its true ana dwe would of been relegated still; doesn't change the fact that its better to get more decisions right than it is wrong.

Although my point was more about that fact we could still get screwed with a dodgy decision that causes the crowd to get angry.