Offside rule: bring back daylight!

[Dooguk]

Anybody else find it ironic that since Mike Riley met the Fans Forum (whoever they are)
the standard of officiating at Goodison has dropped?

 

[Fassbasstd]

pure incompetence-how can you have two games on the run so poorly officiated ???

There must be a conspiracy theory somewhere here.

 

[njligernj]

Obviously none of the "assistant referees" care what the actual rule says because Everton game or not I do not see them in any games enforce the rule as it is written.

They seemingly make decisions based on the following criteria: if they flag for offside when a player is onside there are no consequences; if they miss an offside decision even one time in their entire careers their entire family is killed.

However there is recent evidence that when they want to make changes they can. The "only flag when the offside player actually touches the ball or influences play" took a while but they got mostly the hang of it (less-so for announcers to remember what was happening and stop asking "why did he flag so late?!?!" with such baffling sincerity you wonder if they spend even ten seconds a year outside of the booth reading or thinking about the game of football).

So they can change something if they want to. Which suggests they think this offside rule is fine. Which it is not.

It doesn't matter what the rule is, only how it is enforced. They either need to educate them better or change the rule so even the ultra-conservative linespeople (PC!) can leave the flag down once in a while.

 

[GraemeS1980]

Ive never understood why there isnt a linesman on either side of the pitch covering both halves. If one sees the decision, sound if they both see it even better, if neither of them see it then sack them. It cant be that hard surely, and I ref'd to a decent level.

 

[Jimmywhack]

That liner was the one who gave newcastle a "pen" at Man U wasnt he?
He shouldnt be allowed near a sunday league game let alone a prem game

You can change the rules as much as you want some dumb ****wit will always misinterpret them

 

[Titus Bramble]

Ive never understood why there isnt a linesman on either side of the pitch covering both halves. If one sees the decision, sound if they both see it even better, if neither of them see it then sack them. It cant be that hard surely, and I ref'd to a decent level.

That could work with video replays for the 4th official too. If niether flag, don't give the offside/goal etc, if both flag then obviously do give it and if only 1 flags go to the video ref.

 

[just_COYB]

Camera's will never be used for offside's. The drenthe goal was just really poor officiating. The lino was totally in line with play and drenthe had not 1 but 2 defenders playing him on, one further back than the other. Just a shocking decision.

Until refs/lino's start getting proper punishment for such bad decisions they will keep doing them and just shrugg there shoulders when they get it wrong!

This makes me sad. Man, that sucked.

 

[PaddyG]

In last nights case it wasn't the rule that was the problem, it was the knob ed who disallowed our perfectly good goal. However we shouldn't need to be moaning after a game about decisions, we should have been good enough to go and score again and we weren't good enough last night and didn't deserve anything from the game. I vote crack pipe on toast.

 

[Abraders]

I think the rule is fine in the most parts. If it changed we'd be worse for wear anyway based on the fact we never play through balls etc, we always cross it after everyone has regrouped so offside usually isn't a problem

 

[Bluenose1995]

double post