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Video technology

Do you want video technology?

  • Yes, I want the game to be stop-start like the NFL

  • No. Football is the world game for a reason.

  • Molten cheese on a camera lens

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Michaelcoyb

Michaelcoyb

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God I hope they get it right.

Being an Australian, two of three of our most popular sports: Rugby League and Rugby Union have video replays and assistance.

Particularly in rugby league, the are always calls for abolishment of the video referee's powers as it slows the game down immensely (3-5 mins for some decisions) and it also it just puts the decision in another human's hands who quite often makes mistakes.

Do you want massive delays in the game to try and improve accuracy? If it was for three minutes and they sometimes got the decision wrong anyway?

Remember the Funes Mori goal on Wednesday? The video referee would have spent at least 3 minutes going over slow-motion replays trying to decide if Lukaku had influenced the keeper from an offside position.

I don't think it is a good idea.

If you think it is a good idea, watch about half a season of NRL in Australia which starts in March and notice the amount of times a video ref makes the wrong decision, does not exercise mature discretion, does not use common sense or does not act in the spirit of the game (i.e follows the idiosyncrasies in the rule book). All while taking 3-5 minutes to decide.
 


Durham Toffee said:
It is increasingly necessary when the standard of refereeing is decreasing in many areas...
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Absolutely not true, and deeply unfair on the referees.

They are being hamstrung, especially in the area of offside, by ever increasing complexity and shades of grey being introduced into the laws.

Let's take FMs goal. Even now, there is no consensus over whether it was offside or not. The linesman simply has no chance of determining whether RM was blocking the view of the goalie. Even replays leave it open to interpretation.

I'm fine with technology for binary decisions like goal line technology, but the FA just need to stop tinkering.
 

The Cowboy said:
I'm fine with technology for binary decisions like goal line technology, but the FA just need to stop tinkering.
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Nah don't agree.

Anything that improves the decision making in the game should be welcomed. In providing the referee some off field assistance they're going to stop some of the more blatantly obvious wrong decisions impacting on the record books, that can only be a good thing imo.

Football has lagged miles behind other sports in this area and has wheeled out every excuse possible to keep the status quo . A 5th official sat in the stands watching the game on a monitor and able to advise the referee on game changing decisions, like penalties, sending offs, wrong player identity etc wouldn't affect the flow of the game but it would improve the percentage of correct decisions made.
 
Foot Long Hot Dog said:
Nah don't agree.

Anything that improves the decision making in the game should be welcomed. In providing the referee some off field assistance they're going to stop some of the more blatantly obvious wrong decisions impacting on the record books, that can only be a good thing imo.

Football has lagged miles behind other sports in this area and has wheeled out every excuse possible to keep the status quo . A 5th official sat in the stands watching the game on a monitor and able to advise the referee on game changing decisions, like penalties, sending offs, wrong player identity etc wouldn't affect the flow of the game but it would improve the percentage of correct decisions made.
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A 5th official sat in the stand watching the game live from a better perspective and offering the ref a better (and real time) insight into the incident is fine, but anything that causes an unnatural halt to the game is too much imo.

Personally I feel that the best alteration to the laws would be to get refs to stop being so card-happy, don't give last minute pens if you're not entirely sure it was a foul, and stop ruining games by sending players off because the laws say you must do so.
 
The Cowboy said:
A 5th official sat in the stand watching the game live from a better perspective and offering the ref a better (and real time) insight into the incident is fine, but anything that causes an unnatural halt to the game is too much imo.

Personally I feel that the best alteration to the laws would be to get refs to stop being so card-happy, don't give last minute pens if you're not entirely sure it was a foul, and stop ruining games by sending players off because the laws say you must do so.
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I think they're 2 completely different subjects tbh mate. Whether the current laws are correct being one and whether off field replays could assist in ensuring that those laws are correctly upheld.

The way to ensure that the referee makes the right call in the last minute penalty shout, is to give him the benefit of the replays that we all have within seconds (via his off field assistant) instead of him having to solely rely on his split second view of the incident.
 
When footballers stop making mistakes, then it will fine for refs to do so as well. Most decisions in football are subjective, someones opinion on whether it was a foul or a corner.

In most other sports, where technology is used, the decisions made are objective; did it hit a bat, was the ball in or out, was it a forward pass, etc.

Goal line technology has proved to work well, because it is not an opinion.
 

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