Quote from: Dazvillain on October 21, 2019, 08:54:04 AMIt seems so wrong, elongated and poor set up compared to rugby union TMOI think football as a sport is really incompatible with the technology. Cricket and rugby both have natural breaks but the whole idea of football is it flows more or less continuously.
It seems so wrong, elongated and poor set up compared to rugby union TMO
Quote from: themossman on October 21, 2019, 06:42:46 PMQuote from: Dazvillain on October 21, 2019, 08:54:04 AMIt seems so wrong, elongated and poor set up compared to rugby union TMOI think football as a sport is really incompatible with the technology. Cricket and rugby both have natural breaks but the whole idea of football is it flows more or less continuously. I don't buy that.Cricket, yes, but rugby doesn't have any more breaks than football. There are plenty of occasions the ball is in play for several minutes in rugby, whereas you'd be hard pushed to find the ball in play for more than 60 seconds in most football matches.VAR could work but the absolute shambles we're currently witnessing is down to the amateur way it's being implemented.
You can blame football refs for their mistakes but not their siege mentality.
It's also a slight myth to say that TMO doesn't interrupt the flow of a rugby game. It's just that this is now accepted as part and parcel of the game, because it does correct the ref and it does result in fairer decisions.But that requires both the refs on the field and the TMO to have integrity. Too often this season we've seen bonkers subjective refereeing decisions go against us, and even if you think that was incompetence rather than bias or malice, you must then accept that there is a lack of integrity in Stockley Park where VAR has invariably failed to overturn the poor decisions of the referees. The behaviour of referees has a bang of 'all for one and one for all' off it, which you just wouldn't get in rugby officiating.
Quote from: AsTallAsLions on October 23, 2019, 08:17:38 AMin football almost all fans think that almost all refs are fucking shit and it will take a lot of work to turn that around.Yes but that's why it's worth doing. The game as a whole will benefit enormously.
in football almost all fans think that almost all refs are fucking shit and it will take a lot of work to turn that around.