For what it's worth I thought both decisions were wrong.Off his knee or not it hit Cash's arm which was sticking out. It's a pen for me and I'd be fuming if that was against us.For the offside, it's almost as bad as the Watkins one, except Watkins was being fouled at the same time. I reckon if the flag hadn't gone up VAR would have called it onside.I still reckon we're 3 or 4 down on the VAR shit decision metre, so I'm not losing sleep over it. The VAR Gods still owe us, but yesterday helped.
Re the penalty decision. I would suggest that the referee was in a very good position to see the deflection from Cash's thigh thereby bringing it in to the scenario 'ball to hand, no intent', something that has always been part of the laws, i.e. In the opinion of the referee...
It needs to be a fixed point, front of nearest foot etc and no single mm wide line. if they're too close to tell, it's not offside.
Quote from: GordonCowansisthegreatest on January 31, 2021, 02:22:24 PMIt needs to be a fixed point, front of nearest foot etc and no single mm wide line. if they're too close to tell, it's not offside.Agree - this sleeve thing is rubbish. Are all sleeves the same length? It should either be something fixed on the body - say the middle if you were to cut the players in half from the head down, or daylight in the attackers favour.
Quote from: chrisw1 on January 31, 2021, 12:11:41 PMFor what it's worth I thought both decisions were wrong.Off his knee or not it hit Cash's arm which was sticking out. It's a pen for me and I'd be fuming if that was against us.For the offside, it's almost as bad as the Watkins one, except Watkins was being fouled at the same time. I reckon if the flag hadn't gone up VAR would have called it onside.I still reckon we're 3 or 4 down on the VAR shit decision metre, so I'm not losing sleep over it. The VAR Gods still owe us, but yesterday helped.Bold bit - that means it's working properly.As for the rest the penalty would've been harsh and was 50/50 at best but again the ref didn't give it and VAR just didn't see enough to say he'd got it wrong. As has happened a number of times this year fans are moaning about VAR when it's worked exactly as intended, the 'mistakes' if you want to call them as such were made by on-field officials and not overturned because VAR couldn't see a reason to do so.
I see lots of benefit of the doubt type statements about offside. This degree of doubt is exactly what VAR was introduced to help. That’s why we are where we are, the lines however thin or thick need to be drawn somewhere and I have no issues with that being the closest part of the body to goal. VAR has ruined the game for the folks at the games, this is my main issue with it.