VAR at Southampton

My nephew worked on VAR and he says it was initially just to be used for goal line technology - it should have stayed that way. If linesmen are up with the play as well as the ref. then 3 pairs of eyes for fouls and offsides should be sufficient. They are all supposed to be in radio  contact

Quoted from golfer

My nephew worked on VAR and he says it was initially just to be used for goal line technology - it should have stayed that way. If linesmen are up with the play as well as the ref. then 3 pairs of eyes for fouls and offsides should be sufficient. They are all supposed to be in radio  contact

This!

Keep VAR for incidents in the penalty area or serious foul play.

Quoted from Gaffer58

As VAR is assumed to assist the premiership clubs as they are used to it , I bet the ref appointed will be a premiership ref. Now some would say that’s because there the best, in my opinion that is debatable, but again it helps the premiership club as we all know how every challenge is always a free kick to which ever player screams and rolls about more, whereas our cloggers in league 2 still see the  physical side of the game as something you have to win.

Refs are appointed based on the level of the highest team. Would be a L2 ref if we were playing a non league dog and duck team like Scunthorpe.

As for VAR it’s utter male masturbation, but if it is to stay I think each team should have one or two challenges per game, otherwise it is ignored except for goal line incidents.

VAR can't be any worse than some of the refs we've had lately in our league games.

All our players will have seen enough VAR games on TV to know how it works. The bottom line is that sneaky stuff in the penalty area will very likely be spotted and punished, so be very careful what you try to get away with!

One of the things that annoys me most about VAR was that Lineker, Neville, Keane, Jenas and all that lot were crying out for it. Saying how ridiculous it was that they had it Germany and that the Prem needed to hang its head in shame for depriving the poor top tier fans of England of this wondrous breakthrough that would solve any and all match officiating decisions. Fast forward to us having it here and they can't get enough of slating it. Seemingly oblivious to the role they played in rushing its rollout and implementation in this country.

The last time we played with it we had a yellow card overturned to a red after 2 minutes. We didn't know at the time this rule applied. They will know how to take advantage of it where as we only have to forget for one moment and we could be in trouble.
It's more likely to favour them rather than us, but, you never know

Quoted from mimma

The last time we played with it we had a yellow card overturned to a red after 2 minutes. We didn't know at the time this rule applied.

Which rule? I don’t think you were meant to tackle this, even before VAR.

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As disappointing as it was at the time, it was a red card offence and the ref should have sent him off in the first place - it’s a reasonable VAR case study if anything.

Quoted from Poojah

Which rule? I don’t think you were meant to tackle this, even before VAR.

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As disappointing as it was at the time, it was a red card offence and the ref should have sent him off in the first place - it’s a reasonable VAR case study if anything.

That is exactly what is wrong with VAR.

Ultra slow motion, or a still shot like that makes it look like a full blooded, pre meditated lunge to take out the player and looks a red all day long.

In real time, Townsend had turned him inside out and Fox was playing a ball that suddenly wasn't there due to the superior skill of a Premier league player against a league 2 defender in the very first minute of a huge game for the league 2 side.

One of the most experienced refs in the league took all that into account and decided on a yellow, to give a signal to keep your adrenalin in check and calm down or you will be off.

A ref in the control room looked at it in ultra slow motion / still and overruled all that and told him to change his mind and give a red.

This is just one problem with VAR as it doesn't take nuances into account.