VAR

[davebirch]

If VAR helps to eliminate both incompetence and big club bias, then I'm all for it.

I'm not sure that those two examples are the same.
To me, "incompetence" is a ref, not being able to make a decision confidently, knowing he has a back up that exonerates him completely.
Big Club bias is just cheating.

 

[Drog]

Var isn't infallible (nothing is or ever can be) but It's an improvement on just relying on one pair of eyes. As long as the %age correct decisions are significantly in favour then that's a plus on why went on before.
Btw we seem to have another ref with a bias today.

 

[goozburger.]

Second game running where VAR would have been justified. It's undeniable.

The referees in this league are so scared of giving any decision other than the obvious faffy yellow cards and warnings. They are passengers that are simply afraid of making a wrong decision.

 

[Alan]

I think half the time the on field referee is letting VAR and the off field referees make the decisions, not all are correct. I do agree that it’s spoiling the game.
(Cue an Al yawn now)

Anything to oblige. YAAAAWN! This unwinnable argument really does bore the shit out of me.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Anything to oblige. YAAAAWN! This unwinnable argument really does bore the shit out of me.

I know pal, I keep trying to reason with drog but he’s not having it.

 

[Drog]

The point that most miss is that there are far more correct than incorrect decisions via VAR.... but you won't have that.

 

[goozburger.]

The point that most miss is that there are far more correct than incorrect decisions via VAR.... but you won't have that.

I tried to get this point across yesterday - that we only ever hear about VAR during the few controversial occasions. Rarely do you see anybody saying "VAR got it right". You could apply that to the general scope of life.

 

[Drog]

Especially for odb and dave birch....

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

2 minutes? They seem to be up to about 4 now on average!

 

[Drog]

Tough shit for hull eh? Card overturned but no consolation for the 3 points lost by getting beaten by 3 second half goals. Heaven forbid it had been Man Utd v Liverpool!

Hull midfielder Morton's three-game ban overturned - BBC Sport

Midfielder Tyler Morton has the red card given to him in Hull's 3-1 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday overturned.

www.bbc.com

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

For just a few minutes this evening I love VAR

 

[Drog]

I think Kompany needs to be asking his defenders why none of them jumped for the ball.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Their keeper is dreadful. He must have cost them a dozen points himself. Hilarious.

 

[Drog]

Reading the reports James Trafford kept Burnley in the match. I think this lad will be a top keeper but he's hit the Premier too soon and too young.

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Reading the reports James Trafford kept Burnley in the match. I think this lad will be a top keeper but he's hit the Premier too soon and too young.

Not from what I’ve seen he won’t.

 

[Drog]

Disaallowed goal by Van Dyke for Liverpool v Chelsea in the Carabao cup. Valid but very contentious and very harsh imo. I can't see how offside / not offside / obtruction could have impacted the contest between Van Dyke and Chilwell.

 

[Drog]

 

[Drog]

Dunno where that is but it's not pleasi fields cos they are playing on grass!

 

[Old Darwen Blue]

Looks like a couple of piles of dog muck in the background so it may be?

 

[Drog]

What with no shards of broken glass and cinders? Never Pleasi.