From Liberty to Injustice; the solution to the Championship’s referee woes?

[Andrew - North Hill]

The technology works, it's the idiots using it which are the problem.

I agree to an extent, but there are some scenarios where decisions are still going to be subjective, whether that's the ref making them on the field, or the VAR making them from a booth miles away.

In those instances, I just don't see the point to VAR at all. The ref's made a call that he sees as 51-49. One week the VAR may agree with the ref, the next week they might say no, I think it's 49-51. What's the bloody point? Just get on with it, and go with the ref's decision instead of wasting 5-10 mins wasting everyone's time. And it happens loads.

Nope, it's just goalline tech and semi automated offsides for me. We don't need the rest of it.

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

With the amount of cash floating around the Championship VAR has to come, like it or lump it. Its not perfect but 99% of the decisions like the disallowed goal at Brum should be sorted.

I agree that we need it, but also dread it being implemented because it sucks the joy out of the game. Were between a rock and a hard place on this.

 

[LeonWasTheDogs]

I agree to an extent, but there are some scenarios where decisions are still going to be subjective, whether that's the ref making them on the field, or the VAR making them from a booth miles away.

In those instances, I just don't see the point to VAR at all. The ref's made a call that he sees as 51-49. One week the VAR may agree with the ref, the next week they might say no, I think it's 49-51. What's the bloody point? Just get on with it, and go with the ref's decision instead of wasting 5-10 mins wasting everyone's time. And it happens loads.

Nope, it's just goalline tech and semi automated offsides for me. We don't need the rest of it.

Absolutely this. It gets the black and white decisions right, like offsides (mostly). But where the Laws of the Game are open to subjectivity, which is often, it makes little difference other than giving another opportunity to correct obvious errors. Plenty of errors are still made even with VAR.