VAR

Should the Championship bring in VAR?


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Be interesting to know if we had VAR how many more or less points we would have.
Burnley 2 more?
Last night it's 1-1 and we have a penalty for 2-1.
Something in the Millwall game too

You can add the handball at home to Bristol City to the list.
 
Let's face it, over the last two seasons we have had some shocking decisions go against us and I cannot think of too many in our favour.
I seem to remember a period last season where we seemed to be getting apologies from the refs every other game.
So is it time for VAR?

It’d been good if you’d added VAR lite to the choices. I would’ve voted for that, imo we need something in between.
 
It’d been good if you’d added VAR lite to the choices. I would’ve voted for that, imo we need something in between.

Good point, I never thought of that. I have no idea if I can change vote options, or if it is worth it now people have voted.
It's the first one of these I have done
 
100% it should be in The Championship.

Sick of us season after season getting the shitty end of decisions that the camera shows should have gone our way.

We get more against us than for us.

#littleclubpne
 
I despise VAR and think it totally spoils the game, yet at the end of the game last night, I would have taken it.

Thinking about it this morning though, the clowns at the PGMOL don't have enough decent referees at match level, yet alone to have them doing VAR too.

We don't need VAR, what we need is competent officials in the first place.

The standard in the championship is the worst it's ever been and a lack of accountability which drives me mad.
The highlighted bit will never happen.

It would have happened already if so.

But it hasn't and we suffer the same inept (corrupt?) refs season in, season out.

We had that pillock v Bristol City (handball goal) screw us over in a subsequent game, didn't we?
 
That's not strictly true. There's no guarantee we would've scored the pen if given.

Or the scores would stay that way, take the Burnley game. If the Riis goal was given who knows what would happen after that. We could go on and win the 1-0, 2-0 or it could galvanise Burnley going behind and they go onto win
 
I voted yes because I don't see any other option.

VAR isn't perfect, but it would've clearly rectified the various and multiple errors we've seen/been subjected to this season.

I'd also be in favour of only captains being able to speak to referees, with refs' microphones broadcast around the stadium PA—the same as Rugby Union. That way, there'd be no misunderstanding of events.

I do think clubs should publically publish apologies from PGMOL, to show when mistakes have been made. I think it would help drive accountability.
 
At the Start of the season, I would of said no, but the amount of errors we have suffered at the hands of referee's I am now 100% yes. Anything to stop the poor refereeing in the championship. Apologies mean jack shit when your relegated.

Then again maybe this is the plan, make so many obvious fuck ups then fans will want it.
 
I think I’m still ‘no’ on VAR. Having been in a couple of Premier League stadiums for it, it completely kills the live experience when it goes on too long. The Cup tie at Chelsea with that decision at the end was so boring, especially because you don’t know what’s actually being looked at or what’s going on.
 
I don’t want VAR as I believe it benefits the better more attacking teams which we are not. I would be more in favour of a challenge system like in tennis and cricket. You get 2 challenges and the captain calls the challenge rather than every goal or penalty appeal scrutinised, taking so much time out of the game.

Good idea in principle.

The problem (as we’ve seen with the head injury rule) is that teams will use it to make spurious claims to slow the game down, waste time, etc.

It’ll just become another ‘tactical device’, justified as part of the ‘professional game’. 😕
 
Good idea in principle.

The problem (as we’ve seen with the head injury rule) is that teams will use it to make spurious claims to slow the game down, waste time, etc.

It’ll just become another ‘tactical device’, justified as part of the ‘professional game’. 😕
By teams, you include us in that? Because that is absolutely something we’d do. We try anything to slow the game down as much as possible.
 
By teams, you include us in that? Because that is absolutely something we’d do. We try anything to slow the game down as much as possible.

100 per cent I include us in that, sadly.

The time wasting we do drives me mad; it’s blatant, horrible to watch and counterproductive; refs just end up adding more time on. 🙄

I’m sure the NTT20 guys mentioned that we had the lowest ‘ball in play’ time says of any team in the league (I looked but couldn’t find the stat).

in summary, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. 🙃
 
I voted for the VAR 'lite' idea. Anything that looks at massive screw ups, basically, but doesn't interrupt the flow of the game 99% of the time. Basically a safety net for shit refs.

Not sure where I stand on semi automated offsides. Like the idea in principle for massively obvious offsides, but when they are very tight calls it always seems unfair.
 
Just watching the rugby. Ref mic’d up and camera’d up. Communication with players and supporters on another level in this game.

Just said much the same on the match day thread. I've no idea what goes on in a rugby match and only watch when England play. Not sure they're mic'd up at every level but the lack of dissent, consistency in decision making, is light years from that in football.
 
Yep, most of the frustration comes from not knowing "why". Any football fan knows you can get a decision wrong, or that things probably even themselves up over the long term, but it's standing there thinking "what on earth has he given that decision for".

If you could hear it on the mic, or get some sort of dialogue afterwards, it would at least put some context into things, and perhaps we'd be slightly more understanding.
 
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