Premier League to vote on scrapping VAR

[mellowmiller]

We haven't had var in the championship but fans are moaning every week about the ref....
Var is a great piece of technology and need developing even further so refs/linesman can be eliminated from the game all together...

That hasn't happened in any other sport that uses technology extensively so why should it happen in football?

[Ronners]

The biggest flaw in the "offside by a toenail argument" is that no-one in authority is prepared to confirm that the technology is absolutely and utterly capable without a shadow of doubt able to capture the exact millisecond when the ball was played......and yet a player can be offside by a whisker.
So we don't really know if these marginal decisions are actually correct anyway.

Whilst I agree with your analysis of even technology not being able to capture the exact millisecond when the ball was played, it will still be a damn sight more accurate than a human being. UTM

[Jimmy Badfellow]

The biggest flaw in the "offside by a toenail argument" is that no-one in authority is prepared to confirm that the technology is absolutely and utterly capable without a shadow of doubt able to capture the exact millisecond when the ball was played......and yet a player can be offside by a whisker.
So we don't really know if these marginal decisions are actually correct anyway.

That's a really good point Mellow. Everything is focused to the line but no one seems to care about the accuracy of the boot coming into contact with the ball. Its a bit like trying to judge a push shot at snooker from 75 yards away at high speed!

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

The biggest flaw in the "offside by a toenail argument" is that no-one in authority is prepared to confirm that the technology is absolutely and utterly capable without a shadow of doubt able to capture the exact millisecond when the ball was played......and yet a player can be offside by a whisker.
So we don't really know if these marginal decisions are actually correct anyway.

Yes Mellow everything that is measured or capable of being measured has a margin of error in that measurement. The trick is in deciding if that error is significant in what's being measured.

Goal posts for example have to be a certain height but if a set of posts were 1 mm too high would anybody notice ( or care). What would you use to measure them anyway? A tape measure or a NASA grade laser locator? One is good enough, the other is overkill.

[caytonmiller]

That's a really good point Mellow. Everything is focused to the line but no one seems to care about the accuracy of the boot coming into contact with the ball. Its a bit like trying to judge a push shot at snooker from 75 yards away at high speed!

Still better than a refs eye

[caytonmiller]

That hasn't happened in any other sport that uses technology extensively so why should it happen in football?

They never put a man on the moon until the technology was available.. oh wait. Or did they?.

[Brin]

They never put a man on the moon until the technology was available.. oh wait. Or did they?.

No they didn’t but the Yanks are scurrying to try once again to get there first so as to place some old tattered worn flag somewhere with a few footprints thrown in for good measure to say they’ve found proof of previous missions.

Cue all the true believers 🤣 tin hat on already

[flourbasher]

No they didn’t but the Yanks are scurrying to try once again to get there first so as to place some old tattered worn flag somewhere with a few footprints thrown in for good measure to say they’ve found proof of previous missions.

Cue all the true believers �� tin hat on already

Well said Mr B . The voice of reason
You don’t need a tin hat for writing the truth

[mellowmiller]

They never put a man on the moon until the technology was available.. oh wait. Or did they?.

Rugby, tennis, cricket......all have had the technology for years but the referees, umpires and line judges are still there. Perhaps they're waiting for them to go to the moon?

[avondalemiller]

That's a really good point Mellow. Everything is focused to the line but no one seems to care about the accuracy of the boot coming into contact with the ball. Its a bit like trying to judge a push shot at snooker from 75 yards away at high speed!

I used to have a beer with a linesman from the early days of the Premiership. he said they watch the player and listen for the "thump" of the ball. Still not an exact science, but probably the best way to measure it. As long as everyone stuck to it.