Var

[Sutherland Arab]

Norwegian League votes to get rid of VAR, sounds good to me, waste of bloody money especially when it's the same **** officials using it https://www.theguardian.com/football...fter-club-vote

Would love it to be voted out in Scottish football. Every game now there is frustration in not only the decision making but the time taken to make them.
The officials here in particular are over scrupulous in using it. That along with them not knowing their arse from their elbow is a horrible combination. Inventing ridiculous reasons to award handballs/penalties and on the other hand desperately looking to chalk off goals.
It's so farcical, it reminds me of the times my gran was trying to work the old VHS player.
Can clubs not make a stand and refuse to pay for the "privilege" of using it at their ground?

[shedboy79]

Would love it to be voted out in Scottish football. Every game now there is frustration in not only the decision making but the time taken to make them.
The officials here in particular are over scrupulous in using it. That along with them not knowing their arse from their elbow is a horrible combination. Inventing ridiculous reasons to award handballs/penalties and on the other hand desperately looking to chalk off goals.
It's so farcical, it reminds me of the times my gran was trying to work the old VHS player.
Can clubs not make a stand and refuse to pay for the "privilege" of using it at their ground?

end of day it's just another ref watching replay footage over and over again it should be a split second decision by ref and if he makes a mistake then tough 💩 there will just be threads saying ref is blind depending on who gets the crap decision.

[Yeats 62]

We have (not just us) put up with bad ref calls for years , frustrating as fcuk but..... VAR is making things even worse, and, it is sookin' the excitement out of the game. Now more fowk are involved in the "incident/s" and, it's taking ages to clarify some situations. Then watching pundits agree ,or disagree about whether it wiz or wiznae.... Then hearing what the 5 person panel has to say about it etc, etc... It is BORING as FCUK, from start to finish... (Mon the Norwiegians)

[TerryTheTerror]

I completely agree, VAR is an absolute bore. Last night PSG got a goal ruled out as the fella's knee was judged to be offside. Absolute *******s.

[Sutherland Arab]

Since the St Mirren home game with the big outcry by weegie media and Sportscene (intimating that we were fortunate with VAR calls) We've had;

Killie (h) injury time penalty given to them in a very similar circumstance to the "soft" one we got against St Mirren (cost us 2 points)

Motherwell (a) clear handball in buildup to their match winning goal (no VAR check)

Dundee (a) penalty given for a handball when it hit Holt's head first and debatable if he even knew anything about it

Yesterday a contentious challenge on Walton for their goal and a penalty claim for us with a handball very similar to the one given against Holt in the derby (no VAR check on either)

Only the derby call didn't have a bearing on the final result, all the rest cost us points.
Not a sound from the media
Coincidence? Aye right! I'm sure it will be easy to add plenty to this before the end of season.
Get VAR chucked in the bin and the media with their selective scrutiny as well.

[southwestarab]

Since the St Mirren home game with the big outcry by weegie media and Sportscene (intimating that we were fortunate with VAR calls) We've had;

Killie (h) injury time penalty given to them in a very similar circumstance to the "soft" one we got against St Mirren (cost us 2 points)

Motherwell (a) clear handball in buildup to their match winning goal (no VAR check)

Dundee (a) penalty given for a handball when it hit Holt's head first and debatable if he even knew anything about it

Yesterday a contentious challenge on Walton for their goal and a penalty claim for us with a handball very similar to the one given against Holt in the derby (no VAR check on either)

Only the derby call didn't have a bearing on the final result, all the rest cost us points.
Not a sound from the media
Coincidence? Aye right! I'm sure it will be easy to add plenty to this before the end of season.
Get VAR chucked in the bin and the media with their selective scrutiny as well.

Thing is if VAR hadn?t been in operation we were no better off in last night?s match. Ref gave the goal so there would have been no second look. He didn?t see the hand ball so it?s doubtful if we would ever have known about it.

[LSArab]

VAR is rubbish

Just an extra way for the old firm to get dodgy goals and penalties

Also takes away from the joy of celebrating a goal

Get rid of it

[shedka]

The more I've seen the goal the more I can't believe VAR didn't look at it

As Alan Temple mentioned, he's effectively decided the game

Definitely a foul

[Stoke_Arab]

The more I've seen the goal the more I can't believe VAR didn't look at it

As Alan Temple mentioned, he's effectively decided the game

Definitely a foul

Sevco and Celtic get that ruled out by VAR every time. Not even close. Every time.

But we shouldn't be needing help from VAR to get points. We need to be playing better, that was brutal stuff.

[JUSTaway]

9/10 that gets disallowed, to not even get it looked by VAR is a disgrace, that's what it is there for, to give refs a look at contentious decisions. But this is definitely a case of making your own luck, it's feeble goalkeeping, Stephenson should put someone through at 0-0, and Middleton should score, we can't control dreadful refereeing, but it shouldn't have been a factor if we had done our own jobs proper. I honestly don't know why people thought VAR would improve the game? It still just comes down to subjective decisions, and adds an extra layer of lottery, while killing the spontaneity of the sport. Anyone watching VAR in England the season before it was implemented here, could see the way it was going to go when you add our incompetent refs into the mix. I guess ultimately its just dreadful officials rather than VAR, but VAR just adds an extra layer of dreadful officials and ruins the spectale. It was refreshing watching games in the Championship without VAR.

[shedka]

Sevco and Celtic get that ruled out by VAR every time. Not even close. Every time.

But we shouldn't be needing help from VAR to get points. We need to be playing better, that was brutal stuff.

Maybe but for me it should have ended 0-0, they didn't deserve to win either, horrible pitch for a decent game mostly, even the cross that led to the goal wouldn't get through that many players usually

Greg Aitken I meant effectively decided the game as he was doing VAR, a hvn allegedly if you believe the other lot

[BackOvTheShed]

honestly don't know why people thought VAR would improve the game? It still just comes down to subjective decisions, and adds an extra layer of lottery, while killing the spontaneity of the sport..

100% this. You don?t fix refereeing by adding more refereeing.

Here?s an idea; let?s bin VAR and put the money towards bringing back the reserve league so we can actually nurture our young players and keep fringe players match fit.

[TerryTheTerror]

Or bin VAR and do anything else with the money. It'd be better spent no matter what.

[Arabs4ever]

Or bin VAR and do anything else with the money. It'd be better spent no matter what.

Bring back the reserves. Played at the stadiums at times when fans can go along.

[GUNBOAT]

Its never a foul its a goalkeeping error.If Dalby does exactly the same at the other end we would all be going mental if it was chalked off by VAR.No doubt about it though VAR has cost us penalties at both ends in the Derbies.Against Killie our players cost us two certain goals from mistakes and bad judgement from six yards out.That;s why we lost a game we should comfortably have won.