Var

[geofoxposse]

The general quality of ALL officialdom and administration is nothing short of third world standard and probably with the same level of corruption as Ukraine.........

Just sheer shyte is used in all games, but where the OF or Hearts are involved they always get the benefit.

[Stoke_Arab]

The general quality of ALL officialdom and administration is nothing short of third world standard and probably with the same level of corruption as Ukraine.........

Just sheer shyte is used in all games, but where the OF or Hearts are involved they always get the benefit.

Because there's no corruption in Cyprus?

Pot kettle. Wind your neck in.

[geofoxposse]

Theres loads here, very obvious when it happens, but no one pretends to be pious ant better than thou.

But the quality of the entire SFA system is nothing short of a joke.

[weegiearab]

VAR i just being used poorly by poor refs. They are using it to re-referee incidents and they are actively looking for reasons to either give penalties or chop off goals. There is no application of common sense. The game would be much better if they were miked up and you could hear their reasoning at the time if the incident. We are then scrutinising decisions for days after the game and getting more and more disillusioned by the standard. Look back at some of the games prior to VAR and you can see definite cheating by refs. VAR has cut down on that but we still aren't doing enough to cut it out completely.

[Arabs4ever]

Look at the officials involved in the European ties, no fuss. Whereas Brother Beaton and the rest are just sh!te. Just hire foreign officials for the remainder of the season. Can't be any worse................

[Peven Stressley]

Theres loads here, very obvious when it happens, but no one pretends to be pious ant better than thou.

But the quality of the entire SFA system is nothing short of a joke.

Agree. Last week, after watching one replay of the penalties given to both Hibs and Celtic, it was obvious neither was a penalty.

The VAR officials and refs studied both decisions for a longer time and at closer quarters than anyone watching at home or in the pub, yet they still got it wrong.

They don't know or understand football and continually get things wrong yet they stay in their jobs.

[Arabdownsouth]

Agree. Last week, after watching one replay of the penalties given to both Hibs and Celtic, it was obvious neither was a penalty.

The VAR officials and refs studied both decisions for a longer time and at closer quarters than anyone watching at home or in the pub, yet they still got it wrong.

They don't know or understand football and continually get things wrong yet they stay in their jobs.

Or they are just plain old cheating b*stards

[JUSTaway]

The Dundee pen the defender is naive and the Dundee player cons the officials, it's masterful cheating, but I think it's close enough to cut the officials some slack. I think our officials are just not good enough and strong enough to handle the pressure of VAR. You could have the best cameras on the world, and they would still make bad decisions, it's not the technology. We've had it over 3 seasons now, and they still haven't figured out that slow motion distorts what you are watching. Better off without it and living with mistakes that don't at least take 5 mins and multiple people to get wrong.

[Arabdownsouth]

That penalty for Motherwell yesterday was f*cking disgraceful. It's absolutely beyond me how VAR is getting involved in that and it doesn't end up with the c*nt getting booked for diving? And yet Armstrong was allowed to f*cking hip throw Sevelj to the ground and nothing said? Our game is f*cked!

[JUSTaway]

Just seen that Celtic goal chopped off against Braga for handball tonight, that might actually be worse than the Dalby Hibs phantom handball.

[Arabdownsouth]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c2dn9lkp0e5o

Is that not why we have f*cking VAR in the first place?

[TerryTheTerror]

Perfection? Up here, semi proficient would be a huge step forward!

[arab777]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/c2dn9lkp0e5o




Is that not why we have f*cking VAR in the first place?

It depends on how you view how VAR should be applied. Them complaining VAR creating an unfair 'expectation of perfection'" is partly to do with how forensically they are looking at things.

if they had applied VAR the way we were originally told it would intervening in clear and obvious errors then it would much cleaner. The fact they go looking for stuff after every goal, almost trying to find a reason to chalk off a goal, is not what was supposed to happen. But as they have decided to look at incidents multiple times from multiple angles yes there is added pressure to get it right.

We need to get to a situation where let the ref referee the game and VAR has minimal intervention but when it is clear the ref has messed up that is when you have a word in his ear. Same with offside decisions it is ridiculous that goals are being chopped off because a toe is slightly forward. That wasn't the purpose of offside rule when it was devised looking at it from the naked eye. To be offside pre VAR it usually meant the linesman could see the forward player was at an advantage and enough to be seen as such. As soon as you have to draw lines you are admitting it isn't clear and you are dealing in ridiculous millimetres.