Premier League clubs to vote on scrapping VAR

[SwalePie]

Premier League clubs will vote on whether to scrap video assistant referees (VAR) from next season at their annual general meeting next month.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4n1ndlknk1o

[durhampie]

It should be used only for goal line technology and nothing else...

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Goal line technology and also cricket/tennis rules. The captain has one review in the game. If they get the decision over turned, they keep it, if it's wrong, no more reviews

[optipez]

Scrap it. It's not entirely accurate but is entirely detrimental to the experience of enjoying football.

[LeftPeg_Pie]

Keep the technology to goal line. I can see the argument for automated offsides too as offside is a black and white decision.

I’ve always said VAR shouldn’t have been introduced and have advocated binning it at every opportunity to my PL/Championship Team supporting mates. I don’t see the point in bringing in ideas that don’t add value. I don’t see VAR as a valuer adder.

My biggest issue with all forms of technology in football is that it really defines the lines between levels of the game. For me, the professional game and all teams playing in a professional capacity should play under the same basic laws (tricky in NLN and NLS granted). If lower league teams, like us, can’t afford it, then provision should be made for it to be implemented or it isn’t implemented at all at those professional levels. I’m acutely aware that opinion comes from me being a fan of a lower league side.

I also think it must be absolutely terrible to be in a ground with zero idea of what’s going on, waiting for a decision.

[Old_pie]

Keep the technology to goal line. I can see the argument for automated offsides too as offside is a black and white decision.

The offside rule should be amended so that the attacker has the advantage which I thought at one stage was an intention. Make it that there needs to be clear daylight between the attacker and the defender for it to be offside.

Even more radical, make it that you can't be offside is the ball is played within the opposition's half, that would simplify a lot.

VAR decisions could involve the crowd as they do in tennis. And as in tennis the manager should be allowed say two unsuccessful appeals in each half. It should not be up to the players. Players who surround the referee should simply be yellow carded.

[Elite_Pie]

If it’s up to the clubs, I would guess that 75% would be in favour of keeping it. If it’s up to the fans, I would guess that at the very least 75% would want to bin it. I have been vehemently opposed to it since day one, and my initial opinion has only been strengthened. It’s a blight on the game and completely ruins the spontaneity that makes football special.

This issue should be decided by the people who pay the money, rather than those who make the money.

[51Magpie]

The offside rule should be amended so that the attacker has the advantage which I thought at one stage was an intention. Make it that there needs to be clear daylight between the attacker and the defender for it to be offside.

Even more radical, make it that you can't be offside is the ball is played within the opposition's half, that would simplify a lot.

VAR decisions could involve the crowd as they do in tennis. And as in tennis the manager should be allowed say two unsuccessful appeals in each half. It should not be up to the players. Players who surround the referee should simply be yellow carded.

I've always thought the 'clear daylight' idea would be better, although it rarely gets a mention. Not sure what you mean about the ball being played in the opposition's half though, for that does sound radical. It could make it more difficult for the linesman as he'd have to be way up the field from wherever the ball was hoofed from the attacking side's defensive half.

[matt_magpie]

Scrap it for me, I’d absolutely hate to watch Notts with it. Gordon should have had a penalty tonight, it didn’t even make it through to the referee. The decisions are all subjective and even days after people are arguing either way on decisions, so what’s the point???
It’s suppose to be clear and obvious mistakes, it’s not done that and tbf where do you draw the line on what’s a clear and obvious mistake? The answer is even that’s subjective.

[Lullapie]

The offside rule should be amended so that the attacker has the advantage which I thought at one stage was an intention. Make it that there needs to be clear daylight between the attacker and the defender for it to be offside.

Even more radical, make it that you can't be offside is the ball is played within the opposition's half, that would simplify a lot.

VAR decisions could involve the crowd as they do in tennis. And as in tennis the manager should be allowed say two unsuccessful appeals in each half. It should not be up to the players. Players who surround the referee should simply be yellow carded.

There's a few things that infuriate me about the offside rule. One is that a defender on the other side of the pitch can be 'playing an attacker' onside, even if he is nowhere near him or if the defender isn't actually involved in the play. However, an attacker has to be construed as interfering with play to be in an offside position.

In my opinion, all players are interfering with play if they are on the pitch. Bring back the sweeper

Secondly the rule change about an attacker isn't offside until he touches the ball - how many times does play go on until that happens and then the linesman raises his flag.

Offside is part of the game and FIFA has ruined this tactical part of the game, like the World Rugby Union is doing by fannying about with the scrum.

One thing I have only just learned is that Notts are credited with inventing the offside trap.