Semi-Automated Offside Technology

[Ragatino]

If there had been any problems with it in the WC then fine…..but there weren’t as far as I know. Their decision not to accept it went under the radar a bit but it was baffling.

I've mentioned many times I live and work in Qatar for the last 8 yrs. I'm a broadcast engineer. My role at the world cup was supervisory. overseeing the tech set-up and making sure the systems were all working as part of a great team.

The off-side tech really impressed me. Fast, clear, accurate.

So when I heard the PGMOL rejected it. I was shocked for a 2nd, then just shook my head and laughed. " of course they don't want a system that strips more control and power from them"

[toptoon]

Goal line technology works and, with this introduced, offsides would be sorted too. That would only leave handballs and penalty decisions to the clowns.
It would be a good step forward. I think they may be regretting not getting it now.
IMO any tech that takes decisions away from these incompetent idiots is a bonus. From not understanding the rules of the game to just not paying attention to the game - we’ve seen it all.

[Ragatino]

Goal line technology works and, with this introduced, offsides would be sorted too. That would only leave handballs and penalty decisions to the clowns.
It would be a good step forward. I think they may be regretting not getting it now.
IMO any tech that takes decisions away from these incompetent idiots is a bonus. From not understanding the rules of the game to just not paying attention to the game - we’ve seen it all.

Yeah exactly TT!

Technology was supposed to 'reduce the margin of human error'. The EPL system just adds an additional layer of potential error.

[Zippity]

Yeah exactly TT!

Technology was supposed to 'reduce the margin of human error'. The EPL system just adds an additional layer of potential error.

Exactly, only VAR errors are worse. They have incidents slowed down-and they can replay them as much as they need-and technology that tells them exactly what the craic is yet they still make mistakes, and huge ones at that!

At least refs and their assistants have the excuse of only seeing it once and at full speed.

VAR is shit through a combination of incompetence, bias (conscious or sub-conscious) and corruption and I genuinely don't know where the balance lies;

I suspect-and hope-it's towards simple incompetence but I also don't doubt for a second that there are agendas at play and that there is an element of corruption in some of these decisions (including the 'overall' ones that decide, for example, that we won't use the semi-automated offside system.

Oh, aye, add in 'arrogance' to the list of why VAR is such a shitshow.