VIDEO TECHNOLOGY

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m3sye

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26,231 posts

208 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Was used with great success last night for the France v Spain game - sooner we can get this for ALL games the better

Took about 40 seconds for the video ref to rightly rule a goal was NOT offside for Spain
He also ruled OUT a goal for France - who was rightly offside

Brilliant smile

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/mar/28/i...

ReallyReallyGood

1,632 posts

137 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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But what about the pundits, they'll have nothing to drivel on against game after game for an obscene cheque.

Someone think of the pundits!

TwigtheWonderkid

44,654 posts

157 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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m3sye said:
Was used with great success last night for the France v Spain game - sooner we can get this for ALL games the better

Took about 40 seconds for the video ref to rightly rule a goal was NOT offside for Spain
He also ruled OUT a goal for France - who was rightly offside

Brilliant smile

So the major decisions were right, the best team won, and everyone got out of the game what they deserved. The fans went home knowing justice was done and there was nothing to moan about.

Christ, how fking dull! Is this what you want from football, because it's certainly not what I want.

I want some crap decisions. I want to feel robbed or fortunate. I want highs and lows, not blandness. I want to blame the ref when my team loses. I want to win games I deserve to lose, and lose games I deserve to win. I want to come away feeling passionately about what happened.

I'd do away with goal line technology if I could. The euphoria of conceding a goal and the ref not giving it. Gone forever.

oxford drinker

1,879 posts

236 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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I didn't see the game - how did they decide which decisions to review?

I do actually quite like the drama of the goal line decisions and the referee's watch, but it takes only a few seconds rather than the 40 seconds someone mentioned above. Not sure having the game interrupted by several of those a half is something to wish for.

London424

12,909 posts

182 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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oxford drinker said:
I didn't see the game - how did they decide which decisions to review?

I do actually quite like the drama of the goal line decisions and the referee's watch, but it takes only a few seconds rather than the 40 seconds someone mentioned above. Not sure having the game interrupted by several of those a half is something to wish for.
You mean compared to when the slighted team surround the ref, then over to the linesman to complain for a couple of minutes about the decision before the game restarts?

The jiffle king

7,059 posts

265 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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From a business point of view, I totally understand how this makes sense to get the right result, but football is a game played by millions in parks/playgrounds/beaches/streets everywhere and I think I prefer the rules/regulations of the game to be similar for all if possible and this would not be. I recognize that not all games have referees and linesmen (not assistant referees) but goal line technology is not available to all professional games never mind all players, so I would prefer to focus on training/supporting referees than this technology

Ascayman

12,925 posts

223 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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FFS leave the game alone.

Boydie88

3,283 posts

156 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Another anti video tech fan here.

My biggest issue is where is the line drawn?

What happens when a player is played through on the keeper and is wrongly flagged offside well before the player finishes? Do they just carry on playing until the ball is dead, either scored by attacker or however, then go back to review the offside call? By which point the fans in the stadium don't celebrate the player scoring until it's been reviewed?

What makes football head and shoulders above other sports is lack of stoppages, anything that promotes longer stoppages can FRO.

schmunk

4,399 posts

132 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Boydie88 said:
What makes football head and shoulders above other sports is lack of stoppages, anything that promotes longer stoppages can FRO.
As noted above by London424, video tech will likely reduce time wastage.

I'm all for it - the France/Spain game clearly demonstrated its value.

m3sye

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26,231 posts

208 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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All for it - really dont see the issue tbh

The time it takes is less than the time Spurs or United spend round a ref kicking off when it doesnt go there way

It can only be a good thing - just like the goal line technology

Rosscow

9,011 posts

170 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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m3sye said:
All for it - really dont see the issue tbh

The time it takes is less than the time Spurs or United spend round a ref kicking off when it doesnt go there way

It can only be a good thing - just like the goal line technology
rofl

Because Gerrard and Co. never used to do that..... MUCH!!!!

m3sye

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26,231 posts

208 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Rosscow said:
rofl

Because Gerrard and Co. never used to do that..... MUCH!!!!
It was tongue in cheek, but you get my point

joema

2,687 posts

186 months

Wednesday 29th March 2017
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Bring it on. Won't have hours of listening to pundits go over the same old stuff every week.

TwigtheWonderkid

44,654 posts

157 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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I used to quite like watching tennis, in the days when McEnroe was screaming "you cannot be serious" and Ille Nastasi was throwing his toys out of the pram. Great stuff.

Now they have technology, and every line call is correct, I haven't watched it for years.

Some of my fave moments as a football fan have centred around awful decisions. Especially when you're away from home, and you know you've got the benefit of a poor decision, and the home fans are all going mental, faces contorted with rage. rofl

Boydie88

3,283 posts

156 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Still no good argument to say how far it will go?

Team scores from a corner wrongly awarded, should that be reviewed? Should they have gone to video ref before the corner was appealed for?

Goals can be scored within seconds of being in the opposite corner in football, so every decision matters. To have only some reviewed is bizarre as every decision changes the game.

Are penalties going to be checked? Where a foul is a grey area anyway? How about a goal from a corner, will they review that for fouls against the defending team. This is the start of a very slippery slope.

And teams don't surround the ref for 2-3 mins, huge exaggeration. It won't save time.

I wouldn't take issues with a form of 3d live scan that can detect offside and flag immediately to the ref, but video refs are a step backwards.

Edited by Boydie88 on Thursday 30th March 10:48

TwigtheWonderkid

44,654 posts

157 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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When the idiots, who seem determined to kill the game, were campaigning for goal line technology, one of the fears expressed was that this would be the thin end of the wedge and once introduced, these fools would soon be calling for technology on offsides, penalties etc.

But we were assured not. I was apparently being a luddite and using bogus arguments to bolster my case. Technology would stop at goal line decisions.

Turns out it was the thin end of the wedge. Who knew?

XM5ER

5,094 posts

255 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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Video Technology works well in Rugby League, it won't ever be going back to humans only.

WRT Football, there is too much money involved with the game. Billionaire owners will not put up with the vagaries of fat puffing refs making mistakes when their decision might make the difference between being in the champions league or not. It's coming, like it or not. Personally, I like it.

franki68

10,667 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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XM5ER said:
Video Technology works well in Rugby League, it won't ever be going back to humans only.

WRT Football, there is too much money involved with the game. Billionaire owners will not put up with the vagaries of fat puffing refs making mistakes when their decision might make the difference between being in the champions league or not. It's coming, like it or not. Personally, I like it.
But rugby league is a stop start game ,it doesn't have the fluency of football. How would it work ,a ball comes into the area and a player makes a tackle which may be a foul,but needs looking at ,do you stop the game to examine the video ?
Goaline technology works because it is instant .


TwigtheWonderkid

44,654 posts

157 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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XM5ER said:
Video Technology works well in Rugby League, it won't ever be going back to humans only.

WRT Football, there is too much money involved with the game. Billionaire owners will not put up with the vagaries of fat puffing refs making mistakes when their decision might make the difference between being in the champions league or not. It's coming, like it or not. Personally, I like it.
Rugby League with technology still isn't as popular as football without.

For every billionaire owner who doesn't get into the CL due to a bad decision, another billionaire owner gets his place when he shouldn't have done.

And it's a fallacy anyway. In a league, teams don't get relegated, promoted, win it or finish 4th or 5th due to bad decisions. Over 38 games, every team gets good and bad decisions.

m3sye

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26,231 posts

208 months

Thursday 30th March 2017
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TwigtheWonderkid said:
every team gets good and bad decisions.
Evens itself out hey wink

Biggest load of bull I have ever heard in football