Obvious offside last night - VAR anyone?

No VAR , it's costs a fortune , cost will be passed on to the fans, and apart from incidents like last night causes just as much controversial decisions, and yes McCree would have been sent off, even though it wasn't intentional and was bad play by him.
 
Interesting. VAR has been in regular use in the Spanish equivalent of the championship (La Liga 2). For some time now.

By now it has just been accepted by the players, clubs and supporters. For the top 2 leagues in the country.

I know it is not perfect. However, in Spain, it has been shown to reduce the number of clearly wrong decisions. Like the Boro one.

Also like the possible sending off. If that should have been the right decision. (I have not seen it).
 
Had McGree been sent off, we would've played 70 mins of the game with 10 men. But instead Hamilton came on to replace him, which was largely the same thing.
 
futureboy said:
Had McGree been sent off, we would've played 70 mins of the game with 10 men. But instead Hamilton came on to replace him, which was largely the same thing.
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Interesting what would have happened if we had had to play for 70 minutes with 10 men - wonder if Blackburn would have been a bit more ambitious, and therefore more open for us
 
I watch a lot of SPFL Premiership games, and I can tell you that VAR is an absolute disaster.

Keep it away from the EFL Championship if you can. It's complete crap.
 
Malaguena said:
Interesting what would have happened if we had had to play for 70 minutes with 10 men - wonder if Blackburn would have been a bit more ambitious, and therefore more open for us
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Remember Coventry...

I don't know everyone is so convinced the McGree one was a red card. I don't think it was. He didn't dive in with an extended leg, it was more of a sweep. The angle we got on TV showed studs up but it wasn't studs towards the player. I think it was definitely a foul and a booking but not enough to overturn the decision made by the onfield ref.

I am sick of seeing games decided by bad refereeing. More help they can get the better.
 
No thanks as far as VAR goes, I'm sick of seeing poor decisions being made after being reviewed by a panel.

Had we won in similar circumstances this thread wouldn't have happened.
 
Nano said:
I don't know everyone is so convinced the McGree one was a red card. I don't think it was. He didn't dive in with an extended leg, it was more of a sweep.
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In the ground there was a definite audible "oof" around me as we watched it. Probably "saved" by it being so early in the game? Difficult to say from the SW corner but it certainly looked rash and annoyingly unnecessary and stupid, not as if it was a goal saving tackle it was a lunge after mis-controlling the ball.

I still prefer to watch my football in the moment rather than wait to be told what happened in five minutes time on the big telly.

Whilst I'm whinging about the big telly. Either show replays all the time or don't bother. Oh and why not show the substitutions on the screen? All I can hear from the announcement is "MMMmmmm MMMHmmm going off mmmHHmmm HHnnggggk coming zzzzz" and it's not just me being old my son and the guys around us get nothing. Oddly at HT I can hear the spot the player malarkey fine. Why is that? Anyway it shouldn't be that difficult to show substitutions Shirley?
 
As someone very correctly put it on another thread “VAR should interfere on matters of fact, not judgement”. This would cover offside when a “goal” is scored, whether a foul was committed in the area or outside, whether a ball was out of play before a “goal” was scored or a blatant handball in the penalty area that the ref didn’t see. If VAR isn’t sure after 30 seconds, then go with the on field decision.
It worked well in the Euros. It could work well in Championship.
It doesn’t work well in Premier League because they analyse things to the nth degree and often take 5 minutes to decide someone is offside by 1mm.
Isn’t the Championship the 5th biggest league in Europe?
 
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