That “pen” today

[Chappy112]

I know most teams will feel like this but we'd benefit from VAR I think based on the last couple of seasons.

This season alone I think we'd potentially have a foul on Steffen at QPR, foul on Jones at Stoke, penalty at Stoke and Readings goal ruled out for offside. Against us the only one I can think of is penalty for Sheff Utd against Jones. Maybe I'm forgetting some other decisions for opponents and I'm just looking at it from our side though.

Edit - It was a penalty at Reading not Stoke wasn't it? The one on Crooks that was given offside.

 

[Jedi boro]

I know most teams will feel like this but we'd benefit from VAR I think based on the last couple of seasons.

There’s No doubt about it.

 

[BoroMart]

That's when I'll start going to none-league football. Can't be doing with the abomination that's VAR.

VAR the technology isn't the problem, it works as per its design. The issue is the application, the process, and it is improving and will continue to improve

 

[chickenrunner]

There’s No doubt about it.

Nonsense. Football is swings and roundabouts unless you're a conspiracy theorist. You always remember stuff that went against you but conveniently forget or overlook the ones you got away with.
When VAR first came in I was amused when managers who'd backed it, because of some perceived 'major' injustice against their team in the past, started moaning when VAR chalked off their goals and gave decisions against them.

 

[NYboro]

VAR the technology isn't the problem, it works as per its design. The issue is the application, the process, and it is improving and will continue to improve

I have no issue with goal-line technology and, if they perfect it, offside technology, but the whole process of stopping play for someone to look at TV is just wrong. Yellow/red cards could always be issued retrospectively if that's what it takes.

 

[Jedi boro]

Nonsense. Football is swings and roundabouts unless you're a conspiracy theorist. You always remember stuff that went against you but conveniently forget or overlook the ones you got away with.
When VAR first came in I was amused when managers who'd backed it, because of some perceived 'major' injustice against their team in the past, started moaning when VAR chalked off their goals and gave decisions against them.

Absolute rot

Things do not even themselves out the biggest myth in football

 

[Muttley]

I don't like VAR. The whole premise that it reduces bad decisions is tenuous at best. Anything screamingly wrong perhaps but how often does that happen? Once a season perhaps? Instead what we get is lines drawn on the screen to show that player X was millimetres onside/offside whilst the poor saps who have paid to sit in the stadium get the "excitement" of watching a blank big screen because they can't be allowed to see the decision making process as it might enrage them! The whole premise that human error must be removed from the game is an arrant conceit, the game is all about human error the fumbled cross, the missed tackle, poor control, the misplaced pass and odd bounce, etc. and that's before you get to the ball that went out of play, the throw-in taken incorrectly, stealing yards from dead balls. All human errors that must be eradicated. Just run the whole thing as a computer simulation and be done with it.

The principle thing that could be done right now to stop the cheating is simply to book a player every time they "simulate", never mind that we end up playing 8 v 8, a few games of that with teams having to field reserves because their first choice are all suspended and we'd see a bigger improvement in the game than VAR has ever managed.