Wengers Offside Rule

I'd actually be quite interested to see how football panned out of if offside was done away with altogether. You can't just have 2 blokes hanging around in the penalty area all game for defensive reasons, or can you?
 
Will lead to a lot more goals but won’t ‘solve’ the VAR issues. They will still end up drawing lines to judge whether the striker’s trailing boot is in front/behind the defender’s knee, just those lines will be in a different place from present.
 
No, just feet for me & no drawing of lines - a boot'ish of clear space is offside anything else, any hint of overlap = onside.
 
Here’s a radical thought. We allow the linesman to decide if the attacker is onside or offside and only review that decision if there is a ‘clear and obvious error’.

No lines, no pretending we can measure things to such precision, no massive hold ups to the game. Just a thought mind.
 
Billy Horner said:
Here’s a radical thought. We allow the linesman to decide if the attacker is onside or offside and only review that decision if there is a ‘clear and obvious error’.

No lines, no pretending we can measure things to such precision, no massive hold ups to the game. Just a thought mind.
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But who decides if there is a clear and obvious error, and when?
 
Billy Horner said:
Will lead to a lot more goals but won’t ‘solve’ the VAR issues. They will still end up drawing lines to judge whether the striker’s trailing boot is in front/behind the defender’s knee, just those lines will be in a different place from present.
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The big questions are:

- will such a law change speed up the time taken to get to the "correct" decision.

- will such a law change reduce the number of "incorrect" decisions.

If the answer to those questions is yes then I would be very happy with the change.
 
atypical_boro said:
But who decides if there is a clear and obvious error, and when?
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You keep the offside law (and its interpretation) as at present and empower the officials to make on field decisions. If the attacker is clearly (i.e. to the naked eye) ahead of the last defender then VAR can intervene. If you would have to start drawing lines, then you stay with the on field decision.

By the way, I’m not an opponent of VAR. However, the way it’s been implemented in football is nuts.
 
For me it would cut out the grey area, its either offside with the whole body with a clear space between the last defender, or its onside with part of the body in line with the defender.
 
GibbosEmpire said:
For me it would cut out the grey area, its either offside with the whole body with a clear space between the last defender, or its onside with part of the body in line with the defender.
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Linesmen will still get it wrong sometimes. As I have said above, if the change speeds things up and increases the number of correct decisions it would be a good change.
 
spanishman said:
The main issue is the time taken to get to the decision.
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I'd say the MAIN issue is the frequency of 'goals' that don't stand, or that are supposedly not going to stand that then end up standing, AND the time taken to reach these conclusions (and the fact that often they are still ruled out when they shouldn't be, or allowed when they shouldn't be).

Other than that, VAR has been great for the game.
 
JackG said:
Why not let the linesman decide even if there is a clear and obvious error? It worked OK before VAR
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atypical_boro said:
I'd say the MAIN issue is the frequency of 'goals' that don't stand, or that are supposedly not going to stand that then end up standing, AND the time taken to reach these conclusions (and the fact that often they are still ruled out when they shouldn't be, or allowed when they shouldn't be).

Other than that, VAR has been great for the game.
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For me getting more correct decisions is the most important thing.

If rule changes and increased use of technology can do that then it is a good thing.

Over time I think AI will draw up the important images and mark them up for final checking by a human.
 
Frozen Horse said:
How would it be if we just scrapped lines and slow motion during VAR?
If you need either of them to tell a decision is wrong, it's not clear and obvious?
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Sky and the broadcasters would still show it all to show examples of VAR/officials getting it wrong, fans would still be up in arms when it happens etc etc and there'd still be 'calls' for more use of technology.
 
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