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So you agree that VAR is pointless then? As it's still the same people making the decisions, so it's not really made much difference?

It's almost as if I was right all along.

Nope ... you know my view. VAR if used correctly will get to the correct decision. The "if" is the issue.
 
How do you want it to be used? It still requires someone to draw lines on a screen with a margin of error.

For offside ... clear daylight between torso otherwise onside ... consistency on handball (needs rule clarity).

Also used more like Rugby "... on field decision is ... any reason to change it?"

Anything serious that the ref has missed brought to his attention.
 
For offside ... clear daylight between torso otherwise onside ... consistency on handball (needs rule clarity).

Also used more like Rugby "... on field decision is ... any reason to change it?"

Anything serious that the ref has missed brought to his attention.

Yeah the daylight idea still requires an imperfect line to be drawn on an image that has a margin of error. I would still prefer it as it favours the attacker more.

They had a clearer handball rule which was **** and everyone moaned about it.
 
Yeah the daylight idea still requires an imperfect line to be drawn on an image that has a margin of error. I would still prefer it as it favours the attacker more.

They had a clearer handball rule which was **** and everyone moaned about it.

You are never going eradicate errors completely ... but you can minimise them with a mix of the technology, common sense and clearer rules

VAR highlighted a nailed on penalty for handball in the Saints game. VAR did it's job in that the 'correct' decision was there to be seen. Unfortunately a complete idiot, for reasons unknown, ignored what the technology was showing him.
 
You are never going eradicate errors completely ... but you can minimise them with a mix of the technology, common sense and clearer rules

VAR highlighted a nailed on penalty for handball in the Saints game. VAR did it's job in that the 'correct' decision was there to be seen. Unfortunately a complete idiot, for reasons unknown, ignored what the technology was showing him.

This is the problem though, it still comes down to subjective interpretations because there's always going to be a human interpreting the intent.

From what I've seen of VAR, it hasn't ironed out the big mistakes that refs make. It's just added another layer of subjectivity.
 
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But it's the same people who have made incorrect decisions, why will technology suddenly make them better officials.

Clearer rules will help ... and continuous training ... I'd have weekly reviews for all VAR operators going over good use and poor use in the round of games... happens in most other jobs / fields...