The Premier League Thread

[EasyBreezer]

Too complicated to modify a flawed system.

The beauty of football is the simplicity and tempo. VAR has killed that. Just get rid and try to forget the past 5 years.

 

[Lovelocum]

PL clubs to vote on whether to scrap VAR.

VAR: Premier League clubs to vote on whether to scrap video assistant referees - BBC Sport

One can dream.

 

[Saints Fan4Life]

I'd rather take human error than trying to enforce VAR any longer ... let's be done with that ****. Our relegation really drummed home to me how much it sours and ruins the experience.

 

[ChilcoSaint]

IF we get promoted do Saints get to vote?

 

[Le Tissier's Laces]

IF we get promoted do Saints get to vote?

Why don’t they get the…y’know…consumers…now what are those pesky people called? Oh yes, fans…to vote?

 

[Che’s Godlike Thighs]

I'd keep it, but only to help decipher between a foul or a dive, in the box.

I'd scrap using it for handballs and offsides.

 

[jaySFC]

Watching the United Vs Newcastle game and somehow there was no penalty given for this tonight. **** VAR. Get rid of it. It's just boring now and killing the beautiful game.

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[ChilcoSaint]

Why don’t they get the…y’know…consumers…now what are those pesky people called? Oh yes, fans…to vote?

You mean those insignificant plebs who, directly or indirectly, fork out most of the dosh that keeps the game going?

No chance.

 

[tomw24]

Watching the United Vs Newcastle game and somehow there was no penalty given for this tonight. **** VAR. Get rid of it. It's just boring now and killing the beautiful game.

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That was nothing to do with VAR. It wasn't given on the field so if there was no VAR it still wouldn't have been a pen.

 

[jaySFC]

That was nothing to do with VAR. It wasn't given on the field so if there was no VAR it still wouldn't have been a pen.

Well that is exactly my point. They can't even get it right when VAR takes a long look at it. What is the point?

 

[jaySFC]

Woops posted twice.

 

[SaintinNZ]

I’d keep the pitch side monitors for on field refs for clear and obvious errors that directly lead to goals. Get rid of the other refs. Limit the monitor use to 3 times per team.

 

[SaintinNZ]

That was nothing to do with VAR. It wasn't given on the field so if there was no VAR it still wouldn't have been a pen.

you seem to be arguing the specifics of the use of VAR in this case rather than whether or not VAR should have awarded a pen for that.

And VAR SHOULD have awarded a pen for that, and if the ref had been called over to have a look he would have awarded a pen for that and the fact that neither of those things happen highlights how broken and fecking useless it is. Scrap it.

 

[SAINTOSPREY]

That was nothing to do with VAR. It wasn't given on the field so if there was no VAR it still wouldn't have been a pen.

I think that the majority of us have no idea of the real purpose of VAR and that is why we hate it so much.

 

[thereisonlyoneno7]

All that happens now is we used to come away from the game moaning about the ref, now we moan about VAR.

 

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All that happens now is we used to come away from the game moaning about the ref, now we moan about VAR.

Yeah but 10 minutes later than before…

 

[ChilcoSaint]

Yeah but 10 minutes later than before…

This is the whole issue of VAR for me. It removes the immediacy from the game. Football is different from other sports like cricket, rugby, or tennis, all of which have natural pauses and stoppages, during which a decision can be reviewed. VAR has made football unnecessarily more complicated than the simple, beautiful game it has been since the 19th century, and we have all seen the difference a season in the Championship without VAR has brought. Saints have scored 87 league goals this season, every one of which was celebrated as soon as the ref pointed to the centre spot. We didn’t have to wait more than a second to leap with joy, limbs aloft, whereas every Premier League goal since VAR was spawned has led to minutes on end of uncertainty.

Keep goal line technology, improve the standard of refereeing generally, but ditch VAR. Burn it, scatter its ashes to the four winds, and chant oaths and curses upon its memory.

 

[Lemons and Oranges]

This is the whole issue of VAR for me. It removes the immediacy from the game. Football is different from other sports like cricket, rugby, or tennis, all of which have natural pauses and stoppages, during which a decision can be reviewed. VAR has made football unnecessarily more complicated than the simple, beautiful game it has been since the 19th century, and we have all seen the difference a season in the Championship without VAR has brought. Saints have scored 87 league goals this season, every one of which was celebrated as soon as the ref pointed to the centre spot. We didn’t have to wait more than a second to leap with joy, limbs aloft, whereas every Premier League goal since VAR was spawned has led to minutes on end of uncertainty.

Keep goal line technology, improve the standard of refereeing generally, but ditch VAR. Burn it, scatter its ashes to the four winds, and chant oaths and curses upon its memory.

I'd put its head on a pole, as a warning to anyone else who wants to tamper with the beautiful game

 

[NorthWiltsSaint]

I always thought VAR was originally meant for gross errors, diving in the penalty area to try and win a penalty or for an obvious off side for example, not the forensic analysis of off sides by the smallest of margins.

 

[Shandy_top_89]

Watching the United Vs Newcastle game and somehow there was no penalty given for this tonight. **** VAR. Get rid of it. It's just boring now and killing the beautiful game.

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When you see **** like this it just makes me feel like referees/officials have deliberately sabotaged it or been too afraid to call each others decisions out, there is no way you can't call that.