Video Replays - Bring it on

We have them in cricket, tennis, hockey, league.

Let’s dispense with the old bollocks about flow of the game and tradition, there is so much time wasting anyway - video replays could even deal with this. We have goal line technology.

The game and the ‘experience’ is completely different to many years ago, the commercialisation which makes us consumers of the ‘the most well paid players in the world’ would be further improved by more jeopardy and tension when the ref goes to TV.

I’m actually serious about this, if this rule about rucking on corners is to be executed, TV replays are the only answer. If it’s in doubt, then ref’s original call. Give the managers a referral each half.

Time to stop pissing around.

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Just been justified by two accidental ankle taps leading to pens on MOTD. I’m assuming accidental ankle taps shouldn’t be fouls. Even if they are, a video replay would enable us to decide.

The game might last 2.5 hours - so what? Grounds aren’t exactly full of factory workers on their only afternoon off nowadays. That’s if a game is on a Saturday, which is rare anyway.

Why don’t we have TV Ref?

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Wasn’t the Shaw penalty last week an accidental ankle tap? Fair enough give a foul but make it an indirect free kick or something, not a pen.

And yes, use the red flag system like they do in Americna football, 2 calls, lose one if you’re proved wrong.

I’m not even sure we need a ref. It would even up decisions and no one can complain.

Personally I think the refereeing at the moment is chaotic.

MotD demonstrates that individual refs have their own versions of new rules, there is no consistency, and some refs can’t even produce consistency in one game.

If we are having zero tolerance to pulling at corners etc and a stumble is now an offence, then we will have 12 penalties a game.

But refs are now giving one and ignoring the rest, it’s like a tickbox system - meanwhile the shirt pulling continues.

As for dissent, Mason was all over it with Redmond, then ignored it for the rest of the game, while refs at other matches didn’t give cards at all.

If you book players for any visible sign of dissent we will have 9 players v 10 players most weeks.

How often do you see a Saints captain run thirty yards to ask the ref what the fuck he is doing?

That’s how bad it got yesterday, and a small indicator was the injury time in the first half.

We had several lots of time wasting, a one minute delay for a free kick, plus a couple of feigned injuries, the second one held the game up for 90 seconds.

That amounts to three mins in most people’s books, a a theory supported by the ref pointing at his watch several times - we get one minute!..it doesn’t change the game but it tells you all you need to know about the officials.

The bottom line is that the best way to reduce dissent is to get most decisions right or at least appear to be balanced in your decision making.

The refs need to up their game, and their association needs to retrain and get everyone on the same page.

Pretty sure Mason finished the game 25 seconds early too. No Fergie time for us.

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Mason is a cunt.

watching motd2, lots of arms around for the many, many corners between boro and wba. any player could go down as a result and get a pen. need vids

And another thing, bollocks to the concept that the game should be the same for the top league and the hackers on hackney marsh. The game at these levels are utterly different. For semi pro, national league, you can still get tv replays (they do it at my local rugby league team which one or two players who are pros on about 100K GBP. But most are aspirational amateurs - the technology is there for us all).

Originally posted by @Goatboy

Mason is a cunt.

Short, to the point and accurate. Excellent Papsweb post 10/10 :lou_sunglasses:

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Check out the Hypothetical Premier League website - they track the contentious decisions and effect they have over the course of the season.

Here’s how last season would have looked with perfect refereeing ceteris paribus:

http://thehpl.net/premier-league-2015-16-using-video-refs/

We’d only have been one point better off, but West Ham would have come third!

Goes to show you should be careful what you wish for…