Match Day Thread Wolves v Southampton FA Cup 5th Round 11/2/21 5:30 pm BT Sport 1

The minority are incompetent. We just had to endure the incompetence in back to back matches. And once VAR is used just to cut out the obvious errors it will be fine.

 

The ref also had a good game, loved it when he booked the Wolves player for when he dived in the middle of the pitch.....sent a clear message to the players.

 

I must admit Jon Moss was on my list until last night but he had a really good game. I just don’t think the overall standard is good enough though. As for VAR, I was desperate for it to work, but it just doesn’t. The technology isn’t good enough and combined with poor referees and confusing rules, it is still a lottery whether it gets the decisions right or not. We were lucky last night.

 

We weren't lucky because Ings was clearly onside and VAR showed that.

 

Che was clearly onside last week and VAR didn’t sort it out.

 

Yes we were unlucky then rather than lucky yesterday. Like I said, yesterday showed how VAR can improve the game. It overturned the obvious mistakes and there weren't any lengthy delays.

 

It will never work properly for offsides until the frame rate of the cameras improves. The images for both the disallowed goals in the Man U and Villa games showed that the moment the ball was played was between frames. That simply isn’t good enough, especially when the part of the body chosen by the officials varies between games.

 

I agree. Which is why they shouldn't be analysing offsides as closely as they are.

 

There are apparently a bunch of technical reasons why true high-speed cameras (your thousands frames-per-second variety) can't be used, but higher speed cameras certainly could. And the cost of having a couple cameras capable of greater precision than the standard TV cameras isn't extraordinary...other sports already use them solely for added production value on replays, and there are PL teams that have a huge number of expensive cameras simply to make the replays available on video screens to fans more interesting.

 

It's still **** though, I was looking forward to enjoying a game without it. And you just know the officials will love there to be an upset in the quarter final.

Have to make sure we're good enough to not give them the opportunity.
Have to make syre

 

Eh? The officials don't care if there's an upset or not.

 

Bung an accelerometer in the ball - pennies. There'd be no doubt whatsoever about when it was played. It'd be the equivalent of the snickometer in cricket.

OR abandon VAR, tell TV to stop analysing every decision ad nauseam and tell managers to grow up and accept the rub of the green. Much cheaper.

Vin

 

I hate it when Vin is sensible

 

I've wanted them to put an accelerometer in the ball for years, and it's a shame that we'll never get to find out how rapidly the ball was moving when Shane Long strikes a steward in the back of the head.

 

I’m more in the save him for the cup camp. Imagine winning the cup without conceding a goal and Fraser being able to say he went the whole season in which he/we won the greatest cup competition in the world and he didn’t concede a goal.....

 

Pleased for Fraser...got a lot of stick when there was clearly something wrong. Good to see him playing again.

 

And all the other fu’s!? You can’t just call one & say all’s good.

 

Where have I said that? All I've said is that it worked well on Thursday because it was used correctly - to overturn the clear mistakes.

 

Knew you’d come back with that Implied then.
Ps. Mistake.

 

I have not implied all is good. Just that it showed that things can improve significantly if they change how it is used.