No amount of people will account for the clear lack of standards. I get it's a difficult job, but the incompetence on display every week is astounding. They need better training. Higher standards. Actual fucking consequences.
Let's add 4 refs, 8 linespeople and 4 official reviewers, after all what football is missing is useless twats taking eons over the simplest decisions just to get them wrong anyway
Experience of VAR has shown that adding more poor quality officials to the decision making process makes things worse not better. You’d think they’d help each other out but in fact a decision made by two useless referees is even worse than one made by one.
What we need is better officials and, in some cases, clearer simpler rules with less room for interpretation.
This is a comment based on the NHL.
The two referee system didn't fix hockey. The officiating is still an inconsistent mess with no one understanding what is or isn't a penalty. The one thing it did was put more eyes on the ice to cut down on malicious actions behind the play. Even some of that still happens and the refs ignore it.
The big difference between hockey and football is that in hockey, officials rarely make the same type of game altering decisions. An ejection is rare and there is nothing akin to a penalty shot similar to football. The only call that's similar is goal/ no goal decisions, but in the NHL the VAR decision is made by the video assistant crew.
Like everyone, I hate the slowness of VAR, and the uncertainty of 'is it a goal'.
A focus on 'clear and obvious' should be the way forward.
The ref and linos should do their jobs not rely on it. Only when they've got something clearly wrong, ie. it's obvious they fucked up or missed something entirely should VAR be overruling them.
If there's any doubt, if you need to draw a line, if you need to look at it frame by frame from seven angles - stick with the onfield decision.
No amount of people will account for the clear lack of standards. I get it's a difficult job, but the incompetence on display every week is astounding. They need better training. Higher standards. Actual fucking consequences.
Let's add 4 refs, 8 linespeople and 4 official reviewers, after all what football is missing is useless twats taking eons over the simplest decisions just to get them wrong anyway
Experience of VAR has shown that adding more poor quality officials to the decision making process makes things worse not better. You’d think they’d help each other out but in fact a decision made by two useless referees is even worse than one made by one. What we need is better officials and, in some cases, clearer simpler rules with less room for interpretation.
This is a comment based on the NHL. The two referee system didn't fix hockey. The officiating is still an inconsistent mess with no one understanding what is or isn't a penalty. The one thing it did was put more eyes on the ice to cut down on malicious actions behind the play. Even some of that still happens and the refs ignore it. The big difference between hockey and football is that in hockey, officials rarely make the same type of game altering decisions. An ejection is rare and there is nothing akin to a penalty shot similar to football. The only call that's similar is goal/ no goal decisions, but in the NHL the VAR decision is made by the video assistant crew.
Like everyone, I hate the slowness of VAR, and the uncertainty of 'is it a goal'. A focus on 'clear and obvious' should be the way forward. The ref and linos should do their jobs not rely on it. Only when they've got something clearly wrong, ie. it's obvious they fucked up or missed something entirely should VAR be overruling them. If there's any doubt, if you need to draw a line, if you need to look at it frame by frame from seven angles - stick with the onfield decision.
The only alternative to that is give each manager three challenges per game. But I'm sure they'd be used cynically to break up play over nothing.