[FOOTBALL] International Fixtures - Weds 22nd March - Tues 28th March

[Offshore Toon]

Poor Kikó.

[SvN]

Honestly, that was crap. I wouldn't say it was efficient at all.

[Kikó]

Poor Maz.

[Offshore Toon]

Only one option left for Maz, really. Mert can you give hook him up with your people in Turkey?

[Mazuuurk]

The second goal took exactly 40 seconds for him to get it affirmed, saw it in some tweet with a counter.

It's sort of hard to say something against the argument "but 40 seconds is nothing if there's ambiguity in a world cup final!" but in reality it felt slow as fuck.

[John Arne]

Yeah, it felt a lot longer - pretty much all the French players had returned to their half for kick-off.

My biggest issue is that it completely sanitises the game - what are we going to piss, moan and debate after the game if every decision was corrected?
Also - if the stadium already has cameras for Goal decisions - surely they can utilise existing technology to make instant offside calls?

[Offshore Toon]

I really don't understand the 'but what are we going to argue about?!' line of thinking. Is that really something you enjoy about the sport? The bias of football fans is one of the worst aspects imo.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If it's anything like cricket, we'll all be bemoaning the amount it slows the game down and lolling at idiots who use it badly. Fortunately football is at least spared Indians claiming it's all a conspiracy and the cameras are rigged.

[John Arne]

I really don't understand the 'but what are we going to argue about?!' line of thinking. Is that really something you enjoy about the sport? The bias of football fans is one of the worst aspects imo.

Yeah, I get that - but, I don't know, I just think football is fine how it is.
At the same time, it's still enjoyable to hear pundits and podcasts discuss the decisions and whatnot.

[Offshore Toon]

Yeah, I get that - but, I don't know, I just think football is fine how it is.
At the same time, it's still enjoyable to hear pundits and podcasts discuss the decisions and whatnot.
But its mostly pointless discussion. "S'never a foul" when its your player tackling, then "s'cotta be a red" for an identical challenge on your player. People don't seem to be bothered with actually engaging with the game anymore, instead focusing on irrelevant incidents like Mourinho.

[Adamski]

I wouldn't want to be using video tech for soft penalties or debatable red cards, that would break things up too much.

I think it should be limited to goal-line technology and offside goals, avoiding the need for anything like challenges.

Offside is also quite ambiguous so thats why I think it should be limited to goals only. Imagine if someone is called offside clear through on goal but they then stop playing only for the referee to wave them on 30 seconds later when the defenders are back in position?

[Pepe]

It does incentivize the linesmen to not call anything as offside. Better to let everything go and then if it was offside call it off than stop a play that later turns out to have been onside.

If it becomes a thing then I think they'll have to get rid of the linesmen since they will no longer serve a purpose.

[Pepe]

Talk about technology displacing jobs. Hopefully a system is put in place to retrain linesmen as something else (engineers?) so we can introduce them back into the workforce asap.

[Disco]

It's not been a 'profession' for that long, they can just go back to being milkmen or whatever.

[ItalAussie]

Offside calls will go the way of no-balls in cricket. Not even checked unless something critical happens in the subsequent play.