Finally.VAR is fine. The problem is that can only be as good as the operators. VAR operators must also know the laws of the game. And yes , I know that it’s referees that operate it. Let ours be done from a studio in London. Take our incompetents out of the equation.
VAR isn’t going anywhere now it’s actually been introduced, and neither should it.
However it does need improvements, the full fat VAR would be a start rather than VAR light like we have.
Plus the refs using it are pretty shite, rather than the equipment itself.
Added to that it’s not actually what Ally said.
I've always felt that it is unfair to review handball shouts using slow motion replays.Should be used for offsides only. Fed up with hand balls being given when the defender has absolutely no chance
The incompetent arrogance of Scotland has no peer.There's a list in Wikipedia of the countries using it. I won't reproduce it as it is just too long. The rest question is why it can work in all those countries but not in Scotland
What is it that makes us so special?
Scrap it and Scotland will be the equivalent of junior football in a European context
I’m kinda speechless how any Rangers fan would want to ditch VAR. The following examples I’ve nicked from another post on here.For what it's worth, I agree with McCoist, not a popular opinion I know but VAR is absolutely horrendous, get it so far to feck.
Hate it with a passion.
Nothing wrong with taking it from his back as hypothetically he can score with it.We have Var.1 where as the rest of Europe used Var.5.2.
They have to invest in the best system to get the best results, not some, as @scotty's11 said, etch-a-scetch version.
The fact they used Goldson’s back as the line for the first goal was bizarre also, despite his feet being further forward?
They have the system in place, they just need to upgrade it now to an acceptable level.
On the other hand, if we ditch it none of our refs get International games or European ones, never mind World cups, so they don’t experience better levels of football, so remain at a poor level or regress.
Time to stop the tight arsed attitudes and buy the real VAR!
Every single week VAR is a huge talking point, it's a shambles.I’m kinda speechless how any Rangers fan would want to ditch VAR. The following examples I’ve nicked from another post on here.
Off the top of my head, decisions corrected by VAR. Not decisions ignored by refs.
we were correctly given a penalty at St Mirren after Clancy booked Kent for diving.
Celtic had a ridiculous penalty over turned at Dundee Utd wrongly given by Robertson.
St Mirren were eventually awarded a stonewall penalty v celtic after Dickinson looked the other way. In the same game VAR overturned a penalty to celtic for a foull outside the box.
All of a sudden VAR decisions are becoming ridiculous, it’s as if someone wants to go back to giving referees the final decision.
How many penalties have been given against Celtic since VAR was brought in, how many goals have they had ruled out for offside. That is why folk want it binned, not for the right reasons.
He meant it thoughMisleading thread title. He didn't say that.
However, the headline and narrative is now set by that interview.
Not just this country. Plenty pundits down South have also said they would gladly see the back of VAR.Put the most powerful computer in the world in the hands of a fuckwit then it wont be used to its potential, exact same as VAR in this country, its the fuckwits using it that is the problem
It's Scottish football. We've been talking, exhaustingly, about referees for decades. Why any Rangers fan would want us to go back to trash like Clancy, Collum, Beaton and McLean being given the final say on every decision on the pitch is bewildering to me.Every single week VAR is a huge talking point, it's a shambles.
VAR is being spoken about more than the actual games.
He clearly wants it gone going off his comments otherwise why even make them ffsHe doesn't actually say what is in the headline. I guess that doesn't matter though.
it's been used in NFL for as long as i can remember too.Ridiculous, we need to adjust how VAR is being used.
Take rugby as a case in point, when a situation is being reviewed the entire crowd gets to see exactly what the referee sees at the same time.
The bit football hasn’t got right is patching the information and pictures through to everyone.
VAR works brilliantly in rugby it can in football too
We should just give free kicks where it’s clearly not an intentional move.Should be used for offsides only. Fed up with hand balls being given when the defender has absolutely no chance
Because most of them are dinosaurs who finished playing about 20 years ago.Not just this country. Plenty pundits down South have also said they would gladly see the back of VAR.
They effectively still have the final decision.It's Scottish football. We've been talking, exhaustingly, about referees for decades. Why any Rangers fan would want us to go back to trash like Clancy, Collum, Beaton and McLean being given the final say on every decision on the pitch is bewildering to me.
There are numerous examples of their initial decisions being overturned already this season.They effectively still have the final decision.
It's a shitshow, would be happy if it was gone tomorrow.
Is the correct answer.VAR isint the problem, its the implementation of it that causing the issue.
Maybe have some full time refs as a start…
VAR is worth points to us. It benefits us and does not benefit Celtic.
They don’t want the rules enforced correctly, they want to influence refs unfairly.
Even their game at the weekend was shambolic. Two pens that were never ever pens yet only one gets chopped. And a red card that should never have been - granted that’s nothing to do with VAR but Celtic have absolutely gotten at refs and they’re scared to whistle against them.
VAR gives the refs less of a chance to “miss” things and takes away some of the absolute fear they have of complete meltdown should they give something controversial against them.
"Biased" our referees areBrought in on the cheap and all it is doing is showing how really bad our referees are.
Most probably because he would be replaced.Here we go again.
Why doesnt he mention the tramps putting pressure on officials?
Why do you keep mentioning any Rangers fan, like you know and speak for all Rangers fans?There are numerous examples of their initial decisions being overturned already this season.
Again, any Rangers fan who wishes us to go back to the type of officiating we've seen over the last decade or so is quite simply off their head.
Not sure how that is what you've taken from my post. I'm saying (i.e. me personally, my opinion, my belief) that any Rangers fan who wants us to return to the days of brazen cheating from the likes of Clancy and Collum is clearly off their head.Why do you keep mentioning any Rangers fan, like you know and speak for all Rangers fans?
We do have different opinions, I know countless Rangers fans who think VAR is a shambles.
That’s not down to VAR not working. It’s because Celtic aren’t getting the decisions they are used to and we are benefitting from decisions that the refs weren’t going to give. There is a reason why Celtic and their supporters are the most vocal about VAR.Every single week VAR is a huge talking point, it's a shambles.
VAR is being spoken about more than the actual games.
Apparently the pitch is scanned and everything is calibrated pre-match. The issue isn't VAR, the issue is that Scottish football is so utterly tin-pot that we don't have enough cameras to make it work properly and that human error still comes into play; and there is a lot of human error when Scottish officials are involved.