The only tweak it needs is to stop using it for everything except touchline calls.

newgroundrodney wrote:

George Street-Bridge wrote:But the key phrase there is "what the lino should have seen". Loads of decisions would have been literally impossible to spot. They should redefine "level with".

To me, the expression "OFF side", implies that someone is BEYOND something....therefore it should not be off side if the player is in LINE with. In my view, "all the player should be BEYOND the other player" to be offside.

Like the sound of this idea.

I'm sure the concept of offside was originally all about stopping forwards procuring advantage. No-one is going to try to procure a centimetre's advantage. Puki wasn't "seen" to be offside, he was identified as such by high technology.

The problem with offside and VAR is that the decision has to be binary. It's either offside or its not. If the ref is allowed to use discretion then it opens the officials up to all sorts of accusations.

Such a shame it's not used to eradicate all the pushing pulling and holding we see all the time, the blatant gamesmanship, obstruction etc. People might be more accepting of VAR if they could see it was improving the game.

allontheamber wrote:The problem with offside and VAR is that the decision has to be binary. It's either offside or its not. If the ref is allowed to use discretion then it opens the officials up to all sorts of accusations.

Such a shame it's not used to eradicate all the pushing pulling and holding we see all the time, the blatant gamesmanship, obstruction etc. People might be more accepting of VAR if they could see it was improving the game.

Good post. Agree with this