The game we all love - what would you change?

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Any player that downs tools/goes on strike is banned from moving clubs until the next transfer window and no wages get paid in the meantime.

Just found this old thread. Totally agree with the above. Surely VAR could be used to review post-match, incidents where players have feigned injury, won dubious free-kicks etc. It's not something that could be done real-time as it would be a nightmare but after games, players could be on an honour system. Like the yellow cards. If they feign something 5 times, they get a one match ban. We need to cut out cheating. It's ruined the game so much in the past few decades. It's almost a non-contact sport these days. Player gets the ball, backs into another player, falls over: free kick!

Edit: doing it post-match would allow a colder analytical approach to incidents.

If they refuse to work which what Isak did then no wages. Come to work you get paid.

I probably should've worded my original post better. But if Isak did say to Newcastle I'll never play again for ye. (I know the media can overhype things) then training every day isn't good enough if you wont turn up and play in any matches.

That's a good point. I just hope that every transfer window from now on doesn't turn into the mess like the one we just had.

Why? It's called a penalty for a reason.

VAR created or perhaps highlighted the fact that offside is a binary decision. You are either on side or offside.

Commentators and fans naturally describe a call as being ' barely off side or just onside. Nevertheless its one or the other as frustating and or relievng as it may seem depending if its goes for or against your team.

We have seen offsides given by the smallest possible fraction, so go back to giving the attacker the benefit of the doubt as it were. If they are off side marginally when the lines are drawn, allow a 12 inches - ie a foot as a advantage zone ( Can be another line drawn ) and the goal stands. I suggest this as someone who prefers more goals per game. The exact same logic could be done in reverse.

Yeah whatever about the lines the point is once you're consistent in the definition of where the lines are drawn then it's objective. Same as goalline technology. It's either in or it's not. You can change the definition and tolerance levels in the future but it gets applied across the board so it's still fair

The problem with everything else is that it's a subjective decision. So you're not using technology- there's this idea that "VAR" is some sort of cutting edge tech. It's not. A VAR is a human person, who is also a referee, who is added into the decision making process for subjective decisions.

The only tech used is replay from tv cameras. They aren't using tech to determine the height or force of a tackle, they're just taking another look from more angles

Which sounds like it could help, but the problem is they haven't given the VAR the power to make a decision

If the VAR is a fully trained referee same as the guy on the pitch, and they have access to see an incident, why can't they make the decision on it?

If VAR worked like a referral, or (shudder) team challenges like in US Sports, then that's what would happen, ignore the on field decision and VAR makes a decision

It's ridiculous that a fully qualified referee can have access to slow motion replays from all angles but isn't empowered to make a determination and instead has to make a judgement of whether to try and convince the on field ref to change his decision or not and whether it's reached a threshold.

It's mad. If the point is to get the right decision or not then just make that call

This process gives unnecessary power to a decision on the pitch

Referees are now blowing less on marginal calls, sometimes unconsciously, because they know they have the safety net of VAR

But that's flawed then because not blowing is the decision and there's a threshold to overcome to change it, instead of ref not blowing = ref is unsure, refer to VAR, VAR makes the call

There should be no reason to waste time having a ref jog over to a monitor when a qualified ref has already seen all the footage and can make a determination

45 and square ball rule?