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Hoggy's Hamper - VAR Special (Patreon)

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2024-01-20 06:59:00
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As agreed last week, Hoggy is back and this time welcomes (as a last minute change) listener Graham Telfer to the show.

Graham's father-in-law was a top flight official and the boys try to talk about VAR, officials and the laws of the game in a reasoned manner - to decipher is VAR worth it and what are the real things that have to be improved (not just VAR!).

What do you think?

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Tamus

Al'in is indeed a staunch village

Gregg

Les Mortram loved the gers

Rona Bluebell

The game has progressed to be a 24/7 phenomenon that exists way outside the 90 minutes. VAR adds to that experience now. Contributes massively to post game kvetvhing

Steven McNeil

I would like to see the roles of VAR and on field referees split. Whilst similar in a way the two roles are completely different. One focuses on being a presence on the pitch, watching the game with your eyes and reacting. The other focuses on studying footage and looking for things that are missed when carrying out on field refereeing. The similarity is the rules being applied, but it’s two different views and jobs. Why are we training incompetent people on two different jobs. Focus each on being the best at each role rather than being poor at both.

John Davidson

Great listen as always. Excellent debut Graham. Found myself agreeing with a lot of your well-considered opinions on referees and VAR. Hope to hear more from you on the network.

Charlie Nicolson

Maybe a bit Orwellian, but , is VAR just the start? In twenty years time, will games be referreed by video operators giving all decisions?

Ando

Superb debut Graham. Great listen as always.

Alastair McGeoch

Great pod. Does VAR work? yes. We see that when we play in Europe. The difference, refs are professional, they apply the rules and don’t give a shit about the optics of giving a “favourable” even if correct decisions for Rangers. Why does VAR have problems in Scotland? 1) Everyone not associated with Rangers assumed VAR would mean Rangers would never get a penalty or decision again and it would stop us “cheating” (2) the referees don’t apply the laws of the game on the pitch (recent games against Celtic and motherwell show that) so they don’t apply the laws of the game when on VAR duty, why (3) I don’t think refs are corrupt but the second guess themselves in our games because they worry about the optics. Good point made about you never hear anyone saying “VAR did a great job there” in Scotland the bitterness runs so deep even when correct decisions are made that happen to benefit Rangers you have numbskulls like Barry Robson inferring VAR is ruining the game. The problem isn’t VAR the problem is the parochial nature of the game in Scotland

Darren Littlejohn

I think VAR is a good thing but generally the rules are poor and refs standards haven’t kept up with the players in the past 10 years