Recent content by David G

I’m not sure I agree with your view. The trial is only doing what already happens in tennis and cricket, but unlike football, both are stop/start games, but is worth looking into, even if it is to discount it. It is likely to take time for captains/managers to decide whether they want to refer...

Crikey, really - take exception to my 2nd para. Your interpretation of what I said is not what I said or mean. No worse, no better - but usually different (but not in all cases). Before the introduction of VAR do you consider that Referees were treated as respectfully by football players...

Some of what you have said is worth considering, but I suspect has already been looked at by the PGMOL, but can be revisited. A captain in rugby is often more respectful to Referees than in football (but not in all cases) - whereby I still believe they are called sir, and the same could be...

It would be true to say that I congratulated one Referee when he was promoted to the EFL despite not giving him a glowing report when I saw him as a L4. It would also be true to say that although I didn’t see eye to eye with a Referee who I saw as a L4 & L3, he became a specialist Assistant who...

Please share what you believe these improvements from other sports could be?

Horrible game for you in one sense, but builds up your resilience and experience from such games. Needs more than 24 hours to make an informed decision as to what you want to do - it’s still raw. Make sure you let the dust settles before taking any decisions.

Definitely.

Good point James. I will cease to reply to anything further unless it’s to do with promotions.

Training also happens in the football world.

I can actually understand what you are saying with this one. 😂

That’s true with PGMOL, it could be a delegate etc. They may not lead at all, they may just be like a court clerk is to a magistrate.

If clubs and supporters will be content with Referees making human errors with an accuracy rate of 82% rather than 96% for KMI’s then fair enough, let the Referees get on with it, which is probably what they want to happen anyway.

Fair enough. HW may await the outcome of the KMI panel before declaring what to say, if anything. If the Panel goes against both VAR Referee and the Referee I am sure he will say something.

And that I think is the point - did the Referee miss a clear and obvious error! I don’t think he did because it took a number of replays to identify it.

Not in my world and I don’t recognise yours.