For me a vote achieves the endgame. If fans vote keep it, then that’s it done. No point arguing & debating the keep/ retain because it’s democratic on what VAR actually looks like.
If they vote & say bin it. We chalk it down to an education piece & it (hopefully) never darkens our door again.
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Don't bet on the Indy mob accepting it 😀
Like you say, ask the fans , accept the decision, end of
I think a lot of fans did have this view. Almost that VAR was the lesser of two evils on making decisions & ref competence. Indeed, when it was introduced, it passed a SMISA fan vote.
But we are now in a position we weren’t before. We can see football with & without VAR. I would wager that if there was a fan vote now on binning it, it would pass as some fans have changed their position now that they can see just how bad VAR is. (EPL poll does seem to back that)
For me a vote achieves the endgame. If fans vote keep it, then that’s it done. No point arguing & debating the keep/ retain because it’s democratic on what VAR actually looks like.
If they vote & say bin it. We chalk it down to an education piece & it (hopefully) never darkens our door again.
Two absolute key things if there was a vote for me though.
1. Clubs strongly advised to engage fans on how they vote (season ticket/ ownership polls, etc)
2. Fans are fully informed that they’re voting on what VAR ACTUALLY IS. Not on pie in the sky, empty promises & wishes of far better technology & unbias/ better trained officials. That is simply, NOT in the plans for VAR in Scotland.
VAR is the engame of fans, players, managers and media never accepting decisions and that referees are human. So we end up with the utter hell of VAR.
Referees are the best they have ever been in terms of fitness and constant review of their decisions. The game is 1000 times faster and players way fitter than they were in the past so getting decisions pefect gets harder. TV reviews decision down to the last millimeter and last frame. Refs and assistants get 1 look.
So if VAR is ever taken away and it won't be you just end up back at square one.
I hate VAR personally and would love to bin it but the same old refs are biased, incompetent, better in the old days etc would just start again. Never ending