Ally McCoist wants Scotland to ditch VAR.

VAR isn’t going anywhere now it’s actually been introduced, and neither should it.

However it does need improvements, the full fat VAR would be a start rather than VAR light like we have.

Plus the refs using it are pretty shite, rather than the equipment itself.

Added to that it’s not actually what Ally said.
 
VAR is fine. The problem is that can only be as good as the operators. VAR operators must also know the laws of the game. And yes , I know that it’s referees that operate it. Let ours be done from a studio in London. Take our incompetents out of the equation.
 
Nothing wrong with VAR, it’s how it’s being used. What is it, only 6 cameras in most grounds in Scotland top tier? We all saw the angles at fir park! Says it all really.
 
Bluefin221 said:
Yes, let's be the only major league in world football that doesn't use VAR. That's progress.

McCoist must have had a bit of steel about him to achieve what he did but he doesn't half come across as a nodding dog sometimes.
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Hard as nails and nobodies fool.
 
Has it improved the standard of refereeing in this country? The refs are under more scrutiny now than they’ve ever been.
Even with the luxury of being able to re-referee games we’re still seeing decisions given that are contentious to say the least.
I can see why people want it scrapped until they address the real problem which is part time referees not knowing their arse from their elbow.
 
For what it's worth, I agree with McCoist, not a popular opinion I know but VAR is absolutely horrendous, get it so far to feck.

Hate it with a passion.
 
fed up of our legends and ex players coming out with this sort of shit, especially AGAIN when its spun like we have been the beneficaries of VAR.

No other club in Scotland has their legends or ex players uttering this shite.

Would love to see one of our players front them up and call them out, we have hard enough of time with our real enemies without own lining up as well.
 
We have Var.1 where as the rest of Europe used Var.5.2.
They have to invest in the best system to get the best results, not some, as @scotty's11 said, etch-a-scetch version.
The fact they used Goldson’s back as the line for the first goal was bizarre also, despite his feet being further forward?
They have the system in place, they just need to upgrade it now to an acceptable level.
On the other hand, if we ditch it none of our refs get International games or European ones, never mind World cups, so they don’t experience better levels of football, so remain at a poor level or regress.
Time to stop the tight arsed attitudes and buy the real VAR!
 
One team had been continually moaning about VAR.

VAR was getting almost every decision right and correcting wrong ones.

Off the top of my head, decisions corrected by VAR. Not decisions ignored by refs.

we were correctly given a penalty at St Mirren after Clancy booked Kent for diving.

Celtic had a ridiculous penalty over turned at Dundee Utd wrongly given by Robertson.

St Mirren were eventually awarded a stonewall penalty v celtic after Dickinson looked the other way. In the same game VAR overturned a penalty to celtic for a foull outside the box.

All of a sudden VAR decisions are becoming ridiculous, it’s as if someone wants to go back to giving referees the final decision.

How many penalties have been given against Celtic since VAR was brought in, how many goals have they had ruled out for offside. That is why folk want it binned, not for the right reasons.

Quite simply if VAR was in Scotland last year we would have won the league.
 
King Tut said:
When you look at the club who seem to have the biggest issue with it, it really speaks volumes. Which makes it all the more perplexing that Ally’s having a go at it.

It’s not without its issues, but it definitely makes it a lot harder for a prick like Clancy to try and help his team out.
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VAR ain't the problem.

It's the interpretation of it. It's not as if these issues will disappear. Well, for some they will but not for us.
 
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"Weekend of controversial decisions".

Manufactured controversy. The only decision I've seen that you could really understand being controversial is the Hibs player's 2nd yellow. Which is nothing to do with VAR.

The rest of the "controversy" is just made up because Rangers were involved.
 
At the end of the day, the referees and linesmen are getting the calls wrong. VAR has had it problems but its still getting more right decisions in games, even if not perfect.
 
Unicorn said:
There's not enough camera angles for it to be worthwhile in Scotland
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That's down to every game not being televised though therefore it comes at a cost for clubs to buy more equipment and hire more staff to operate it. You only need a minimum of 4 camera angles under FIFA rules we have 6 and think it's 13 on Sky games.

Take EPL games it's 30 odd but that's down to every game being televised not sure about Bundesliga/Serie A but same again every game televised.
 
Leif Erikson said:
The camera used for Motherwell's first goal was ridiculous. Without even considering the squinty offside line drawn, how are you supposed to tell if someone is offside from a camera angle near the corner?
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Apparently the pitch is scanned and everything is calibrated pre-match. The issue isn't VAR, the issue is that Scottish football is so utterly tin-pot that we don't have enough cameras to make it work properly and that human error still comes into play; and there is a lot of human error when Scottish officials are involved.
 
Hap Hapablap said:
Hard as nails and nobodies fool.
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standing in CDG airport in Paris returning from the Ryder Cup in 2018, Ally is standing at the next gate, at the Priority Boarding queue. The only one there, 90% of our plane boarded before he realised he was standing waiting on a flight that had already departed to Moscow.

remember the time he claimed he couldn’t vote on some share issue thing because he was out the country. He wasn’t he was meeting with the head of planning in Renfrewshire Council concerning a property he was converting and didn’t get consent for. That was his primary concern at that moment.
 
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