Ally McCoist wants Scotland to ditch VAR.

There's a list in Wikipedia of the countries using it. I won't reproduce it as it is just too long. The rest question is why it can work in all those countries but not in Scotland
What is it that makes us so special?
Scrap it and Scotland will be the equivalent of junior football in a European context
majority of those countries aren't working for the benefit of one club probably

it's not "this isn't working for the whole league" is the angle here, it's "this is not working for Celtic" is where the main whinge is coming from
 
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.
Loved him as a player, he's also great as a co commentator, but as a pundit he panders too much to the filth element in our game.

It's almost as if he feels he has to lean their way to appear unbiased, to be fair to him, Scottish football is a cesspit of mendicant noise.
 
Like everything else in Scottish football, VAR has been implemented half-arsed, halfway through a season, with at least less than half the required cameras to be effective compared to other leagues and only required in half the competitions half the time.

And we wonder why Scottish football is seen as nothing more than a pub league by many people outwith Scotland.
 
It’s because we have the cheapest version of VAR they could possibly get away with. That’s why it takes so long as they have limited views / angles and they need to get it right.

Still then most decisions are then called correctly so what is the problem apart from Celtic now getting pulled up for stuff they’d have got away with previously.
Its not just celtic, its a shambles

2 debatable offsides at fir park that in my opinion were both offside but at least these are open to debate

Worst decision was at rugby park, consadine handball missed somehow , stonewall penalty

also the st mirren player winning a penalty at tannadice should have been overturned on review
 
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.
Serves the powers that be right after going with the Lidl version rather than the UEFA version. Just made a mockery of our game for the rest of the footballing world to see. Well done.
 
Why do people say VAR doesn't work...Is the video not replaying or the image is blurry, does it take 5min to load...No it works exactly how it should. You can watch the game on TV with 2 camera angels and pretty much see everything you need to
I wish people would say the decision making based on the 100% functioning VAR isn't working...
After a controversial weekend you tend to find with calm heads the majority are correct, with replay assistance though the standards should be 99% correct and that's because humans are involved or it would be 100%
PS Killie pen was a shocker someone should be made to write the rules out 20times...
 
To many Referees have allegiances to Them & it shows in some refereeing decisions we see , Clancy , collum , Robertson just to name a few , it was put out there by the media that Bobby Madden was one of us & look how that turned out chased to Ref in England .
 
Like everything else in Scottish football, VAR has been implemented half-arsed, halfway through a season, with at least less than half the required cameras to be effective compared to other leagues and only required in half the competitions half the time.

And we wonder why Scottish football is seen as nothing more than a pub league by many people outwith Scotland.

That's not true you need a minimum of 4 cameras under FIFA rules for VAR to be operated and games outwith TV coverage in Scotland have 6. It's not enough but we aren't ever going to have the same amount as say the EPL, Bundesliga, Serie A etc use because every game is televised meaning more camera angles available to use.

To get better VAR in use the only way round it is to try get a better TV contract and not give the current broadcaster who can't fulfill the games they're contracted for at the moment another 6 years.
 
VAR isint the problem, its the implementation of it that causing the issue.

Maybe have some full time refs as a start…
Agree with the first part of that but having clowns like Clancy, Collum, McLean and the rest of the incompetent dross we have to suffer week in, week out as full time officials isn’t going to make them any better. They’ll still be gash but probably paid more to be just as gash.
 
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.
Last to implement it. First to bin it. How very Scottish football would that be. How about we keep VAR, bin the cretins operating it and bring in some retired officials from other leagues to use it competently.
 
We all knew the referees were either biased or terrible. VAR was introduced to assist and mostly that happens. The cameras at the games are on the 18 yard line so most of the offsides will be a bit dodgy.
 
That’s not down to VAR not working. It’s because Celtic aren’t getting the decisions they are used to and we are benefitting from decisions that the refs weren’t going to give. There is a reason why Celtic and their supporters are the most vocal about VAR.

VAR isn’t the issue it is the people operating it and the vast majority of pundits, fans and commentators (Toms the worst) who don’t have a clue how VAR actually works.
Whoa whoa whoa, we are not benefitting from anything.
Its just that they now have to make the correct call for a change rather than resting on the old "evens itself out over a season" diatribe we have had since forever.

We wont be cancellign VAR, what we should be doing is improving on what we have at the moment to make things better, and maybe try and up the standard of the referees to prevent the need for VAR intervention on nearly every major call.
 
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.
you just know the tramps will get their own way, aided and abetted by McCoist and Co.
 
The problem is Scotland did VAR on the cheap, which is just typical of the SPFL.
If you do something half arsed you're going to get half arsed results.
 
Whoa whoa whoa, we are not benefitting from anything.
Its just that they now have to make the correct call for a change rather than resting on the old "evens itself out over a season" diatribe we have had since forever.

We wont be cancellign VAR, what we should be doing is improving on what we have at the moment to make things better, and maybe try and up the standard of the referees to prevent the need for VAR intervention on nearly every major call.
Benefitting is probably the wrong word but we are now receiving fairer treatment by getting (mostly) the correct calls now. The penalty at Easter Road the most recent example.

VAR hasn’t been anywhere near as bad up here as people make out. They have been slow to make decisions at times but the first season down South was the same. The biggest critics are the ones that don’t have a clue how it works.
 
VAR is going nowhere.
The sooner people accept that, the better.
And start focusing on how it can be improved.

Also the length of time it can take, did it ever occur to them that part of that is because they are petrified of the way the arsehole media and celtc fan boys will react!
 
VAR is here to stay.

Gets much more right than wrong.

Also if we didn’t have VAR during our most recent Europa League games we probably wouldn’t have done as well as we did.

Only an idiot wouldn’t want it in place.
 
Yeah get rid of VAR. Because l have absolute and complete trust in Clancy,Collum,Robertson,etc. I barely trust the cnuts to toss the coin properly at kick off. Is VAR perfect,No. But for F-sake it's been in Scottish football two minutes.
 
As if the refereeing in Scotland was working before VAR. Media's interference amounts to match fixing in this country and unfortunately our hero McCoist is being used as their puppet to allow this to continue, VAR is making it more difficult.
 
We have gone with ALDI VAR, rather than the Dolce & Gabanna one they have in the EPL. That and part time referees running it is the problem.
 
We have gone with ALDI VAR, rather than the Dolce & Gabanna one they have in the EPL. That and part time referees running it is the problem.
Think I read on here it's £10k a game for the version we use and a couple opted out for cup games. No way we will be getting a more expensive version.
 
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