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This "waiting for the offside flag" pish


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Can we get this tae fk pls? whilst it's annoying as fk cos we've nae idea what's actually going on players have to play to the whistle, there's a real possibility that someone could get injured AFTER the offside decision is triggered but before it is flagged... 

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On 10/1/2022 at 8:49 AM, bonzo said:

Guaranteed it will take a career ending injury for them to realise how pish a rule it is. 

I agree but can't really see how else they can do it.  If the whistle is blown as soon as the flag goes up then it would render VAR pointless.  Surely VAR's biggest selling point is stopping goals being wrongly chalked off for offside 🤔 

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2 hours ago, todd said:

I agree but can't really see how else they can do it.  If the whistle is blown as soon as the flag goes up then it would render VAR pointless.  Surely VAR's biggest selling point is stopping goals being wrongly chalked off for offside 🤔 

Good point, never thought of that... 

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4 hours ago, todd said:

I agree but can't really see how else they can do it.  If the whistle is blown as soon as the flag goes up then it would render VAR pointless.  Surely VAR's biggest selling point is stopping goals being wrongly chalked off for offside 🤔 

Sometimes it's so glaringly obvious when the guy is off though and that's the annoying thing.  It's probably a matter of time before some hammer-thrower defender sees it as an opportunity.

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1 hour ago, daviebee said:

Sometimes it's so glaringly obvious when the guy is off though and that's the annoying thing.  It's probably a matter of time before some hammer-thrower defender sees it as an opportunity.

You're right, I think they are supposed to flag straight away if they feel it is really obvious.  I think the linesmans arse goes sometimes in the fear he'll be made to look a tool by VAR.

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They need to get back to there being clear daylight between defender and attacker to call offside, VAR calling offside for a baw hair, arms, legs in front of defenders is nonsense. 

Also if a through ball is played in the direction of an attacker who is  beyond the line of defence and the ball takes a deflection off a defender stretching or attempting to intercept the pass, the attacker then become onside, if the defender makes no attempt to play the ball offside would be called. It is neigh near impossible to defend and react to make that type of judgement. That too is utter nonsense 

 

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On 10/2/2022 at 7:11 PM, Stockholm 1980 said:

They need to get back to there being clear daylight between defender and attacker to call offside, VAR calling offside for a baw hair, arms, legs in front of defenders is nonsense. 

Also if a through ball is played in the direction of an attacker who is  beyond the line of defence and the ball takes a deflection off a defender stretching or attempting to intercept the pass, the attacker then become onside, if the defender makes no attempt to play the ball offside would be called. It is neigh near impossible to defend and react to make that type of judgement. That too is utter nonsense 

 

The bold part isn't true. Deflections don't count because it needs to play a deliberate play by the defensive player and the law got tweaked this year to say that the defender also needs to have the ball under control so if they are stretching for it the attacker would still be offside.

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