When are they going to stop this ridiculous offside rule where the linesman doesn't flag and play continues until the ball goes dead and then he raises his flag?
Just watching the Newcastle game and it's already happened a few times. It's only a matter of time until someone gets seriously hurt and it could have been prevented by a linesman putting his flag up at the right time.
Ridiculous offside rule
posted on 16/5/22
AI powered, almost instantaneous offside technology is on its way. I believe it will be trialled at the World Cup.
posted on 16/5/22
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posted on 17/5/22
It was brought in to prevent goal hanging ffs, how are these marginal offsides 25 yards out goal hanging....
posted on 17/5/22
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 10 hours, 46 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 3 minutes ago
AI powered, almost instantaneous offside technology is on its way. I believe it will be trialled at the World Cup.
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Really? You got any links?
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I saw an article about this back in February and wrote a post on it. I've rummaged around in my posting history and found it just for you GTW14T: https://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/442101
posted on 17/5/22
The officials even know themselves it's a stupid rule. Had a lino at a Hammers game a few weeks back who turned round to the crowd when getting abuse and mouthed somethinglike "I know, it's stupid".
posted on 17/5/22
because the alternative is the lino raising his flag for what he thinks is offside so the defenders actually stop playing, (as they naturally will do despite the ref not blowing his whistle) yet the forwards carry on playing and score into an undefended net.... and then VAR in a review says it was actually onside and the goal counts.
This happened against United vs Arsenal at OT about 3 years ago.
posted on 17/5/22
Its a good rule, I like it
posted on 17/5/22
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posted on 17/5/22
The thing is, you do rarely get the odd occasion where the official gets it disastrously wrong. The one RBW refers to a couple of comments up for example - Aubamayang was an absolute mile onside when the lino flagged.
It looks ridiculous sometimes but would rather that than a team gets absolutely screwed in an important game. The argument I seem to hear a lot is this thing about risk of injury which I've never really got. Is there any history of a player getting injured in those extra 3 or 4 seconds of play?
posted on 17/5/22
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 34 minutes ago
I have no issue with the rule for "close" decisions. It seems the directive is to keep the flag down no matter what. We see players who are 5 yards offside and they play on, which is silly.
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It's adding another element of complexity in the linesman's decision making process if they have to decide whether it's close enough to keep the flag down or clear enough to wave it straight away. The more they have to think about in a split second, the more likely they are to make mistakes.
Did you see the article about AI offsides, by the way? Hopefully we're not far off from having very accurate decisions in real time.