DocSherrin III wrote:
So one-eyed it borders on stupidity. When the shoe is on the other foot, Carlton fans will be the biggest bleeters and the rest of the footy world will simply say "karma". You don't care about the game, you only care that Carlton wins and don't care how it happens.
Yeah, nah.
Yeah: we have a whinge about the umps every week, it's part of being a supporter. We're watching a football game, not trying to resolve the Israel-Palestine situation. Relax and stop trying to be above it all.
Nah: even in games where we feel we've been especially reamed, I can't recall anyone calling for captain's challenges or endless tech analysis. I would say it shows we care a lot about the game that we aren't prepared to compromise its character in the vain pursuit of umpiring perfection.
Furthermore, you can't construct a reasonable argument for such interventions even with your own cherry picked examples. Calling a ball-up after Cottrell had caught the ball? OK, so now every time a player marks the ball in the last minute of a close game we may as well throw in an appeal, worst case they get the mark anyway, best case they lose the advantage of possession, so the player who went and won possession in good faith gets disadvantaged, how is that fair? And then the Adelaide example which was reviewed anyway, so what exactly are you proposing there?
The challenge system works fine in US sports which are just advertising vehicles anyway, and cricket, where there are natural stoppages and the technology is able to provide clear empirical evidence for binary questions like did the ball hit the bat or did it pitch in line with the stumps. In football, VAR has wrecked the sport because it turns those rare goals from moments of spontaneous joy into agonising waits as incompetent morons try to use videos and laser pointers to answer subjective questions like was that a natural arm movement or was that tackle careless or reckless. Learn the lessons, keep this shit out of Aussie Rules. I'd even do away with score reviews, they're almost always inconclusive so get on with the game!
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