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gTank
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria2662 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-06-30 10:57:51
June 30 2024 10:55 GMT
#2641
He was not flailing with his arms, he was in the middle of turning his upper body. Plus the deflection was barely changing the balls direction. I have seen touches way more impactful than this one not being a penalty! This rule is very inconsistently ruled by again super bad referees this Euro. I dont understand why the refs are so utter trash this time,

Also what RvB said, you shouldnt force defenders to move a certain way already.Its already way to easy to cheat a penalty for your team with all this diving and forcing handball pens.
One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch...and kablooie!
Ghostcom
Profile Joined March 2010
Denmark4783 Posts
June 30 2024 11:05 GMT
#2642
On June 30 2024 19:17 sharkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2024 19:02 Ghostcom wrote:
Possibly the most German win ever - winning on technicalities (I can't help but wonder what the margin of error is on VAR for offside decisions).


pretty sure we had much more close offside calls this Euro. This semi-automatic offside is great - now we just need to change the offside rule


How would you like it changed?
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18712 Posts
June 30 2024 11:27 GMT
#2643
I would give attackers way more leeway... Maybe a whole foot? Offside rule was introduced to stop attackers camping in front of goal. A Foot of advantage should be more than enough but not too much to change the game in a bad sense.
mahrgell
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany3943 Posts
June 30 2024 11:36 GMT
#2644
On June 30 2024 20:27 sharkie wrote:
I would give attackers way more leeway... Maybe a whole foot? Offside rule was introduced to stop attackers camping in front of goal. A Foot of advantage should be more than enough but not too much to change the game in a bad sense.


Regardless of where you draw the line, you will then again get those cm decisons from that new line...

Right now you have one line, and sometimes extremely tough decisions with that one line. but that new VAR visualization is extremely helpful imho,
Having a second line 30 cm further down the pitch wouldn't help at all, imho. Argueing between 29 and 31 cm feels even mora arbitrary than argueing about -1 and +1cm
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28873 Posts
June 30 2024 11:45 GMT
#2645
Ya, and having it 30 cm from the line would just make it way harder to know whether you are offside or not. Offsides are fine, it just happens to occasionally be incredibly marginal. Only change I'd like there is for linesmen to be a bit more willing to call them in instances where they are virtually certain. Sucks when play continues for another 20 seconds while everyone knows it is inconsequential because it'll be called offside anyway. If this leads to one in 50 calls being wrong, so be it.

Handball rule is worth looking at, and there, I think giving some more leeway is just the way to go, even if that makes it a bit more arbitrary. That said I don't mind defenders defending with their arms around their backs.
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Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9235 Posts
June 30 2024 11:59 GMT
#2646
On June 30 2024 20:36 mahrgell wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2024 20:27 sharkie wrote:
I would give attackers way more leeway... Maybe a whole foot? Offside rule was introduced to stop attackers camping in front of goal. A Foot of advantage should be more than enough but not too much to change the game in a bad sense.


Regardless of where you draw the line, you will then again get those cm decisons from that new line...

Right now you have one line, and sometimes extremely tough decisions with that one line. but that new VAR visualization is extremely helpful imho,
Having a second line 30 cm further down the pitch wouldn't help at all, imho. Argueing between 29 and 31 cm feels even mora arbitrary than argueing about -1 and +1cm

For me the issue isn't that the margins are too slim, it's that a ton of goals are disallowed for situations where the attacker had no actual advantage. Philosophically, I much prefer the daylight rule that Wenger is trying to push, where the attacker's whole body needs to be in front of the defender for them to be offside.

But I wanna see more trials and their results first. I would assume that it will make games between roughly evenly matched teams better, my only concern is that it might make things worse in uneven games by forcing the defending team to sit even lower.
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27220 Posts
June 30 2024 12:30 GMT
#2647
Neither the offside rule nor the handball rule are meant to be used to scrutinised to quite this degree in how they were originally conceived. And VAR was to correct obvious errors, not re-refereeing the game.

Big Ange Postecoglu made the point re the Germany penalty the other night, would it have even been a talking point for pundits if it wasn’t given? A cross, generally a low percentage play anyway, lightly grazing a bloke’s hand, who was about a foot away. Then it becomes a great goal chance for Germany after VAR look at it.

He said that agree or disagree with doing it, it’s certainly re-refereeing games and this really becomes an issue with handball specifically IMO. At the other end of the scale, we’ve seen goals given where an attacking player handled in the buildup which were given because it was accidental/they didn’t gain an advantage which is hardly consistent.

For safety reasons, as well as attack/defence balance I don’t think ending up in a scenario where folks throwing themselves into the air with their hands at their side is particularly desirable.

Offside is both too rigid and too ambiguous at the same time. A line has to be drawn somewhere but it doesn’t make a huge amount of sense to me overall.

The advantage an attacker gets is from their body position and momentum most of the time if they’re minutely offside. But simply having a body part offside isn’t innately advantageous depending on body position, momentum and other factors. A bloke/blokette could have their heel in an offside position but have their back completely to a play where everyone is facing forward rushing onto a ball played over the top, there’s not much advantage there.

On the flipside the determination of ‘interfering with play’ is very interpretative and not judged as empirically.

So you end up with a Danish goal chalked off from a bloke’s pinky toe being offside, where the refs can’t make a call, whereas the disallowed Dutch goal versus France being down to how they interpreted (and subject to much debate)

As a combination I don’t like it, I think offside players (where there’s proximity) will always be interfering with play, even if it’s just to occupy the minds of defenders and influence their decisions. The only kind of exceptions I can think of are if there’s some heavy action in the centre and a winger who’s hogging the touch line wanders offside.

I’m unsure what alterations I’d make myself bar:
1. Raise the threshold for handballs being referred to VAR if the ref misses them to deliberate fouls or blocking of goal-bound shots. Still keep the avenue, I think many of us bemoan these soft penalties and want fewer, but you don’t want to miss a Theirry Henry versus Ireland or a Luis Suarez against Ghana

2. Make offside more consistent. Either allow some leeway and determination for active players and decisions there, or make it less interpretative for inactive players. It used to be that any player in the attacking side being offside meant it was offside regardless, perhaps a bit extreme but we’re using technology for a binary decision in one instance, and refereeing judgement in the other. Equalise that in either direction IMO. It feels a bit wonky in combination.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27220 Posts
June 30 2024 12:47 GMT
#2648
On June 30 2024 20:59 Dan HH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2024 20:36 mahrgell wrote:
On June 30 2024 20:27 sharkie wrote:
I would give attackers way more leeway... Maybe a whole foot? Offside rule was introduced to stop attackers camping in front of goal. A Foot of advantage should be more than enough but not too much to change the game in a bad sense.


Regardless of where you draw the line, you will then again get those cm decisons from that new line...

Right now you have one line, and sometimes extremely tough decisions with that one line. but that new VAR visualization is extremely helpful imho,
Having a second line 30 cm further down the pitch wouldn't help at all, imho. Argueing between 29 and 31 cm feels even mora arbitrary than argueing about -1 and +1cm

For me the issue isn't that the margins are too slim, it's that a ton of goals are disallowed for situations where the attacker had no actual advantage. Philosophically, I much prefer the daylight rule that Wenger is trying to push, where the attacker's whole body needs to be in front of the defender for them to be offside.

But I wanna see more trials and their results first. I would assume that it will make games between roughly evenly matched teams better, my only concern is that it might make things worse in uneven games by forcing the defending team to sit even lower.

I’m unsure whether the old daylight rule was so written, or was just reffed that way to accommodate the human brain and eye.

But yeah you do get that side effect where offside tended to be called when there was an advantage that was apparent to the eye, or in retrospect (when mistakes weren’t made of course)

It’s a very interpretative game, outside of goal line tech and the ball being out of play.

I think broadly, outside of bias for their own teams fans tend to some ‘spirit of the law’ justice rather than the pure letter, it’s just a tricky thing to balance.

Especially in a game with the status world’s popular pursuits that is so low-scoring and a singular call can decide 90 minute games. Which isn’t the case in many other sports to quite the same degree

Handball is such a contention for me because the punishment for some of the crimes is so disproportionate more often than not for an innocuous, inadvertent handball from a cross than a deliberate attempt to cheat and block a ball.

With offside the tech is there and works great. It’s just being applied in such a way that some decisions don’t really feel like sporting justice. I like Wenger’s proposal but as you say it might have unintended consequences too.

But at least you’d see that offside graphic and go ‘ah fair enough they’re miles offside’ rather than ‘what advantage are they getting from that single toe?’

'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
justanothertownie
Profile Joined July 2013
16342 Posts
June 30 2024 13:20 GMT
#2649
On June 30 2024 21:47 WombaT wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 30 2024 20:59 Dan HH wrote:
On June 30 2024 20:36 mahrgell wrote:
On June 30 2024 20:27 sharkie wrote:
I would give attackers way more leeway... Maybe a whole foot? Offside rule was introduced to stop attackers camping in front of goal. A Foot of advantage should be more than enough but not too much to change the game in a bad sense.


Regardless of where you draw the line, you will then again get those cm decisons from that new line...

Right now you have one line, and sometimes extremely tough decisions with that one line. but that new VAR visualization is extremely helpful imho,
Having a second line 30 cm further down the pitch wouldn't help at all, imho. Argueing between 29 and 31 cm feels even mora arbitrary than argueing about -1 and +1cm

For me the issue isn't that the margins are too slim, it's that a ton of goals are disallowed for situations where the attacker had no actual advantage. Philosophically, I much prefer the daylight rule that Wenger is trying to push, where the attacker's whole body needs to be in front of the defender for them to be offside.

But I wanna see more trials and their results first. I would assume that it will make games between roughly evenly matched teams better, my only concern is that it might make things worse in uneven games by forcing the defending team to sit even lower.

I’m unsure whether the old daylight rule was so written, or was just reffed that way to accommodate the human brain and eye.

But yeah you do get that side effect where offside tended to be called when there was an advantage that was apparent to the eye, or in retrospect (when mistakes weren’t made of course)

It’s a very interpretative game, outside of goal line tech and the ball being out of play.

I think broadly, outside of bias for their own teams fans tend to some ‘spirit of the law’ justice rather than the pure letter, it’s just a tricky thing to balance.

Especially in a game with the status world’s popular pursuits that is so low-scoring and a singular call can decide 90 minute games. Which isn’t the case in many other sports to quite the same degree

Handball is such a contention for me because the punishment for some of the crimes is so disproportionate more often than not for an innocuous, inadvertent handball from a cross than a deliberate attempt to cheat and block a ball.

With offside the tech is there and works great. It’s just being applied in such a way that some decisions don’t really feel like sporting justice. I like Wenger’s proposal but as you say it might have unintended consequences too.

But at least you’d see that offside graphic and go ‘ah fair enough they’re miles offside’ rather than ‘what advantage are they getting from that single toe?’


And instead you would discuss: "ah, everything except his toe was offside. Clearly he had an advantage. It's about a few mm. What a travesty of a call."
You are just moving the factual decision to the other side of the player while disadvantaging/punishing defenders. Which will lead to more defensive football since you need to defend deeper to compensate. Is that what you want?
WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland27220 Posts
June 30 2024 16:15 GMT
#2650
England appear to have flipped this game, more zip in their midfield and attack but their defensive play is leaving rather a lot to be desired

Ref’s looking pretty card-happy so far, I’d be surprised if we don’t see a red at some stage
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
mahrgell
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany3943 Posts
June 30 2024 16:30 GMT
#2651
Okay, if England gets eliminated here...

Who from this half of the bracket makes it to the final?
justanothertownie
Profile Joined July 2013
16342 Posts
June 30 2024 16:34 GMT
#2652
Austria?
RvB
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands6303 Posts
June 30 2024 16:37 GMT
#2653
It'd be the easiest bracket we could wish for if we'd get our shit together so we'll probably be knocked out by Romania.
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18712 Posts
June 30 2024 16:42 GMT
#2654
England is the only country where you just push all world class players into the first team regardless of balance or if it works. Foden and Bellingham together dont work.. you have to decide on one of them.
Dan HH
Profile Joined July 2012
Romania9235 Posts
June 30 2024 17:16 GMT
#2655
Foden forgetting you're not supposed to stay ahead of the ball in a 2v1, then England almost gifting a 2nd goal by fumbling a routine free kick in their own half. Honestly can't blame Southgate for all these brain farts.
Mafe
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany5966 Posts
June 30 2024 17:20 GMT
#2656
Was that Kucka again with that foul on Mainoo? That could have been a second yellow card here.
justanothertownie
Profile Joined July 2013
16342 Posts
June 30 2024 17:25 GMT
#2657
On July 01 2024 02:20 Mafe wrote:
Was that Kucka again with that foul on Mainoo? That could have been a second yellow card here.

At the very least for that kick against rice.
KobraKay
Profile Joined March 2010
Portugal4367 Posts
June 30 2024 17:32 GMT
#2658
Englands game is looking rather predictable and uninspiring....

Need a big shift soon otherwise this side of the bracket is going to be even more nuts....and swiss will look like a top nation
CJ Fighting! (--.--)
mahrgell
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Germany3943 Posts
June 30 2024 17:43 GMT
#2659
England playing so good They don't need subs.
gTank
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria2662 Posts
June 30 2024 17:44 GMT
#2660
Wonder how hard the Endgland copium will be this time even if they win...
One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch...and kablooie!
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