Interesting DOGSO chat on the pod. Hadn’t considered it as VAR overturning because of a clear goal scoring opportunity. Which is a higher standard than if the ref had originally given it.
But as well for coaches and players the repercussions of bad calls can be severe.
Payne is in a fight to be a starting A league player which is crucial for his career. The Phoenix are trying to be sustainable as a club.
These are bigger stakes than the refs are facing imo.
You get to a point where you look at the referee appointment and don’t go to the game because the players won’t decide the game and the enjoyment of the spectacle is gone.
Interesting to see that the Phoenix are appealing. We’ve seen the refs be a law unto themselves at times. They need to be accountable to someone as the consequences don’t fall evenly.
Particularly as the amazing VAR didn’t manage to see Oli getting kicked. Or his shirt getting ripped.
Perhaps there’s a reason we haven’t won anything and that is Roy’s goals /runs we’re called offside, or Alex King stops enforcing the LoG after Uli missed his pen or Chris Payne’s handball goal wasn’t called, but the league is happy for our owners to keep pouring their money in. Maybe it doesn’t all come out in the wash.