As we saw above- the law is impedes and this particularly key for the Kaltak one. Nagasawa went round him and was attempting to regain the ball. Kaltak sticks out his back leg to impede him. Even if there’s no contact, he’s preventing Nagasawa attempting to get a shot off. Deliberately in that case, with all the guile of an experienced defender!
Yeh look I was over the line in the game thread. Sorry I had a go at you. But we’ve seen some ridiculous calls in a short period of time. 3 not going our way, 1 for Auckland and 1 against Auckland. Most would have been given by most refs, particularly when instructed to look at them by the VAR.
I didn’t actually see it live. And if it was in isolation I might have been less of a firecracker.
Particularly weird is this kind of reasoning that it was a foul, but not enough. The Elliot shirt pull was not an attempt to compete for the ball or play football. It’s just foul play.
The Moreno one was also mind boggling. A mistimed challenge, trips him as he lines up to shoot.
To me at the moment there should not be such a difference in interpretation between the VAR and the ref on the field. Whatever the interpretation is the majority of referees should, especially with video evidence, be on the same page. And if that’s clear it can be clear to us.
And these kinds of calls don’t matter if we were building up pressure and creating a lot of chances. Which we should be against the bottom team on the table.
And thanks for taking the time to ref even with the odd prick like me with a sideline opinion. As we are more and more user pays and ‘cutting fat’ we are losing volunteers and community goodwill. So cheers for doing that👍
Assuming of course that the league didn’t stump up for pro refs, which it might well have done!
Yeh look I was over the line in the game thread. Sorry I had a go at you. But we’ve seen some ridiculous calls in a short period of time. 3 not going our way, 1 for Auckland and 1 against Auckland. Most would have been given by most refs, particularly when instructed to look at them by the VAR.
I didn’t actually see it live. And if it was in isolation I might have been less of a firecracker.
Particularly weird is this kind of reasoning that it was a foul, but not enough. The Elliot shirt pull was not an attempt to compete for the ball or play football. It’s just foul play.
The Moreno one was also mind boggling. A mistimed challenge, trips him as he lines up to shoot.
To me at the moment there should not be such a difference in interpretation between the VAR and the ref on the field. Whatever the interpretation is the majority of referees should, especially with video evidence, be on the same page. And if that’s clear it can be clear to us.
And these kinds of calls don’t matter if we were building up pressure and creating a lot of chances. Which we should be against the bottom team on the table.
And thanks for taking the time to ref even with the odd prick like me with a sideline opinion. As we are more and more user pays and ‘cutting fat’ we are losing volunteers and community goodwill. So cheers for doing that👍
Assuming of course that the league didn’t stump up for pro refs, which it might well have done!