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Posted April 29, 2024 11:07 · last edited April 29, 2024 13:24

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When we beat Macarthur the second time 2-1, after Rufer had dropped out of the starting XI, Sterjovski said, "there was only one team trying to play."

How about that, Mile?

And while you’re asking him questions, perhaps ask him how his club got the referees to agree a red card wouldn’t be a yellow for any ref? 


Huh?

According to the pod the standard the MRP follows in order to completely overrule a red card is ‘no referee would have given a yellow card’. 

The MRP has had a lot of marginal cards referred to them, such as the one that kept Rufer out of the CC game. However, up till the last game the most clemency shown was the minimal suspension. 

After a lot of carry on by Jo Lolley and others during the MacArthur game against Sydney F.C., the MRP managed to overturned a MacArthur red card (though not the red card of Tommy Smith) leaving the MacArthur player free to face the Nix. 

In order to do that the MRP must have concluded the high foot with studs would never have been considered a yellow by any referee. 
It's one of those cases of the right decision being made for the wrong reason. And once again, as if we needed any more proof, it shows that the game here is being officiated in a far from efficient or even rational way, especially in regard to post-foul VAR reviews. 

I've watched quite a bit of the ACL this year and it's interesting to see that in general referees allow more physical and robust play. Yellow and red card thresholds are higher than in the A League. The local commentators doing the games are often quite comically appalled that challenges, which in the ALM would be a card or at least a foul, are completely ignored by the refs. I have to say it makes for a more enjoyable viewing experience.

Now I'm not saying players shouldn't be protected against potentially dangerous tackles but I do think the pendulum has swung way too far in the wrong direction here, and that VAR has too much influence. I don't even necessarily blame the referees. The standard gets set for studs up or hand to the head/throat contact and referees run to their little TV, stare at a slow motion replay a million times and think, heck, the more I look at it the worse it gets, I better upgrade this to a red or I might get in trouble.

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martinb
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martinb
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When we beat Macarthur the second time 2-1, after Rufer had dropped out of the starting XI, Sterjovski said, "there was only one team trying to play."

How about that, Mile?

And while you’re asking him questions, perhaps ask him how his club got the referees to agree a red card wouldn’t be a yellow for any ref? 


Huh?

According to the pod the standard the MRP follows in order to completely overrule a red card is ‘no referee would have given a yellow card’. 

The MRP has had a lot of marginal cards referred to them, such as the one that kept Rufer out of the CC game. However, up till the last game the most clemency shown was the minimal suspension. 

After a lot of carry on by Jo Lolley and others during the MacArthur game against Sydney F.C., the MRP managed to overturned a MacArthur red card (though not the red card of Tommy Smith) leaving the MacArthur player free to face the Nix. 

In order to do that the MRP must have concluded the high foot with studs would never have been considered a yellow by any referee. 
It's one of those cases of the right decision being made for the wrong reason. And once again, as if we needed any more proof, it shows that the game here is being officiated in a far from efficient or even rational way, especially in regard to post-foul VAR reviews. 

I've watched quite a bit of the ACL this year and it's interesting to see that in general referees allow more physical and robust play. Yellow and red card thresholds are lower than in the A League. The local commentators doing the games are often quite comically appalled that challenges, which in the ALM would be a card or at least a foul, are completely ignored by the refs. I have to say it makes for a more enjoyable viewing experience.

Now I'm not saying players shouldn't be protected against potentially dangerous tackles but I do think the pendulum has swung way too far in the wrong direction here, and that VAR has too much influence. I don't even necessarily blame the referees. The standard gets set for studs up or hand to the head/throat contact and referees run to their little TV, stare at a slow motion replay a million times and think, heck, the more I look at it the worse it gets, I better upgrade this to a red or I might get in trouble.