Recent content by RustyRef

Presumably yes, which leads me back to my previous point that they shouldn't allow appeals, as is the case in most other leagues the referee's decision should be final.

That's the only possible explanation I can think of, assuming that is that the appeals commission understood the law properly.

This one is going nowhere, turned into a debate into which clubs do and don't benefit or suffer from VAR. Forked.

Really depends on how the referee was appointed. If league appointed did they know that he was the father of a player, i.e. had he declared this fact to the league? The thing that stands out to me is you yourself state that the light was pretty poor. Could it be that it was so poor it would...

Don't think there is a black and white answer on that, each case is taken on merit, just the same as if a referee is coming from overseas. The receiving country looks at their refereeing history and level and tries to match it to their system.

That's nonsense, no referee gets to that level without knowing law inside out. Especially these days where just about every training seminar starts with a LoTG exam. There's a huge difference though between not knowing law and knowing it but making the wrong decision when put on the spot...

So the answer there is a fast track and intensive media training course. Lots of people have to do this for their employment, no reason why referees shouldn't have to.

I generally take that as don't make a decision that absolutely surprises everyone. For example, an attacker is clean through on goal and gets scythed down, as referees we are expected to consider the 4 criteria, but in that situation everyone expects a red card. Or where a referee has seen...

I think I was mixing up the independent KMD panel and an appeals panel, but the premise still stands. The appeals are usually heard by a panel of people where most have no refereeing experience.

A Premier League official is very unlikely to say something incorrect in law. Although I appreciate they don't really have media training so could get flustered and potentially mix their words up. The problem is more likely to be it just doesn't matter what they say. We've seen for years the...

This is so, so close to being deleted for a fan post and the "fan nonsense" warning issued. What part of this post has got anything to do with refereeing and / or AVL vs CHE?

Agree, Taylor got 2 KMIs correct and Attwell will be praised for not intervening. Taylor got one wrong, which I can fully understand how he got wrong as he thought there was a touch on the ball, the fault is really with Attwell for not intervening. But let's not forget that they are under huge...

The appeal being successful doesn't necessarily mean that the decision was incorrect. As has been covered before, the appeals panel is made up of 4 ex-players / managers and 1 member of PGMOL (not necessarily an ex-referee). They will have been given some grounding in law, but nowhere near the...

It might be the time of year. Don't know if it is the same in Scotland, but in England grass roots leagues tend to be winding down during April and probably have very few games available in May. Depends what has happened in terms of weather over the Winter, but this has been a mild one and I...

Possibly they are part of the reasons, but the cost is still going to be an issue. As part of my work I run evaluations and trials, or poof of concepts, and you always go into them with a minimum set of criteria, such as. - Scope - Success criteria - Cost to implement if successful - Rough...