Young Stapler wrote:Love Köln Brilliant football today
When Selke scores the other team should instantly admit defeat haha
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Young Stapler wrote:Love Köln Brilliant football today
Foye wrote:A day after the Bayern victory, Mainz U19 squad becomes German champions in front of 15.000 fans beating Borussia Dortmund 4-2 in extra time.
What an amazing weekend for the club.
Baphomet wrote:Foye wrote:A day after the Bayern victory, Mainz U19 squad becomes German champions in front of 15.000 fans beating Borussia Dortmund 4-2 in extra time.
What an amazing weekend for the club.
Big ups to Mainz. Here's hoping you can get back into European competition and continue to push on from there.
Foye wrote:I am at a point to say get rid of the VAR completely (except for maybe offside).
That way at least you have the chance to have a bit more physical game than chess because the ref will not see everything.
Seriously - VAR has failed. I hate it more with every passing season.
-Luke- wrote:Foye wrote:I am at a point to say get rid of the VAR completely (except for maybe offside).
That way at least you have the chance to have a bit more physical game than chess because the ref will not see everything.
Seriously - VAR has failed. I hate it more with every passing season.
It has pretty much killed the excitement for watching soccer for me (in the stadium). I know I'm rather a hardliner with this, but if your team scores a goal and you have to wait a minute to be sure it counts... Not for me.
I would continue to use it for (rare) decisions like: was the ball behind the line, but no longer for normal situations in the flow of the game.
Foye wrote:-Luke- wrote:Foye wrote:I am at a point to say get rid of the VAR completely (except for maybe offside).
That way at least you have the chance to have a bit more physical game than chess because the ref will not see everything.
Seriously - VAR has failed. I hate it more with every passing season.
It has pretty much killed the excitement for watching soccer for me (in the stadium). I know I'm rather a hardliner with this, but if your team scores a goal and you have to wait a minute to be sure it counts... Not for me.
I would continue to use it for (rare) decisions like: was the ball behind the line, but no longer for normal situations in the flow of the game.
But we don't need VAR for determining whether the ball was behind the line. We got goal line technology.
When they implemented VAR, I thought we would see more equality because blatantly false decisions on the field are corrected.
Instead we have a situation where it is completely arbitrary what is reviewed and what not. Biased refereeing continues.
It is good for determining offside. That's it.
Anyway, good to have you here. Seems like Werder is going to stay in the league.
-Luke- wrote:Foye wrote:-Luke- wrote:It has pretty much killed the excitement for watching soccer for me (in the stadium). I know I'm rather a hardliner with this, but if your team scores a goal and you have to wait a minute to be sure it counts... Not for me.
I would continue to use it for (rare) decisions like: was the ball behind the line, but no longer for normal situations in the flow of the game.
But we don't need VAR for determining whether the ball was behind the line. We got goal line technology.
When they implemented VAR, I thought we would see more equality because blatantly false decisions on the field are corrected.
Instead we have a situation where it is completely arbitrary what is reviewed and what not. Biased refereeing continues.
It is good for determining offside. That's it.
Anyway, good to have you here. Seems like Werder is going to stay in the league.
Yes, you're right about goal line technology. I was mixing VAR with general technological tools in my mind.
I agree that it's still pretty arbitrary. Before it was introduced I was sceptical but slightly in favor of VAR. That's because I thought there would be clear rules when it should be used. But it wasn't really the case from the start. I remember a game from the first season with VAR (Werder vs. Hertha). Eggestein fouled a Hertha player in the own half (it was a foul, not a hard one), then Werder passed the ball for like a minute, even lost the ball shortly (new game situation) and scored a goal. It was overruled and no one even knew what happened because the foul was a while ago. Just one situation as an example.
Yeah, Werder's development after relegation was quite good. I had expected worse at the time. Staying in the league is the only goal. We'll see what happens next season if we possibly have to replace one or even two of our strikers.
I hope you guys can maybe get to 6th. Hard game in Frankfurt tomorrow, but maybe they are already thinking about the cup final.
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