Welcome to Scotland VAR

[G.E.C. 18,871]

 

VAR will be used in Scottish football for the first time during Hibernian's Scottish Premiership match against St Johnstone next Friday at Easter Road.

The Scottish FA have confirmed the technology will be rolled out across the top flight that weekend.

It will also be used for the Scottish Cup and League Cup semi-finals and finals.

The governing body says Fifa has given approved its use in Scotland after three years of planning.

VAR has been used at European games in Scotland, but never in domestic football, although the technology has been operating in the background for a trial period.

It will be coordinated centrally from the video operations room at Clydesdale House in Glasgow.

"We have worked extensively over a near three-year period to get to this point, have tested in every Premiership stadium as part of the training process, and we are ready to go," said the Scottish FA's head of referee operations Crawford Allan.

"As we have seen across the world, VAR has helped ensure a higher percentage of on-field refereeing decisions are accurate and that is a principle our match officials support."

All but one of the SPFL clubs voted to approve the use of VAR in the top-flight after the World Cup in Qatar, but have expressed a desire to introduce it sooner.

 

[ForeverAndEver 71,749]

Grim 

[Dickie 12,905]

3 years of planning!!  It’s fucking var in a tinpot country not brexit.

[RoboBearToo 386]

I hate VAR, not because of what it is, but because of how it's used.

VAR should be used at the discrection of the ref.

If the ref isn't sure about an offside penalty etc, he can choose to look at it.

If a player or manager thinks an offside or penalty etc is wrong, then they ask the ref to look at it.

What we don't need is jobsworth pricks watching a tv and telling the ref to look at things

 

[Drumloyal 15,034]

Who was the only one who voted against it?

[10pshortof17pound 2,512]

Worth a read:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63226275

[ForeverBlue92 310]

Personally can't argue against it, I just wish they didn't take so damn long with the most basic of decisions using VAR. That's the thing that really ruins it.

[Bad Robot 21,374]

I think it’s badly required but needs to be done correctly with then sitting in the VAR room

[MrMckee 3,424]

Can't believe they found some tool for the job that was posted a while back 

[Nk89 1,289]

Ref making "mistakes" I can live with but when they will continue to get them wrong  after looking at replay after replay and in slow motion it is going to be as frustrating as fuck

[Essandoh 21,228]

It’s been going for 10 years and it took the SFA 3 years of planning  

[NitshillBear 1,461]

Can't wait for the first time the coffin to Clydesdale House goes down during a game.

[esquire8 43,088]

Fuckng disaster is upon us all. 

[Vision 16,733]

1 hour ago, RoboBearToo said:

I hate VAR, not because of what it is, but because of how it's used.

VAR should be used at the discrection of the ref.

If the ref isn't sure about an offside penalty etc, he can choose to look at it.

If a player or manager thinks an offside or penalty etc is wrong, then they ask the ref to look at it.

What we don't need is jobsworth pricks watching a tv and telling the ref to look at things

 

It's starting to influence some of the referee's which worries me. 

[Bears r us 30,854]

It should make things better and get more things right, but some of the decisions I have seen in English games and Europe makes me unsure what it will be like up here. I suppose we need to wait and see.  

[MacBoyd 5,523]

Hate it, can't properly enjoy a goal

 

[MVRanger 2,687]

All the wasted goal celebrations means its going to be absolute murder.

[Jasper 157]

4 hours ago, Essandoh said:

It’s been going for 10 years and it took the SFA 3 years of planning  

Surely it’s not been 10 years??

[Jelavic191 4,474]

Bad enough having Collum or Clancy do our games now they could both have an impact at the same time 😂😂

[Dickie 12,905]

I take it a message on the big screen will tell us that a var check for possible penalty ect will happen but what about the likes of Livingston will a cunt come on with a sandwich board.

[blaudrup 5,477]

3 hours ago, Dickie said:

I take it a message on the big screen will tell us that a var check for possible penalty ect will happen but what about the likes of Livingston will a cunt come on with a sandwich board.

If it's a goal they'll bring a Tony Macaroni spinach pizza out the pitchside oven, if it isnae then it'll be pepperoni.

[LegendofCoop 17,427]

If used correctly then it will be a good thing imo. However, as seen down south, the Refs bottle out of making decisions themselves. 

[Rangers_no1 32,731]

Can't wait for Sands to get a red based on VAR and our backline to be King and Lundstram.

[rbt1548 1,844]

On 12/10/2022 at 17:40, Drumloyal said:

Who was the only one who voted against it?

I don't think they voted against it as in bringing it in as part of our game, I think they voted against it being brought in after the world cup, I think they wanted it in sooner.

I could have misinterpreted the last paragraph though.

[Tom0411 1,226]

Noticed in the report on STV News last night they mentioned 4 ways it would be used and there was no mention of offside.