Magpie wrote:
Alby39 wrote:
It's highly likely at some point in the near future we will see:
*A VAR decision, such as a penalty, taking 3-5 minutes to solve. Game square at 1-1.
* Team goes down to ten men with the blue card.
* Parking the bus because of the disadvantage.
* Game goes back to 11 v 11.
* Another VAR decision.
* 5 subs a side.
* Another VAR decision.
* 20 minutes injury time.
That isn't football.
I can totally see that scenario happening and becoming the norm. But I think part of this would be alleviated by sin bins. Imagine
*A VAR decision, such as a penalty, taking 3-5 minutes to solve. Game square at 1-1.
* Team goes down to ten men with second yellow, one of which is a bit marginal.
* Parking the bus for the rest of the match because of the disadvantage.
* Another VAR decision.
* 5 subs a side.
* Another VAR decision.
* 20 minutes injury time.
Whats worse?
What's worse? The aforementioned scenario with blue cards 100%.
The whole dynamic of football will change as a result. How to behave when you go down to ten for a brief period. How to drop off for short periods. You'll automatically see sides drop off into low blocks, bus parking, 10 men behind the ball.
It creates another problem for the referee. Subjective decisions seem to be the big thing of discussions with VAR. Clear and obvious ridiculousness. Now with your blue card you'll have referees conclude that X player has purposely brought down Y player through on goal when actually, he didn't intend to bring Y player down as a 'tactical foul' - it had been forced by Y player to gain the ten minute advantage. Another thing to beat referees over.
Could have another 5 minute VAR decision to conclude whether X player intended to tactically foul Y player, it will be contentious and another post match manager rambling once Y Player's team go down to 10 for 10 mins, concede a goal and that's another needless situation..
Does it happen already? Yes. But being on a yellow is already a disadvantage - prevents a tackle you'd want to make. Prevents a sense of freedom the booked player would otherwise play with but, at least he's there - until he gets booked again. If he gets booked again he goes and he goes for good. I can't think of any scenario whatsoever that justifies a sin bin. If a tackle is on the edge of red and yellow "often know as an orange card) it generally becomes subjective and more often than not is given as a yellow to prevent losing a man and making the game worse.
If you start introducing blue cards for those tackles, you may as well send him off. If its worse than yellow then it is red.
Collectively throughout the game you're gonna get potentially 3 blue cards. That's half an hour in 90 mins where you'll have defensive sit back football. The way it stands at the minute, red cards are still rare enough that it doesn't disrupt a game frequently enough. Once a referee is in a position where he doesn't need to 'send him off ' you'll see no doubt several moments where tactics are forcefully changed by losing players for periods. The flow of the game plans change. Continuously.
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