Interview with Tony Saga

[midfielder]

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/video/2225351685/EXCLUSIVE-Tony-Sage

 

[Nik Mrdjas Disco Bikkie]

Why would you keep your money in the A-League after today?

 

[Forum Phoenix]

Because they have had a great year and have a lot to be positive about - though this will be infuriating and hurtful for sure. We know about that better than any other club in the HAL. Perth are very welcome to take our crown though.

That said, I think what we saw today though was definitely "football"specific not "A league" specific.
Personally I think this sort of human error is an absolute blight on our game that must be solved by Video refereeing. It is not fair to the professionals who dedicate their lives to achieving a dream to then foul of entirely avoidable human error. FIFA and others dismissing it as all evens out in the end is just absurd. The idea that there is some kind of magic karmic f**k up law - where everything comes square in the long run is about as juvenile and naive a view as it gets. 2 wrongs will never make a right. And 200 just makes for a lot of angst and suffering - not balance.

 

[Nathan Byrn]

A very good interview.

 

[Atomic]

Because they have had a great year and have a lot to be positive about - though this will be infuriating and hurtful for sure. We know about that better than any other club in the HAL. Perth are very welcome to take our crown though.

That said, I think what we saw today though was definitely "football"specific not "A league" specific.
Personally I think this sort of human error is an absolute blight on our game that must be solved by Video refereeing. It is not fair to the professionals who dedicate their lives to achieving a dream to then foul of entirely avoidable human error. FIFA and others dismissing it as all evens out in the end is just absurd. The idea that there is some kind of magic karmic f**k up law - where everything comes square in the long run is about as juvenile and naive a view as it gets. 2 wrongs will never make a right. And 200 just makes for a lot of angst and suffering - not balance.

I know what you're saying but surely some of the blame for yesterday's shennanigans mus lie at the feet of the FFA because of the poor standard of referring in this country.

To be honest, I dont know how we compare with other footballing countries but when you compare football referring with that in the NRL and AFL, we seem to be in the dark ages. I'm talking about the amount of poor / wrong decisions... espically the ones over the last few weeks that have directly altered the result at F/T.

 

[shipwreck]

A-league takes world initiative by becoming the first Association Football code to implement video refereeing

Imagine that as a headline? Falling crowds, lack of television/media interest, laughing stock of other codes, what better way to drum up publicity and market value by announcing this for next season in conjunction with the new tv deal?

Hire the lead team that implemented NRLs television refereeing system, have it there for:
Any player who goes down in the box, whistle blows immediately (pending refs decision to play advantage)
- Genuine penalty, give it there and then
- Offensive player dives = yellow card
- Offensive player lost balance/didnt dive = defensive teams ball (this will soon stop offensive players losing balance too easily....)

Offsides should be play on once the linesman raises his flag, if it leads to a goal or goes dead in any way = handled the same way an NRL try is (decision pending question for offside) NRL handles this flawlessly, I dont see why we cant?

 

[Nathan Byrn]

A-league takes world initiative by becoming the first Association Football code to implement video refereeing

Imagine that as a headline? Falling crowds, lack of television/media interest, laughing stock of other codes, what better way to drum up publicity and market value by announcing this for next season in conjunction with the new tv deal?

Hire the lead team that implemented NRLs television refereeing system, have it there for:
Any player who goes down in the box, whistle blows immediately (pending refs decision to play advantage)
- Genuine penalty, give it there and then
- Offensive player dives = yellow card
- Offensive player lost balance/didnt dive = defensive teams ball (this will soon stop offensive players losing balance too easily....)

Offsides should be play on once the linesman raises his flag, if it leads to a goal or goes dead in any way = handled the same way an NRL try is (decision pending question for offside) NRL handles this flawlessly, I dont see why we cant?

Great Idea! Fox Sports world first kind of deal, have an ad featuring all the worst decisions ever.. set a one minute "in game clock" brought to you by Seiko or Tag Heur. For those that say it will waste time so does, guys rolling around feining injury and al the other crap.

 

[Atomic]

Great Idea! Fox Sports world first kind of deal, have an ad featuring all the worst decisions ever.. set a one minute "in game clock" brought to you by Seiko or Tag Heur. For those that say it will waste time so does, guys rolling around feining injury and al the other crap.

Great point. Unfortunately there are many counties around the world that believe that "gamesmanship" is an essential part of the game.

Any time taken up by reviewing play can be added to injury time anyway. Also, how many times per game will decisions be referred to the video ref?

I cant see it happening in my lifetime. The only change might be to bring in goal line technology... but that's about it. If it's successful then it may lead to further change, but I doubt it.