So I'm completely against the daylight rule as I feel like that would ruin the sport. You could not play a high line if they changed the offside rule to that degree.
I agree with the inability to play a high line to the degree we see today, but I also think it would open up offenses so much you’d have less need for playing systemically like that….and again, part of it’s purpose is to trap forwards, which is just a gimmick to kinda manipulate the offside rule in your favor. I’d rather see more quality goals scored than defenses successfully having a goal nullified because they trapped a forward for instance.
That said, I do basically agree that I wouldn’t want to see such a rule just applied at the top levels without it spending years with it implemented at lower levels to learn what impact it would have on the game, what new ways teams might exploit it etc, and what its big picture impact was on the game.
…and honestly anything they agreed on inbetween the two extremes that was plausibly implementable, I’m all for.
I do completely agree that it's an issue with trying to subjectively determine offside to the degree they do. I'm fine if they switch to semi-automated offside. Even if things end up getting called to a minutia, it's quick fair and unbiased.
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One issue is too many quality goals being wiped off the board, but even if worse is goals being scored that even end up standing, but fans aren’t able to fully lose it and enjoy the goal. Cause they know it might come back after VAR checks it out and a ref goes to the monitor etc….you just can’t have that huge extended wait to learn if it’s good or not, especially SO often.
Get it automated, and have it almost be light the goal lamp in hockey, so fans know almost instantly it’s offside. (Possibly before a shot is even taken)
My issue is when they sit there for five minutes trying to draw two lines that are basically on top of each other and then act like it's definitive. They're limited by both technology and human error that gives a degree of error that is often much higher than the margins they are trying to determine.
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Either we use semi-automated technology or we set a time limit on determining offside. If you can't make a definitive call within 45 seconds let's say, the call on the field stands. Blatant offside violations like Maguire's game winner would be easily overturned almost immediately and things where there might be a toe two inches offside would be allowed to stay. In the end, that's all people want. The absolute egregious errors fixed and if it's super close, we can leave it to the call on the field.
Yeah we want as many high quality goes to be allowed as possible, we want to know quickly whether it’s good or not…..and then last of all, yes we do still want a VAR type system to overrule egregious errors on the field.
And yeah, any super close offsides they technically “miss”…..like cmon, it’s almost never an amount that decided whether it would have been a goal or not. There’s SO many great goals taken away now genuinely have absolutely nothing to do with them having been off by a bit, and would have been scored regardless of whether they’d been in side by an entire foot.
Ultimately it’s just a shame because the game is so beautiful because goals are so hard to come by, and it’s such a rush when you do score one….and the current implementation kills that enthusiasm because you may have to wait so long for it to be official, or a perfectly good one gets nixed because of a fingernail being offside.
