TYW seems of late to agree with the refereeing decision on all these controversial incidents that are asked to be reviewed.
What is the statistical chances of all these reviews supporting the refereeing outcome?
We could do with a few of TYW decisions going against the match decisions, to feed, what is now our concious, unconcious bias, that referees are both crap and out to get us. Surely we are due one or are the referees seeing some positive variance lately?
Am I getting something wrong. I thought if the shot is going in/ on target and a hand stops it whether accidental or not, it’s a penalty. I’m sure we benefitted from this rule earlier in the season. The livi shot is on target and only the hand stops it. It’s not tucked in either/ though it is natural.
Is there a consistency issue for the YW in the latest report? Proximity appears to be a mitigating factor for Fernandez in TRFC against Livi but isn't mentioned in relation to Scales vs Hibs.
I believe I read somewhere that John Beaton apparently contacted Martindale to apologise for making an error in failing to award the pen to Livi. The Radio Clyde pundits seemed to accept that that makes it OK!
It will be interesting to see how the handball pen denied Dundee Utd v TRFC gets reviewed. Of course, an apology from the ref / VAR would make it all OK. Is consistency drifting in a certain direction?
The YW must be getting a bit bored by the material improvements in Scottish refereeing. In the first couple of seasons of this project, he was calling out their incompetences every week. You could almost feel the outrage at the multiple crimes against officiating in his reports. Now he’s mostly able to agree with the decisions made. It’s actually, with a few exceptions, been the same trend on Sportscene and the other broadcasters, where they’re mostly finding themselves doing a brief check of the close decisions rather than having a full-scale rammy about them. There’s no doubt that Scottish refereeing has got much, much better. At this rate we’ll all have to find something else to get apoplectic about.
Mainstream dialogue will likely remain apoplectic as mistakes are unavoidable and even if more normally distributed over time will lead to inevitable insanity as events ebb and flow, IMO. "Normal" means, heavens forbid, one team may get a string of bad calls in their favor, hence triggering hysteria!
We'll try to maintain a relative oasis of objectivity!
TYW seems of late to agree with the refereeing decision on all these controversial incidents that are asked to be reviewed.
What is the statistical chances of all these reviews supporting the refereeing outcome?
We could do with a few of TYW decisions going against the match decisions, to feed, what is now our concious, unconcious bias, that referees are both crap and out to get us. Surely we are due one or are the referees seeing some positive variance lately?
Am I getting something wrong. I thought if the shot is going in/ on target and a hand stops it whether accidental or not, it’s a penalty. I’m sure we benefitted from this rule earlier in the season. The livi shot is on target and only the hand stops it. It’s not tucked in either/ though it is natural.
Is there a consistency issue for the YW in the latest report? Proximity appears to be a mitigating factor for Fernandez in TRFC against Livi but isn't mentioned in relation to Scales vs Hibs.
I believe I read somewhere that John Beaton apparently contacted Martindale to apologise for making an error in failing to award the pen to Livi. The Radio Clyde pundits seemed to accept that that makes it OK!
It will be interesting to see how the handball pen denied Dundee Utd v TRFC gets reviewed. Of course, an apology from the ref / VAR would make it all OK. Is consistency drifting in a certain direction?
The YW must be getting a bit bored by the material improvements in Scottish refereeing. In the first couple of seasons of this project, he was calling out their incompetences every week. You could almost feel the outrage at the multiple crimes against officiating in his reports. Now he’s mostly able to agree with the decisions made. It’s actually, with a few exceptions, been the same trend on Sportscene and the other broadcasters, where they’re mostly finding themselves doing a brief check of the close decisions rather than having a full-scale rammy about them. There’s no doubt that Scottish refereeing has got much, much better. At this rate we’ll all have to find something else to get apoplectic about.
Mainstream dialogue will likely remain apoplectic as mistakes are unavoidable and even if more normally distributed over time will lead to inevitable insanity as events ebb and flow, IMO. "Normal" means, heavens forbid, one team may get a string of bad calls in their favor, hence triggering hysteria!
We'll try to maintain a relative oasis of objectivity!