ICT v Raith: 2 December

[Duke of Inverness]

4 hours ago, CaleyCanary said:

Yngwie is absolutely right and IMO it shows how ridiculous the official interpretation of the rule is. As a young referee back in the 70s/80s I found it nigh on impossible to give a definitive ruling on many occasions so had to resort to reaching the negative decision because you couldn’t be sure the whole of the ball was over the line - and this caused some heated arguments I still recall very well.

Even these days, without the benefit of an overhead digital camera drawing lines on the screen for you the decision is always going to be controversial. Would it not be better to have the rule amended so that any clear grass between the line and the ball means it has crossed the line? So much simpler for everyone and especially for the refs in the lower leagues who do not have the benefit of the latest technology.

Football refs have it easy. Try being a shinty ref

[+snorbens_caleyman]

15 hours ago, CaleyCanary said:

Would it not be better to have the rule amended so that any clear grass between the line and the ball means it has crossed the line?

That would only work if the ball was on the ground.  And you can't have one law for when it's on the ground and one for when it's in the air!

There are no easy answers - no cheap ones anyway.

[STFU]

10 hours ago, snorbens_caleyman said:

That would only work if the ball was on the ground.  And you can't have one law for when it's on the ground and one for when it's in the air!

There are no easy answers - no cheap ones anyway.

Even when on the ground, the length of grass and/or pressure of the ball against it would come in to play.

Referees are no better/worse today than they were before TV, they're just under infinitely more scrutiny post match.

Bring back the days before TV when things like this would be argued out in the pub based on where Bob or Jimmy were sitting in relation to the goal line.  Everyone would then agree to disagree and we wouldn't have pointless postmortems running on indefinitely based on dodgy video screen grabs that could have been from milliseconds before or after an incident and tell us nothing.

[CaleyCanary]

Ah the good old days before TV when you could go for a walk down the pub with yer Da and the dog and the dog gets in the warm while you're outside with yer crisps and lemonade 

Yep, can't disagree with any of the comments above, it was an impossible task back then and it still is now..

[Duke of Inverness]

I see they're putting micro chips in the balls for Euro 24.

Sepp Blatter on the joystick at important times for that

[STFU]

Don't tell Bobby Mann!!

[Robert]

Oh dear, I hope this is not a kiss of death: Manager and Player of the Month awards for Duncan Ferguson and David Wotherspoon:

https://ictfc.com/duncan-ferguson-named-championship-manager-of-the-month-for-november-2023/

https://ictfc.com/david-wotherspoon-named-cinch-scottish-championship-player-of-the-month-for-november-2023/

Edited December 8, 2023 by Robert