The people of Wolverhampton have their say on Wolves FC's push to scrap VAR
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00:00What it was bought in for was just for gold or technology.
00:05I bought it in for everything else, not going back too far for a dispute.
00:11It's just spoiling the game.
00:13Just spoiling the game?
00:14Yeah, just forget it.
00:15Do you reckon it's something that should be mimicked across the whole sport?
00:21Other sports use it more intentionally than what a football club does.
00:27Yeah, yeah.
00:28You get it in cricket, you board it, it's there, you've got an answer.
00:33You get a dispute, you need five minutes or more before you get an answer.
00:37Yeah, yeah.
00:38Rugby, cricket, they use it more mindfully, don't they?
00:41As it's meant to be used, sort of thing.
00:43I'm going to say they use it in rugby as well, but it's not better than what they use here for rugby.
00:47I think people listen to the refs in rugby though, don't they?
00:50Yeah, they've got more respect for the refs.
00:53So you agree?
00:54I agree.
00:55Get rid of it.
00:56Get rid of it.
00:57Get rid of it, unless they just do it for down the road.
01:00So, you're hanging about for two or three minutes while somebody makes a decision.
01:05Yeah.
01:07And then you've got to celebrate or not celebrate.
01:09Yeah, yeah.
01:10I don't understand it.
01:11No.
01:12So what it is, Wolverhampton, Wanderers, they're on about scrapping it, aren't they?
01:15They're putting a protest or...
01:17Yeah, yeah, putting a vote in it.
01:19So, you think he'd agree?
01:21Well, considering some of the...
01:24Well, to me, the poor decisions the Wolves have had this year, it's hardly surprising.
01:28They haven't had the rub of the green at all.
01:30No.
01:31And I know you can have that with human beings being referees, but...
01:35No, not to me.
01:36Yeah.
01:37I think if you've got to ask most of our generation...
01:41I think so as well.
01:42We did ask another gent and he said he's fine with it, as long as it's used responsibly.
01:47Exactly.
01:48A bit of intelligence behind it.
01:49Yeah, but it's like everything else, it's down to opinion.
01:52Yeah.
01:53And some of the decisions...
01:55I'm sorry, but like...
01:57Get cheated, do you reckon?
01:58Well, you're talking about the heel of a shoe or the...
02:01I mean, you know, it is offside according to the rules, but it's a game, isn't it?
02:08Yeah, in the end.
02:09It's all gone for me.
02:10I'm a totally different generation, same as Tatliff.
02:13Yeah.
02:14When you see defenders in the penalty area putting their arms behind their back...
02:17Yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:18Are they supposed to balance?
02:20It's against all the laws of physicality.
02:22Yeah.
02:23But then again, it ain't a physical game anymore, is it?
02:25No, not at all.
02:26Not like it was, I keep saying it, when I grew up.
02:29But even the last few years, it's gone...
02:32Now, I'd be against it, to be honest.
02:35But, having said that, I don't pay my money down there, so...
02:40It's only opinion of the public, isn't it?
02:42Well, exactly.
02:43I mean, they're the ones that you've got to ask, you know, buying £30 to go and watch a match.
02:49I think it's a very good idea.
02:50Very good idea.
02:51It's a lot of controversy, and there's too many errors on people's opinion, I think.
02:56Yeah, yeah.
02:57So, we talked to a few people.
02:58They said that one of the solutions is to not use it, but use it intelligently, instead
03:02of just, you know, the way they're using it now sort of thing.
03:05What do you think?
03:06Well, I think so.
03:07I think it takes the pair away from the referees, and I think it should give them more.
03:12The way cricket is, like an umpire's call type thing.
03:15Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:16Obviously, offsides, I honestly think that there should be no lines drew.
03:21They should just look at it and think, if that looks offside, it's offside.
03:25If it looks, it don't look offside.
03:27It's not offside.
03:28But I think it's very opinionated.
03:31Yeah.
03:32I think you might see a penalty that I don't see, and that's the problem with people looking at it.
03:38Absolutely, yeah.
03:39Who did you spot again?
03:40Was it West Brom?
03:41West Brom, yeah.
03:42West Brom it is, yeah.
03:43Been stolen by a VAR decision before?
03:45No.
03:46No, not yet.
03:47But you give and take.
03:51You have a few.
03:52You don't have a few.
03:54Being a West Brom fan with the Wolves, they have been done quite bad this season on a lot of things.
04:03But yeah, people's opinions are different.
04:07Of course, yeah.
04:08So you take?
04:09You're all for it, you're against it?
04:11I would personally take it out.
04:13Take it out?
04:14Yeah.
04:15Fantastic.
04:16The goal line technology is marvellous.
04:18It works.
04:19There is an offside technology that they use, which is the Orkoi one, which they use abroad, which is very good.
04:26But we're stubborn here.
04:27We won't use it.
04:29But I think, as in penalty stuff like that, I think unless it's a really bad error, then I think it's a waste.