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Old 03-04-2026, 11:15 AM   #247
Jimmy Stang
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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface View Post
I agree, and while it's frustrating watching CPL games when a call is totally botched, I will trade that every time for the fact that when a big goal goes in I can actually enjoy the moment instead of looking around nervously to see if my candy is going to be taken away.
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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden View Post
Even with botched calls now and then the better team wins 99% of the time.
Which makes me feel that this is a VAR problem, and not an offside problem. "Old school", human-called offside is naturally a little fuzzy anyway. Sometimes it benefits the defender, sometimes the attacker. Sometimes it is spot on, and other times it is blatantly wrong.

The daylight offside rule is a response to VAR and pixel counting, but I feel that it misses the mark as we'll still end up counting pixels - just now it will be a toe past the daylight zone vs. a toe past the defender.

And for the CPL, a non-VAR league, it will just create confusion and frustration. So we have a non-VAR league testing a new offside rule that was brought about because of frustrations with VAR.

I guess we'll see how it plays out, and it is the same rules for all teams, etc. so it is fine. And might bring some international attention to the CPL - hopefully positive!
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