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The Football News Thread 2024/25

One thing that really pissed me off today when listening to the commentators, is that this season the message is that the threshold is even higher now for over-ruling the referees on field decision. That's a terrible message to put out! VAR shouldn't be over-ruling the referee EVER. Full stop. They should be encouraging the ref to have another look on the monitor if there's enough doubt about the initial decision, and let him make the decision himself. But to continue to say that VAR is there to over-rule the referee is just awful and completely the wrong message to send out to referees who will use that as an excuse to bottle out of decisions.
 
One thing that really pissed me off today when listening to the commentators, is that this season the message is that the threshold is even higher now for over-ruling the referees on field decision. That's a terrible message to put out! VAR shouldn't be over-ruling the referee EVER. Full stop. They should be encouraging the ref to have another look on the monitor if there's enough doubt about the initial decision, and let him make the decision himself. But to continue to say that VAR is there to over-rule the referee is just awful and completely the wrong message to send out to referees who will use that as an excuse to bottle out of decisions.
From an optimistic standpoint, perhaps they feel that a “higher bar” will mean less intervention and therefore less furor.

Doubt that would even be correct, though. The well on VAR is just that toxic now.
 
From an optimistic standpoint, perhaps they feel that a “higher bar” will mean less intervention and therefore less furor.
In reality it'll just mean contentious and possibly wrong decisions will just get waved through without the referee having a chance to look at it again and change his decision if he so chooses. The stigma that surrounds asking the referee to go to the monitor, and the automatic assumption that he's wrong and the decision should be changed, is something that needs stamping out not encouraging by having a higher "threshold".

I understand the need to be seen to speed the processes up, and the monitor takes time to review on field, but I'd rather have a decision take 2 mins and be right than 30s and be wrong.
 
In reality it'll just mean contentious and possibly wrong decisions will just get waved through without the referee having a chance to look at it again and change his decision if he so chooses. The stigma that surrounds asking the referee to go to the monitor, and the automatic assumption that he's wrong and the decision should be changed, is something that needs stamping out not encouraging by having a higher "threshold".

I understand the need to be seen to speed the processes up, and the monitor takes time to review on field, but I'd rather have a decision take 2 mins and be right than 30s and be wrong.
Fully agree with this tbf.
 
Not sure if anybody knew, but apparently both managers in the United v Liverpool match are Dutch
 
Coming to Molineux in 25/26, along with paying for your physical season ticket card.



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Won't be an issue, prices only increase if demand is high...
 
The ALLCAPSNOSPACES branding of La Liga is fucking traaaaaaaash.
 
Won't be an issue, prices only increase if demand is high...
It's an excuse to raise prices as the stadium fills up and it gets closer to the date of the game. We're always going to have at least 85-90% tickets sold on the vast majority of games so it could easily affect us.
 
Might be one of the reasons that their strategy is to reduce the STHs as a % of capacity, provides the club the room to sell more dynamically priced tickets.
 
Might be one of the reasons that their strategy is to reduce the STHs as a % of capacity, provides the club the room to sell more dynamically priced tickets.
Maybe they'll wake up and realise that team performance also affects the ability to sell tickets? We can but hope.
 
Dynamic pricing only works if you have one important key economic driver, which is fear of missing out.

So you need something that sells out pretty much every time to start with. Then FOMO gets your customers paying as they don't want to miss the experience. We are no longer selling out, so we stumble on that first block.

The second thing you need is for the FOMO to be a factor in two directions. For some of the customers, FOMO is related to not getting the experience full stop, so they buy early, as they are worried about the dynamic price point to come later. The second group of customers don't particularly care about the actual price point, they care about missing the experience, so they will sling any amount aat you just to guarantee a ticket. To get those customers on board, the experience you are offering had better be something pretty special, or something that they really need and simply can't get from another source (which is how airlines work it - if you need to be on a certain flight to LA on a certain day, you will pay whatever it takes [or so the theory goes] as there is no alternative that gets you to LA on that particular flight).

Our walk up audience are the most likely to try and fit into the second group, because they are Wolves fans, so pitching up at say the King Power to watch Leicester doesn't fulfil their need. They need a Wolves game to scratch that itch. But the fact that the stadium isn't selling out suggests they don't want to pay the current price, let alone a dynamic one.
 
Dynamic pricing will only be a thing at Wolves if the tickets sold first are reduced in price to drive early sales - so it won’t happen.
 
Head scratching massively over this decision, so because they were relegated they fall out of jurisdiction. But they’re back a lot of which is due to retention of players they had during 2022/23 when rules were breached.
Bit like committing a crime then going to an none extradition country for 12 months then coming and living in a nice mansion on the proceeds of the crime you committed and receiving no punishment.
 
Head scratching massively over this decision, so because they were relegated they fall out of jurisdiction. But they’re back a lot of which is due to retention of players they had during 2022/23 when rules were breached.
Bit like committing a crime then going to an none extradition country for 12 months then coming and living in a nice mansion on the proceeds of the crime you committed and receiving no punishment.
It's not logical, so I'm assuming the PL weren't tight enough in their rules and regs, which wouldn't surprise me.
 
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