As serious suggestion, creative partners have looked at technology that overlays brand messages on top of the transmitted content, either as a central feed for broadcast or from the set top box for Pay TV and through the broadband connection and browser / app for online services. Bit like the green screen CGI stuff used in films was the impression I got.
I somehow bet you didn't wait until the kicker was concentrating on his conversion to stop him and have a think about it though.
The whole big screen replay/ crowd reaction thing is getting out of hand and is placing far too much pressure on the ref.
I understand that FIFA don't allow replays of 'incidents' at grounds unless they have been ruled on. Could be an idea.
There are a number of things that I would implement as relates to the TMO and use of technology
► 1. TMO reviews are not shown on in-stadium screens until after the referee's/TMO decision is made. This would necessarily mean that the referee does not see the big screen replay (an issue dealt with in Bullet Point 4)
► 2. Replays of foul play are not allowed to be shown on in-stadium screens. If not dealt with by the TMO, they are not to be shown at all. If they are dealt with by the TMO, they can be shown after the decision had been made.
► 3. The TMO and both AR's may bring any foul play, or anything relating to a score to the attention of the referee. The review is not to be shown on in-stadium screens until after a decision is made
► 4. When the referee asks for a TMO review, it is the TMO who now makes the decision. The referee says what he thinks he saw, then he hands the decision making responsibility to the TMO who has the final say.
This point 4 works well in NRL. The referee says TRY or NO-TRY and the video referee can only overturn that decision if there is clear evidence that the decision is wrong. If its unclear, the referee's initial call stands.
As a point of principle I disagree Have you never made a wrong decision, realised, and been able to correct yourself. ?
I once gave a try when a player scored on the 5m line. I think that when I realised what I had done, I was quite right to revoke the try, let's not be stupid about it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ru...-and-scrap-the-Television-Match-Official.html
Mick Cleary's (slightly self-contradictry) views.
Nigel Owens trusted his judgment at Twickenham in ruling that Aaron Cruden’s stretch had made it to the England try-line. It looked a fine-line call. Owens had already made his mind up and stuck by it. Fair enough. Except that it wasn’t. Given that the technology is used, and is there to be used, he ought to have gone upstairs to the TMO (or outside to the car-park where the TV trucks are based), and taken guidance as to whether the ball had reached the line, or indeed if it had been pushed rather than touched down.
Makes no difference if it is pushed rather than touched down Mick.
Makes all the difference in the world.
You can place the ball in any direction.
You can push the ball in any direction.....except...forward.
15.5g says reach out and ground the ball.
If you push the ball along the ground it is already grounded.
You can place the ball in any direction.
Rule on this "roll the ball forward" try
Makes all the difference in the world.
You can place the ball in any direction.
You can push the ball in any direction.....except...forward.