Another week, another dubious red, and this is after Yazbek sent Noone into the air with a late challenge.

The red given is hardly a foul. The Sydney player put his arm across and around the Macarthur player to block him, and as the Macarthur player did the same to take the front position, the Sydney player went down way too easily once he realised he wasn’t going to break free. PLAY ON!

Incredible to think how naive the officials are, looking at still frames as if they provide any context to the play in question.

Any goals Sydney get from here on, for yet another week, should have an asterisk next to them. I wonder how many more matches they’ll play against 10 men this season. They don’t even look as strong side against 11.

lol arzani. That direct free kick was almost as pointless as remote control

Couldn’t agree more. We might have hoped that it would be better than this, but it doesn’t actually rid matches of any controversy surrounding the officiating of the game.

It was shaping to be a good game, but has probably been spoiled by that soft red.

They can suck shit first before I get a season ticket for any of the Sydney teams. Go fuck yourselves! Subscription will be next.

I have realised who you are - Steve Corica! No wonder you write funny, its how you manage your team.

It's kind of proved just how subjective decisions are and that having the benefit of slow motion relays doesn't seem to make a difference. Even what constitutes "clear and obvious" is entirely up to the individual at the time. 

All it's done is take away the spontaneity of fan emotion with goal celebration that was footballs biggest asset.  I hate it and have lost a lot of my love for football since it was introduced. 

Um ,  I' d   say   that' s   what   they   were   already    gonna  do .. .

Absolutely this. Although I am in the mindset that if VAR can’t be used properly it shouldn’t be used it at all. 

I hope throughout the league though, or put up with Var.!

While I agree penalty was a joke & the send off was 50/50 & should have stayed refs call for  yellow.
I think Sydney was playing very well when it was 11 v 11 & was the better team.

The thing that amazes me though, is what the fuck does the VAR see that no one else apparently does. And the referee needs to be strong enough, when the VAR calls them to look at something, to say no.
Although I also would prefer to see VAR fuck off forever.

Oh ,  I   thought   that' s   what   people  were   already   doing ...

Lolley's ability to cut back and shoot from difficult angles is next level (by a league standards)

99 % of football is still VAR free

Watch that instead

Bulls are in This they just need some quality up front 

Thought Adelaide United Red card was bad. Tonights is even worse and should be rescinded too

Don' t   worry  ,   I   was   laughing   with  you,  not   at   you .

Carter hits the post at the end absolutely scenes 

This. 

I   was   going   to   say   that   they   would   have   lost   A   LOT   of    fans  after   tonight ,  but   how    many   really   were   there   to   begin    with   anyway ?

Farcical .

this has to be the worst officiating game i've seen in the AL Bulls were absolutely robbed the FA should be apologizing for that joke to the bulls

VAR made 2 big mistakes.

1st one they should have overturned penalty, not even close to a penalty.
2nd one, not clear & obvious, should not have intervened, leave to refs onfield decision. This was a close call.

The penalty that was awarded was unwarranted. The attacker fouled Millar first.

Alex King turning into a Smurf referee. 

I guess VAR is saying to the ref:  he might have been clear on goal.

The real issue is that he wasn't clear on goal, not by a long shot, so the ref needed just a 2 second glance to work that out - but he looked at it for about 30 seconds!

So what the hell is he looking at?!

It's a shame the VAR stuff is ruining the good football teams are playing, for me it wasnt a penalty because Millar came in first and probably not a red card with the last man but I can understand why they gave it.

Sydney FC are good to watch, I think they have the highest xG in the league as well so even when they are wasteful in front of goal they have scored the most goals in the league, defensively they have issues but if they take their chances there defence won't be as suspect even though they missing Wilkinson and Rodwell whom I dont understand why they signed him as an CB option anyway.

Good to see some of their talented academy players play well too, Wood doing a good job up front, Segecic continuing to impress and great to see Kucharski get his chance after doing so well for their NPL last season.

The Bulls look like a tough side to crack, Carter made an great impact off the bench and unlucky to not get an 2nd goals towards the end.

Decisions    like    that  ,   and   people    wonder    why  no  one   is   watching   ??

Sorry but how is he not clear on goal?  (Is the screenshot under here?)

Those grass stripes are about 5m wide each. He's clearly 3m in front of the 2nd last defender when he's tangled up, What's the issue?

From this thread. https://forum.insidesport.com.au/3046256/Get-rid-of-VAR#bm3046391

Ok I've looked at the DOGSO one where the Macarthur player gets sent and yeah he was the last man.

Sydney player had control of the ball at the time they fell over.

They both had their arms out so were both guilty of pushing. Macarthur bloke steps in front of Sydney blokes leg and they get tangled and fall over. 

But when 2 players go arse up you (I would anyway) usually give the free to the player that had control of the ball so I can see why the free kick was give to the Sydney player.

VAR then got involved because, I assume, they thought this was a DOGSO situation (worthy or a red) and not a SPA (worthy of a yellow). Once he was called over it was clear this was a DOGSO in which case he had to give him a red.

My sense on that one was that he was through on goal as well.

Always a tough call when it's still that far from goals so I would have been ok with the yellow

But this one is more 50/50 than massive error.

I thought the penalty was bullshit though. He was tripped/pushed into the fall that brought the attacker down