Quote: TheElectricGlidingWarrior "
The on field decision definitely needs scrapping though, I've said that from the start. It's an irrational policy to make the referee guess and then to give that guess such authority that most VRs can't overturn it. Bring back BOD and let the on-field and video referees both make the decision together, on-field ref has the final say.'"
I'm not sure, it was brought in to give the on field ref (FR) more power as the VR was often taking too much time. With this being a tribunal now both VRs need to agree, if anything I think it balances the game in the right way as the on field ref has to make the exact same decisions in a game without the benefit of the VR.
Yes, the FR has to potentially guess but that surely just adds a pressure to be better at observing the game rather than be able to fall back to the VR.