tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post2330675499316709361..comments2024-03-28T03:56:27.275-07:00Comments on The Old Batsman: A child called 'Referral System'...The Old Batsmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-72581445371411718832009-03-10T10:51:00.000-07:002009-03-10T10:51:00.000-07:00Yes, the limit is arbitrary and wrong - they have ...Yes, the limit is arbitrary and wrong - they have it in tennis too and Federer's always doing his nut about it. I do favour the mix, because technology itself is imperfect. There has to be room for the intuition that umpires build up.The Old Batsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-53973013066310043182009-03-10T04:42:00.000-07:002009-03-10T04:42:00.000-07:00It was always going to be a mess, this referral sy...It was always going to be a mess, this referral system. Also, having a limited number of referrals seems so arbitrary. The idea is presumably to make decisions more accurate... but why should only the first few decisions be accurate and then the rest allowed to be terrible?<BR/><BR/>It's got to be no technology at all and we just accept the umpires get some wrong, or use technology throughout.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-28085615517530280082009-03-10T04:23:00.000-07:002009-03-10T04:23:00.000-07:00Cheers Tony - couldn't think of his name, and in t...Cheers Tony - couldn't think of his name, and in the great tradition of investigative journalism, I couldn't be bothered to look it up. He had the perfect face for it, too...The Old Batsmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14376172807195747856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6193495965695124697.post-62533273791073848332009-03-09T19:32:00.000-07:002009-03-09T19:32:00.000-07:00Jardine was played by Hugo Weaving.Jardine was played by <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0915989/" REL="nofollow">Hugo Weaving</A>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com