Voting on the video replay via Sky Button during Saturday's Rugby?

Question

On Saturday, BBC were showing some rugby. It said that as a trial, the Rugby Board wanted the viewers to vote on the same video replay as the video referee saw. You pressed your red button for "Try" and green button for "No Try".

What was the point of this? How could this ever work in practice? Surely each team's supporters would be biased and simply vote "no try" when it was a try etc? Or do they think the 2 sets of supporters will even out to give something like the truth?!

Answer 1

I think rugby has alot of neutral people who watch the sport and like to see it as a competitive match up. In my opinion i don't think supporters of the sides that are playing really care enough to vote. As you say it is just a trail. So it doesn't really matter.

Answer 2

It wasn't on Saturday, it was aired before midday in the build up to the Widnes vs Wigan match on Sunday April 1st.....you see what I'm getting at?

It was an April Fools joke by the BBC....

It would never work anyway as the video ref must be impartial and allowing a teams supporters and their greatest rivals to vote would make this a mockery.