[Football] Possible new football rules

[zefarelly]

Is this the first thing you thought of when you got up?

After the first bong and slice of pizza, yes.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...hrow-ins-football-concussion-substitutes-ifab

I see the Dutch want to introduce a load of new rules - from hockey, basically.

Madness.

 

[Swansman]

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...hrow-ins-football-concussion-substitutes-ifab

I see the Dutch want to introduce a load of new rules - from hockey, basically.

All sensible stuff. Definitely going to watch some Eerste Divisie if the trials happen.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

All sensible stuff. Definitely going to watch some Eerste Divisie if the trials happen.

No it isn't, it ain't broke so don't fix it.

Loads are saying players are knackered etc yet now want the game to be even quicker. The top pro game is already played at a speed never seen before. Want non stop action go watch 5 a side.

 

[Swansman]

No it isn't, it ain't broke so don't fix it.

Loads are saying players are knackered etc yet now want the game to be even quicker. The top pro game is already played at a speed never seen before. Want non stop action go watch 5 a side.

It never was broke yet it has always been "fixed". Usually with good result.

Agree the game getting quicker could have downsides but throw-ins as it works now is just dysfunctional. If you get one in your own half because the opponents fiddled the ball away, it gives you no advantage, while if you get one in the opposing half it could give you too much of an advantage if you build your game around it... which was never intended as a strategy and is also painfully dull to watch.

 

[CheeseRolls]

It never was broke yet it has always been "fixed". Usually with good result.

Agree the game getting quicker could have downsides but throw-ins as it works now is just dysfunctional. If you get one in your own half because the opponents fiddled the ball away, it gives you no advantage, while if you get one in the opposing half it could give you too much of an advantage if you build your game around it... which was never intended as a strategy and is also painfully dull to watch.

I would love to see the ball back INSIDE the line for a corner. Surely this has to be the most pointless, most irritating and irrational change ever. Can we unfix it?

 

[Kuipers Supporters Club]

A stopped clock is a brilliant idea, it would eliminate timewasting overnight.

At the moment we get under an hour of the ball being in play anyway.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

A stopped clock is a brilliant idea, it would eliminate timewasting overnight.

At the moment we get under an hour of the ball being in play anyway.

Yup I am sold on that idea, should hopefully eliminate painful time wasting, we will still get Harry Kane and his like diving on the floor, furtively looking back between his fingers at the referee to see if he has got a free kick or launching himself like an exocet missile over the top of Dunk claiming he was being blocked off, but hey hoo