Easy Changes to Improve the game.

G G

Gone for a Burton

Well-Known Member
Joined
9 Nov 2022
Messages
6,398
Team supported
City
Referees to do post match interviews.
Referees to be ‘ miked up ‘ so fans can hear what is being discussed and why.
Captains only to speak to referees.
Captains allowed 1 ‘Review Call’ each half
Injured players requiring treatment don’t have to leave the pitch.
Digital clock to record time wasting, injury time, substitutions and ‘ ball out of play ‘ time. 15 minute sin bin for Orange Card offences.....ie diving, disputing decisions.

All in here for other ideas.
 
A smaller change - I've always said that one change I'd make is to get rid of offsides when a team gets a free kick.

A much bigger change - I'd genuinely go towards a 'stop the clock' method when the ball goes out of play. The ball couldn't have been in play for more than 60 mins total against Everton. Though not sure how it would practically work with TV, Police, Transport all becoming a bit of a bigger issue as games could last longer...
 
Anything to improve "Official" decision-making and accountability.

Decommission the Sky4 mindset.

Oh, and 3 corners = a penalty...!
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Referees to do post match interviews.
Referees to be ‘ miked up ‘ so fans can hear what is being discussed and why.
Captains only to speak to referees.
Captains allowed 1 ‘Review Call’ each half
Injured players requiring treatment don’t have to leave the pitch.
Digital clock to record time wasting, injury time, substitutions and ‘ ball out of play ‘ time. 15 minute sin bin for Orange Card offences.....ie diving, disputing decisions.

All in here for other ideas.
Click to expand...
Compared to cricket and rugby I think football officials have a deep suspicion/ mistrust of openness as you describe. I'm still trying to make up my mind if this is because they are bent, are used to the luxury of non accountability, or football fans/players are a more hostile bunch than at the cricket/rugby.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Referees to do post match interviews.
Referees to be ‘ miked up ‘ so fans can hear what is being discussed and why.
Captains only to speak to referees.
Captains allowed 1 ‘Review Call’ each half
Injured players requiring treatment don’t have to leave the pitch.
Digital clock to record time wasting, injury time, substitutions and ‘ ball out of play ‘ time. 15 minute sin bin for Orange Card offences.....ie diving, disputing decisions.

All in here for other ideas.
Click to expand...
Never understood the "quick free kick is ok when no threat to opposition, but wait for ref if within scoring range! As long as the ball isn't moving, and opposition are 10 yards away, shouldn't be a hold up - which benefits the culprits anyway
 
Stockton Heath Blue said:
To discourage feigning injury, players remain off the pitch for the same amount of time as they have wasted. I know this might have an impact on genuinely injured players, but it boils my piss when players waste time only to be waved back on the pitch as soon as play resumes.
Click to expand...
The ones that are genuinely injured don't tend to come back on
 
If a player needs to leave the pitch following an injury he should not be allowed back on until 2 minutes have passed. If the injury is the result of a foul then the perpetrator should also go off for 2 minutes so that his team don't gain an advantage.
 
Donmcfc said:
If a player needs to leave the pitch following an injury he should not be allowed back on until 2 minutes have passed. If the injury is the result of a foul then the perpetrator should also go off for 2 minutes so that his team don't gain an advantage.
Click to expand...

Or just stop the clock?
 
eboblue said:
Never understood the "quick free kick is ok when no threat to opposition, but wait for ref if within scoring range! As long as the ball isn't moving, and opposition are 10 yards away, shouldn't be a hold up - which benefits the culprits anyway
Click to expand...

No referee would have a problem with a team taking a quick free quick as long as the ball is stationary and in the correct place. It’s only when it becomes a ‘ceremonial’ free kick, which is basically when the attacking team are clearly waiting for him to get all opposition players back 10 yards, that he’ll indicate they have to wait for the whistle.
 
  1. Instead of a 90 minute plus some made up injury time have two halves of 35 minutes controlled by a time keeper as in rugby. A minimum of two big screens at each ground to show the time left. Clock is stopped when the ball goes out of play for a corner or goal kick and doesn't resume until ball back in play. Also stopped as soon as a ref blows for a free kick and a player is injured. Not started again until the ball back in play. No screens, no participation in the league
  2. Stop stopping the game when players just fall over. Game against Neverton, at one stage Gray just slumped to the ground hoping to stop play but when he realised the game had stopped anyway to make a sub, he got back up and was running around. It's cheating plain and simple
  3. Enforce the law which says a throw in is to be taken from where the ball goes out of play
  4. Book players who going running up to refs and liners waving imaginary cards for other players
  5. Enforce the law which states keepers have six seconds to release the ball once under control
  6. Mike the refs up
  7. Ensure that refs come out after the game to be interviewed about their think9ng behind certain decisions
  8. Mark refs after each game and relegate those to lower leagues unless they hit a certain average mark at the end of the season
  9. At the end of each season any team that has scored more than 30 goals away from home receives three bonus points
 
Time clock stops at every break in play.

VAR reviews every decision, these aren’t reversed except as now for offsides and goal incidents but if a referee makes more than ten mistakes he’s put in a rolling stocks machine and is wheeled around the side of the pitch at full time to be pelted with cabbages, hot bovril and gravel by enraged fans.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top