Most of these are just silly. Why do some people feel the need to constantly keep messing about with our beautiful game looking for ways to change it. Just let people enjoy it as they always have. Especially the one about not being able to score rebounds from penalties - what on earth is wrong with that?
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2 x 45 minute halves to be scrapped ??
- Thread starter oakiecokie
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Most of these are just silly. Why do some people feel the need to constantly keep messing about with our beautiful game looking for ways to change it. Just let people enjoy it as they always have. Especially the one about not being able to score rebounds from penalties - what on earth is wrong with that?
Millwallawayveteran1988
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I'd be in favour of this. Would favour attacking sides of which we are one.
Every season refs are given a number of rules to put more emphasis on enforcing,if they concentrated on time wasting at throw ins and goal kicks this would go a long way to sorting the problem.I think they often take a ridiculous amount of time. It takes an age for some of them to pick the ball up and, of course, give it a good clean. Then we have all that taking it too far up the line to steal some yards, being told to go back, ambling back and then pointing to where it should be taken. Then you have to wait as a series of players make routine runs before the thrower eventually gets the ball back in play. You can tell I'm not a fan.
Never understood the reason for them. Why not just allow players to put the ball on the line and kick it back into play?
The reason I would stop the clock on injuries is that no ref is keen on taking chances when a player goes to ground, even if he's sure the player is feigning injury, just in case he's wrong.
balotelli's back pocket
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Keep it as it is, but sin bin for timewasting.
drthingy
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Like it in principle, but wouldnt it just mean each throw in/free kick takes an age as the player waits until they are perfectly set up/had a breather?
Gabriel
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Most of these are just silly. Why do some people feel the need to constantly keep messing about with our beautiful game looking for ways to change it. Just let people enjoy it as they always have. Especially the one about not being able to score rebounds from penalties - what on earth is wrong with that?
The rules of the game have constantly evolved. It used to be the case (maybe up to 1914 or 1920?) that the goalkeeper could run and bounce the ball up to the halfway line before kicking it into the opponent's half (unbelievable, I know).
Gabriel
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Like it in principle, but wouldnt it just mean each throw in/free kick takes an age as the player waits until they are perfectly set up/had a breather?
Five seconds from putting the ball on the line to getting it into play. Over five seconds and the referee whistles and awards the kick the other way. :-)
prestonibbo_mcfc
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They'll piss about with the game so much, it will soon will be unwatchable.
jimharri
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Weren't 45 minute halves scrapped at the Meccano Set years ago? Unless they're winning, of course.
but surly reducing a game to 30 min per half is benefitting the teams that time waste as this is the same amount of game time they are currently used too? or is that too hard for some people to understand? this will be a travesty if it happens.