Should offside be scrapped? Poll added

[WestGorton]

Yes

 

[AFCAndy]

Don't take the piss but I used to play Hockey, the ball is bastard hard BTW.
The offside law was done away with in the mid nineties. We expected that the forwards would stand on the opposition goal line and wait for a chance to goal hang, that didn't happen. You need all 11 players working, having 2 or 3 of your team standing around reduces the play. Here is a link to explain it better than I can.

Offside (field hockey) - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I imagine the massive disparity in pitch sizes affect this though. Being offside is a bigger advantage on a bigger pitch

 

[Stephen230]

Has it really though? With the scorer being offside? I don't think so. You can point to Arsenal being offside in the build up today, but not for the goal itself I don't think. For the goalscorers VAR is overruling for someones cock being offside. And that is the rule as it stands

Lesson of the day, don't get an erection in a goal scoring position

There’s been several examples of goals given where the offside freezeframe has shown the attacker slightly ahead of the defender but with the two lines overlapping.

 

[East Level 2]

Offside was introduced to stop goal hanging, so let's stick to that.
If a player is onside and the defence move out to leave him offside then he hasn't changed his position so should be declared onside. A player chasing a long through ball isn't goal hanging therefore shouldn't be offside.
It would be impossible to administer but we'd hardly be any worse off given the way most laws are applied against us.

 

[Stephen230]

Back in the 70s there was a pre season tournament called The Watneys Cup. To encourage more goals they experimented with a rule that you could only be off side in the opponents penalty area. Or an extension of the 18 yard line right across the pitch. It didn’t produce more goals and the general consensus was that in hindsight it was a shit idea. Scrapping offside altogether would be even shitter.

 

[blueju]

I agree with this and have suggested it to my friends. If you want to be considered not interfering then stand absolutely still and put your hands above your head. Otherwise you’re interfering regardless of what it is you’re actually doing. If you have to move out of the way of the ball, tough luck - you are offside. If you eliminate any doubt in who is and isn’t interfering then all that’s left is how you measure the line which is difficult but solvable, particularly with good technology and a sensible assumed margin of error. If it’s sufficiently close then stick with the on-field decision (like umpires call in cricket), that’d avoid the amount of false goal celebrations.

Scrapping the offside rule altogether is bonkers and would make the game immeasurably worse.

That’s exactly what Rashford says he did…at the end of his 30yard run.

 

[Stephen230]

Everybody wanting interference at offside scrapped happy that Mahrez would be given offside for the first goal yesterday?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Everybody wanting interference at offside scrapped happy that Mahrez would be given offside for the first goal yesterday?

Yep. Would be up to him to get his lazy arse onside again. He had plenty of time.

 

[urban genie]

no it just needs to the the original rule with no added extras like intefering with play, runing back from an offside position or lines to check an arse hair.

A player was considered offside unless two players of the opposing side are in front of him (includes goalkeeper). in the oppositions half

 

[flook]

no it just needs to the the original rule with no added extras like intefering with play, runing back from an offside position or lines to check an arse hair.

A player was considered offside unless two players of the opposing side are in front of him (includes goalkeeper). in the oppositions half

Disagree with this, it would result in far too many goals being disallowed because someone was injured, tying their shoe lace, chatting up the redhead by the corner flag etc.

The interfering with play element worked reasonably well for years, it's only since the introduction of VAR and the subsequent "clarifications" of the rules that its become such a shitshow. The answer is therefore pretty obvious to me.

As an aside, I'm struggling to understand the number of people who want to scrap it completely, it would completely change the game, might as well have an offshoot sport called hoofball or something