This Throw In BS

[schoey71]

When I used to play Sunday league, I could also throw a ball similar to that in question. We used it in the same way as Delap to some success. However, I would sometimes get pulled up by the odd ref for a 'spinning ball'. Not quite sure if this was or is still a rule today. Not studied Delap's throw enough to know if he is actually putting a spin on the ball or not.
I guess that if a spin is put on the ball, it is deemed as not using both hands. Any thoughts?

 

[Tricky_Rici]

Well, you seem like a deccent bloke so I won't go calling your lads pansies (even whitehead with them false eyelashes) and regardless of the towel, the bottom line is, we wouldn't be having this conversation if we won.

I've been on here all week mate and i'd have still come on and taken it on the chin if you had but as you say, i'm a decent bloke. ;-)

We may not have been having this same conversation though as the sour grapes wouldn't have kicked in about the throw as seems to happen when we beat anybody.

I go to a lot of opposition boards before and after games regardless of the result and i think i could count on one hand (that's 6 if the usual is assumed) the amount of well-meaning compliments we get. On the other hand if i had a pound for every time i've been called an inbred, banjo playing, cousin shagger who supports a sunday league pub team despite doing nothing but discussing the game and defending our players i'd be a very very rich man. ;-)

 

[PowderBlue]

When I used to play Sunday league, I could also throw a ball similar to that in question. We used it in the same way as Delap to some success. However, I would sometimes get pulled up by the odd ref for a 'spinning ball'. Not quite sure if this was or is still a rule today. Not studied Delap's throw enough to know if he is actually putting a spin on the ball or not.
I guess that if a spin is put on the ball, it is deemed as not using both hands. Any thoughts?

Yes i remember getting pulled up for this, not sure if it still aplies though, hung up the boots some time ago. You can easily spin the ball with both hands, using your fingers to put extra whip on the ball. I think the rule must be about the way the ball bounces if you put topspin on it, rather than using one hand

 

[Barcon]

I didn't mean you wouldn't be here. I just meant that if we would have won, there would be no need to discuss the throw in, we wouldn't care. And whats wrong with being inbred? There's no skin like kin.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It didn't feel like football that I was watching last night. When someone can chuck a ball as fast and accurately as Delap, it changes the whole nature of the game. Football should be about using your feet to do something magical to score a goal. A mazy run, a 30 yard screamer, a great team one touch passing goal. Not throwing the ball at incredible speed at a pack of 7 foot players that can jump higher than anyone else.

How come no one else in England can throw the ball like Delap. It's such a potent weapon that I'm amazed it's not used my more teams.

If it does become more widely used though, then that will be the day I give up on football.

He's not the first to do this. I'm sure Malcom McDonald had a hell of a throw on him and there were a handful in the seventies who had prodigious throws.

It is a potent weapon, allowed within the laws of the game and teams have to defend it, in the same way they have to defend against teams who have a free kick specialist, or someone who can whip in a corner with venomous pace.

 

[Tricky_Rici]

I didn't mean you wouldn't be here. I just meant that if we would have won, there would be no need to discuss the throw in, we wouldn't care. And whats wrong with being inbred? There's no skin like kin.

Haha!

 

[M13]

It's a shit way to play football, but all teams that come against Stoke or other opposition that play the long throw in (Blackburn at the weekend vs. Bolton for example) have to overcome it.

 

[blue jim]

He'll either retire or play for a championship club the next season or two, never have to hear about throw ins again.

 

[Cellarite]

am i mad or a tactical genius?? why don't we put 4 men across the line, like a double up of corners?? richards, kompany, vieira and lescott next time we play stoke. given stood just in front. ref may say it's not in the spirit of the game but neither is lobbing the ball 40 yards although i don't see why stoke should stop that either. let's be as ludicrous as the situation. interested to hear anyone's reason for not doing the 'wall on the line' trick.

 

[MysticalDescent]

Silly post. It's a goalscoring opportunity, like it or not. Players will spend an age lining up free-kicks and corners because they're goalscoring opportunities, why shouldn't we spend as much time as we want getting our goalscoring opportunities just right?