Simple but effective rule change for next season

The whole "keeper being injured" thing. Really annoys me tbh and I appreciate we have been as guilty as most this season however last night was a new low - 2 mins into second half and they needed a chat as we had changed shape and they didn't know what to do about it.

Easy to solve surely? My suggestions

a) make captain go off for 30 seconds in keepers place; or

b) make all the teams players stand in the centre circle and go nowhere near the technical areas.

Soon stop it. Think it was Soton got called on it on MOTD earlier in the season- pretty much every game after 65 mins the keeper got "cramp".

Joys of the modern game eh?

 

We were saying that last night - would make sense to ban touchline coaching during an injury as thats clearly the reason he went down last night.

With Clarke in thevfirst half of the season there was a specific signal they gave Slonina to go down when they wanted to do some coaching

 

b) seems easily done.

 

You would think wouldn't you. Round them up, keep them in there and give them time to reset afterwards. No benefit in doing it and would soon stamp it out.

 

I said if keeper goes down like that the team must be forced to sub the Keeper. That will soon stop them

 

Make the keeper stay off the field just like the rest of the players have to if the trainer comes on. Playing without a keeper for a few minutes would soon put a stop to it.

I suppose a genuine injury might be a problem though

 

True but my solution isn't for genuine knocks (like Flavell yesterday when it was following a challenge) but keepers claiming cramp 2 mins after half time. Anyone could see what was going on yesterday but, in fairness to the ref, nothing he could do about it. If they all have to stand in the centre circle (or their own box to check on said keeper) then it wouldn't happen. Simple solution so clearly will never happen.....

 

I think that the way to stop these shenanigans would be for a panel of 3 over 50s who’ve played at least 20 years of local football to decide if the player is injured enough for the game to be stopped. If deemed not, the offending diver should be have a woodpecker let loose on their eyeballs.

 

They certainly need to bring a rule in that if the ref has to stop the play because an outfield player has gone down injured he has to leave the pitch for a minute, whether or not the physio comes on, because that does my head in. The ref should go to the player, ask if he requires the physio and if not the game continues with him on the floor (or, more like, rapidly getting to his feet!). Years ago Jose Mourinho uncovered this trick for all to see, when he let out a tirade at his physio for running on the pitch to an ‘injured’ player who clearly wasn’t injured, meaning that player had to come off, and the FA has still not done anything about it.

And if someone goes down injured within 10 yards of the touchline and they are not unconscious, down as a result of a head/neck injury or have a bone protruding through their skin, they should leave the field to continue receiving treatment. Players crawling back on to the pitch to go down is farcical.

Also, when are officials going to get wise to the trick of defenders running inbetween the attacker and the ball, ensuring the attacker touches them so that they can go down? 95% of these fouls are dives, yet 99.9% of them get away with it. MDG’s dive doing this last night was absolutely ridiculous. Everybody in the ground could see what he was doing when he had a sneaky look over his shoulder to make sure he was in the attacker’s path. Everybody in the ground could see it was a dive. Everybody, that is, apart from the one person being paid very well to differentiate between what’s a legitimate foul and what’s a professional dive. It was laughable and it happens several times per game, although not usually that conspicuously.

But they are addressing one ignored rule next season, that of goalie’s blatantly ignoring the 6 second rule, I.e. that they must release the ball within 6 seconds from first picking the ball up. I regularly count 30+ seconds and, don’t get me wrong, Barnsley have employed two Grand Masters in the discipline of Timewastery in recent years (step forward Mr. Davies and High Grand Master Collins!). Refs are to allow them 2 extra seconds, but if they haven’t released the ball by then it will be a corner kick. Hopefully they will build into the rule that opponents are no longer allowed to block the keeper from kicking the ball, as that is going to happen every time now, in order to try to delay the keeper to win a corner. But it’s going to be interesting to watch how else clubs will try to manipulate it to their advantage, which is what happens every time a rule is changed in football. I imagine we’ll see a lot more goalies signalling that they’ve hurt a pinkie or something, to waste time by bringing the physio on instead. And I imagine the new rule will be okay until a goal comes from a resultant corner, against one of the big teams. The big teams managed to get the extended injury time knocked on the head at the beginning of this season, so I imagine that once Liverpool, Arsenal or Man City drop points to a goal scored from a corner that came from a timewasting keeper, the referees will be under pressure to stop counting the seconds.

Personally, I think it’s a great rule, and has the potential to become the third best new rule in my time watching footy, after changing to 3 points for a win and, best one of all, the back pass rule. Anybody old enough to have watched a game where Arsenal went 1 up will know how welcome that rule change was!

 

We could give the 4th Official one of those electric cattle prods to keep them away from the touchline.

 

That's the big problem. Same with all the ones feigning head injuries / eye pokes to stop play. We know many are just acting, but how do you address it. If a Ref ignores a real head injury and something happens to the player, there would be hell to pay.

I hate the way players go down from a thumb jammed deep in the eye, when it's clear to see it was a pinkie lightly dragged across the player's shirt.

 

That's the point of the centre circle idea though. Easy to police it when a designated space. But would hardly ever happen as there wouldn't be any point to it.

 

Idon't say this with any racist implications but they were even doing it whilst players were breaking fast in Ramadan!

 

That is the most random thing ever posted on here unless I'm missing something obvious

 

Another simple but effective rule change - no-one called Sormaz allowed to recruit any players for BFC. Would instantly improve mood of fans and long-term would improve quality of entertainment on the pitch.

 

Yes clamp down on keepers timewasting, enforce the 6 second rule and introduce a 60 minute clock that stops whenever play stops.