Rule changes

[growler]

No shirt pulling

Stricter rules for penalties

Subs must include 3 players u21

Bring back the 1-11 shirt numbers

Referee to review game straight after its finished and given 3 hours to change decision. Rescind booking, make a booking, add it to his report etc

4th official to be allowed to speak to ref.

bring in two more lino's

Only captain allowed to speak to ref

 

Any others?

[Cam]

No subs beyond 90 minutes (extra time excepted but then it's 120).

 

No subbing a sent-off goalie.

 

Refs to come out after games and explain decisions. Or the refs chief to go through them in a Monday press conference.

 

A full police investigation into corruption within the game amongst the FA, referees, the media and certain big figures in the game. Hanging to be brought back for the guilty parties.

[Hassony]

I prefer squad numbers to 1-11

[New York Red]

Bigger goals

[Nebraska Red]

Bigger goals

 

 

Thinner goal posts and crossbars

[John am Rhein]

bring back hacking as proposed by Francis Maule Campbell of Blackheath in 1863

[surf]

what do you mean with shirt numbers 1-11? that the players starting have those numbers, so no fixed squad numbers? so gerrard would have his 8 if he starts, but if he's on the bench someone else has 8 and he has another number?

 

why no subs after 90 mins? what if someone is injured?

 

i dont mind a keeper being subbed on after a red. now they have a man less and a sub less

[Beardsley]

A yellow to players standing right in front of the ball on a freekick, stopping you from taking it quick.

[Swan Red]

because what we need is more regulation

[Tommy Cockles]

A large bar billiards style skittle in the centre circle which if you knock it over you lose all your goals.

[growler]

Not so much new regulation, more a clean up of current ones

 

What are people's thoughts on the 'clock' game? Ie 30 minutes each half but the clock is stopped when the ball is out of play.

 

I quite liked the idea initially but we tried it at our last game and it sucked. Just too hard to manage. We found the games ran on for too long because players were taking rests knowing it was causing them lost time.

[Duncan Disorderly]

Stop every 5 minutes for ad breaks with 70s/80s style totty carrying scorecards.

Fly nets.

Those plastic footballs that are dead light.

Whoever blasts the ball wide has to go and get it.

Captains picking each of their teams from the squad all lined up before the match.

Just keep playing until you're called in for your tea.

[John am Rhein]

Not so much new regulation, more a clean up of current ones

 

What are people's thoughts on the 'clock' game? Ie 30 minutes each half but the clock is stopped when the ball is out of play.

 

I quite liked the idea initially but we tried it at our last game and it sucked. Just too hard to manage. We found the games ran on for too long because players were taking rests knowing it was causing them lost time.

 

don't know about that, but they definitely should have an independent time keeper who explicitly and visibly adds on injury time as required and signals the end of the half without any 'discretion' from the ref

[Falconhoof]

Referees to wear stovepipe hats and Elizabethan ruffs.

[Gunga Din]

when a player is injured, unless its the goalkeeper, play continues and the physio just comes on and treats the player while play goes on around them

[Tommy Cockles]

when a player is injured, unless its the goalkeeper, play continues and the physio just comes on and treats the player while play goes on around them

 

And if the physio concludes his treatment while the ball is still in play he can join in until the ball goes dead, then he goes off again.

[Nebraska Red]

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And if the physio concludes his treatment while the ball is still in play he can join in until the ball goes dead, then he goes off again.
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now that would be funny

[scoose]

Referees to wear stovepipe hats and Elizabethan ruffs.

 

I like the ruffs idea. Full blackadder gear with the tights n that

[Hassony]

And if the physio concludes his treatment while the ball is still in play he can join in until the ball goes dead, then he goes off again.

 

[New York Red]

These are all excellent ideas.

 

How about playing in cricket type gear too? With stripey ties for belts.

[Stevie H]

A yellow to players standing right in front of the ball on a freekick, stopping you from taking it quick.

wasn't this already tried? the encroachment thing? book the player and move the free-kick forward ten yards? then got scrapped because it was a load of showboating americanesque nonsense?

[drdooom]

All boots shall be black with traditional white manufacturer markings.

[Knox_Harrington]

wasn't this already tried? the encroachment thing? book the player and move the free-kick forward ten yards? then got scrapped because it was a load of showboating americanesque nonsense?

And because footballers being footballers they sometimes wanted the kick to go ten yards forward. As they are sentient humans constantly looking for an advantage.

[Cobs]

And because footballers being footballers they sometimes wanted the kick to go ten yards forward. As they are sentient humans constantly looking for an advantage.

 

 

which the award of a free-kick is supposed to provide

 

 

however, unlike in rugby where territory gained is a key factor in the ability to score points/goals sometimes in football such close proximity to the goal can cause a disadvantage to the side to whom the free-kick was supposed to provide an advantage - so they scrapped it.

[schmuckdonald]

Difficult to implement, as you'd have to verify an injury on the fly, but having an extra substitution available to cover injuries.

 

Otherwise, I'm happy. I like "cheating".

Edited October 17, 2012 by schmuckdonald