General Rules Changes - Your Opinion

[MustardYellow]

New rule - no goalkeepers over 5ft 10.

Would increase the reliance on attributes like agility, reflexes, etc rather than keepers having an advantage through natural reach. Would also potentially increase the number of goals scored from corners (keepers not just catching/punching most of them which seems to happen now!)

 

[SteMerritt]

New rule - no goalkeepers over 5ft 10.

Would increase the reliance on attributes like agility, reflexes, etc rather than keepers having an advantage through natural reach. Would also potentially increase the number of goals scored from corners (keepers not just catching/punching most of them which seems to happen now!)

Idea seconded by...

 

[ZeroTheHero]

New rule - no goalkeepers over 5ft 10.

Would increase the reliance on attributes like agility, reflexes, etc rather than keepers having an advantage through natural reach. Would also potentially increase the number of goals scored from corners (keepers not just catching/punching most of them which seems to happen now!)

I quite like this idea (although surely making the goals a couple of feet wider and a foot higher might have the same positive effect? You could adopt the same philosophy in other sports: improve the terminally dull sport of basketball by putting the hoops five feet higher, improve F1 by making them use pedal cars and improve golf by making the holes smaller than the balls.

 

[MustardYellow]

I quite like this idea (although surely making the goals a couple of feet wider and a foot higher might have the same positive effect? You could adopt the same philosophy in other sports: improve the terminally dull sport of basketball by putting the hoops five feet higher, improve F1 by making them use pedal cars and improve golf by making the holes smaller than the balls.

Smaller keepers and a rule where they can't be outside of their box while the ball is in the opposition half. Stop all this 'sweeper keeper' nonsense. It's killed the beauty of counter-attacks and through balls/balls over the top. Does my head in watching Ederson and the likes just hoof the ball out while half-way up his own half everytime the opposition try to get in behind.

This one's a bit out there, but get rid of draws. You either win or you lose. Too often do we see teams 'playing for a draw', like we saw Arsenal do at Man City at the weekend. They didn't *need* to win that game, so did little to even try. Boring as f**K. Getting rid of draws forces teams to actually try to play football.

Football's getting a bit stale - time to spice it up a bit!

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Smaller keepers and a rule where they can't be outside of their box while the ball is in the opposition half. Stop all this 'sweeper keeper' nonsense. It's killed the beauty of counter-attacks and through balls/balls over the top. Does my head in watching Ederson and the likes just hoof the ball out while half-way up his own half everytime the opposition try to get in behind.

This one's a bit out there, but get rid of draws. You either win or you lose. Too often do we see teams 'playing for a draw', like we saw Arsenal do at Man City at the weekend. They didn't *need* to win that game, so did little to even try. Boring as f**K. Getting rid of draws forces teams to actually try to play football.

Football's getting a bit stale - time to spice it up a bit!

Or how about awarding fractional 'goals' for corners? Say a corner is 1/20th of a goal. So if if team gets 20 corners, they are awarded a goal - and of course if the score is drawn at full time, then the corner count comes into play to decide the result? And if that doesn't separate them, the team that committed the least fouls wins. And if that doesn't work, play extra time - start off with five a side and one player from each team has to go off every 2 minutes. First goal wins. Or get the player's mums there and the first team that has a player called in for their tea loses?

 

[OUFCGav]

They've also seemingly forgotten about the kicking the ball away anywhere being a yellow card. There were some good rules introduced at the start of the season and they've all disappeared without a trace now.

It reminds me of when they introduced the respect campaign about 15 years ago to try and promote better behaviour towards refs. That all fizzled out after a few months despite having some good ideas.

think there was someone in the Prem got a 2nd yellow for kicking the ball away at the weekend.

 

[SteMerritt]

I think the only way to save the game at this point is to introduce a multi-ball system. Every time 15mins elapses without a goal an additional ball is introduced, it stays active until somebody scores with it, at which point it is removed from play. Only the original ball (which is changed so it is gold in colour) stays throughout the game and if used to score a goal you get a standard kick-off to restart - score with a multi-ball and the game just continues with any remaining balls in play.

 

[Osei Yaw]

I think the only way to save the game at this point is to introduce a multi-ball system. Every time 15mins elapses without a goal an additional ball is introduced, it stays active until somebody scores with it, at which point it is removed from play. Only the original ball (which is changed so it is gold in colour) stays throughout the game and if used to score a goal you get a standard kick-off to restart - score with a multi-ball and the game just continues with any remaining balls in play.

I think your idea is a good starting point but could be improved further if the additional balls were fired onto the pitch out of a cannon. To keep the game fair, each team have to elect one of their starting 11 to be the cannon firer, but that player will have to play in a special kit that resembles a medieval soldier.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

I just hope nobody from the FA is reading our helpful suggestions ...

 

[Londox]

I quite like this idea (although surely making the goals a couple of feet wider and a foot higher might have the same positive effect? You could adopt the same philosophy in other sports: improve the terminally dull sport of basketball by putting the hoops five feet higher, improve F1 by making them use pedal cars and improve golf by making the holes smaller than the balls.

Generally speaking I detest all the law changes (especially when as @Steve Gilbert said they don't even enforce the laws they already have), one person kick offs for example just a pointless change I still don't understand the benefit of. These feckers just make change for the sake of change to justify their salaries. VAR has also allowed laws to be enforced in a way they could never be before - leading to goals disallowed over an offside pube, never how the spirit of the law was intended.

I would scrap VAR immediately but the most bizarre thing for me is slow motion replays, totally distorting how the game is played and making challenges look worse than they are.

Why not enforce time-wasting laws (which they did for about two weeks this season)

The only idea I quite like is having slightly larger pitches and goals (In the FL at least) one thing I find odd, is how in the ultra detailed PL is that the pitches are different sizes. They should be a standardised size (say the wembley pitch size) although of course this would be impossible in pre-existing stadiums.

I do genuinely like the idea of goals being a little larger to reflect the increase in human size and professionalisation of the game since the game was invented.

This thread for me has a big overlap with the "Is modern football just rubbish" thread.

 

[MustardYellow]

I think the only way to save the game at this point is to introduce a multi-ball system. Every time 15mins elapses without a goal an additional ball is introduced, it stays active until somebody scores with it, at which point it is removed from play. Only the original ball (which is changed so it is gold in colour) stays throughout the game and if used to score a goal you get a standard kick-off to restart - score with a multi-ball and the game just continues with any remaining balls in play.

I back this

 

[MustardYellow]

Or how about awarding fractional 'goals' for corners? Say a corner is 1/20th of a goal. So if if team gets 20 corners, they are awarded a goal - and of course if the score is drawn at full time, then the corner count comes into play to decide the result? And if that doesn't separate them, the team that committed the least fouls wins. And if that doesn't work, play extra time - start off with five a side and one player from each team has to go off every 2 minutes. First goal wins. Or get the player's mums there and the first team that has a player called in for their tea loses?

Better yet, after every 2 minutes a player is replaced by a member of the U7 squad.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Better yet, after every 2 minutes a player is replaced by a member of the U7 squad.

I am getting visions of that infamous clip of Boris Johnson playing rugby against kids!

 

[werthersoriginal]

Return the laws to what they were in around 2005. Create new law that laws of football can never be changed.

Done.

This should be repeated every time someone suggests any US-style advert breaks or getting rid of draws

 

[CCYellow]

I think your idea is a good starting point but could be improved further if the additional balls were fired onto the pitch out of a cannon. To keep the game fair, each team have to elect one of their starting 11 to be the cannon firer, but that player will have to play in a special kit that resembles a medieval soldier.

I think it would be difficult to get cannons into a stadium. Health and safety wouldn't allow it after the Springfield Speedway disaster of 2000.

Warning: Distressing content.

 

[QuietYeller]

Smaller keepers and a rule where they can't be outside of their box while the ball is in the opposition half. Stop all this 'sweeper keeper' nonsense. It's killed the beauty of counter-attacks and through balls/balls over the top. Does my head in watching Ederson and the likes just hoof the ball out while half-way up his own half everytime the opposition try to get in behind.

This one's a bit out there, but get rid of draws. You either win or you lose. Too often do we see teams 'playing for a draw', like we saw Arsenal do at Man City at the weekend. They didn't *need* to win that game, so did little to even try. Boring as f**K. Getting rid of draws forces teams to actually try to play football.

Football's getting a bit stale - time to spice it up a bit!

Regarding getting draws America had shoot outs (dribbling from the half way line). I think there better than pens

 

[werthersoriginal]

Regarding getting draws America had shoot outs (dribbling from the half way line). I think there better than pens

No, pens are good and exciting. Extra time is tedious and inconvenient for evening games, I'd go straight to pens.

 

[MustardYellow]

Regarding getting draws America had shoot outs (dribbling from the half way line). I think there better than pens

To be fair I quite like pens, although they always make me nervous even when I have no vested interest in either of the teams

Something's got to be done about teams just playing for draws though. That Arsenal City game should've been a belter but was one of the most boring games I've watched, simply because one team knew they didn't need to win. Football should ultimately be entertaining.

 

[werthersoriginal]

To be fair I quite like pens, although they always make me nervous even when I have no vested interest in either of the teams

Something's got to be done about teams just playing for draws though. That Arsenal City game should've been a belter but was one of the most boring games I've watched, simply because one team knew they didn't need to win. Football should ultimately be entertaining.

It's up to the other team to beat them. Agree that it seemed a dull game but it's part of the sport, it's not just entertainment in the sense of constant incident.

 

[SteMerritt]

"If you want entertainment, go to the circus". Alan Durban, Stoke City Manager, 1980.

 

[MustardYellow]

It's up to the other team to beat them. Agree that it seemed a dull game but it's part of the sport, it's not just entertainment in the sense of constant incident.

It's not an aspect of the sport I enjoy!

I know it'll never happen but draws just seem to take more enjoyment from the sport than they add in practicality/variation. A lot of people say Man City are boring (I've been guilty of saying it too) to watch, but from what I see now that's less to do with them and more to do with how 99% of oppositions play against them. Most teams don't bother trying to win the game, and just sit back for the draw. That leaves City with little option but to just pass it around for most of the game.

It is what it is but it's just...meh

 

[ZeroTheHero]

I understand why some of the less 'well-funded' teams in the Prem play like that against Man City, especially if they are trying to eke out a point to help in a relegation scrap. But Arsenal are supposed to be competing for the title and a win would have been invaluable. I dislike this current version of Arsenal - they were pillocks when we played them, and are the very epitome of the functional over the enjoyable. People say they don't like Klopp or Guardiola - I'd take either of them over Arteta every time.

 

[werthersoriginal]

I understand why some of the less 'well-funded' teams in the Prem play like that against Man City, especially if they are trying to eke out a point to help in a relegation scrap. But Arsenal are supposed to be competing for the title and a win would have been invaluable. I dislike this current version of Arsenal - they were pillocks when we played them, and are the very epitome of the functional over the enjoyable. People say they don't like Klopp or Guardiola - I'd take either of them over Arteta every time.

Yes I used to like Arsenal but after playing them Ive come to dislike them. Of the big teams I like Man City and Liverpool and dislike Man U and Arsenal. Dislike Chelsea but they’re not really a big team at the moment, haha. TBH I can’t actually remember where Spurs are.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

The odd thing is that I am not sure I actually 'like' any Prem team. I do however *dislike* a few of them for various reasons, so watching any Prem football is often a case of who I want to lose, rather than who I want to win!

 

[werthersoriginal]

The odd thing is that I am not sure I actually 'like' any Prem team. I do however *dislike* a few of them for various reasons, so watching any Prem football is often a case of who I want to lose, rather than who I want to win!

Yes I’ll certainly root for Bournemouth orFulham against any of the big boys

 

[Marked Ox]

think there was someone in the Prem got a 2nd yellow for kicking the ball away at the weekend.

Anthony Gordon.

 

[QuietYeller]

No, pens are good and exciting. Extra time is tedious and inconvenient for evening games, I'd go straight to pens.

Yes I hate ET

 

[Marked Ox]

Yes I hate ET

Well, you've driven ET to drink:

 

[Steve Gilbert]

The odd thing is that I am not sure I actually 'like' any Prem team. I do however *dislike* a few of them for various reasons, so watching any Prem football is often a case of who I want to lose, rather than who I want to win!

I don’t ‘like’ any prem team, even though as a kid I was a fan of Spurs due to my dad but for years now I have no interest in them.
I do however like how some prem teams play and enjoy watching their games, one of them being Liverpool as it’s so end to end and always fast, attacking football. I am sure though that will change once Klopp goes.
I find city very boring to watch and Arsenal are just a team that whinge constantly, including their manager.
I’d much rather watch the conference games on tv over the premier league games.

 

[Marked Ox]

I don’t ‘like’ any prem team, even though as a kid I was a fan of Spurs due to my dad but for years now I have no interest in them.
I do however like how some prem teams play and enjoy watching their games, one of them being Liverpool as it’s so end to end and always fast, attacking football. I am sure though that will change once Klopp goes.
I find city very boring to watch and Arsenal are just a team that whinge constantly, including their manager.
I’d much rather watch the conference games on tv over the premier league games.

If you prefer Conference games on TV then Scottish Championship games live on BBC Scotland on Friday nights can be entertaining. The Refs seem happy to allow physical play with the occasional leveller challenge like it is still the early 2000s. The quality is generally poor but with the occasional flash of brilliance so it can be quite entertaining.