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Concepts and rules you think would improve football going forward...

ClausThomsen said:
How do you decide where a club is? The ground, the head offices, the training facilities?

And would a ground move render players suddenly ineligible? And where are players 'from'? The hospital they were born in? The street they first lived in or whichever street they spent the bulk of their childhood in? Or wherever the office in which their birth was registered is? You'd have to be pretty precise to police a specific distance rule.

My rule changes would be cut matches down to 60 minutes but measured with an in-play clock.
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The club is where the ground is and players would be where ever the birth is registered
 
Cally66 said:
The details don't matter so long as they are fair for all. An equal catchment area for all - so a bigger radius fir teams near a coast. Easy.
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paultheblue said:
The club is where the ground is and players would be where ever the birth is registered
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The details do kind of matter. You could have a geographically huge catchment area but if it's predominantly rural then it's of nowhere near the value of a densely populated catchment area of similar or even much smaller size.

For instance say someone's parents are visiting relatives/friends in a different part of the UK. The woman goes into premature labour and is rushed into a local hospital where after subsequent complications the baby is kept for weeks/months and their birth is registered within that area. Once better the happy family all return home but their talented and football loving child is not able to join an academy of a local club due to his London birth/registration not being officially within a local clubs catchment area and those clubs preferring to use their resources to concentrate on 'local' talent.

Far fetched I'll agree but does point out that details do matter and can be somewhat unfair for some.

Or what if a family simply move for work reasons? Does their kid simply get cut adrift from a route into the professional game? And if simply living nearby is enough then people/families will move as parents of very talented kids suddenly have job opportunities mysteriously drop into their lap within the catchment area of clubs hoping to sign their kid.

Hyper localisation simply restricts opportunities for everyone with no logical benefit.
 

Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Get rid of the effing transfer windows. ridiculous spectacle.
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Agree with this to a degree. It was brought in to stop teams having their best players picked off during the season. I like that element of it. However, football threw the baby out with the bath water, and clubs up and down the country end up being stuck with players for months on end because some arbitrary deadline wasn't met.

Unregistered players should be free to register with any other club at any point during the season, whether they cost a fee or not, and I also reckon clubs should be able to sell or loan somebody out at any point during the season, as long as it's to a lower domestic league.
 

VAR is for obvious errors involving goals or violent play only. If you need to draw a line on a screen, it's not obvious is it ffs?
Transfer funds/budgets, the same for all teams in the PL based on median or average from previous season/s.
Wage ceilings in place.
Transfer fees need looking into, some sort of independent committee to prevent the rs and co pocketing £30Miliion for Billy Nomark, thus getting round ffp.
FA Cup replays to be reintroduced.
League cup first round, 2 legs like the old days.
Wembley for finals only.
All European tournaments straight 2 leg knockout, no leagues.
2 subs and a goalie only
No stopping the game for injuries, play on, physios can come on at will.
Offside, clear daylight between attacker and defender.
Each team televised a roughly equivalent number of times.
All kick offs at 3pm Saturday, bar 1 televised game per week (same with FA Cup)

INRAT etc
 
A salary and transfer cap to add some parity and actually make it a competition again. Imagine a league where you don’t have to be owned by another country to win…revolutionary stuff I know.

Dissolve the FA and the powers that be as we know them following an enquiry into corruption. Create an accountable body with an emphasis on fair competition.

A total end to diving and grown men generally embarrassing themselves any time somebody comes near them, it’s unwatchable.

A total reset on how the sport is covered by the media. The days of ex players who inexplicably know nothing about the sport and talking arses saying the same 5 buzzwords about the same 5 clubs needs to end.

Do that and I might actually watch the sport again.
 
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