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Concepts and rules you think would improve football going forward...
- Thread starter John from Bootle
- Start date
Yellow card for feigning or exaggerating injury.
Yellow card for not immediately moving 10 yards back from a free kick
Yellow card for arguing with the ref
Yellow card for claiming throw ins, corners etc when it is obvious it is the other teams
Basically, yellow card for any form of "gamesmanship"
Red card and a penalty for a "professional foul", no matter where it happens.
Only league champions qualify for champions league
Yellow card for not immediately moving 10 yards back from a free kick
Yellow card for arguing with the ref
Yellow card for claiming throw ins, corners etc when it is obvious it is the other teams
Basically, yellow card for any form of "gamesmanship"
Red card and a penalty for a "professional foul", no matter where it happens.
Only league champions qualify for champions league
Pootsy
Player Valuation: £20m
Any player injured must go to pitchside for treatment even if they have to be dragged/carried off. They need to prove to medical staff that they are fit to play on before re-entering the field of play. With teams being players down, they'll quickly limp for a bit instead.
twoblue
Player Valuation: £35m
Hitting the crossbar is far more exciting than hitting the net. I reckon it’s worth a goal and 3 goals if done from outside the area.
TraffordBlue
Player Valuation: £500k
> Every starting 11 to have 2+ local (from that county) players in it who have come through the clubs academy.
> British League Cup: include Scottish teams. Would be a good trial for Rangers and Celtic competing with English clubs and would mix up the competition
> Bring back the Cup Winners Cup, rename the "Champions League" and reduce teams in it to be actual Champions.
> Handicap the richer/favoured clubs to make leagues more competitive
> British League Cup: include Scottish teams. Would be a good trial for Rangers and Celtic competing with English clubs and would mix up the competition
> Bring back the Cup Winners Cup, rename the "Champions League" and reduce teams in it to be actual Champions.
> Handicap the richer/favoured clubs to make leagues more competitive
cjuk87
Player Valuation: £10m
If a player injures another player and the physio comes on, the player who committed the foul must go off the pitch too.
Get rid of the D on the edge of each box, it does nothing.
Throw in's can be done however you like, 1 arm hurling it in.
No seeding in any competition.
Punish defenders for clearly fouling on corners
Ban Everton from every competition.
Get rid of the D on the edge of each box, it does nothing.
Throw in's can be done however you like, 1 arm hurling it in.
No seeding in any competition.
Punish defenders for clearly fouling on corners
Ban Everton from every competition.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
The financial gap is certainly a big part of why the sport (at least for me) is less and less interesting with every passing season. But trying to fix that is a monumental undertaking that will require going well deeper than just rules that the FA or UEFA can come up with so I’m going to leave that aside.
What I’d really like to see is a real effort to cut down on all the nonsense that has become as important as playing actual football. So I’d start with yellow cards being a sin bin. And then I’d make it where the referees are very eager to hand them out. For example the Declan Rice second yellow: that shouldn’t even be controversial. It’s only that way because they aren’t consistent with those. Be consistent. If it’s not your free kick and you kick it away you go into the book, but now you also go off for 10 minutes. That goes for all of it. Throwing the ball onto the pitch on a throw, blocking the keeper releasing the ball, every foul where the player isn’t making a fair challenge for the ball. Early on it will be annoying but teams will get the point and stop doing these things. It’s all intentional so if there are real punishments it’ll stop happening.
Other side effect of that is I think it’ll force some tactical rethinks. It’s going to be a lot harder to play super high up if you’re at real risk of real punishment for cynically stopping attacks. Right now teams can press with reckless abandon because while the ball is so far away from their goal they can stop most attacks and the ones they can’t they’ll just foul and it won’t be an issue anyway. It’d be an interesting shift to me.
What I’d really like to see is a real effort to cut down on all the nonsense that has become as important as playing actual football. So I’d start with yellow cards being a sin bin. And then I’d make it where the referees are very eager to hand them out. For example the Declan Rice second yellow: that shouldn’t even be controversial. It’s only that way because they aren’t consistent with those. Be consistent. If it’s not your free kick and you kick it away you go into the book, but now you also go off for 10 minutes. That goes for all of it. Throwing the ball onto the pitch on a throw, blocking the keeper releasing the ball, every foul where the player isn’t making a fair challenge for the ball. Early on it will be annoying but teams will get the point and stop doing these things. It’s all intentional so if there are real punishments it’ll stop happening.
Other side effect of that is I think it’ll force some tactical rethinks. It’s going to be a lot harder to play super high up if you’re at real risk of real punishment for cynically stopping attacks. Right now teams can press with reckless abandon because while the ball is so far away from their goal they can stop most attacks and the ones they can’t they’ll just foul and it won’t be an issue anyway. It’d be an interesting shift to me.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
The first one just encourages more fake injuries which we absolutely do not need.
The D on the edge of the box does do something.
gonetomorrow
Player Valuation: £70m
Yellow cards all round before kickoff and you get it removed if you do something sportsmanlike.
Loadsofchemistry
Player Valuation: £1.5m
I’ve never understood how a goalkeeper gets to stay on the pitch if he commits a foul and there’s a defender covering but a defender gets sent off if there’s only a goalkeeper covering, surely the more clear goal scoring opportunity is with a defender on the line over a goalkeeper.
cjuk87
Player Valuation: £10m
Why would it encourage more? If the player fouled is faking it, why would he want to go off with the physio, just to ensure the person who fouled him does too? It means both are down to 10.
It does, but not really. Just let them stand on the edge of the box. It looks cleaner and I like neat lines.
TheBigIguana
Player Valuation: £100m
If I’m playing Man City and KdB fouls me, and I’m talking like me as in the guy sitting on the can typing this who can’t football for crap, why would I not fake injury so he has to go off too?
ArtetaMagic
Player Valuation: £15m
Or just play on around them bit like in rugby when physio comes on. They'll soon get up and stop faking injury
cjuk87
Player Valuation: £10m
Because you are also off the pitch. Your team is now down to 10 men against 10 men City. It doesn't benefit you in any way.
John from Bootle
Player Valuation: £10m
He's right here. Why wouldn't we want to lose, let's say, Doucoure, if it means they lose De Bruyne?