Keepers leaving the box

[miami]

Over the last few years, I’ve found it irritating that goals coming from accurate balls over the top have become rarer and rarer. Think of linekars’s goal in the ‘86 cup final, from a great through ball from Peter Reid. That goal would probably never have been scored in today’s sweeper keeper climate.

Lazy Defenders now know that their sweeper keeper will save their lardy @sses from having to run back trying to stop a nippy forward from scoring.

Simple question, would you be up for a rule change which prevents keepers from leaving their box at all?

Caveat: our current Everton defence would concede cricket scores every game if this law was enforced. But, I’d still like keepers restricted from leaving their boxes.

 

[Lineker]

Over the last few years, I’ve found it irritating that goals coming from accurate balls over the top have become rarer and rarer. Think of linekars’s goal in the ‘86 cup final, from a great through ball from Peter Reid. That goal would probably never have been scored in today’s sweeper keeper climate.

Lazy Defenders now know that their sweeper keeper will save their lardy @sses from having to run back trying to stop a nippy forward from scoring.

Simple question, would you be up for a rule change which prevents keepers from leaving their box at all?

Caveat: our current Everton defence would concede cricket scores every game if this law was enforced. But, I’d still like keepers restricted from leaving their boxes.

I remember it like yesterday!

However, one of the fundamental tenwts of football is that the goalkeeper is just another player on the field with special privileges granted in the area.

Dont think it is likely to change.

I'd personally like to see the offside rule fixed to rule the player is on side if some part of him is level with the second to last defender, or scrapped entirely. Either way would result in true sweeper being brought back into the game and a hostes of other tactical changes.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Over the last few years, I’ve found it irritating that goals coming from accurate balls over the top have become rarer and rarer. Think of linekars’s goal in the ‘86 cup final, from a great through ball from Peter Reid. That goal would probably never have been scored in today’s sweeper keeper climate.

Lazy Defenders now know that their sweeper keeper will save their lardy @sses from having to run back trying to stop a nippy forward from scoring.

Simple question, would you be up for a rule change which prevents keepers from leaving their box at all?

Caveat: our current Everton defence would concede cricket scores every game if this law was enforced. But, I’d still like keepers restricted from leaving their boxes.

No.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Sounds like another reason to stop the game, waste another five minutes which will only get added at the end of the game if we’re winning not if we’re chasing a goal and go to var to see if the keeper really did step a fraction out of their area and more ways to give decisions to sky darlings and not us.

It’s a no from me.

 

[TheBigIguana]

I actually like where your head is at here but not really for the same reason. What the sweeper keeper has done is created an environment of reckless pressing above all else. The best teams right now by and large are the ones that are the best at pressing and breaking presses and I'm definitely interested in ways to change that up a little bit and just see what happens.

 

[wandyr79]

Weird thing to be bothered about, if I am being honest.

Much, much more wrong with the game than where a keeper can go and what type of goals are scored or not scored.

 

[Nymzee]

How about we stop keepers leaving the box and stop players entering the box if they're not the keeper. Go truly 5-a-side.

 

[Bohemian Toffee]

How about we stop keepers leaving the box and stop players entering the box if they're not the keeper. Go truly 5-a-side.

Nothing above head height and obligatory smoke break after twenty minutes.

 

[helpimonfire]

How about the RS must get a penalty or decision go their way if they are losing? Oh hang on! We already have that one sorry.

 

[cronullasharks]

Nothing above head height and obligatory smoke break after twenty minutes.

Smoke break, there's me signing back up for football next season

 

[degsy]

Elvis left the building - good enough for Elvis good enough for me

 

[Jamalio Danubio DiCanio]

Over the last few years, I’ve found it irritating that goals coming from accurate balls over the top have become rarer and rarer. Think of linekars’s goal in the ‘86 cup final, from a great through ball from Peter Reid. That goal would probably never have been scored in today’s sweeper keeper climate.

Lazy Defenders now know that their sweeper keeper will save their lardy @sses from having to run back trying to stop a nippy forward from scoring.

Simple question, would you be up for a rule change which prevents keepers from leaving their box at all?

Caveat: our current Everton defence would concede cricket scores every game if this law was enforced. But, I’d still like keepers restricted from leaving their boxes.

The reason for sweeper keepers is that teams now play with a high line. High line is needed if teams want to press high.

If you made keepers stay in their area then you’d fundamentally change football. I suspect teams would play with much deeper defensive lines and the game would become more cat and mouse.

 

[woomy]

No, I would like to see more players having a shot from 70 yards.
If the goalie is 30 yards off his line. And you have a clear sight, give it a whack.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Nope for me, stops madness like this

 

[ClausThomsen]

Over the last few years, I’ve found it irritating that goals coming from accurate balls over the top have become rarer and rarer. Think of linekars’s goal in the ‘86 cup final, from a great through ball from Peter Reid. That goal would probably never have been scored in today’s sweeper keeper climate.

Lazy Defenders now know that their sweeper keeper will save their lardy @sses from having to run back trying to stop a nippy forward from scoring.

Simple question, would you be up for a rule change which prevents keepers from leaving their box at all?

Caveat: our current Everton defence would concede cricket scores every game if this law was enforced. But, I’d still like keepers restricted from leaving their boxes.

Are you claiming that defenders no longer required to turn and chase back and are now carrying more body fat, on average, than they were in the 80s?