Penalising teams for just hoofing the ball out of play

[rascal]

Good idea or not?

 

[tommye]

Started drinking already mate?

Oh and definitely not.

 

[rascal]

Started drinking already mate?

Oh and definitely not.

I was just watching the old firm and someone decided to hoof the ball out for absolutely no reason at all and it annoyed me.

 

[Woolly Blue]

Daft idea.
As is watching Scottish football.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

If the clock stopped as soon as the ball was out of play for & even as the ref blows for a free kick etc then it wouldn't make a difference.

Wonder how much time over the course of the season is lost when the ball isn't actually in play ?

We're paying for 90 actual minutes of play but I bet over a year of a season ticket we're being done out of a fair bit of play, 1 of the only things I think we should adopt from other sports is to actually play the full amount of time with official timekeepers on the clock signalling the end of the match.

TV would obviously invest in the clock to the most decimal places on earth and have a whole team of folk coming up with the fact that they still played 0.00000000000000000000000000000000008 seconds short & the fact that the ball was being held in the least goal scoring position in the history of the game and that it has done Liverpool out of winning the league as there was still enough time left for a penalty to be given.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

So what you're saying is you essentially want football to be more like ice hockey?

 

[deipnosophist]

The playing perimeter should have a 3 metre high clear polycarbonate wall to keep the ball in play...so the ball's never out of play unless someone hoofs it over it's height, resulting in a free kick (10 metres in and to the non hoof-ball team) at the point it exited the playing area.

This might massively benefit Everton, since we're crap at throw-ins.

But we might be disadvantaged by the hoof-ball aspect

 

[Deleted member 28206]

We would be skint

 

[degsy]

Good idea or not?

No way - Row Z is a viable defensive option...sometimes.

 

[summerisle]

About 55 minutes according to this article from a few years' back. Includes incomprehensible diagrams.

http://www.soccermetrics.net/team-performance/effective-time-in-football

 

[chrismpw]

Would give the fans nothing to jeer at when an opposing player mishits a ball oyt if play.

 

[Username]

Imagine if they replaced throw ins with kick ins

 

[Caolam]

Bad idea, if your team has not got the skill to combat just hoofing the ball out of play then the rules shouldn't assist you.

 

[riddick]

Whilst I don't like the idea of penalizing a team for hoofing it out of play, I do think they need to seriously figure out the added time. Why not just stop the damn clock whenever the ball isn't in motion? The idea that there are '3 minutes of extra time' (and the whistle is blown at 3 minutes regardless of stoppage IN extra time) is a ridiculous concept. Like said it's probbaly closer to 60 minutes of ACTUAL football in any given match.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

The only rule change football needs is retrospective punishment for diving