Revolutionary new boot

cduff · November 11, 2015

What do you think of this newly developed boot with a square toe :-
http://www.theguardian.com/football...es-with-grand-aim-of-revolutionising-football
I can see the advantages, especially for strikers but I am wondering about whether chipping the ball using the toe of your boot would be adversely affected.

peteblue · November 11, 2015

Are they as good as these beauties......

Bungle · November 11, 2015

They look like you'd have to cut your toes off to get them on.

Ashtonian · November 11, 2015

Will be a fad just like the many other style of boots over the years.

Jacko93 · November 11, 2015

Has anybody on here ever hurt their toe by doing a toey?

TheFinnFan · November 11, 2015

Hah...innovative idea gotta say but thatll never break through..

The Cowboy · November 11, 2015

Possibly the worst idea ever, and no surprise it came from Australia, who's national sport requires you to just leather the ball as hard as you can.

So much of football's wonderful array of passing comes from deft, delicate spins and curls facilitated from the top and front of the boot. Imagine Rom trying his recent cross with these spazzer shoes on. It'd have ended up on the roof of the Gwladys.

TheFinnFan · November 11, 2015

Can see that idea evolve a bit and that flat area getting smaller.

Jacko93 · November 11, 2015

I honestly think that this is one of the worst ideas,ever to grace football boot manufacture. If you go to put spin on this with the outside of your foot, you have no idea whats going to happen with the slightest misjudgement. Bloody Aussies. Stick to your own sports.

Also, Tim Cahill being involved in the early stages of development? That tells us nothing other than he never saw enough value in it to see it through any more of its 21 iterations.

Why do people feel the need to "radicalise the way football is played"? Just do one, start up your own sport, like they did with Rugby League/Union, have your own rules where you can only toey the ball forwards, and its a foul if you head a ball that's come off a toes cause it moves too fast and might make your brain fall out of your ear. Make the goals bigger, by twice the size and have two goalies, cause its unfair otherwise as the ball "moves like a rocket".

Takes your boots and shove them sideways, or front ways, cause they're as wide as they are long, right up your pipe.

PITA · November 11, 2015

The Cowboy said:
Possibly the worst idea ever, and no surprise it came from Australia, who's national sport requires you to just leather the ball as hard as you can.

So much of football's wonderful array of passing comes from deft, delicate spins and curls facilitated from the top and front of the boot. Imagine Rom trying his recent cross with these spazzer shoes on. It'd have ended up on the roof of the Gwladys.

To be fair most of Lukaku's passes end up in the wrong place with regualr boots.

cduff · November 11, 2015

The Cowboy said:
Possibly the worst idea ever, and no surprise it came from Australia, who's national sport requires you to just leather the ball as hard as you can.

So much of football's wonderful array of passing comes from deft, delicate spins and curls facilitated from the top and front of the boot. Imagine Rom trying his recent cross with these spazzer shoes on. It'd have ended up on the roof of the Gwladys.

I agree about the deft touches and I would be interested to see what the feedback from trialists whether it is an issue.
In terms of its Aussie origins, you might want to check on the origin of the last major boot development :-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas_Predator