Rule changes for this season.

[Trucking shrimper]

There's a few rule changes coming in this year. Particularly like the retrospective punishments for players feigning injury to get an opponent sent off.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33783861

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

according to that there may actually be some common sense introduced into the offside law for the first time in a decade or so. All sounds a bit too good to be true

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

So let's summarise the new changes included in the BBC article:-

a) players should act like professionals when on the pitch (and not clowns)

b) managers (and their staff) should act like professionals (and not clowns)

c) a realisation that players affect play (Brian Clough will finally be able to get some rest)

What happened to the old days when football was a sport and not a comedy act played out by wallies?



Hash tag: Godgivemestrength

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

Rule changes ? Are the Premier League trying to write their own Laws of the Game ?

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

Rule changes ? Are the Premier League trying to write their own Laws of the Game ?

It is a very serious consideration (to me at least) that the game played at the park/local field is exactly the same as played in the professional game .......... I would advise that the footballing authorities never break that link ....... and I will be telling bloated Blatter that next time I'm on the phone to him. :thumbsup:

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

You tell him !! :thumbsup:

 

[Mick]

Rule changes ? Are the Premier League trying to write their own Laws of the Game ?

There are no changes to the Laws of the Game.

Even the offside interpretation change is merely a relatively minor tightening of the impacting on an opponent stuff.

Interestingly referees are being advised not to apply this in grassroots football:


A memo from Keith Stroud

From: Keith Stroud
Sent: 21 July 2015 16:56
Subject: FW: Offside Interpretation - Season 2015/16
To: County FA RDM/RDO’s (Copied to County FA CEO’s)
Dear All
Please note that this new guidance is intended for the level of football that assistant referees regularly operate (Supply League and above). If a County FA have any leagues that operate with ‘Neutral Assistant Referees’ then this guidance should also be implemented. It is imperative that referees operating at grassroots level, where they operate alone, do not try and implement this, as grassroots leagues, clubs and players will not have the understanding.
If you have any questions please contact me.
Best Regards
Keith Stroud | National Game Referee Manager - Workforce

Patronising and inappropriate, in my opinion.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Agreed Mick, very patronising, and very poorly drafted note. Why he didn't put the emphasis on not enforcing/implementing in border line instances where consistency and certainty of decision process are not helped by the lack of a 2nd official is odd & does not give a positive impression of the management of refs or their respect for grass roots.

 

[Lord Football]

I'm glad I'm out of it.

I've been implementing it for years under the guise of "interfering with play".

I wish someone had come up with the bright idea of allowing park refs not enforce tape around socks and colour undershorts. Both brought in to help assistants at the highest levels. Of course you don't get assistants on park football. And most teams struggle to get everyone wearing the same kit. Yet we had people marked down by assessors for not stopping people playing.

 

[Mick]

If anyone is unsure of precisely what this new interpretation is all about, try to catch footage of Liverpool's winning goal last night.

It is a textbook example of how a player close to the goalkeeper attempts to play the ball, but doesn't. He should have been flagged offside.

Unfortunately the Assistant Referee did not seem up to speed with this new change (or was up to speed but chose to favour Liverpool anyway) and the "goal" was not disallowed.

 

[Norwichshrimper]

If anyone is unsure of precisely what this new interpretation is all about, try to catch footage of Liverpool's winning goal last night.

It is a textbook example of how a player close to the goalkeeper attempts to play the ball, but doesn't. He should have been flagged offside.

Unfortunately the Assistant Referee did not seem up to speed with this new change (or was up to speed but chose to favour Liverpool anyway) and the "goal" was not disallowed.

I've argued this before....there is too much put down to the officials discretion or the officials interpretation of a situation. The referees job should be to ensure the laws of the game are applied, not to guess what may or may not happen in a situation.

The only way to make the offside law fair and equitable to all parties is to make it black and white...if a player is in an offside position when the ball is played, then he is offside and it's a free kick to the defending team. When you ask the officials to make judgement calls on "interfering with play" or the "inactivity" of players you are automatically bringing into question the matter of consistency.

I've never understood why an attacking player standing directly in the middle of the penalty area, but holding his arms out in a "nothing to do with me" pose can be deemed inactive or not interfering with play, whilst a defending player lying with a broken leg next to the corner flag cannot be deemed inactive and automatically plays an attacker "onside"

For me all the fannying around with rules and interpretation needs to stop and the rule needs to be applied to every instance...if a player is offside then he's offside regardless of the situation.

 

[Jam_Man]

Can they also go back to just stick the offside flag up immediately rather than waiting for the player to get the ball to stop people screaming abuse at the assistant for 'taking his time'.

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

I totally agree, guys. The reason for my sarcastic comment regarding the Laws of the Game, was because the media are making it sound like there's been an update to Laws...It just seems to be the Premier Leagues interpretation.

That was a quality example in the Liverpool game last night, Mick. You couldn't have made it up !! :blush: