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MTS1972
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posted: 2013-11-08 22:28:26 (ID: 100012917) Report Abuse |
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JonnyP wrote:
MTS1972 wrote:
feel free....! what would be your ideas to reform (true!) football. Ban Leeds United. And send everyone who has ever bought a replica Leeds shirt to Siberia. The world would be a better place. FYP  |
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Swordpriest1
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posted: 2013-11-09 00:10:21 (ID: 100012918) Report Abuse |
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hehe.. I warned you before hand about my reforms..
Basically soccer is the most old school of all sports.. and I include baseball in that. Everything is so damn tradition oriented that if something is even nominally changed (yet a lone my radical ideas) that upset the status qou its seen as a detraction. There wasnt a single idea i proposed that wouldnt make the game more compelling from a viewer standpoint. If you just put the two games in a vacuum and no one had any idea which was the reform and which was the original I think my version would be better on the eyeball. Playoffs are fun as hell!!!!!!!! It makes for the strongest level of entertainment to come at the end of the season. Its where legends are made.. when all the chips are on the table. Its why La Liga is a trash league... what fun is it when you know who is going to be the winner half way through the season (even if you know before the season starts only 1 of 2 teams is winning it). Sports is mostly about entertainment and the most spectacular of those are endings that have serious climaxes. As for the Red Cards.. I'm not saying teams or individuals shouldnt be punished for misbehavior... but to lose a whole position on the field because of one person's mistake is just crazy. It pretty much ruins any measure of competition and as for entertainment purposes its like watching grass grow. There are other ways of conducting punishment on a team other than handicapping them for the whole game to such a degree. I absolutely hate it. I'm of the opinion that 90% of high league keepers are interchangeable. If you replace the keeper on the worst team and put him on the best team.. that team is still going to be the best team. They dont face enough situations to differentiate themselves from each other as all defenses are mainly predicated on team concept.. not keeper quality. They arent soccer players... they are like kickers/punters. The reason for getting rid of the gimmick free-kick thing is because the person who was fouled should be the person doing the free kick. Think basketball freethrows. I'm just against the idea of having a designated PK/Free-kick taker..every outfield player should able to do those at a certain level. |
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MTS1972
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posted: 2013-11-09 00:36:55 (ID: 100012921) Report Abuse |
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Playoffs are fun....but only if they are justifiable. Not just for the hell of it. I personally like a league system to be purely and simply that. The best team will win the league - they may not win every match, but when every team plays every team home and away, that is your competition.
Our 'EPL' is as open now as its ever been. Over a quarter of the teams in the Division have a relatively genuine chance of winning it this season - a handful more not so far away either. No one likes it when one or two teams are so dominant season in season out that only they can win it - but what difference then would playoffs make? They would still prevail if they were that good. Red cards dont always mean the team with the extra man wins. Many many teams have the team down to 10 men held on to win, went on to win or came back and won. There has to be a punishment system in game for offenders - both consistent and serious - the yellow/red card scheme is fine. Keepers are all relative to their teams. But the same could be said about outfield players. You could put Messi and Ronaldo in Derby County's team - we still wouldnt win the Premiership or Champions League. Its a team game and they are very much needed and required. Funny because the USA have produced some fine keepers that have been great success in England - Kasey Keller, Tim Howard, Brad Friedel......but why its acceptable for hockey and any other sport where there is a goal/net and is a team game, yet not for football, i dont know....i dont think there is a sport where any kind of target/goal is left unattended is there? Polo maybe? |
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Swordpriest1
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posted: 2013-11-09 02:14:33 (ID: 100012925) Report Abuse |
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True.. your league is about as open as its ever been.. and that adds to the excitement. I'm just a product of this here environment and I cant wrap my head around leagues finishing without playoffs. I hate college football for a million reasons but the #1 reason is definitely no playoffs.
The main difference between soccer Keepers and hockey goalies is the amount of situations they are involved in. A hockey goalie will face as many as 35-50 shots in a game no matter how good or bad the team is... there involvement in the play is too difficult to be without. A keeper on the other hand can conceivable go a whole game without facing a single shot... a "heavy" day for a goal keeper would be stopping 5 shots. That amount of work is negligible in terms of how much the other players on the field effect the game... But let me stop fooling around.. I just dont like them.. they are often clucksy and they get way too many touch fouls in their favor for 50/50 balls. Every time I see one of them "dive" theres a small part of me that actually hopes they are dead. |
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MTS1972
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posted: 2013-11-09 11:18:08 (ID: 100012958) Report Abuse |
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LOL....i do agree they are very much over protected - much like QB's - but the game cannot be better without them - they may well only have 5 'key' saves to make in the 90 minutes of the game, but those saves - or not as the case may be - could make all the difference.
It would be fun to watch a live game with you - i think one of the biggest attractions of the EPL that separates us to most of the biggest divisions is the attendances at games and the amount of 'away fans' that are allowed inside the stadiums. This generates a great atmosphere - which is almost worth going for irrelevant of the football itself. The only NFL game i have been to in the States was a Saints / Cowboys game - and i was in an area with a fair few Cowboy fans - but no matter how much i rided them or tried to provoke them into banter it just wasnt happening. So is there an EPL team you follow or like? |
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Swordpriest1
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posted: 2013-11-09 20:53:25 (ID: 100012989) Report Abuse |
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I've always been partial to Arsenal but thats mainly because of how they handle their transfers and stay some what competitive. I guess I'm a Wenger fan in that respect. They've been trying to sack the dude for years and everytime he stays relevant and finds talent. I respect that.
But you said it.. the atmostphere. I was really getting into Portsmouth a while back because I thought they had a FANTASTIC atmosphere. MLS soccer isnt anywhere near as high quality as the top leagues.. but I'd watch the bottom of the barrel MLS game over any Serie A. I live maybe 3 mi from the Houston Dynamo stadium and I've been to there games a handful of times throughout the years and everytime the crowds get more energetic. Hell as I type this Houston is playing a PLAYOFF game right down the street! But to answer the question.. I dont really follow a particular team like that.. There are some teams I dont like.. Liverpool because of Suarez and Man U just because... I just watch for the thrill of sport. One of the things I like about the EPL is how open yall are with your borders. I couldnt imagine a primary sport here in which most of the players were foreigners and a huge number of the owners were foreigners. This country would flip its lid if they renamed Lamboau Field the Ethihad... Last edited on 2013-11-09 21:26:37 by Swordpriest1 |
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TombKing
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posted: 2013-11-10 09:29:10 (ID: 100013024) Report Abuse |
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NFL Question of the Week....
....and you're talking about soccer...  |
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MTS1972
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posted: 2013-11-10 11:30:43 (ID: 100013035) Report Abuse |
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i allowed it to go off topic!
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TombKing
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posted: 2013-11-10 11:32:23 (ID: 100013037) Report Abuse |
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MTS1972 wrote:
i allowed it to go off topic! Shame on you!  |
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MTS1972
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posted: 2013-11-10 11:36:32 (ID: 100013041) Report Abuse |
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im happy to discuss any topic with a like minded individual!
Am just hoping someone wants to debate cricket.......Jonny!!!!! |
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