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Tandy

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

It’s not that mad of a suggestion tbh.

Ice hockey did it, albeit with fewer players in a smaller pitch.

I wouldn’t be opposed

Tandy

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

It’s not that mad of a suggestion tbh.

Ice hockey did it, albeit with fewer players in a smaller pitch.

I wouldn’t be opposed

It would be fun.

We'd regularly see scorelines of 11 - 12. 😆

StechyBlue

Tandy

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

It’s not that mad of a suggestion tbh.

Ice hockey did it, albeit with fewer players in a smaller pitch.

I wouldn’t be opposed

It would be fun.

We'd regularly see scorelines of 11 - 12. 😆

I don't think you would. I think it may actually end up being the opposite of fun.

Tandy

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

It’s not that mad of a suggestion tbh.

Ice hockey did it, albeit with fewer players in a smaller pitch.

5 a side football as well.

Not sure it translates to a much bigger pitch though.

StechyBlue

I think (at this stage) it's what ive been saying for ages. Clear advantage.

Being a gnat knacker in front of a player doesn't give me an advantage, but if we 'quantify' the advantage as 'a full human body in front' then we have eliminated the ambiguity AND made things a bit more sensible in the process.

Daylight between players, offside, end of.

The whole of the ball has to be over the whole of the line to be out, why not the whole of the body as per daylight between players?

Charcy

StechyBlue

Tandy

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

It’s not that mad of a suggestion tbh.

Ice hockey did it, albeit with fewer players in a smaller pitch.

I wouldn’t be opposed

It would be fun.

We'd regularly see scorelines of 11 - 12. 😆

I don't think you would. I think it may actually end up being the opposite of fun.

This. It'd be rubbish. Goal hanging and just having defenders blast the ball from one penalty spot to the other. That's what you'd basically get.
Mind you, it'd save money as you wouldn't need to employ midfielders any more 😄

baldrick

Just do away with the offside rule completely

No more offside traps.
Tactical decisions about whether to leave defenders back
No more VAR bollocks for marginal calls

Back to pre 1863 then...

NewHeavenlyBlues

StechyBlue

I think (at this stage) it's what ive been saying for ages. Clear advantage.

Being a gnat knacker in front of a player doesn't give me an advantage, but if we 'quantify' the advantage as 'a full human body in front' then we have eliminated the ambiguity AND made things a bit more sensible in the process.

Daylight between players, offside, end of.

The whole of the ball has to be over the whole of the line to be out, why not the whole of the body as per daylight between players?

As it was pre 1990

Le Mod

Has a clear day light rule ever been a thing? I've no recollection of it

Pre 1990... then rule changed so that if you were level with the 2nd last defender you were onside

...which prompted the argument ..."was he level?"...

This is really how offsidr should work, the attacker is clearly nearer the goal than the defender, VAR interpretation has made this necessary as ridiculous delays to rule out petfectly good goals is ruining the game. Forwards will still play on the shoulder but now the implementation will be fair, Vive Arsene

B_C_F_C

Le Mod

Has a clear day light rule ever been a thing? I've no recollection of it

Pre 1990... then rule changed so that if you were level with the 2nd last defender you were onside

...which prompted the argument ..."was he level?"...

Cheers, I knew I wasn't dreaming it.

B_C_F_C

Le Mod

Has a clear day light rule ever been a thing? I've no recollection of it

Pre 1990... then rule changed so that if you were level with the 2nd last defender you were onside

...which prompted the argument ..."was he level?"...

Not really a daylight rule then, as no daylight was required to be offside, more of a 'is any part the attackers anatomy past the 2nd last defender" rule, which is not really much different to the change they're making now in a sense that it's merely another movement of 'the line'

The issue for me is that the thin line you draw is open for debate.

If we did 'torso to torso' with an agreed measurement in between you could basically come up with a solution where the computer calculates that defender A was 75% advanced past defender B. ONSIDE.

Anything beyond that is OFFSIDE.
There is the measure - a number.

At the minute we're measuring with our eyes debating whether the blokes finger was in line other blokes eyebrows. It's feckin stupid.

I think it would help to be some sort of agreed upon metric.

So peeling off the shoulder is allowed, but beyond a certain point we ALL agree that's where we ALL consider the advantage.

OR we do the torso to torso daylight thing, but with 5% discretion. So if you CANNOT connect the two players with a line between them - offside.

You’d still have fine lines dictating if a player is on or off. The more you mess the more confusing it gets

You’d still have fine lines dictating if a player is on or off. The more you mess the more confusing it gets

Maybe but no one agreed to the fine line, no one wants it.

Watching someone get a goal denied costing 'millions' to a clubs future, for the sake of a ballbag, is daft.

I do understand it could get even more complex but surely if we all agree on an element of discretion - it removes the debate.