https://www.theguardian.com/football...ls-in-training
"The Scottish Football Association is finalising its plans... a ban on children under the age of 12 from heading could be introduced within weeks... The United States has had similar restrictions in place since 2015..."
As medical evidence emerges, it seems inevitable that, in the not too distant future, the art of heidin' the ba' will disappear from our game. What then? How will tactics change when the nod-down and the Braveheart lunge with the head at corner kicks are banned? And what on earth will our simple-minded neighbours do? Does this mark the beginning of the end; the demise of the HOOF?
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Thread: Heading for the end of the hoof?
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25-02-2020 12:17 PM #1
Heading for the end of the hoof?
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25-02-2020 12:19 PM #2
Would be the best thing for the Scottish game. Learn positioning, technique, skill and the like. Heading can be taught later on but if technical ability with your feet and positioning is ingrained first then we will have more skilful players.
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25-02-2020 01:09 PM #3
Football without heading would be extraordinary. I'm not opposed to it, though - just means that games will become very different.
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25-02-2020 01:14 PM #4
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What will Hertz do now. Uche certainly doesnt have the fancy footwork skills?
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25-02-2020 01:37 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-02-2020 01:51 PM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Imagine trying to safeguard children from brain injury. Games gone!!!
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25-02-2020 02:06 PM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We are a long way from that. This is just about banning heading for younger kids.
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25-02-2020 02:07 PM #9
Could be the best thing ever to happen to our game .... In fact the best thing would be to introduce a bar height rule in kids football which would force them and more pertinently their coaches to keep the ball on the deck.
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25-02-2020 02:16 PM #10
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It's really not going to make much of a difference in terms of people's technique.
Coaches aren't spending hours teaching young kids how to header a ball anyway, so it'll make almost zero difference.
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25-02-2020 02:34 PM #11
Heading the baw didn’t affect me
Heading the baw didn’t affect me
Heading the baw didn’t affect me
Heading the baw didn’t affect me
Heading the baw didn’t affect me
Wibble wibble, whoop, wharp, moooo....
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25-02-2020 03:02 PM #12
Can you imagine no winning the Scottish Cup in 2016 cause Sir David headed the ball into the net
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25-02-2020 05:32 PM #13
Mixed feelings on this...i can see the push to safeguard health etc....but most if not all of the ex players affected played in times of a heavy leather ball...
...todays light plastic coated footballs would seem to offer less risk?The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
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25-02-2020 05:36 PM #14This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-02-2020 05:57 PM #15
In around 20 years of watching and coaching players up to 12 years old I am struggling to think of any training that involved heading and hardly ever a header during a game. Most kids faced with a ball in the air will shut their eyes and pull back their head towards their shoulders.
So impact re training and playing will be minimal.
Still agree with the change in guidance though.
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25-02-2020 06:11 PM #16
As Jack Nicholson famously once said in a courtroom "You can't handle the hoof"! 😉
With special thanks to Greg Davies.
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25-02-2020 08:22 PM #17
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25-02-2020 08:34 PM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The kids will be allowed to head in games. just not in training.
The incidents we have seen in recent years of older retired players having diseases related to the brain are so many.
The ball in the old days could massively increase in weight during games .
Particularly on rainy days.
It became like a cannonball.
And it hurt Adult and child alike.
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I knew and still know a couple of players who are afflicted with vascular dementia.
One a defender the other a striker
The decision ,until our medical experts learn more, is sensible in my view.
.Last edited by Mick O'Rourke; 25-02-2020 at 08:40 PM.
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25-02-2020 09:06 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteMature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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25-02-2020 11:17 PM #22This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Presumably, it'll make life easier for keepers though.
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26-02-2020 03:51 AM #25
My dad died of vascular dementia, there were many factors not football related but surgery related but he once scored 4 goals in a 2-2 draw and had no memory of it after a nasty knock to the head.
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26-02-2020 11:56 AM #26
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We could go down the lines of some kind of headwear to protect the skull?
The players who are now having dementia problems were used to playing with the old heavy leather ball that soaked up water.
Nowadays its a far lighter ball that does not retain water, so to my thinking its closing the barn door after the horses have bolted!!!!
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26-02-2020 12:51 PM #27
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26-02-2020 01:11 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-02-2020 02:34 PM #29This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
True. But for how much longer?
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26-02-2020 05:05 PM #30This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I still see a lot of drop kicks, big hoofs etc by other teams. Mostly I think because they think kids will duck out the way.
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