Marco Van Basten urging FIFA to scrap the off-side rule in Football. Detractors claim it would lead to "carnage" whilst supporters of the idea believe it would make the game more exciting. I might just be with Marco on this one!
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25-03-2021 07:57 PM #1
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Marco Van Basten
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25-03-2021 08:05 PM #2
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Perhaps worth trialing in pre season friendlys although I don’t think it would work. Some changes could be good though. At a minimum it needs to be a case of it in doubt favour the attacker. VAR checking to see if a fingernail was offside is killing the game. Fans want goals!
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25-03-2021 08:06 PM #3
It's a daft idea, but no surprise that it's a striker that suggested it. 😁
There would be literally no football played in the central 50 yards or more. (Yes, even less than there is now before a wag says it!)
Strikers would just run left to right around 20 yards out, hoping to find a bit of space. Defenders would try to get the ball to them asap.
It would be horrible.Last edited by Hibbyradge; 25-03-2021 at 08:10 PM.
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25-03-2021 09:27 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It would, but the current law needs a tweak. VAR has chalked off a load of good goals because the scorer is millimetres in front. It’s ridiculous.
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25-03-2021 10:00 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Personally, I think that offside should measured from where a player's feet are, regardless of where his shoulder or head are.
It might not stop the intricate measuring, but it would bring it into line with how a referee decides if a foul was committed in or out of the penalty box.
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26-03-2021 06:58 AM #6
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26-03-2021 09:05 AM #7
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25-03-2021 08:28 PM #8
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What a goal from SJM
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25-03-2021 08:28 PM #9
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Oops wrong thread 😎
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25-03-2021 08:49 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
and watching Scott Allan destroy an opposing teams offside trap with a delicious slide rule pass is one of life’s great pleasuresLast edited by Pagan Hibernia; 25-03-2021 at 08:56 PM.
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25-03-2021 10:13 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-03-2021 08:56 PM #15
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There is a reason the off side rule came into football.
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25-03-2021 09:25 PM #16
Think it was in the drybrough cup in the 70’s they did the experimental offside not applied beyond a line level with the box. Apart from hibs winning the cup twice I don’t think it was much of a success.
No offside hoofball would be worse than the microscopically defined offsides being called by the EPL’s idiotic implementation of VAR..
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26-03-2021 08:51 AM #17
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26-03-2021 08:57 AM #18This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Remember primary school football? Kick and rush.
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25-03-2021 09:22 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The offside rule is one of the most fundamental things that make fitbaw the greatest game ever played. You would end up with players just hanging around the 18 yard box looking for a long punt up the park and would end up with the game looking more like basket ball than football
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25-03-2021 09:26 PM #21
6-0-4 would be the default formation and 5-0-5 for attacking sides.
There would be zero football and total hoofball. Is van Basten a closet Jambo?Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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25-03-2021 09:29 PM #22
Didn’t they trial this in the league cup, maybe 40 or so years ago? Seem to remember it wasn’t a success, just encouraged poaching. I might be wrong though.
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26-03-2021 05:07 AM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-03-2021 09:41 PM #24This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Limits on movement, passing and the goal being 8ft above your head.
Table tennis might be a better metaphor, but the pretentiousness can sit outside imo.
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25-03-2021 09:46 PM #25This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
He might have been part of the AC Milan team that won the league scoring 36 goals all season so the poor guy is probably just desperate to see some goals.
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25-03-2021 09:51 PM #26This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-03-2021 09:53 PM #27This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was just laughing that you were questioning the credibility of the poster who cautiously backed the idea saying he couldn’t have played at any level when the guy that suggested it was one if the best strikers of all time and played in one of the best club sides of all time.
I think the idea is stupid and it won’t go any further, that’s nothing to do with not playing at a good level though.
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25-03-2021 10:07 PM #28This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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25-03-2021 10:09 PM #29
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I'd like to see it or variation of offside like in Hockey being tried. It doesn't sound like it would work but who knows and it might even stop the richer teams winning everything. Hail Mary after Hail Mary may be better to watch that launching diagonals and tippy tappy sideways rubbish that much of todays football is. VAR and the current Offside rule don't complement each other and the football authorities have not really done much to improve the game unlike Rugby Union etc. I'd much rather sin bins were tried first though
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26-03-2021 06:56 PM #30
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