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View JohnB's Profile JohnB Flag 17 Jun 20 8.29am Send a Private Message to JohnB Add JohnB as a friend

Universal basic wage cap of £15,000 a year but bonuses uncapped.

 

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View samprior's Profile samprior Flag Hamburg 17 Jun 20 8.32am Send a Private Message to samprior Add samprior as a friend

Pitch should be changed to double the length but half the width.

Exchange goalposts for jumpers.

Oh and the pitch should be on a 10% slant.

 

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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 17 Jun 20 8.41am Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by Eaglecoops

Bring a couple of basketball and rugby rules in:

Five fouls and you are off for the rest of the match but no ban. Stop the serial foulers hopefully.

Once the ball has crossed the half way line it can’t be passed back into your own half which should make for more attacking football.

Yellow cards mean automatic 10 minute sin bin.

Arguing with the referee over a free kick decision results in a 10 yard territory gain to the opposition.

The sin bin is definitely worth considering. They could have an intermediate card for things like kicking the ball away or dissent - two of those equal one yellow.
Ticket prices are high enough without having to watch 11 v 10 because someone has been sent off for a technical offence.
The 10 yard penalty was tried a few years ago but wasn’t used much - there is only a small area where it makes any real difference; maybe 35 to 25 yards out so it needs to be at the attacking team’s discretion since a closer free kick can be harder to get the ball up and down from.

 

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View eagleman13's Profile eagleman13 Flag On The Road To Hell & Alicante 17 Jun 20 8.54am Send a Private Message to eagleman13 Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add eagleman13 as a friend

Originally posted by samprior

Pitch should be changed to double the length but half the width.

Exchange goalposts for jumpers.

Oh and the pitch should be on a 10% slant.

Most if not all pitches are slightly 'domed' in the EPL/EFL/NFL pyramid, this is mainly for drainage, this is why we dont get the brilliant muddy pitches of yesteryear.

Oh, & Teddy Eagle is right, we did indeed have the 10 yard law, trouble was, so many fans & broadcasters hated it.

 


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Tom-the-eagle Flag Croydon 17 Jun 20 8.57am

To comply with fairness, each team should have to field two over 65 year olds

 


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View Teddy Eagle's Profile Teddy Eagle Flag 17 Jun 20 9.11am Send a Private Message to Teddy Eagle Add Teddy Eagle as a friend


There is a book called The Ugly Game by Martin Calladine contrasting football with the NFL. American football is surprisingly egalitarian; the idea is to stop any one team becoming dominant, hence the draft system. All merchandising is NFL branded and revenue is shared out equally between the teams, except from memory, the Dallas Cowboys who somehow exempt themselves. The wage cap means each team have a maximum amount to spend on wages. If they decide to give one player 75% of it the others have to share what’s left.

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Jun 20 10.00am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Tom-the-eagle

To comply with fairness, each team should have to field two over 65 year olds

Blimey that means we'll have to dump half the team to comply.

 


One more point

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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 17 Jun 20 10.19am Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Originally posted by samprior

Pitch should be changed to double the length but half the width.

Exchange goalposts for jumpers.

Oh and the pitch should be on a 10% slant.


I remember an away Subbuteo fixture at Trevor's house circa 1968 where both legs on one side of the table had somehow got broken. The temporary remedy wasn't quite good enough hence the slope on the pitch was approximately 10%. It was a nightmare, but it did lead to an increased usage of one of the 'throw-in figures' [Link] although the other one didn't have much involvement.

 


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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 17 Jun 20 10.39am Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by jeeagles

Stop teams piling everyone behind the ball.

Make them have two players in the opposition half at all times. Like the oposite to offside. To acount for the offside rule make it that a pass played from your own half cannot result in the player recieving the ball being offside.

Should make the game a lot more attacking.

This happening has almost killed football and made most matches not worth watching on tv for me.

 


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View Fatherken's Profile Fatherken Flag 17 Jun 20 12.14pm Send a Private Message to Fatherken Add Fatherken as a friend

I agree with the 10min in a sin bin for a yellow card
I think when a injured player ( after a foul )who has to leave so should the player who committed foul

 

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View Elpis's Profile Elpis Flag In a pub 17 Jun 20 10.17pm Send a Private Message to Elpis Add Elpis as a friend

We should have 3 points for a goal and One point for over the bar or ten yards wide

Yes Christian Im doing it , ..and teams only allowed 3 touches before they have to cross it !

 


And we still need a striker

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View Laszlo Panaflex's Profile Laszlo Panaflex Flag 17 Jun 20 10.37pm Send a Private Message to Laszlo Panaflex Add Laszlo Panaflex as a friend

All footballers must have proper names like Alf, Jimmy, or Bob, and proper hairstyles too. Bonus points for RAF-worthy moustaches.

 

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