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  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #235

    For you soccer fans, if you like the way that game was decided yesterday, please go to your bathroom, look at yourself in the mirror and say "I am looking at a fucking Retard". Because that is what deciding the most important tournament in the sport is with penalty kicks: Retarded.

    If you enjoyed that, please go to your local geneticist and have yourself tested for Down's Syndrome.

  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @mld-woody said:

    Not every position in football requires one to be a great tactician. Not every person needs to be perfect each play.

    Plays happen in soccer too, they're just on the fly and with a smaller number of players involved.

    Yea, like basketball.

    MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on
    #236

    @the-gipper said:

    Yea, like basketball.

    Yeah, pretty much. More elaborate, but pretty much the same basic concept

    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
  • gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #237

    This really needed a new thread? Hopefully someone can merge.

    Anyway, have a read through this, it details a load of ideas. Which would you be in favour of?

    http://www.penaltyshootouts.co.uk/alternatives.html

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    This really needed a new thread? Hopefully someone can merge.

    Anyway, have a read through this, it details a load of ideas. Which would you be in favour of?

    http://www.penaltyshootouts.co.uk/alternatives.html

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #238

    @gftchris said:

    This really needed a new thread? Hopefully someone can merge.

    Anyway, have a read through this, it details a load of ideas. Which would you be in favour of?

    http://www.penaltyshootouts.co.uk/alternatives.html

    Here is the quote from that article that I like best:

    One notable exception occurred in semi final of the 2006 World Cup when the Italian team believed that they would lose to the Germans in the penalty shoot-out. They threw everything at the Germans, hitting the post and bar in the first two minutes of extra time and played with an exciting reckless abandon that eventually saw them get goals in the final minutes of extra time.

    This semi-final was frenzied, exhilerating football that recalled an earlier game in the tournament, Australia vs Croatia, in which only the winner would progress to the next stage. Sadly, this game is remembered by most people for Graham Poll's refereeing blunders, but this was another helter-skelter ride and probably the best game in the competition.

    I believe that if you played by the rule that a game was won by scoring the "Golden Goal", it would vastly increase the excitability and the efforts of the teams involved. Until a goal is scored, no one wins. That would lead to urgency on the part of each team to score. It would cause them to be aggressive and attack the goal.

    Laying back and playing patty cake like these teams seem to do sucks the life out of the game. You say guys would get tired? Too damn bad. Guys get tired playing hockey....and eventually that "tiredness" may lead to a breakdown in a defense and a score. So, good, let them get tired. The team that is most aggressive, in the best shape should win. Again, it is done in NHL hockey, it should be done here....at least in the elimination rounds.

  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on
    #239

    You watch a handful of games every four years, you know nothing about "the life of the game".

    I would be for the 30 like it is now, then a 30 golden goal. They'd have to allow more sub's for the last period though. Like an extra 3 or 4.

    You can't play indefinitely though without risking injury. Well, there's always a risk, but that would be an unnecessary increased risk

    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

    You watch a handful of games every four years, you know nothing about "the life of the game".

    I would be for the 30 like it is now, then a 30 golden goal. They'd have to allow more sub's for the last period though. Like an extra 3 or 4.

    You can't play indefinitely though without risking injury. Well, there's always a risk, but that would be an unnecessary increased risk

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #240

    @mld-woody said:

    You watch a handful of games every four years, you know nothing about "the life of the game".

    The exciting part of the game from my viewpoint is when a team is attempting to attack the goal. From just watching these games I can tell you that they don't do that 95% of the time.

    I would be for the 30 like it is now, then a 30 golden goal. They'd have to allow more sub's for the last period though. Like an extra 3 or 4.

    You can't play indefinitely though without risking injury. Well, there's always a risk, but that would be an unnecessary increased risk

    If hockey players who play a lot tougher, more physically demanding sport, can do it these preening pansies can do it.

    Actually, as far as I am concerned they should have a liberal substitution policy for the entire game....like basketball, football, hockey.

    👍
  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody wrote on
    #241

    Hockey players do not play the entire game, there are lines.

    By the time you get to that second 30 minutes players would have already run over 8 miles

    Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody!
  • MLD WoodyM MLD Woody

    Hockey players do not play the entire game, there are lines.

    By the time you get to that second 30 minutes players would have already run over 8 miles

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #242

    @mld-woody said:

    Hockey players do not play the entire game, there are lines.

    By the time you get to that second 30 minutes players would have already run over 8 miles

    OK, well, as I said, I think soccer would be improved to allow freer substitution. I think it would make the player fresher, and more will to be aggressive.

    The fact is a lot of why games are 0-0 is passivity.

  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #243

    i got germany with a 2 beer bet.

  • P Pumpkin Eater wrote on
    #244

    Soccer is so gay that you can lose and still advance in the tournament.

    :neutral_face:
    gftChrisG 1 Reply
  • miktoxicM miktoxic wrote on
    #245

    not in the final set.

  • P Pumpkin Eater

    Soccer is so gay that you can lose and still advance in the tournament.

    gftChrisG gftChris wrote on
    #246

    @pumpkin-eater said:

    Soccer is so gay that you can lose and still advance in the tournament.

    So only undefeated teams ever reach the playoffs in the NFL? Huh, learn something every day.

    DieHardBrownsFanD 1 Reply
  • The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #247

    So, now that its over we can turn to a truly enjoyable international competition: the British Open.

    (While I wanted Argentina to win the soccer thing, I preferred to have the game decided by an actual goal scored than by the stupid penalty shootout....at least the situation was not a complete travesty).

  • gftChrisG gftChris

    @pumpkin-eater said:

    Soccer is so gay that you can lose and still advance in the tournament.

    So only undefeated teams ever reach the playoffs in the NFL? Huh, learn something every day.

    DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan wrote on
    #248

    @gftchris said:

    So only undefeated teams ever reach the playoffs in the NFL? Huh, learn something every day.

    Isn't the World Cup a play off scenario? Teams can lose and still advance? Can't do that in real FOOTBALL, (The NFL).

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  • DieHardBrownsFanD DieHardBrownsFan

    @gftchris said:

    So only undefeated teams ever reach the playoffs in the NFL? Huh, learn something every day.

    Isn't the World Cup a play off scenario? Teams can lose and still advance? Can't do that in real FOOTBALL, (The NFL).

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #249

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Isn't the World Cup a play off scenario? Teams can lose and still advance? Can't do that in real FOOTBALL, (The NFL).

    There were two levels of play in the World Cup. There was group round play, where 4 teams were in a group and played a round robin. The best two teams from each group then went to the elimination round, where it is lose and out. You can lose in group round and be eligible to go to the elimination round, like the US did, as long as you had the best two records in your group.

    Kosar_For_PresidentK 1 Reply
  • Kosar_For_PresidentK Kosar_For_President wrote on
    #250

    http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/tech/social-media/world-cup-social-media/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

    Luck is Tim Couch. Big, Dumb Goofy, slow thinking QB - Ghoolie, 2-28-12
  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @diehardbrownsfan said:

    Isn't the World Cup a play off scenario? Teams can lose and still advance? Can't do that in real FOOTBALL, (The NFL).

    There were two levels of play in the World Cup. There was group round play, where 4 teams were in a group and played a round robin. The best two teams from each group then went to the elimination round, where it is lose and out. You can lose in group round and be eligible to go to the elimination round, like the US did, as long as you had the best two records in your group.

    Kosar_For_PresidentK Kosar_For_President wrote on
    #251

    @the-gipper said:

    There were two levels of play in the World Cup. There was group round play, where 4 teams were in a group and played a round robin. The best two teams from each group then went to the elimination round, where it is lose and out. You can lose in group round and be eligible to go to the elimination round, like the US did, as long as you had the best two records in your group.

    Gip sure knows a lot about gay stuff.

    Luck is Tim Couch. Big, Dumb Goofy, slow thinking QB - Ghoolie, 2-28-12
  • Kosar_For_PresidentK Kosar_For_President

    @the-gipper said:

    There were two levels of play in the World Cup. There was group round play, where 4 teams were in a group and played a round robin. The best two teams from each group then went to the elimination round, where it is lose and out. You can lose in group round and be eligible to go to the elimination round, like the US did, as long as you had the best two records in your group.

    Gip sure knows a lot about gay stuff.

    The GipperT The Gipper wrote on
    #252

    @kosar_for_president said:

    Gip sure knows a lot about gay stuff.

    Alexander the Great was gay....and he conquered the world.

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