https://twitter.com/centregoals/status/1675097534518181890?s=61&t=CHnRQ3uRWoyAgq-tzUnftA
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Awful idea.
Why don’t we simply make automated offside a lot more effective.
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Pointless exercise really isn’t it? For the last 5 years they’ve failed miserably to crack offside to find part of the body that’s “deemed to be offside” (in favor of the defender) now they want to switch it to find part of the body that’s “deemed to be onside” (in favor of the attacker)…never ever gonna work.
Wenger proposed something like this a few years ago, saying it rewards attacking play, but it seems like it’s just going to encourage teams to fall deeper.
Also it obviously doesn’t solve anything in regards the application of the rule.
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The only way to stop any debate on this matter as I see it… Would be if there was clear daylight between the attacker and defender… Blurred lines, overlapping lines just leads us to the nonsense we having to put up with…!
Whether it is a good idea to have clear daylight I have no inkling… They have made the game very complicated on certain issues…
Generally automated seems to work, work towards making that fail safe.
I think this is a retrograde step.
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Also continually changing this rule is the worst of all worlds. Football has huge governance issues but of course administrators are instead focused on fucking about with the rules.
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Agree with this. The change is worse than simply keeping the rule and working on improving the decision-making.
The change won’t help the refs at all, but it could change football for the worse: as someone said, it will incite teams to fall back. Playing the offside trap will be a thing of the past, as if it fails, the forward will have a much bigger advantage on the defenders. Even quick defenders won’t be able to make up for it.
The end result will thus be football being played mostly without setting up an offside trap, and thus a much less interesting game to watch, with a ‘security first’ approach coming back into it.
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It is WAY harder for the lino and so will almost certainly fail the tests its going through.
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