Tuesday, September 11

Can Fitba Learn From Rugby?

Wie the international Fitba' being consigned to the inner back pages in some respectable broadsheets due to the start of the Rugger World Cup it's only natural that some of us that would watch any sort of sport- the cricket 20/20 world cup started today, grabbed ma interest- that we would end up watching a game we don't usually watch.

Regulary hailer, sixtaeseven, has been watching the rugby world cup and posted the question below on the last thread and i thought it would be worth an article itself as there is really sod all hoopy news worth commenting on. So here it is..

Just watching the rugby and was thinking that a few things could maybe be introduced to the fitba'.

I quite fancy the idea of yellow card and your sinbinned (let's say for 20min in a fitba game). As it stands, they offended team doesn't get any benefit. A persistant fouler will calm down a bit but that's about it.

I like the way the ref indicates that he is playing advantage, but when the team doesn't actually gain any advantage he goes back to the place of the incidentt and gives the foul.Talk back to the referee and he'll tell the other team to move their free kick 10yards in front. That would end the yapping, nae bother.But in general, I like the way the refs seem to take a lot more responsability and help to play to develop.

4pts for a win plus bonus points?Bonus point for 4 goals or more, maybe? 2pts for a score draw and 1pt for 0-0, maybe?

Injured player being subbed but can come on a bit later if he recoveres - why not?Nae rolling in pain on the deck allowed for fear of being a pure embarassment to yourself and your teammates - nah, that will never catch on in some dark places like Porto and Ibrox.:o)

Any thoughts?

5 comments:

Keving said...

I'm going to be a bit wet behind the ears here..but disnny a sinbinned player get replaced by a sub?

Anyway, i'm not a fan of the sinbin but i am a fan of a orange card. right an amber card then. The amber card would carry a point pen the same as a red just now, which would lead to more suspensions.

So it would be yellow, amber then red get all three you get thrown in jail....

agree the indicating of advantage is something that should be used in fitba.

Tha talkbac..if ma amber card thingy was used then i would make all talking back punishable wie a yellow card, i'm sure the the lower english leagues tried the 10 yard thing and it failed.

Mind you maybe talking back should just get a yellow the now anyway...next tackle a red.

I hate guys getting booked for moaning, i really do.But i think players should be taught from under 8 upwards not to talkback and i'm also sure GS brought in a rule that if any player gets booked at youth level and below for talking back he gets subbed right away?

I'm not a fan of changing the point system to many more ways for teams to gerrymander points for their greater good.

ianinjesi said...

It was always the best footballers who were the biggest moaners!
You will notice that the rugby World cup doesn`t try to waste games like FIFA do with strange choices of referees. The FIFA way, the bigger the game the weirder the choice!

sixtaeseven said...

Imagine a game at Pittodrie with the score at 3-2 to the Tic with 15 minutes to go.

Aberdeen are on to plums, so 2pts would be a big incentive to try and push forward for an equalizer (goal scoring draw).

At the same time I'm sure the Tic would be quite tempted to go for goal number 4 (and a bonus point). The way it is at the moment, you would expect us to kill the game.

Rejigging the points system could result in more entertaining games.

It will never happen though, the guys in Nylons make the SFA look progressive.

Keving said...

Six- i do understand where you are coming from...but changing the mantra of the Largs mafia would lead to more entertaining games as well.

Coaches, tactics and systems lead to more entertaining games i don't really think changing the points system would change that as long as you have dinosaurs like Smith, Jeffries and et all patroling the dugoots of this land.

Ian- agree we will see some shocking ref's over the coming months in europe. Better ref's make for me free flowing games, as i'm sure we have all seen examples of great advantage play by ref's

sixtaeseven said...

We need more refs like that Mars Attack guy -- Collinon (or is that Star Trek?)
Different world from the SPL fodder anyway
:o)