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  • Sporting
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    Walking races. What's the point? It's so unnatural. And everyone cheats anyway.

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  • Sporting
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    This is my favourite long-range kick:



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  • ursus arctos
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    That used to be the case, but they are becoming increasingly common on rather bog standard plays, particularly in college football.

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  • Simon G
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    Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
    Those ridiculous celebrations by American Footballers when they make a tackle. Imagine if that happed in association football, high stepping celebrations after a knocking the ball out for a corner...
    Whilst the celebrations are ott, they do tend to come at a time that's crucial in the game. So when it's a 3rd down run for example and they stop the back from reaching for a 1st down and will lead to a turnover. To all intents and purposes, as the Defence don't score very often, this is the equivalent to them scoring a touchdown.

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  • Snake Plissken
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    Originally posted by jameswba View Post
    Or Owen Farrell's crouch and sideways stare at the posts as he's about to kick for goal in rugby.
    Oh, that is another one. If Eddie Betts can smash one through the posts on the run from the edge of the pitch, then I'm sure any rugby union kicker can do so without needing ten minutes of total fucking silence from the crowd.

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  • Hot Pepsi
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    One point conversion in American Football. Hardly ever misses (anyone know the, er. percentage conversion rate)?
    That’s why the NFL moved it back.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    I disagree, but until it's tried we can never know for sure. As noted cards can still be shown, and FK's close to goal still give the attacking team a considerable advantage.

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  • elguapo4
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    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
    Ten yards from the goal-line
    Abolish the penalty and the game becomes a kick fest, what's to stop defenders hacking down attackers every time they're on to a through ball or handling the ball when they're caught out of position. A penalty,provided its correctly awarded , is an appropriate punishment.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    Ten yards from the goal-line (and if deliberate a red card)

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  • Sporting
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    What if it's handball on the goal line? Where do you take the free kick from?

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    An officiating decision in a low scoring sport that gives one team a virtually certain goal is inherently unfair. It should be replaced by a free-kick (direct or indirect) from the point of infringement. And accompanied by a red card if the foul is particularly egregious.

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  • Sporting
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    Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View Post
    The Penalty Kick in Soccer
    Expand, please.

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  • Amor de Cosmos
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    The Penalty Kick in Soccer

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  • Janik
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    Newcastle United

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  • WOM
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    The extraneous post-whistle shoot for the hoop / shot in the net (hockey and football) just to piss off the other team. They should assess a penalty/card for that.

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  • Kevin S
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    Originally posted by Levin View Post

    (I'm only quoting to show what I'm replying to).

    On the Spin podcast someone mentioned the idea of having two inning t20 games and the idea has really struck me.
    Rob Eastaway. Met him a few years ago when he gave a talk to maths teachers.

    Yeah, I like that idea as well. Would fit nicely in one day and it might have a better sense of ebb and flow than the current short formats.

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  • elguapo4
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    Yellow cards in Gaelic sports, they fulfil the same function as in football but unless you get two of them and get sent off there's no accumulation suspension. You could have a twenty year career and get booked in every single match and not serve a minute on the sidelines. Also Gaelic players,especially hurlers, are the only people I ever see celebrating the award of a free.

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  • elguapo4
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    Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post


    Yes, I've never really got that. I presume it's to waste time or give the defence and the 'keeper a bit longer to get their heads right after shipping a goal but we're talking about a few seconds here.

    Back on the toss, in football it's usually customary to choose or allow the home side to attack it's end in the second half, with a bit of booing if the away side wins the toss and goes against the convention. We might as well do away with it, let the home side choose which way to kick at the start of the game and allow the away side to kick off.
    Dalymount park is aligned east/ west so in the first half of a sunny summer evening the keeper has the setting sun straight in his face so choice of ends can be important.

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  • San Bernardhinault
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    Those ridiculous celebrations by American Footballers when they make a tackle. Imagine if that happed in association football, high stepping celebrations after a knocking the ball out for a corner...

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  • Levin
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    Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
    One wonders if batsmen would consciously become more aggressive in overs 20-25,/which wouldn't be a bad thing.

    Would be worth trialing, rather unlike The Hundred.
    (I'm only quoting to show what I'm replying to).

    On the Spin podcast someone mentioned the idea of having two inning t20 games and the idea has really struck me.

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  • jameswba
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    My football one is the referee sprinting half the length of the field to book a timewasting goalkeeper in injury-time when the same goalkeeper has been ostentatiously wasting time since about the 10th minute. Goal-line assistants too. They are completely pointless.

    As for the tennis ones - bouncing the ball, towelling down etc - they are just personal rituals that are clearly important to the player concerned. A bit like batsmen wondering off towards point/square-leg or twirling the bat-handle between deliveries in cricket. Or Owen Farrell's crouch and sideways stare at the posts as he's about to kick for goal in rugby.

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  • caja-dglh
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    Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post
    Yes, I've never really got that. I presume it's to waste time or give the defence and the 'keeper a bit longer to get their heads right after shipping a goal but we're talking about a few seconds here.
    There is also a bit of a mental component / routine for a goalkeeper to get the ball out of the net after a goal. Over 90% of the time the goalkeeper does this and nobody cares / is happy to leave it to them. The sudden interference in routine strikes me as what causes the conflict.

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  • nmrfox
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    The way this Cricket World Cup has been going then bails.
    Johnny Manziel.
    The Monaco Grand Prix.

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  • Sporting
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    Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission View Post



    Back on the toss, in football it's usually customary to choose or allow the home side to attack it's end in the second half, with a bit of booing if the away side wins the toss and goes against the convention. We might as well do away with it, let the home side choose which way to kick at the start of the game and allow the away side to kick off.
    I think there are tacit agreements in place as regards this, in any case.

    It`s curious, though, that both Atlético Madrid and Valencia prefer to play towards their most shouty fans in the first half.

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  • Nocturnal Submission
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    Originally posted by Sporting View Post
    3) Goalkeepers who try to stop the their opponents from picking the ball out of the net after the latter have pulled a goal back, If you need to delay the kick off then simply walk back more slowly to the halfway line.

    Yes, I've never really got that. I presume it's to waste time or give the defence and the 'keeper a bit longer to get their heads right after shipping a goal but we're talking about a few seconds here.

    Back on the toss, in football it's usually customary to choose or allow the home side to attack it's end in the second half, with a bit of booing if the away side wins the toss and goes against the convention. We might as well do away with it, let the home side choose which way to kick at the start of the game and allow the away side to kick off.

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