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Post by spitthedog on Mar 15, 2015 23:23:35 GMT
I'm confused. Is it being outlawed?
It seems that any tackle is potentially dangerous and therefore a yellow card.
After the watching the Leicester v Hull game this seems to be the way refs are interpreting the law
2 perfectly good tackles and bookings for their trouble.
How can you tackle without it being potentially dangerous?
So do coaches instruct their defenders not to tackle?
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Post by StokeAz on Mar 15, 2015 23:25:36 GMT
I'm confused. Is it being outlawed? It seems that any tackle is potentially dangerous and therefore a yellow card. After the watching the Leicester v Hull game this seems to be the way refs are interpreting the law 2 perfectly good tackles and bookings for their trouble. How can you tackle without it being potentially dangerous? So do coaches instruct their defenders not to tackle?No cus that would be stupid  |
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Post by spitthedog on Mar 16, 2015 0:20:57 GMT
I'm confused. Is it being outlawed? It seems that any tackle is potentially dangerous and therefore a yellow card. After the watching the Leicester v Hull game this seems to be the way refs are interpreting the law 2 perfectly good tackles and bookings for their trouble. How can you tackle without it being potentially dangerous? So do coaches instruct their defenders not to tackle?No cus that would be stupid Not if you're going to get booked for tackling? There are clearly some players who trying to make out that they are being fouled every time they are tackled and there is obviously an increase in the amount of refs and pundits who are ready to believe them. Virtually every mistimed tackle is now deemed a booking. Tough for defenders. |
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Post by JoeinOz on Mar 16, 2015 0:56:59 GMT
Sometimes tackling is essential BUT shouldn't be the be all and end all of defending and stifling the opposition. Sometimes you can commit to a tackle unnecessarily.
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Post by tuum on Mar 16, 2015 5:50:03 GMT
The way things are now any tackle that causes there to be contact with the opposition could be considered a foul.
Refs are not being helped by players falling over at the drop of a hat. All teams,including us,are guilty of this. It seems that TP has mellowed over the years because West Brom were quite good at falling over on Sat and the less said about Morrison's? dive,the better.
Football is slowly becoming like the WWF but without the choreography. It wont stop me watching Stoke but I hate to see it. I dont tend to watch any other PL games because of all the play acting & cheating going on. Football has been corrupted by money and greed.
Re.tackling. It depends on whether or not you consider football as a true contact sport where tackling is a skill to be encouraged or whether tackling is just an incidental part of the game that detracts from the ultimate aim of the sport and should therefore be tolerated at best and discouraged at worst.
I think football is a contact sport and all players have a responsibility to stay on their feet whenever possible. The way things are now i would do away with the penalty award. Just give a free kick and let the defending team stick 10men behind the ball. There would be less focus on dodgy decisions then. Granted,you will get a few more professional fouls but send the offender off and away you go.
I hate the interpretation of the rule that gives a team a free shot at goal from 12 yds when nine times out of ten the infringement was either trivial or would not have resulted in a goal.
I think the status of the 'tackle' within the game is worthy of very serious debate. Like the scrum in Rugby Union it will change beyond recognition within 10 years the way things are going.
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