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Post by tqstokie on Feb 5, 2009 10:59:47 GMT
I sometimes think that how well your team does depends on the fixture list. If you are lucky, you may meet better teams when they have key players injured or suspended and you manage to achieve a result. The current punishment of foul play results in other teams gaining an advantage when players are suspended and not necessarily the team who were offended against. Therefore, do you think that when a player is sent off a substitute can be sent on 20 minutes later so that it is again eleven against eleven. The player red carded would still be suspended. When a player receives two yellows he is sent off for 20 minutes then can be sent back on. It just seems to me that a player can be red carded after two yellows which in themselves were not bad fouls.
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Post by Beardy200 on Feb 5, 2009 11:03:15 GMT
Fair points and not bad ideas but it's the same for everyone and you'll never wipe all good luck and bad luck from the game so i'd rather not change it personally. I'd prefer the couple of referrals per game per team a bit like the cricket now do.
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Post by PotteringThrough on Feb 5, 2009 13:12:59 GMT
It punishes the player more than anyone else - He is the one who committed the crime so he is the one who should have the punishment.
The other team gets the benefit of having to play against 10 men for however long and that seems fair enough to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 13:38:36 GMT
It punishes the player more than anyone else - He is the one who committed the crime so he is the one who should have the punishment. The other team gets the benefit of having to play against 10 men for however long and that seems fair enough to me. exactly right!! it's the player that's punished which is why the manager/coaching staff always make a point of "he let the team down" etc. you can't say "well it's not fair on the rest of the team 'cos they didn't do anything wrong" you might as well start giving teams a 2-0 head start cos "it's not their fault they're not as good as your team Mr.Ferguson!" Football is a contact sport where rules are there to be followed and they are the same rules that have been there for 30 years or so now (for red cards anyway), we all know the rules so why should we start making exceptions for teams because their players aren't professional enough to keep their heads (like Rory on saturday) "Poor ickle Stokie wokie have only got 10 men now..aaaahhhh" we play by the rules and accept the consequences otherwise we run the risk of turning into ice hockey or , God forbid, American football with sin bins etc. Soz mate, i see your point but footy is not about feeling sorry for the teams because they can't keep their players disciplined, after all it's the same rules for all!! |
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Post by tqstokie on Feb 5, 2009 14:02:24 GMT
Mickmills,
I didn't say I was sorry for "ickle Stoke" or any other team for that matter. I agree the rules are supposed to apply to all but referees do not apply the rules evenly. If they did SWP wuld have been sent off for the tackle on Etherington and Bosingwa for the foot in the back incident.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2009 14:10:57 GMT
i agree so surely therefore we should simply do more to ensure the competency of referees rather than change the rules that the players have to abide by
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Post by nickhfc on Feb 5, 2009 16:56:52 GMT
A sin-bin style of punishment a la Rugby would punish his team on the day, but not have a knock-on effect on teams in successive fixtures.
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