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Is the offside trap dead ?

  • 24-05-2010 11:10pm
    #1
    AIR-AUSSIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭


    I was reading this article on the possible abolition of the offside (seems another blatter hair brained idea).

    But in it the writer states that the changes to the offside rule (whether a player is interfering with play) has led to the death of the offside trap.

    The anti-offside lobby should be careful what they wish for

    In my opinion I don't believe it is certainly not italy (Of course whether it was used anywhere else could be debated).

    But my question are offside traps still used in football. And do you think they were a good tactic in football?


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  • #2
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,982 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Nothing more rewarding than beating the offside trap and the goalkeeper! :)

    It's definitely not dead, the four lads in the back line certainly aren't waving at the cameras when they have their hands in the air.


  • #3
    dreamers75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,558 ✭✭✭✭dreamers75


    Defences will just on the egde of the 18 yard box and rarely push up so the game will become stretched with acres of time and space. Much like nightowls and most 11 a side astro leagues, we be all deadly lads.


  • #4
    ocokev
    Closed Accounts Posts: 373 ✭✭ocokev


    AIR-AUSSIE wrote: »

    But my question are offside traps still used in football. And do you think they were a good tactic in football?
    Yes still used in football and never a good tactic with Paul Mcshane on the field.


  • #5
    everdead.ie
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    Yes used a good bit saw reading use it a lot this year especially in the fa cup


  • #6
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,982 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    ocokev wrote: »
    Yes still used in football and never a good tactic with Paul Mcshane on the field.

    Haha!


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  • #7
    AIR-AUSSIE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭AIR-AUSSIE


    A failed liverpool offside trap against fiorentina?


  • #8
    Neil3030
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,154 ✭✭✭✭Neil3030


    Well a trusted La Liga expert on RTE claims it's the only way Barcelona know how to defend...


  • #9
    PHB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    It's designed to tighten the game to increase the skill levels required to break it down. If the offside trap didn't exist, Ronaldo could never make amazingly dazzling runs because the defenders wouldn't move past the 18 yard box, they couldn't. They would never be needed to develop those skills. It would shift massively towards other skills that would work best in a game with no offside, mainly imo, strength and finishing over pace and drlibbing.


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