New IFAB Laws

Richard Hillman

The guardians of the game have come together again to make the game worse to watch.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10242286/ifab-anounces-law-changes-softening-punishment-for-fouls-inside-the-box

Summary
Fouls in the box/Goal Scoring incidents

The law has now changed so that players committing accidental fouls, that deny a goal-scoring opportunity, are not automatically sent-off, but cautioned instead.

Players will still be sent-off for holding, pulling or pushing, not playing the ball or having no possibility to play the ball, serious foul play, violent conduct or deliberate handball.

Cue Refs fudging on intentional fouls

The Kick off

The New Laws also state the ball will also be able to move in any direction from kick-off, rather than only move forward.

The big issues tackled :pac:

Injured players

Players who are injured by a challenge punishable by a yellow or red card can now have quick treatment on the field, rather than having to leave, which previously gave the offending team temporary numerical advantage.

The very reason why they brought the leaving the field rule was because players were time-wasting. This is slightly different as in there must be a booking/red card but we will see a lot more time wasting from this.




Again they ignore issues that are driving so many games into crapfests. Time-wasting, the lack of actual game playing time, cynical fouls etc.

keano_afc

Nothing about retrospective punishment for dives. Disappointing.

Magico Gonzalez

They may have missed changes, but i can't see how any of these are a bad thing.

It's daft to send off for an tackle which was badly timed, or where the defender went for the ball and the attacker shifts direction causing the defender to foul. No issue, penalty and a yellow covers it. A red is so over the top in those situations. Now, if the attacker is split in two of the defender plays goalie then fair enough. A red is required.

Kick off. Meh.

Injured Player. Again, a good rule. It's only correct that if someone needs "quick" treatment after a red or yellow card they can get it on the field without the team losing a player. This is a small correction. Makes sense.

There might be a lot more they should have done but these are 2 good changes and one..meh.

Richard Hillman

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

They may have missed changes, but i can't see how any of these are a bad thing.

It's daft to send off for an tackle which was badly timed, or where the defender went for the ball and the attacker shifts direction causing the defender to foul. No issue, penalty and a yellow covers it. A red is so over the top in those situations. Now, if the attacker is split in two of the defender plays goalie then fair enough. A red is required.

Kick off. Meh.

Injured Player. Again, a good rule. It's only correct that if someone needs "quick" treatment after a red or yellow card they can get it on the field without the team losing a player. This is a small correction. Makes sense.

There might be a lot more they should have done but these are 2 good changes and one..meh.

On paper they all sound like lovely idea's but we know full well they will be exploited, especially the injured player thing.

If we looked back to the Mertezacker on Diego Costa incident, that is now a yellow card and a free-kick from 30 yards out. Leaving aside the debate of if he dived, an incident like that greatly favours the defensive team. EDIT: This is wrong, it is only for incidents inside the box

We know full well that the refs will cop-out on the Red Cards for Goalscoring opportunities. Look at the Iniesta thing last night.

Richard Hillman

keano_afc wrote: »

Nothing about retrospective punishment for dives. Disappointing.

I think that is left for the leagues to sort out. I remember Serie A and SPL brought it in but now seems to be forgotten.

Harry Palmr

The first touch at kick off should be a shot at goal.

While not a major issue it'll be weird seeing the new kickoff, probably just one player passing backwards.

Richard Hillman

I would have like to have seen:


The Wall for Free-Kicks pushed back to 12 yards.

The time-keeping of a game taken away from the ref.

The time stopped for goals and subsitutions.

The 6 second rule for keepers to be reintroduced and enforced by the time-keeper.

The refs behind the goal introduced to all high-level games to look at fouling
in the box. Particularly shirt-pulling and pushing. And allowed to come onto the field of play for corners and certain free-kicks.

Skylinehead

What's wrong with free kicks now? No need to make them easier.

6 second rule is already a rule, what would the IFAB add? "Please enforce this?" It's up to the refs that one.

alchemist33

The IFAB, the game's law-making body, also approved a two-year trial period of video technology to assist referees, to be used in four cases: to determine if a goal has been scored, red cards, penalties and mistaken identity.

About time too.

Corholio

What exactly is an 'accidental foul'? That's muddying the already, brown waters of awarding penalties. It should always be a red if a defender fouls a striker when he's clear on goal or if last man, any defender can say they were going for the ball and just 'accidentally' fouled them. Refs now just have another excuse not to make big decisions, whether it was 'accidental' or not.

Magico Gonzalez

Magico Gonzalez wrote: »

Injured Player. Again, a good rule. It's only correct that if someone needs "quick" treatment after a red or yellow card they can get it on the field without the team losing a player. This is a small correction. Makes sense.

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Injury = time wasting.

Treatment off the field, with the player who "causes" the injury off the field also so no advantage of numbers.

Magico Gonzalez

Corholio wrote: »

What exactly is an 'accidental foul'? That's muddying the already, brown waters of awarding penalties. It should always be a red if a defender fouls a striker when he's clear on goal or if last man, any defender can say they were going for the ball and just 'accidentally' fouled them. Refs now just have another excuse not to make big decisions, whether it was 'accidental' or not.

I think there is a world of difference between a genuine attempt to tackle and a cynical attempt to stop play.

Basically you should be able to apply the same rules inside the box as you do outside.

If anything it is simpler now. Same rules for inside and out, only difference is that it's a penalty instead of a direct free.

Magico Gonzalez

Deleted User wrote: »

Injury = time wasting.

Treatment off the field, with the player who "causes" the injury off the field also so no advantage of numbers.

Is it not easier just to let them both carry on instead of the extended rigmarole of sending off a player on a yellow to let them back on when play starts again because another player might be injured. That'd be awful.

Magico Gonzalez

Richard Hillman wrote: »

I would have like to have seen:


The Wall for Free-Kicks pushed back to 12 yards.

The time-keeping of a game taken away from the ref.

The time stopped for goals and subsitutions.

The 6 second rule for keepers to be reintroduced and enforced by the time-keeper.

The refs behind the goal introduced to all high-level games to look at fouling
in the box. Particularly shirt-pulling and pushing. And allowed to come onto the field of play for corners and certain free-kicks.

-Free kicks are fine as they are.

-Possibly.

-Surely the ref should be taking subs into account with his added time? I don't think we want to get to an American Football scenario where we are managing the clock to the second, football doesn't lend itself to those types of last second plays. Agreed we should control the ET because it seems very dubious sometimes, but not micro manage it.

- Very against the 6 second rule for the keeper. Allows a team to boot the ball up in the air to the opposing keeper and create a situation where they have the keeper has to boot it away again. Gives an incentive to a hoofball team to keep loafing it at the opposition keeper and try and win the ball back through a pressured kickout. No way that should be back in.

Mars Bar

They should have added that the ball be fully inside the lines for the corners. It pisses me off beyond belief.

Richard Hillman

Mars Bar wrote: »

They should have added that the ball be fully inside the lines for the corners. It pisses me off beyond belief.

You'll still have gimps taking corners that think placing the ball 1 inch outside the regulated area will make a difference.

I would like to see a rule where the ball must travel 10 yards from the corner kick, to ban short corners.

It would also stop those "run the clock down" moments