donmentor wrote:
Scribble wrote:
I wish they would stop interfering in football, it’s worked perfectly well for donkeys years, we don’t need sin bins, we don’t need VAR, we don’t need five substitutes, just stop it, please.
Go and meddle elsewhere
Could not agree more. Constant rule changes and over coaching have been the spoiling of what was a simple game.
Agree with much of it.
Certainly I don't see the need to meddle in terms.of introducing a sin bin. That seems an unnecessary and intrusive change that's far from just a tweak.
The number of substitutions being increased I think is an inevitable consequence of the increasing speed of the game, and the increased amount of running players are required to do with each passing generation. That physical demand, combined with an increased awareness of health & safety, means things like increased substitutions, introduction of concussion subs, etc, was inevitable and in keeping with changes and safety discussions in other sports.
Similarly, the introduction of VAR was pretty much inevitable given how many other sports used technology, and the increased amount of discussion about how the richest sport could continue justifying not using it. It's what it's used for, and how (in)effectively, that's the biggest issue. Personally, I wish they'd just kept it for line decisions - goalline and offsides - and left the rest alone. But then there'd have inevitably been constant debate each mistake about
why it wasn't been used to correct it when the technology was there to be used, etc. So, to be fair, I think Football pretty much held out as long as possible - longer than some thought it should - before finally introducing it.