I don’t get how this is a good idea at all. If a team goes down to 10 temporarily – they will simply sit back and defend and waste time elsehow until the player is back on the pitch. How does this benefit the entertainment value of the game?
Yes, changes to improve certain aspects of the game should be brought to football. But this simply has no benefits. I’d like to hear other perspectives on this.
No one asked for this.
So a team concedes a goal to a terrible decision, a player queries it, and it’s up to the ref’s discretion to further punish the team with a blue card? Carnage awaits..
This can be only be potentially game altering in the dying minutes of games where teams are trailing
I think it’s a good change. The language just needs to be crystal clear on when these can be given.
It feels like they keep saying this every year but never actually implement it above Sunday league level.
Another way to control the game and affect outcomes whilst diverting from the fact they are incompetent.
I don’t really see the value in it
I don’t mind rules changing to try and make the game better but the officials have been incredibly poor at managing the rules they have to enforce now, I don’t see how adding more complexity and subjectivity helps.
Especially in the situations where these new rules would be used. That can hardly uniformly decide what “advantage” is and because of that have allowed a lot of yellow card worthy cynical fouls go under the new advice.
Players get clipped on counters often and just because their team retains the ball even if it’s backwards or sideways the ref allows play to continue and now can’t go back and give a yellow for it.
There’s really no advantage when the ball rolls sideways to a guy who now has two defenders on him since the other attacking player is no longer a threat. The new policy of not returning to give a yellow is really penalizing the attacking team for retaining the ball even if it doesn’t actually help them.
No way that are able to appropriately administer this rule without fixing the gaps that already exist.
So I think the concept isn’t terrible. It would be nice to have an alternative to a soft red that ruins the game but appropriately punishes a cynical foul.
But, that being said, if two blues equal a red, or a yellow and a blue equal a red, as proposed, then really this card is just a more punitive yellow. If that’s the case, I foresee a lot of problems at implementation. There’s going to be a lot of argument as to whether a yellow or blue was the appropriate card to issue. More subjectivity and ambiguity in the game, which as we know from VAR, is often problematic.
Just make good decisions on Yellow and red cards, Blue not needed.
Can var intervene for a blue?
Wish they would just focus on overall referee performance and consistency rather than introducing such unnecessary and radical changes.
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I don’t get how this is a good idea at all. If a team goes down to 10 temporarily – they will simply sit back and defend and waste time elsehow until the player is back on the pitch. How does this benefit the entertainment value of the game?
Yes, changes to improve certain aspects of the game should be brought to football. But this simply has no benefits. I’d like to hear other perspectives on this.
No one asked for this.
So a team concedes a goal to a terrible decision, a player queries it, and it’s up to the ref’s discretion to further punish the team with a blue card? Carnage awaits..
This can be only be potentially game altering in the dying minutes of games where teams are trailing
I think it’s a good change. The language just needs to be crystal clear on when these can be given.
It feels like they keep saying this every year but never actually implement it above Sunday league level.
Another way to control the game and affect outcomes whilst diverting from the fact they are incompetent.
I don’t really see the value in it
I don’t mind rules changing to try and make the game better but the officials have been incredibly poor at managing the rules they have to enforce now, I don’t see how adding more complexity and subjectivity helps.
Especially in the situations where these new rules would be used. That can hardly uniformly decide what “advantage” is and because of that have allowed a lot of yellow card worthy cynical fouls go under the new advice.
Players get clipped on counters often and just because their team retains the ball even if it’s backwards or sideways the ref allows play to continue and now can’t go back and give a yellow for it.
There’s really no advantage when the ball rolls sideways to a guy who now has two defenders on him since the other attacking player is no longer a threat. The new policy of not returning to give a yellow is really penalizing the attacking team for retaining the ball even if it doesn’t actually help them.
No way that are able to appropriately administer this rule without fixing the gaps that already exist.
So I think the concept isn’t terrible. It would be nice to have an alternative to a soft red that ruins the game but appropriately punishes a cynical foul.
But, that being said, if two blues equal a red, or a yellow and a blue equal a red, as proposed, then really this card is just a more punitive yellow. If that’s the case, I foresee a lot of problems at implementation. There’s going to be a lot of argument as to whether a yellow or blue was the appropriate card to issue. More subjectivity and ambiguity in the game, which as we know from VAR, is often problematic.
Just make good decisions on Yellow and red cards, Blue not needed.
Can var intervene for a blue?
Wish they would just focus on overall referee performance and consistency rather than introducing such unnecessary and radical changes.
Tf is this shit?