Football lawmakers consider trialling kick-ins

[mawspurs]

Football's lawmakers are considering trialling kick-ins and a new method of measuring playing time. The International FA Board, which controls the laws of the game, held their annual general meeting on Monday. During the meeting, they permanently introduced the option for leagues to allow five substitutes from the start of the 2022-23 season.

Source: The Athletic

 

[KirstyG]

I personally wish they’d stop messing with things. If they want to check playing time then how about just stopping the clock for things like injuries, penalties and free kicks. Throw ins and corners are usually seconds.

 

[Llord Flashheart]

I think they need to do something about the length of time the ball is in play. The statistics highlighted recently from a season's worth of football was quite alarming about how little time some teams games have the ball in play. Beyond anything else it's just short changing the fans who are watching.
This ties in with the inordinate amount of time assume goalkeepers are allowed to hold onto the ball before releasing it again, whatever happened to the 6 second rule (was that ever a thing beyond our playground??)

 

[Nerine]

The time wasting pisses me off to no end. Especially when you’re playing a bunch of fucking cloggers and they start time wasting about 5 mins into the first half.
Pricks.

 

[fridgemagnet]

The time wasting pisses me off to no end. Especially when you’re playing a bunch of fucking cloggers and they start time wasting about 5 mins into the first half.
Pricks.

I always point to the Ajax 2nd leg as an example of why not to time waste, if the Ajax keeper had just smashed that goal kick downfield rather than fannying about time wasting on GK's the ref blows for full-time and we don't that late goal IMHO.

 

[DJS]

Wenger needs to make up stupid new stuff to justify his job lol.

 

[daveduvet]

Get VAR right before creating more rules

 

[LSUY]

Hope this doesn't come in as I do like watching a long throw-in

 

[allpaths]

They absolutely need to address the time wasting issue. It's like the sport is stuck in the middle ages.

 

['O Zio]

I always point to the Ajax 2nd leg as an example of why not to time waste, if the Ajax keeper had just smashed that goal kick downfield rather than fannying about time wasting on GK's the ref blows for full-time and we don't that late goal IMHO.

So on that one specific incident it was, in hindsight, the wrong thing to do due to a crazy few seconds that had the whole footballing world's jaws dropping. But that hardly overrides the 99.9% of times that it works out for the best.

It's like using the fact that sometimes people get struck by lightening as evidence that nobody should ever leave the house.

 

['O Zio]

Don't really see what benefit there is to kick-ins personally. Just seems like it would slow the game down even more with little to no obvious benefit

 

[cwy21]

Don't really see what benefit there is to kick-ins personally. Just seems like it would slow the game down even more with little to no obvious benefit

If you were someone in the mid table playing Manchester city, why wouldn't you try to set up every kick in like a free kick anywhere in the attacking half and send it towards the box. Seems like you could kill almost a minute every time you had to kick in.

Or would you have a semi time limit like you do on throw-ins? Would you not be off side if he received the ball directly from a kick in? Because that seems like it would completely change what the sport is.