Rules you would change (2 Viewers)

tommydazzle · May 29, 2019

Some sports I never watch might be more exciting if the rules were changed. I reckon tennis would be bettter if they scrapped the second serve. F1 they should all have the same cars so we would only be judging driver ability. In darts the board should be slowly rotating. In snooker you should have to pot all the balls in the same pocket your first one was sunk (used to play a version of pool like this) The boat race they should be allowed to ram each other or maybe board each other with cutlasses. Golf is beyond redemption.

The Great Eastern · May 29, 2019

F1 should scrap qualifying and have the finishing order of the previous race back to front on the grid. Therefore the two Mercedes would almost permanently be on the back of the starting grid. Would make it a true test of skill for once.
Works for stock cars ok with red tops at the back at the start.

westcountry_skyblue · May 29, 2019

I agree F1 is boring same old same old every race,Need to sort something in that and it might be worth watching?

Philosoraptor · May 29, 2019

In rugby, making the ball round and picking it up to be a sending off offence.

Nick · May 29, 2019

westcountry_skyblue said:
I agree F1 is boring same old same old every race,Need to sort something in that and it might be worth watching?

More crashes and road rage overtakes

Philosoraptor · May 29, 2019

I do like the idea with ice hockey where you can play the puck behind the goal.

Should be transfered to other sports

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 29, 2019

I think snooker the colours of the balls should be reversed (ie yellow on the black spot, green on pink etc). So you can choose to keep the ball in tight control but score less points or take the risk of going back up the table for more points but maybe running out of position.

Plus if you've got a long pot to nothing they usually then end up tapping it behind a baulk colour because it's not worth the risk of 2 extra points compared to at least 4 of a foul. So and you get 10 minutes of a player desperately trying to play an almost impossible shot off 5 cushions etc. Give them a black or pink to go for and they might think "I'll give it a go"

Don't get me wrong, I love seeing big breaks but they're far too common and they need to become more special again when someone makes them.

chiefdave · May 29, 2019

Philosorapter said:
making rugby an offence.

Fixed.

Philosoraptor · May 29, 2019

chiefdave said:
Fixed.

Just seen your homage to Sensible Soccer on Twitter.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 29, 2019

Football wise there's a few.

1. Offside is offside. None of this active/inactive bollocks. If a player is on the pitch he's affecting play. A defender lying injured on the goalline will play everyone onside as they're deemed active, so why the hell isn't a forward standing beyond the last defender, even if they don't recieve the ball.

2. the rule of 'deliberate' on handball needs to be dropped. Far too open to interpretation. Loads of freekicks/penalties are given where it's clearly not deliberate. However it has affected lay and should therefore be penalised. Not sure how to change it, but at the moment I'm favouring all handballs are considered foul play but are only given as indirect free-kicks even in the area. If someone is deemed to have deliberately handballed it to prevent a scoring opportunity or goal is a sending off.

3. Probably the most controversial but I think the shape of the penalty area is all wrong. If you're on the byline at the edge of the box you've got very little chance of scoring but get fouled and you get a penalty. But just outside the area in the centre of the goal you don't even though you've got a much higher chance of scoring from there. Just seems wrong to me. So I'd have a more trapeziodal shape to it, probably with an arc rather than straight line.

The pedant in me has also felt that a penalty spot should be 10 yards, not 12. On a free kick you have to be 10 yards from the ball, so why should it be different for a penalty?

chiefdave · May 29, 2019

Philosorapter said:
Just seen your homage to Sensible Soccer on Twitter.

Great game that was. Football games seem to have got progressively shitter as the capability of the consoles has increased.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 29, 2019

The Great Eastern said:
F1 should scrap qualifying and have the finishing order of the previous race back to front on the grid. Therefore the two Mercedes would almost permanently be on the back of the starting grid. Would make it a true test of skill for once.
Works for stock cars ok with red tops at the back at the start.

This exactly.

Houchens Head · May 29, 2019

Boxers should have hidden weapons in their gloves, like knuckle dusters and razor blades.

Philosoraptor · May 29, 2019

chiefdave said:
Great game that was. Football games seem to have got progressively shitter as the capability of the consoles has increased.

Couldn't agree more.

This has caught my eye over the last year or two. Watching its development with some interest.

chiefdave · May 29, 2019

Philosorapter said:
Couldn't agree more.

This has caught my eye over the last year or two. Watching its development with some interest.

That looks great. Don't know why they don't port older games over to platforms like iPad. Surely wouldn't cost much and you'd make a fortune knocking them out for a few quid.

OffenhamSkyBlue · May 30, 2019

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Football wise there's a few.

1. Offside is offside. None of this active/inactive bollocks. If a player is on the pitch he's affecting play. A defender lying injured on the goalline will play everyone onside as they're deemed active, so why the hell isn't a forward standing beyond the last defender, even if they don't recieve the ball.

2. the rule of 'deliberate' on handball needs to be dropped. Far too open to interpretation. Loads of freekicks/penalties are given where it's clearly not deliberate. However it has affected lay and should therefore be penalised. Not sure how to change it, but at the moment I'm favouring all handballs are considered foul play but are only given as indirect free-kicks even in the area. If someone is deemed to have deliberately handballed it to prevent a scoring opportunity or goal is a sending off.

3. Probably the most controversial but I think the shape of the penalty area is all wrong. If you're on the byline at the edge of the box you've got very little chance of scoring but get fouled and you get a penalty. But just outside the area in the centre of the goal you don't even though you've got a much higher chance of scoring from there. Just seems wrong to me. So I'd have a more trapeziodal shape to it, probably with an arc rather than straight line.

The pedant in me has also felt that a penalty spot should be 10 yards, not 12. On a free kick you have to be 10 yards from the ball, so why should it be different for a penalty?

Agree whole-heartedly with 1 and 2.
3: you could have the pitch round/oval like they do in Aussie Rules (so that they can play in a cricket ground)

4: Adopt the following rules that work well in rugby:-
i. Allow physios onto the pitch to treat injuries while play continues and without waiting to be invited by the ref - improved player safety and flow of the game. And stop this bollocks of requiring anyone who has been treated to leave the field until invited back on by the ref when the ball is live (i.e. a fouled player's team being penalised).
ii. ONLY the captain may approach the referee to ask for confirmation on decisions. Dissent on a decision, kicking the ball away or failure to retreat 10 yards moves a free kick 10 yards forward.
iii. 10 minute sin-bin for yellow card offences (sent off for the second, as currently)
iv. Accurate fixed-time games, with an off-field timer who stops the watch on instruction from the ref for breaks in play, or the second a goal is scored (to prevent lengthy goal celebrations). Match finishes when ball goes dead after 90 minutes clicks over.

Don't get me started on video technology, but VAR sucks and the rugby TMO TENDS to work better.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 30, 2019

OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Agree whole-heartedly with 1 and 2.
3: you could have the pitch round/oval like they do in Aussie Rules (so that they can play in a cricket ground)

4: Adopt the following rules that work well in rugby:-
i. Allow physios onto the pitch to treat injuries while play continues and without waiting to be invited by the ref - improved player safety and flow of the game. And stop this bollocks of requiring anyone who has been treated to leave the field until invited back on by the ref when the ball is live (i.e. a fouled player's team being penalised).
ii. ONLY the captain may approach the referee to ask for confirmation on decisions. Dissent on a decision, kicking the ball away or failure to retreat 10 yards moves a free kick 10 yards forward.
iii. 10 minute sin-bin for yellow card offences (sent off for the second, as currently)
iv. Accurate fixed-time games, with an off-field timer who stops the watch on instruction from the ref for breaks in play, or the second a goal is scored (to prevent lengthy goal celebrations). Match finishes when ball goes dead after 90 minutes clicks over.

Don't get me started on video technology, but VAR sucks and the rugby TMO TENDS to work better.

I forgot to put something akin to parts iii and iv in especially. Part ii is sort of in place but is never upheld. Needs the sin-bin idea so anyone doing so has a 'cooling off period'. Part i I've no problem with either as it stops people going down feigning injury to timewaste etc.

tommydazzle · May 30, 2019

Not a rule but the centre circle bothers me. All it's used for is to space out players at kick offs. Seems a bit overkill for all that lime-wash. Also penalty shoot outs - so much a lottery - either do the same as in hockey where you have ten seconds to run in and score from the half way line which at least might give the keeper more of a chance or let us see some fancy footwork from the takers. Or continue with extra time taking a player off every five minutes - next goal wins. The game would soon open up and chances would multiply.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 30, 2019

Just been listening to the cricket and I always get annoyed with the batting clique. Always look down on bowlers and laugh at their technique at batting.

So I say lets even it up in limited overs - everyone has to bowl as well. Lets all have a good laugh as batsman get smacked around the ground because they've got poor technique.

For example.
20 over cricket.

Every player (except the wicket keeper) must have bowled (or have been able to bowl) at least one over by the end of an innings. Any one player can only bowl a maximum of 6 (so the other 10 overs can be bowled by your two main strike bowlers if you wish).

You can choose to have the first twelve done by your main bowlers if you wish to finish a game early, but run the risk of the last few overs being hit everywhere if they don't get the wickets.

50overs pretty much the same but with higher allocations - each player minimum of 2 overs.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 30, 2019

tommydazzle said:
Not a rule but the centre circle bothers me. All it's used for is to space out players at kick offs. Seems a bit overkill for all that lime-wash. Also penalty shoot outs - so much a lottery - either do the same as in hockey where you have ten seconds to run in and score from the half way line which at least might give the keeper more of a chance or let us see some fancy footwork from the takers. Or continue with extra time taking a player off every five minutes - next goal wins. The game would soon open up and chances would multiply.

I'm the same with the 6 yard box - does it actually perform a function other than for goal kicks? It's not like it's an area no-one other than the keeper can go in. I think paybe a semi-circle between the posts as a 'goalie area' like in ice hockey might be worth a look.

I'm trying to think of a way to stop all the holding at corners/free kicks etc but the only thing I can see is getting the refs to actually uphold the law and either give a penalty or free kick every time. Players will eventually learn.

OffenhamSkyBlue · May 30, 2019

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Just been listening to the cricket and I always get annoyed with the batting clique. Always look down on bowlers and laugh at their technique at batting.

So I say lets even it up in limited overs - everyone has to bowl as well. Lets all have a good laugh as batsman get smacked around the ground because they've got poor technique.

For example.
20 over cricket.

Every player (except the wicket keeper) must have bowled (or have been able to bowl) at least one over by the end of an innings. Any one player can only bowl a maximum of 6 (so the other 10 overs can be bowled by your two main strike bowlers if you wish).

You can choose to have the first twelve done by your main bowlers if you wish to finish a game early, but run the risk of the last few overs being hit everywhere if they don't get the wickets.

50overs pretty much the same but with higher allocations - each player minimum of 2 overs.

We used to have a work league when i was down in Surrey, between all the research establishments in the locality. All very friendly (but we won the league the year i played!). It was 20 overs a side, but everyone in the fielding side (except the wicket-keeper - ME!!) had to bowl two overs each. Made it good fun, and no-one ever got the piss taken because they weren't very good at batting or bowling.

ovduk78 · May 30, 2019

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
I'm trying to think of a way to stop all the holding at corners/free kicks etc but the only thing I can see is getting the refs to actually uphold the law and either give a penalty or free kick every time. Players will eventually learn.

Make all the players except the goalkeeper wear comedy foam gloves then they won't be able to hold each other!!

Any player who feigns injury, dives etc in the next game it's open season and every player on the opposition is allowed one kick at him. That'll soon put a stop to the cheating

Houchens Head · May 30, 2019

OffenhamSkyBlue said:
Agree whole-heartedly with 1 and 2.
3: you could have the pitch round/oval like they do in Aussie Rules (so that they can play in a cricket ground)

Where would corners be taken from? :emoji_thinking::emoji_thinking::emoji_thinking::emoji_laughing::emoji_laughing::emoji_laughing:

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 30, 2019

Something else that annoys me is bans - just taken at the next available game. They should be against the team the offence was against, even if it carries forward for a number of years.

Let's say a player gets sent off against us in injury time and the whistle blows so we get no advantage. That player is banned for the next game, which is against one of our main rivals for promotion. Our main rivals would benefit because that player was unable to play, but we got nothing from it at all. If the offence he got sent off for also means one of our players spending time out through injury it's a double whammy in our rivals favour.

Houchens Head · May 30, 2019

Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Something else that annoys me is bans - just taken at the next available game. They should be against the team the offence was against, even if it carries forward for a number of years.

Let's say a player gets sent off against us in injury time and the whistle blows so we get no advantage. That player is banned for the next game, which is against one of our main rivals for promotion. Our main rivals would benefit because that player was unable to play, but we got nothing from it at all. If the offence he got sent off for also means one of our players spending time out through injury it's a double whammy in our rivals favour.

What if our team gets relegated/promoted or his team gets relegated/promoted? We might never meet up again for years. What if he gets transferred? Even more of a dilemma, what if he's transferred to us? Bit of a quandary, that idea.

Sky_Blue_Dreamer · May 30, 2019

As I said the ban hangs over his head, like a suspended sentence, until retirement. If he gets transferred then that team can't pick him against us - it was there before they signed so they should know about it due to research. If he's transferred to us doesn't matter as he won't be playing against us so we can pick him.

Another option is that the team who the player got sent off against gets to choose which match(es) they will miss. Maybe a cut-off point when there's 5-10 games left they can choose to carry it forward to next season) It's a bit complex admittedly but the current system really isn't fair.

Liquid Gold · May 30, 2019

An olympics where the athletes can take as many PEDs as they like.

Covkid1968# · May 30, 2019

Goalkeepers in football should have a rule where they stay on their line at all times... even for crosses. Imagine the goal fest and Burge would be a legend. It could be enforced by attaching them to a large rod like Subuteo

SBAndy · May 31, 2019

Liquid Gold said:
An olympics where the athletes can take as many PEDs as they like.

Was talking about this the other day. I’d love to see a javelin where they’re throwing it 2.3 miles.

tommydazzle · May 31, 2019

In the Olympics all the athletes should be naked as in the original ancient games. Except the shot putters obviously.

tommydazzle · May 31, 2019

In the Tour de France punctures would have to be repaired by the cyclist with spoons and a bowl of water.

To space out the peloton, bikes would be fitted with chariot blades on their wheels.

Terry Gibson's perm · May 31, 2019

Make the box tennis players serve into smaller to slow the service speeds down. Also as the prize money is the same make it a mixed event.

ovduk78 · May 31, 2019

Combine some of the Olympic events to spice them up, show jumping with the javelin, synchronised swimming with the shot putt, rowing with the archery....

Philosoraptor · May 31, 2019

Covkid1968# said:
Goalkeepers in football should have a rule where they stay on their line at all times... even for crosses. Imagine the goal fest and Burge would be a legend. It could be enforced by attaching them to a large rod like Subuteo

Its the little details that matter.

Philosoraptor · May 31, 2019

SBAndy said:
Was talking about this the other day. I’d love to see a javelin where they’re throwing it 2.3 miles.

The governing body moved where you gripped the javelin a few years back to a more unbalanced position so it would fly less through the air.

It was getting to a point for safety that they were concerned on how far it was travelling before it lands.

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