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Hows this for a mad/bad idea for soccer..........

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  • #102
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    DesF wrote:
    So, why make the change then?
    Because it'd make football more entertaining. Goals make games entertaining. It's not as if the bonus system has made a huge change to things in rugby.


  • #103
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    To be honest, my main point is goals are what make games entertaining. It's why I'd watch the likes of Spurs or Roma or Man Utd or Barcelona at every opportunity.


  • #104
    Necronomicon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    I've only given a brief look at the thread so far, but this caught my eye:
    redspider wrote:
    Hoolio> Zero points of a 0-0 draw

    Which has to be about the most absurd suggestion so far IMO. While there are really boring goalless draws where you think neither team actually deserves something, think about the smaller clubs battling out a 0-0 draw with one of the bigger teams. Reading went to Old Trafford on the first day of the season and got a 0-0 draw because they were immense at the back.

    So taking that game, and taking last night's 4-4 game, you would've had:

    United and Reading - 0 points each for the draw.
    Spurs and Villa - 2 points each for the draw.

    So how are Villa and Spurs more deserving of 2 points than Reading? Reading went to the champions and defended like lions to get a hard-earned point, whereas Spurs and Villa played out a game where 8 goals were scored because of some comical defending and a goalkeeping howler.

    I love seeing goals as much as the next guy, but if every game turned into a Pompey vs Reading or a Spurs vs Villa, it'd become a joke.


  • #105
    _blank_
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    Necromomicon wrote:
    defended like lions to get a hard-earned point,

    The point I've been making in the thread.
    Necromomicon wrote:
    but if every game turned into a Pompey vs Reading or a Spurs vs Villa, it'd become a joke.
    Last night was a joke.


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