Premier League 2015/16: New Rulings

That_Guy

It's not exactly a major overhaul but the new offside rulings are quite interesting. I wonder how long it will take for the refs/linos to balls it up.

Few key points from the BBC website:

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/33783861

As the English football season gets under way this weekend, players and staff will also have to come to terms with new disciplinary rulings, offside decisions and a brand new ball.

The biggest change in discipline sees players who feign injury to get an opponent sent off facing the prospect of being penalised themselves - while managers must adhere to a written code of conduct.

In an attempt to clarify the offside rule, new guidance means that players' "attempts to play a ball" or "impacting on an opponent playing the ball" from an offside position will now be flagged.

That link I've posted has some graphics which explain the new offside ruling further.

Regarding players surrounding refs, I want to see refs dish out more yellow cards for it. They tried to implement something like this before and players still swarm the ref.

A few yellows and reds would put a stop to it and referees shouldn't be afraid to stamp their authority all over it.

brevity

That_Guy wrote: »

Regarding players surrounding refs, I want to see refs dish out more yellow cards for it. They tried to implement something like this before and players still swarm the ref.

A few yellows and reds would put a stop to it and referees shouldn't be afraid to stamp their authority all over it.

I would be very much in favour of this.

cson

Tbh football should just adopt the rugby approach and Captain only allowed speak to the ref. The way players treat the officials these days, in particular those from the England international team, is a huge negative in terms of the image it gives to youngsters that its fine to mouth off, remonstrate and generally act aggressively towards officials.

That being said, the standard of officiating has been fairly horrendous in recent years so while you can't condone it, you can understand it somewhat.

SantryRed

Is that actually a change to the offside rule? It's more of a clarification surely? Last season, it was noted as a player interfering in play. This just simplifies that further. Doubt it'll change anything though.

Mushy

brevity wrote: »

I would be very much in favour of this.

It would be great. Clubs would have to stamp it out too as they'd continually get fined for not controlling players if there were a few bookings in one go.

Paully D

They need to get the 'player clearly interfering with the goalkeeper by standing in front of him in an offside position' thing sorted big time IMO.

Unfortunately it seems that will still be allowed to slide as long as the player doesn't make a clear attempt at playing the ball.

Skylinehead

cson wrote: »

Tbh football should just adopt the rugby approach and Captain only allowed speak to the ref. The way players treat the officials these days, in particular those from the England international team, is a huge negative in terms of the image it gives to youngsters that its fine to mouth off, remonstrate and generally act aggressively towards officials.

That being said, the standard of officiating has been fairly horrendous in recent years so while you can't condone it, you can understand it somewhat.

I swear they brought this in a few years ago, and it was roundly ignored and not enforced.

cj maxx

Love to see stiffer ( financial ) penalties on player and club for swarming the ref and its gonna happen unless the rugby approach, or similar, is taken but i think that means having refs mic-ed up.
It'd be great at the start !
F••k you etc etc

Skylinehead

It's completely ridiculous too, when do you see the ref change his mind? Never.

DerekDGoldfish

cson wrote: »

Tbh football should just adopt the rugby approach and Captain only allowed speak to the ref. The way players treat the officials these days, in particular those from the England international team, is a huge negative in terms of the image it gives to youngsters that its fine to mouth off, remonstrate and generally act aggressively towards officials.

That being said, the standard of officiating has been fairly horrendous in recent years so while you can't condone it, you can understand it somewhat.

Its easier in rugby as all players are going to be close enough to the play, but if you have a keeper as captain having him run to the oposition penalty box to discuss a decision or a striker as a captain having to run to his own penalty box would cause issues.

Lovely Bloke

Skylinehead wrote: »

It's completely ridiculous too, when do you see the ref change his mind? Never.

it's not about getting the ref to change his mind, it's about getting him to not make the same mistake again (mistake or not), and to put doubt in his head.

death1234567

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's not about getting the ref to change his mind, it's about getting him to not make the same mistake again (mistake or not), and to put doubt in his head.

Correct. It's about making life as difficult as possible for the ref when he gives a decision against your team so he's less likely to do it in the future.

The_Kew_Tour

Diving, fix diving

LuckyLloyd

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Diving, fix diving

Too controversial.

Skylinehead

Baldy Conscience wrote: »

it's not about getting the ref to change his mind, it's about getting him to not make the same mistake again (mistake or not), and to put doubt in his head.

I get what you mean, and it might be effective, but for me that would just turn the ref against you with that carry on.

brevity

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Diving, fix diving

It would have to be retrospective and it would have to be very obvious dives for it to work.

I would also include shirt pulling and what I find is the attacker goes to ground when there is a tug on the shirt as its the only way they are getting a free.