The end of 'Playing for a Point' ???

[Batman]

What utter, utter bollocks

League considers scrapping draws

Football League chairmen meet on Thursday
The Football League board is to consider a proposal to scrap draws and decide matches by penalty shoot-outs, BBC Five Live understands.
The idea will be discussed by Football League chairmen and chief executives at a board meeting on Thursday.

No timescale has been given for implementing the change if the chairmen go ahead with the proposal.

"Why can't we just have a draw?" Bournemouth boss Kevin Bond told the Daily Echo newspaper.

The idea was originally put forward in the recent Football League Fans Survey.

There are currently two proposals to be considered - a traditional penalty shoot-out or where a player would have eight seconds to try and score after receiving the ball on the half-way line.

"I don't agree with it because I think it's too much of a radical change," Bond added.

"I'm very open-minded and I think certain laws of the game need to move with the times but that would be too much of a drastic measure."

[Daxter]

fecking crap. Leave the game alone, for feck sake.

[americantrotter]

total bullshit.

[TANGODANCER]

Lunacy spawns lunacy. You play well, get a hard-earned draw away from home and then get nothing by losing a penalty shoot out. Who the fxxk comes up with these ideas? And why is this generation breaking its neck to change every form of tradition? What's with this "knock all the statues down and replace them with yellow bananas and unmade beds" brigade? Is there a prize somewhere for re-writing the book? Football has managed for years to survive by playing the rules of the game. We need these sort of changes as much as we need the cranks who invent them. Leave the game alone, get rid of the idiots instead.

[Soldier_Of_The_White_Army]

Next up. A two hour game with four quarters!

[communistworkethic]

stupidity, the fact is that a draw is part of the beauty of the game within a league. Some teams are just equal on the day, it can either be dull or exciting, but so can wins (as we prove) so let it be.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I think it's an excellent idea.












































Except I don't.

[Nozza]

What a great idea!

Aye, I'm taking the piss

[Batman]

What a load of horse bollocks

Oops, wrong colour, Roy Keane is a nice person

[Henrik's fan club]

What a load of bollocks.... just leave the bloody game alone!

[malcd1]

Is it the 1st April today?

[Mar]

Football League Board have nothing better to do than rehash bad ideas. I'm sure this is being done to take the focus away from any goal line technology that needs implementing. Seems the league will once again be playing catchup.

[hisroyalgingerness]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

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sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or quite the opposite - side's'd be happy to sit on a 0-0 in the knowledge that all they would need is 5 decent penalty takers to get 3 points. If anything it could make football even duller.

Absolute arse-gravy of the highest order. Whoever's pushing this should be shot.

[James B]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or quite the opposite - side's'd be happy to sit on a 0-0 in the knowledge that all they would need is 5 decent penalty takers to get 3 points. If anything it could make football even duller.

Absolute arse-gravy of the highest order. Whoever's pushing this should be shot.

yep, it would make the actual game more prone to draws, just look at the likes of world cup games when they get to knockout stage

lets let the americans stick to a no draws principle and we'll keep the game of football the way it is

[superjohnmcginlay]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or quite the opposite - side's'd be happy to sit on a 0-0 in the knowledge that all they would need is 5 decent penalty takers to get 3 points. If anything it could make football even duller.

Absolute arse-gravy of the highest order. Whoever's pushing this should be shot.

I heard that if you win in this way you get 2 points, the "loser" still gets the point for the draw.

[CrazyHorse]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or, score within the first 5 minutes then revert back to the 'play for a draw' style only with a goal in the bag.

I say leave the game alone. After all this is only being talked about because Americans find it so difficult to understand that a sport can be played without there being a definite winner.

[communistworkethic]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or quite the opposite - side's'd be happy to sit on a 0-0 in the knowledge that all they would need is 5 decent penalty takers to get 3 points. If anything it could make football even duller.

Absolute arse-gravy of the highest order. Whoever's pushing this should be shot.

I heard that if you win in this way you get 2 points, the "loser" still gets the point for the draw.

which is even bigger arse-gravy.

[TANGODANCER]

Perhaps we should consider not bothering playing, just take five paenalties each and the winner, er....wins. We don't want the lads suffering fatigue or even injuries from all that extra time now, do we?

[Montreal Wanderer]

sam would be fecked

be tempted to scrap 0-0s from an entertainment perspective

clubs would basically have to score to take anything from a game and at least supporters would see some sort of action

Or quite the opposite - side's'd be happy to sit on a 0-0 in the knowledge that all they would need is 5 decent penalty takers to get 3 points. If anything it could make football even duller.

Absolute arse-gravy of the highest order. Whoever's pushing this should be shot.

I heard that if you win in this way you get 2 points, the "loser" still gets the point for the draw.

which is even bigger arse-gravy.

In hockey, which now has no draws, you get two points for a win and one for an overtime or shoot-out loss. Except the championship series where they play overtime until there is a 'sudden death' winner. The system makes it quite hard to calculate what you need to do to make the playoffs, etc. although I personally enjoy the shootouts. This scoring system is fairly new to make hockey more exciting after the one-year lockout. They are thinking of three points for a win in regulation time a la football.