Without changing the rules to net play time (e.g. two 30 min halves) this is gonna be a MESS.
The idea is fine, but when one team has a sin bin and they start wasting time and in the end the player is out for like 2 minutes of actual game play… while in other case a player is out for 10+ (or whatever it ends up being) people are gonna be mad.
You should never be incentivised to break the rules in a game. Cynical fouls have been a plague for a long time.
If it’s just a trial then I don’t mind - curious to see what the result is.
This is a good idea imo a yellow card for some of these tactical fouls isn’t enough
Just stop fucking with the game.
I don’t understand this obsession with doing “things” without setting out what they’re supposed to address and without setting out how they’re measure if they’re successful. Just slow the fuck down.
More things for city to get away with. Things being at the referees discretion isn’t going to go well. Especially something like this
Having only captains talk to refs is long overdue.
It will ruin a lot of games like in rugby with the inconsistencies. On r/rugbyunion every post match thread is like 90% comments about the ref.
The ref is NOT the protagonist of the game.The VAR stuff yesterday, Sin Bins today. It’s like an advent calendar of ways to ruin the most popular sport in the world. I’m looking forward to seeing what dogshit idea they’ll give us tomorrow
This could work for dissent, but even then I’m not keen. A 10 minute spell on the sidelines is enough to ruin a game for something we’re trying to define as less serious than a red card.
Imagine - a high stakes, UCL Semi Final, 88 minutes and it’s level, end to end. A player loses it for a second under immense pressure, drops an f-bomb at the 4th official and is sin-binned. Their teammates stop playing and sit deep waiting for extra time. Game ruined, for what benefit?
Pre-VAR I would have been all for this, but I can only see this lengthening the game even more and introducing another source of uncertainty and disagreement.
Okay… what is the problem people have with sin bins (aka orange cards)?
People live in this dream world where the rules of football never change.
From 1950-1990 the fundamental make up of the game changed absolutely loads. 2 points for a win, no penalty shootouts, pass backs, no red card for tackles from behind, offside if you’re level.
Football isn’t some holy doctrine that has always been like this so I have no idea why people are opposed to further positive change.
People think that removing a player for ten minutes is so mind-bogglingly complicated that we can’t possibly make it work, despite grassroots officials doing it across england for the last three years.
They can’t enforce the rules already in place, are we to believe they could handle this whole new system? Call me a cynic but I don’t have much faith.
My problem is how easier than other sports it is to waste time in football.
Rugby? If you’re down one man you need to bust your ass to pass time.Football? Foul someone, get in front of the ball; spend a minute for a throw-in or a goal kick. Fake an injury.
Before introducing sin bins, I need these anti-football behaviours addressed.
No thanks
Tactical fouls are dead.
This is why I like the idea
Not sure about the sin bin thing before I hear more but one thing I think Football has needed for a long long time is allowing only the captain to approach the referee.
It’s frustrating to watch when a foul or something happens and then you get half the pitch sprint over to the ref to try and influence him into making some kind of decision.
Having the ref’s micced up so you can hear a conversation between them and the captain would make for good viewing whilst also improving the overall game I think.
100% agree. I’m at a point of just card anyone who yells at the ref. It’s insane how much time is wasted just watching grown men bitch and someone to stand one foot from the ball until the ref makes them back up.
Also the new trend of when a foul is given all the opposition players nonchalantly run over or next to the ball to stop a quick free kick. So frustrating. In rugby that free kick would be advanced 10 yards.
New trend ?
Advancing a free kick isn’t always beneficial in football though. It has been tried before.
Not at all serious suggestion, loosely based on some NFL rules, where the non-penalised team can choose between two outcomes:
Let the other team choose whether to advance it 10 yard or give the player a 2 minute sin binning.