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DMD

DMD

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Bristol City have taken the unusual step of writing to every other club in the Championship to explain that they will not kick the ball out of play, unless a player has suffered a genuine head injury.

"Somebody goes down and sometimes it's tactical, because people try and gain an advantage and sometimes it's genuine.

"So we just decided as a club that we're going to make a rule for the 46 games that we're going to let the referee manage the game.

"So therefore if that's our player injured or the opposition player injured, there's a consistency there.

"If the referee sees a head injury he will stop the game but if it's not a head injury he will play on.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport...420.769272301.1565023215-784484662.1564136907
 
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A great move. I hope they extend it to not giving the ball back should a team kick the ball out when one of their own players has a non-serious injury. I also hope that City adopt this policy. I'd estimate that less than 5% of injuries genuinely warrant some sort of immediate stoppage, and it is almost always clear when that is the case, so there's no downside to it as far as I'm concerned.
 
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I'd like to see legislation introduced that limits the number of 'minute's silence's per season.

One local (fan/ex player/ex manager) and one national.

That's it - except for Force MAGEURE./ truly exceptional circumstances.
 
City Man said:
I'd like to see legislation introduced that limits the number of 'minute's silence's per season.

One local (fan/ex player/ex manager) and one national.

That's it - except for Force MAGEURE./ truly exceptional circumstances.
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How about force majeure?
 
Odd that I recall Brizzle coming to our patch and using every trick in the book to hold onto a 0-0..
 
City Man said:
I'd like to see legislation introduced that limits the number of 'minute's silence's per season.

One local (fan/ex player/ex manager) and one national.

That's it - except for Force MAGEURE./ truly exceptional circumstances.
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Why?
 
DMD said:
Bristol City have taken the unusual step of writing to every other club in the Championship to explain that they will not kick the ball out of play, unless a player has suffered a genuine head injury.

"Somebody goes down and sometimes it's tactical, because people try and gain an advantage and sometimes it's genuine.

"So we just decided as a club that we're going to make a rule for the 46 games that we're going to let the referee manage the game.

"So therefore if that's our player injured or the opposition player injured, there's a consistency there.

"If the referee sees a head injury he will stop the game but if it's not a head injury he will play on.

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport...420.769272301.1565023215-784484662.1564136907
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About bloody time.

Play the game and let the referee ref.
 
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