If you have to take actions to avoid interfering with play, you are in fact interfering with play originally, right?
I really hate this modern idea that you can be offside without touching the ball. ****ing ridiculous. Can you imagine it 50 years ago? Waggy having a goal disallowed because Chilton was stood offisde and visible out of the corner of the keeper's eye.
Everyone was onside in the box bar those 3 players who weren't, atleast 1 of which had to actually move to avoid being struck by the ball. To be honest though, if we scored that and was disallowed i'd be livid. Can see why it was disallowed though and I'm sticking with it being a correct decision.
Quite right Noel As Clough once said "If you're not interfering with play, then you shouldn't be on the pitch"
Guessing you've never played in goal at a decent level? if there is a player that could direct the ball to the complete opposite side of the goal a keeper will be put off by it. Not saying the one today at Newcastle would have made a difference to Hart but in many situations it completely affects a keeper's decision making.
Well I used to be a goalie but that's irrelevant. It's a total nonsense this rule. I don't even know when it started. I'm sure when I first started going to City, which was only about 15 years ago, you only got offsides for a direct, deliberate pass and if it came off a defender you were onside. Someone relatively recently has used the ambiguity of the term 'interfering with play' to make it this ridiculous grey area where you can be offside from a shot which hits two defenders and then falls to you. What purpose does this serve? The offside rule surely only exists to prevent the concept of 'goal-scrounging' as it was called at my school. All these "well technically..." kind of offsides are just pointless. There's big injustices in football which go unpunished yet good goals are disallowed because someone was stood nearby in an offside position. Defenders can throw strikers around like rag dolls at set pieces and block a certain goal off the line with their hands as long as it's done in a natural position.
Thanks for your wisdom Stevenson. I think you meant 'disrepute' rather than dispute btw. I'm not creating 'such a fuss', it's just the angry inarticulate dimbos who can't grasp the concept of the discussion and get frustrated. I must this thread is rattling along nicely even if the NUFC-Manchester Hunter game has been roped in. Carry on !
Would he be allowed to watch Newcastle at home, with his loved ones? Or is that against your rules too? I would hazard a guess he spends his free time in Newcastle with his family who still live there, possibly got a call from Sky asking him if he fancidd commentating for a few quid, rang the gaffer, got his approval, and cracked on an earned a few quid that will most likely go to charity ( you kmow the one he gave over a million quid to aftrr the testimonial Newcastle gave him), then tomorrow when he reports for training will likely give the gaffer and squad a full run down on BOTH teams as you see more at a groud then you do on tv
I don't impose rules 'citycityhull'- what makes you think I do? I observe the habits and methods of the successful sports teams and wonder how they might be applied to HCFC. At the risk of repeating myself, it's not really a case of 'commentating is tiring' or 'media work ist verboten', it's more a case of appropriateness. In the real world, companies take a dim view of their employees who hanker for their old employer, spend time with former work colleagues, especially when they're in direct competition with them. Some of you students and FIFA manager types: best ask your course tutor or working parents about this? I'm happy to continue to try and explain these ideas to those of you who are a bit slow on the uptake or have limited work experience.
Ye he's sad and lonely so he starts threads so people talk to him. Care in the community, we've all helped him today.
let him do his thing .. ffs .. he is in the twihlight of his career ... not let us down when called upon .. or does that warrant a stewards enquiry because he is not in hull not commenting and earning money (at the approval of the manager might I add) when he should be tucked away in cottingham waiting for the next training session so he can prove to be number two ( a more able number two than we have ever had!) wow some people really get on their high horse over nothing
Lots of experts on here, int there. When was the last time anyone actually read the updated LOTG. Last year it would have been offside for interfering with the line of sight, but the laws changed and they removed all that stupid **** and replaced it with "challenging an opponent for the ball." Gouffran was trying to get out of the way, not in the way, so it wasn't offside. Oh, and while I remember, Stu..... [NSFW] please log in to view this image [/NSFW]
