Off Topic Good Luck Hull FC

The only thing anyone ever says about rugby league is 'the players are real men, make footballers look like fairies etc etc'. Why is it never about the skill, tactics, drama?

If you want to watch tough people compete at sport, just skip the middle men and go to Thai boxing or MMA.

 

I don't think the clock should even be stopped. 90 minutes is enough time to contain everything a football match offers, including subs, injuries and time wasting. 90 minutes should be 90 minutes.

 

Great result last night to make it 8 Wembley trips in 8 years for Hull teams (9 if you include North Ferriby).

Nice to see plenty of well wishers on here amongst the usual bitter ramblings from a predictable few.

 

Depends who you speak to.

 

It's everyone I've ever spoken to about rugby league.

FACT.

 

As many as required and obviously decided by the ref you numpty... I mean seriously? How else would you do it?

 

This is all quite rich coming from the poster that squirreled himself away in a holiday home about 8 inches up Allams arse for about 18 months because a couple of CTID members used some choice language at his expense.

 

Tough call for most FC fans that

 

I suppose that bloke in the mirror can be a bit of a dick sometimes.

 

Thanks for sharing your wisdom with us Banjo.
How do these things work in tennis? Ah, that's right the players can request a video decision, so it's not down to the umpire...it's the players, who have a limited number of appeals.
So in a tight 0-0 that's a crucial game and the ref misses an offside or handball, and is surrounded by players what happens? Can they force him to go the video ref?
Or is it just disputed goal line decisions?
What happen when a player is thought to be fouled in play and that leads directly to a goal against this team?
Can that team demand the ref looks at a replay?

 

Easy for me. After seeing the win against Wednesday at Wembley I closed the curtains on coming back from Aus to watch City again. Last match I saw at the KC a couple seasons ago was against Man U.

 

Michael Jackson?

 

Not a tough call at all, the Allams made the decision for me months ago.

 

Cos they'll miss a chance to see United?

 

I think you tell porkies.

 

What's Scotch football ?
Bells v Glenfiddich

 

There are two players (or 4) in a game of tennis. It's a slower paced game with constant breaks.

In football the decision to move to the video ref would have to be the referees decision. Video ref would also have to be used in certain situations only... The rest would have to be down to the competence of the referee, just like in RL.

The ref shouldn't be allowed to be surrounded by players. They need to start being much tougher. Football has gotten to this 'prima donna' stage where many players have little respect for the ref, the game and only care about winning, even if they use the most unsportsmanlike behaviour to reach that goal.

For me, video refereeing should be used for events that potentially happen inside the penalty area (regardless of whether this be a foul, handball, offside or over the line situation) and only to be used in the outfield in the case of questioning a potential sending off decision. This would be wholly down to the ref and unless he was absolutely sure of his decision, he should transfer it to the video ref.

This would cut out so much game manipulation from players and take the power away from them to dictate a match through theatrics and bitching in the referees face about a decision going against them when they've clearly just snapped someone in half in their own penalty area.

In short, the players shouldn't be able to 'demand' anything. The power should be with the referee... and I know a lot of refs are '****' but they would cease to be with the help of video refereeing.

 

The example of that was Josh Charnley (Wigan) was not playing due to a ban for touching the ref on the shoulder. It wouldn't take long to bring football back under control. RL aint perfect by any means but the refs are definitely in charge, not the players.