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At a meeting last week all Football League clubs agreed to consider a revolutionary proposal for penalty shoot-outs to decide all drawn matches as part of a wider review aimed at making the game more entertaining.

A meeting of the 72 league chairmen agreed to a working party being set up to consider the proposal among other ways of making their competitions more attractive.

The proposal was put forward by Football League chairman Lord Brian Mawhinney, and would see all drawn matches in professional league games outside the Premiership go to a shoot-out.

http://www.swindontownfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/News/NewsDetail/0,,10341~999802,00.html?

If this happens I'm never setting foot in a football league ground again.

they can fuck off...in the nicest terms possible

If it aint broke..

What a nob idea

It's a horrible, horrible idea.

When would the early leavers go to beat the traffic!?!

It would be a nightmare on days where you're looking out for matches elsewhere etc.

Oh, and the idea alone is complete bollocks too.

In this case I think stupidity will be defeated. They will rightly be told to fuck off by the fans.



Be sure to do that, it is important the football league get the message.

15% have voted yes on the poll on the official site, fifteen percent!!! Who are these freaks?

That goes for Rafa Benitez and the re-introduction of his Liverpool B-to-play-in-the-Football-League idea.

Maybe, in Spain Rafa... But not here thank you.

Americans

Nice one Rafa (and Arsene and Jose) - which dozen or so clubs are going to have to go bust so your also-ran Spanish no-marks can get a bit of a run-out then? In fact, why not just completely fucking dismantle the entire English league structure while you're at it? After all, football's only really about the top half-dozen clubs in the Premiership, the rest are just make-weights and inconveniences on your road to Champions League glory aren't they? Twats.

New FA rule: any foreign manager who fails to understand the importance of the whole Football League structure to the game in this country and comes up with stupid schemes which would destroy the fabric of the game solely to suit his own bunch of selfish whinging primadonnas to be deported in leg-irons back to whence they came. And they can take Adrian Durham, Mike Parry and the rest of the "there is no football outside of the Prem" crew with them.

Apart from that I really have no strong feelings either way

Whilst I can wholeheartedly agree with the vast majority of your argument, here I think you're being a little unfair on Durham. He may be a professional wind up merchant, who deliberately adopts completely indefensible positions in debates around the game just to generate a bit of pointless debate, but he's also a long suffering Peterborough United fan, who's only too aware of life outside the top flight, (and may well get to experience life outside the league fairly soon the way things are going).

That aside (pumps arm in irritating American talk show audience member stylee) whoo, whooo, whooo..go pauld, go pauld..

I emailed the club yesterday after seeing their story, and before seeing this thread, and said *exactly* the same thing. Implement penalty shootouts and I'll never go to a football league game again.

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There are no draws!

Terrible idea - will never happen, the fans and players/management and seemingly all but a few administrators hate the idea - it's on a par with the reserve team idea - Rafa we have reserve leagues in England for a reason!  Whats more either loan some players out or don't buy so many in the first place!

To be fair I do love the drama of a good penalty shoot out, can't beat it for pure shitting your pants excitement!!

Fair point Lumps. I just hate him so I kind of lumped him in in a "and you can have some too, you nobend" sort of a way. I was on a roll.  :D

Adrian Durham may support a lower league team but in fairness, that doesn't stop him being a prize twat.

Your original points were 100% spot on btw Pauld 8)

yes - after extra-time in a world cup quarter final. But after everytime you've already sat through a turgid 0-0 draw for teams based 13th and 14th in the league ? No thanks !

I prefer my penalty shoot out league idea than this to be honest!

But I do love those penalty show downs man.

Especially when england are involved!!! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I think it's a ludicrous suggestion. They might as well decide it on a Mascot shoot out at half time

HOWEVER

For any knock out competition where the prospect of said shoot-out exists in the rules, I agree with the theory that it should be held BEFORE kick-off. This would have the effect of one team knowing that they had to win in normal/extra time and presumably giving it a right go, with the other team equally presumably putting up the shutters. At least, in this scenario one team would be trying to score rather than both of them playing out time.

I also feel as strongly about not  letting Andy Gray, sorry TV replays, decide the outcome of every 'controversial' decision. This would include"you can't book anyone inside the first 5 minutes or in the last 10", "can't send anyone off unless they play for a 'small' club, as the punters pay to watch 11v11", It would also allow us to chuckle indulgently as "Scholesy" disembowels his 4th opponent of the season in an 'enthusiastic' way

All this is an attempt to justify TV's investment in the game. I'm surprised the old "bigger goals" chestnut hasn't surfaced yet, not that it'd help us much mind.

Additionally, I agree with PaulD on the Spanish reserve league thing

Madness.

A poor team away to a good team is even more likley to stick 11 men beind the ball and hold out for 0-0, if they manage that then they have a 50% chance of winning the pen shoot out and grabbing the extra bonus point!

Clearly there would have to be a change. The early leavers would have to stay until the conclusion of the shoot-out, although could take the option of leaving after the first three on each side have has their go as "nothing else is going to happen" As we all know, making the effort to give up time and money to go to a game is nowhere near as important as beating the traffic to get home.

Alternatively, the desperately important thing (Doctor Who or whatever) that they have to leave to get home for would be replaced by an equally important thing that has to be done BEFORE leaving for the match, allowing them to beat the inward rush rather than the final exodus. In order to facilitate this, early arrivals will be asked to park as far away from the ground as possible,

Every Away team will do this and will win on the shoot out. I hope this won't happen because it will ruin the fucking game and fans will not tolerate this and won't go to games no more.

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I wish people would leave the bloody game alone  :evil:  
BUT If you're going to make changes make them radical - scrap 3 points for a win 1 for a draw and make the number of points you get from each game equal the goals you score.  That way even if you are 4 nil down it's still worth sweating blood to get it back to 4-2.   The downside is you would never get that nice feeling that you've got enough points to go up and noone can catch you.

Leave the game as it is, apart fomr perhaps craeting some sort of robotic humanoid linesman who knew what the offside rule was