League agrees to consider penalty shoot-out deciders

[janaage]

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

[pauld]

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).

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.  

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

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).

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.  

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

[genf_stfc]

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

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 !

[janaage]

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

But I do love those penalty show downs man.

[SwindonTartanArmy]

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!!!

[neville w]

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

[Piemonte]

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!

[neville w]

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

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,

[Scot Munroe]

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!

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.

[Piemonte]

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!

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

 :english:

[redbullzeye]

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.

[reeves4england]

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