Liverpool FC Forum

by **woof woof !** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:26 pm

Given the feedom to introduce and enforce new rules to footy my first two would be .

1. Limit the number of players a club can register to play in all competitions for any given season .
Hopefully ,this would prevent the likes of Chelsea/Madrid etc from snapping up all the best available talent .A top player would think twice before signing for a club if he's not guaranteed a decent amount of first team action .

2.Scrap the current offside rule and revert to one that the players ,officials and fans actually understand .

I'm sure many in here would like to change things , given the power , what would your priorities be ? .

by **oakton** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:28 pm

More strict rules to prevent players from diving.

by **Ciggy** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:34 pm

Diving and play acting ala Robben straight red and a four match ban.

Wage Cap to stop the likes of Chelsea and also what you said woof about limit the amount of players one club can have on the books.

by **48-1119859832** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:37 pm

I would:

A) Put a £25,000 a week wage cap on all footballer players in all professional leagues around the world.

B) Hooliganism costs clubs £5million everytime it occurs, Hooligans are given a £3000 fine and a 4 year prision sentence.

C) Cheating, diving or tapping up rivals players earns a 6 point deduction.

D) Unsporting comments from Managers, coaching staff or Board, the club is fined £7million pounds.

E) Racism costs the club from entering any of their domestic cups for six years. And are not allowed to have fans at their ground for three whole seasons.

D) Match fixing - Match fixers are given a £15 year prision sentence and their clubs are banned from Europe for a decade and they are banned from buying players for 3 seasons.

That should sort this corrupt game out.

by **ste123lfc** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:39 pm

I'd just ban all Mancs and russian chavs :nod

by **andy_g** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:45 pm

oasis, as laudible as your motives are i think that the rules you are talking about introducing would actually put an end to all professional football for good.

i would introduce video technology for goal line decisions (at the risk of a knee-capping from stu), wage capping, and stricter rules against all forms of cheating for a start but that's just off the top of my head.

by **ste123lfc** » Sat May 20, 2006 7:45 pm

seriously, i would scrap that stupid rule that you have to go off after you are injured, also let the physio on whilst the game is going on, like they do in rugby.

by **ALONSO** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:26 pm

Wage and transfer capping of around 20 million a season. Go back to the old offside rule. Crack down on shirt pulling. Also this is probably not up to fifa but I would give the fourth champions league spot to the fa cup winners.

by **Bad Bob** » Sat May 20, 2006 8:50 pm

No ridiculous "World Club Championship" tournaments half-way round the world in the middle of the busiest part of the domestic season that trophy winners are compelled to take part in or suffer some undisclosed FIFA sanction. Flying to fecking Japan to play the likes of Sao Paulo is not an honour, Blatter you t!t, it's a fecking burden that, IMO, did significant damage to our form in Jan/Feb! :angry:

by **fwd_fish** » Sat May 20, 2006 10:24 pm

If the game has to be stopped for an injured player, he must leave the field. He must then be substituted or forced to wait 10 mins before returning to the game.

Caught diving on camera = Very severe punishment (3 game ban?

)

That should sort the cheating :censored:

out.

by **taff** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:12 pm

I would copy the sin bin card in Rugby for things like a player getting sent off for celebrating and picking up a second yellow card. Still keep the straight red

A wage cap and squad number cap

Clubs have to invest a minimum percentage in youth development in line then withe the salary cap.

A winter break of two weeks or so

Show live games in the cinema

Look at train and bus discounts for season ticket holders for away games to alleviate the costs, also would help with the hooligan thing as well with controlled subsidied travel costs.

by **Morth** » Sat May 20, 2006 11:49 pm

Power, yes, finally... Eeeexcellent....

1 - Wage Caps - Caps that limit the maximum wages of a player, as well as a total squad wage cap. --> This'd make clubs think twice about what players they sign, and also would make clubs have to prioritize signings as they can't afford to pay their entire squad "Key Player" wages.

2 - Transfer Fee Caps --> I feel this should be based on some percentage of the club revenue or something. Money will always, and in a way, should always have at least some inpact on the game. A £20m cap on transfer windows would, in my opinion upset the world balance of the game - a no go in my opinion.

3 - If you are indeed caught on camera deliberatly diving, you get a 3 match suspension. ( And by this I mean a clear and obvious dive, not one where there was infact some contact, as I feel diving in those cases is just to point out that the physical contact ruined the chance for you. )

4 - Well, contriversial as it is, I'd put a form of using video to decide truly contraversial decisions, like "was the ball over the line" etc.
This type of situational video use can only be used 2 times in a game, as it disrupts the flow of the game.

5 - Fan hooliganism and/or other forms of violence, should ALWAYS lead to a yearlong suspension for the fans involved, and should also give substantial fines to the clubs. IE. Money, Play with a max. of X supporters for Y matches etc. I don't feel point punishments are right for off-field behaviour.

5 - Corruption, like discovered in Italy, however serious, should lead to forced relegation and/or domestic and european bans. Cheating infuriates me.

by **H_K_LFC** » Sun May 21, 2006 12:24 am

fwd_fish wrote:If the game has to be stopped for an injured player, he must leave the field. He must then be substituted or forced to wait 10 mins before returning to the game.

No..that's like a sinbin because a player has been injured

....

The rule of players having to leave the field because play is stopped should end.

Harsher punishments for blatant dives.

Change the offside rule back to how everyone knows it.

by **Dalglish** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:13 am

1. Shirt pulling in the box should be penalised. Its ridiculous how much of it goes unpunished.

2. Goalkeepers made to take Goal Kicks from the same side of the goal that the ball went out of play on. Everyone knows its a time wasting tactic when they amble over to the opposite side.

3. Defenders shielding the ball into touch and making no atempt to play the ball should be penalised with a free kick or a penalty if it's in the box.

4. Physio's allowed on the field of play akin to Rugby. Would stop this stupid knocking the ball out so that a player can receive treatment.

5. Ban all PA Announcments, songs etc...... within 10 minutes of Kick offs, its destroying atmosphere at games.

6. No substitutions in the last 10 minutes of games. Another time wasting tactic.

7. Ban ALL Mascots

by **ivor_the_injun** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:20 am

1) Absolute top priority - run agents out of the game for good.

Make it a rule that clubs deal with players directly. Agents should be herded out into a more PR type of role, so they can take money from the players they represent (for getting them endorsement deals etc), but it should be made illegal for agents to deal in transfers, illegal for them to take a cut from transfer deals, and illegal to take money from any other source than the players that employ them. Any agent found to be dealing with clubs on transfer-related matters to have their registrations revoked permanently, and banned from representing footballers for life.

1a) Make agencies containing more than 3 agents illegal.
1b) Limit the number of players that any 1 registered agent can represent, to - say - 3.
1c) Ban agents from representing more than 1 player from any 1 football club.

2) Slowly bring down some of these insane salaries. Announce a cap of £115,000 to come in in 5 years time, and then bring the limit down in £10,000 a week increments over a 5 year period so that eventually, no professional football player is allowed to earn more than £65,000 a week from their club.

3) Introduce incentive payments at all levels of football for good performances, paid for by the league.

In England, this should go right down to the Conference, so that a panel-chosen "team of the week" (ie: the best 11 players from all clubs in a league) get a windfall. This can be something like £100,000 per man in the Prem, £25,000 in the Championship, £15,000 in League 1, £7,500 in League 2 and £2,500 in the Conference.

3) Diving to become a straight red card offence. Video footage to be used retrospectively, with offenders getting the same 2 game ban that a red card would carry.

Two diving offences in any one season to carry the punishment of a 10 game or 2 month ban, whichever is the greater.

Any further offences to result in a season-long ban if there is more than 2 months left of the season, or a 2 month ban which carries over into the following season if there is less than 2 months left of the season.

4) All of the following to become a red card offence, or to carry a 2 game suspension if discovered via video evidence:

a) Appealing to the referee for a card to be issued to an opposing player.
b) Taunting away supporters with incendiary celebrations (guidance to be issued whereby players are encouraged to celebrate in front of their own fans only).
c) Scoring with your hand, and not admitting it immediately.

5) Announce quotas to start in 10 years time, meaning that first team squads must contain no less than 35% of players from the country the club belongs to.

Any club fielding teams containing more than 65% of foreign players for more than 50% of their league fixtures to receive points deductions and heavy fines.

(By this criteria, no less than 45mins on the pitch to be accepted as an appearance by a homegrown player).

Dispensation to allowed in the event of injuries to homegrown squad players, but any injury longer than a month to be assessed by a doctor appointed by the league.

I think that covers it.

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