Random Football Musings

I’d think it would be a bit difficult to implement. What constitutes a striker? Clubs often sign players to cover more than one position, i.e. playing as a traditional striker, but maybe also playing wider in a 4-3-3 for example. What if the club decided that the player was better suited to a deeper midfield role, like a number 10? How does that effect the club’s salary cap? If the club have to play the player in a true striker role, does that mean he might sit on the bench a lot more rather than having an opportunity to play, but in a slightly different role?

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That doesn’t solve the problem.

The striker needs to be selfish by nature. And Australians, in a sporting context, tend towards selflessness. It’s a cultural problem.

And they also need to be able to use both feet we we seemed to stop teaching around 2002.

There are already exemptions for players that would generally fit into this category, ie. U23.

Ade: Blackwood (22).
Bris: Wenzel-Halls (21).
CCM: Majok (20) & (18) Silvera possibly
City:
Melb:
New:
Per: D’Agostino (21)
SFC: Ivanovic (19)
Well:
WSW: Adam (19)
WU: Stametelopoulos (20)

The issue isn’t that the clubs don’t have these players in the squad, more that they don’t get a chance to play. A move to 7 man benches would at least give them a chance to be in the match day squad, cap exemptions won’t.

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Literally been saying this for years

Yep, I’ve been a big advocate for bigger benches as well.

This is mentioned in this story as still being possible for this season, even just days out:

Best bit of (potential) HAL news in ages.

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next thing, you’ll be telling us when need to remove corruption from FIFA…

In seriousness though, UEFA and FIFA need a proper stance against this, with proper punishments. The programs running are a step forward, but repeat offenders need to be punished by getting kicked out of competitions. A year or two of not being able to play international games would teach those countries a proper lesson. I’d say the majority of people wouldn’t be overtly racist and they’d find the tide turn against the hooligan/right wing element who come to games to fight rather than appreciate the game.

LOL at the US losing to Canada the other day. Their NT program is in a real mess.

This video is pretty interesting. Socceroos v Uruguay made the cut

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Also features Muscat.

“A well known thug on the football pitch”

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I’ve watched this several times and still cannot work out a) why they think its a goal and b) what the keeper is doing on the half way line

The first keeper hit the net at the exact moment the ball hit the post, and all the players that stopped are from areas of the pitch that had a similar view, can only assume that from where they were they mistakenly saw the ball hit the back of the net. The players closest or to the bottom of the screen all play on, it’s just cleared away from them quickly and they can’t prevent the counter.

The second keeper had apparently run to half way to celebrate the “goal” with his teams bench. Lol.

Also, if he didn’t rush back, the final ball would have been offside.

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Heading to a Football Ramble Live Show tonight. Never seen a live podcast before, so I’m interested to see how it plays out.

Do they record and share their shows or are these kept separate from broadcast?

They are separate from the broadcast.