Some Law Changes / Tweaks

[davieG]

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/key-rule-changes-set-impact-8638222

 

Leicester City have been advised of significant rule changes that will determine how they play the game in

2023/24.

The new Championship season kicks off in a week’s time, and when it does the Foxes - relegated last season but favourites for a rapid return to the top-flight - will be obliged to react to new guidelines announced by the English Football League.

Designed to create “fairer conditions” for all teams, the changes will focus on…

A more precise way to calculate added-on time during matches;

Changes over how injured players are treated;

The way players are punished after conceding penalty kicks.

The EFL say they are “committed to ensuring a more accurate calculation of additional time alongside an improvement in the amount of time the ball is in-play” next season.

As a result, referees are being told to add the exact time taken for goals and celebrations, substitutions, injuries, penalties and dismissals. Previously, a set nominal amount of time used to calculate added-on time.

A multi-ball system - which permits a match to resume immediately with another ball when the original one goes out of play - will also be used to help keep stoppages to a minimum. The EFL says this “has been proven to increase ball in-play time”.

 

Match officials are also being told to take “a more robust approach” when dealing with time-wasting. So in future, a yellow card will be shown to anyone delaying the restart of play or not retreating the necessary distance at a free-kick.

 

Injured players will also have to leave the field of play to be assessed. Exceptions to that ruling include injured goalkeepers, players from the same team who have collided and severe injury. Once play has restarted, the treated players will have to wait at least 30 seconds before being allowed back on.

 

Following guidance by the International Football Association Board, football’s lawmakers, the EFL have confirmed changes to the issuing of yellow and red cards around penalty kicks.

In future, as long as a player makes an attempt to play the ball, or makes a challenge for it, only a caution will be issued for conceding a penalty by denying an opponent a clear goal-scoring opportunity. A red card will be given in any other circumstance, such as holding, pushing or handball.

 

Finally, the EFL have again shown its commitment to keeping the game flowing by maintaining a "high threshold for penalising contact" again next season. They say officials will only penalise a player when contact has a detrimental impact on an opponent.

[StonyFox]

Just introduce a stop clock. It'll take away any human interpretation of the rules. 

[coolhandfox]

11 minutes ago, StonyFox said:

Just introduce a stop clock. It'll take away any human interpretation of the rules. 

Doesn't it need a human to stop the clock?

 

 

[st albans fox]

The injury stuff looks to be a nightmare to enforce based on that wording 

[Ian Nacho]

Something tells me this won't be enforced properly.

[Nalis]

6 minutes ago, Ian Nacho said:

Something tells me this won't be enforced properly.

It will be forgotten about by October.

[TonyN11]

5 minutes ago, Nalis said:

It will be forgotten about by October.

  what will be forgotten about?

[Richard]

I’d imagine these changes will benefit us a lot next season 

[HankMarvin]

It will be the poorer teams trying to shithouse a point/win 

[RowlattsFox]

30 seconds is quite a long time to come back on. Or does that include the actual sideline treatment. 

[Lillehamring]

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They say officials will only penalise a player when contact has a detrimental impact on an opponent.

This is probably the vaguest sentence ever written about football.

 

[Corky]

Time taken celebrating goals doesn't really bother me. Clamping down on throw ins/ goal kicks is better.

[Spudulike]

No mention of the goal keeper 6 second rule. So they can still catch it, fall forward onto the Turf holding on for almost as much as they like. 

 

Pleased to see they are tightening up on goal celebrations. Burnley were outrageous. 

 

Head injuries should be off for longer that 30 seconds. 

[Lillehamring]

1 hour ago, Spudulike said:

No mention of the goal keeper 6 second rule. So they can still catch it, fall forward onto the Turf holding on for almost as much as they like. 

 

Pleased to see they are tightening up on goal celebrations. Burnley were outrageous. 

 

Head injuries should be off for longer that 30 seconds. 

I'd like to see, for breaches of the goalkeeping rule, that the offending team has to give the ball back unopposed to the opposition, as you might do after stopping play for an injury.

Time wasting only exists because the rules and/or the poor enforcement of the rules allows it to.  For example, if the clock was stopped for fake injuries - and i mean properly stopped - you'd soon find players no longer faking injury.

[Vlad the Fox]

8 minutes ago, Lillehamring said:

I'd like to see, for breaches of the goalkeeping rule, that the offending team has to give the ball back unopposed to the opposition, as you might do after stopping play for an injury.

Time wasting only exists because the rules and/or the poor enforcement of the rules allows it to.  For example, if the clock was stopped for fake injuries - and i mean properly stopped - you'd soon find players no longer faking injury.

I’d like them to continue play so the physios treat the player while the game is ongoing. Stop a lot of those fake injuries.

[Lillehamring]

3 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

I’d like them to continue play so the physios treat the player while the game is ongoing. Stop a lot of those fake injuries.

Well, they do it in rugby, right?  I guess they'll argue that it might interfere with play.

[Lambert09]

saw a very good point about this on twitter…. going to be a nightmare for scheduling trains home 

[PAPA LAZAROU]

More tinkering, more different interpretations from different refs. Another nail in the coffin of the game we once loved. It gets more Yankeefied each season.

[coolhandfox]

Keep changing the laws, just recuit and train better referees with more support.

 

 

[BKLFox]

If the outfield minor injuries is enforced then we will just see more goalkeepers feigning injury to give a break from pressure, corners are going to be boring.

[davieG]

3 hours ago, davieG said:

As a result, referees are being told to add the exact time taken for goals and celebrations, substitutions, injuries, penalties and dismissals.

Okay but is it necessary, and I know some people prefer it to KO at 8pm, private transport, it's not public anymore don't give a toss about events that might be happening. You can't leave your car at home if the transport options aren't there.

[Vlad the Fox]

28 minutes ago, Lillehamring said:

Well, they do it in rugby, right?  I guess they'll argue that it might interfere with play.

Yes like in rugby, they’d have to learn to play around/away from the injured player. Soon stop a lot of those injuries were a player is down for 3/4 minutes because he took a little knock on the ankle. Obviously they’d have to exceptions such as really serious injuries or injuries in the goal mouth (there the player can leave the pitch).

[Lillehamring]

2 minutes ago, Vlad the Fox said:

Yes like in rugby, they’d have to learn to play around/away from the injured player. Soon stop a lot of those injuries were a player is down for 3/4 minutes because he took a little knock on the ankle. Obviously they’d have to exceptions such as really serious injuries or injuries in the goal mouth (there the player can leave the pitch).

Sure, incidents near the sideline, the ref could just wave the trainer on - chances are there'd suddenly be far fewer incidents, just players who genuinely need treatment.  And especially if there hasn't been a foul (where pay has already been stopped) - i guess we're talking about those fake injuries where players just sit down in the middle of the pitch, right?

[blaaklint]

25 minutes ago, PAPA LAZAROU said:

More tinkering, more different interpretations from different refs. Another nail in the coffin of the game we once loved. It gets more Yankeefied each season.

Don't see how this has been Americanised at all. The changes are about getting more time with the ball in play.

[Vlad the Fox]

1 minute ago, Lillehamring said:

Sure, incidents near the sideline, the ref could just wave the trainer on - chances are there'd suddenly be far fewer incidents, just players who genuinely need treatment.  And especially if there hasn't been a foul (where pay has already been stopped) - i guess we're talking about those fake injuries where players just sit down in the middle of the pitch, right?

Yes, they’ll sit there having a chat, other players will come for a drink and a bit of a chat and then they’ll take another 2 minutes setting the free kick up after. At the very least the ref should make them set the free kick up ready to take while the player receives treatment so that as soon as he’s on his feet the game starts.