World Cup: Should the world cup adapt the nhl playoff OT system?

[Wee Baby Seamus]

I hate this forum for one month every four years.

 

[phisherman]

Let's implement a shot clock while we're at it.

 

[cgf]

Salary cap would be interesting. I mean look at the state of club football. Every league is just a 2-3 team battle season after season with the rest of the teams playing fodder. Only in the EPL where a billionaire can buy into and well ok now it’s a 5-6 team battle.

It sucks to know my club will never ever ever be good enough to play in the CL because we're too big of hipsters to ever make or pay enough for that...and even if our academy started spitting out BdO candidates every summer we'd manage to avoid promotion to the top division somehow.

But I'd rather watch great talents playing beautiful football together at the highest level than the parity of mediocrity.

 

[robertmac43]

i could see some games going far, far, far, too long.... Does not work for the sport

 

[robertmac43]

It sucks to know my club will never ever ever be good enough to play in the CL because we're too big of hipsters to ever make or pay enough for that...and even if our academy started spitting out BdO candidates every summer we'd manage to avoid promotion to the top division somehow.

I feel like I should know this by now, but who exactly do you support?

 

[The Moose]

Let's implement a shot clock while we're at it.

And substitutions on the fly.

 

[cgf]

I feel like I should know this by now, but who exactly do you support?

1. FC Union Berlin - Wikipedia

You can hear the stadium from my grandparent's house...and I'm pretty sure that the 86 run to the DDR cup final (where we heroically lost to Lok by a score of 5 goals to 1) is still my Uncle's favorite memory

 

[gary69]

Football is a global sport, so a worldwide salary cap systems is impossible to implement. Even if one region (say EU) implemented it, the best players would just move to play elsewhere where they are paid the most, and that league would start to dominate the TV market. The current biggest clubs wouldn't risk their dominating position with a silly salary cap.

 

[Panteras]

It sucks to know my club will never ever ever be good enough to play in the CL because we're too big of hipsters to ever make or pay enough for that...and even if our academy started spitting out BdO candidates every summer we'd manage to avoid promotion to the top division somehow.

But I'd rather watch great talents playing beautiful football together at the highest level than the parity of mediocrity.

I mean I feel you. My favorite team is in Spanish 2nd division now. To a certain extent I’m not even mad, I guess when we are small club supporter we get used to cheering for the little victories we obtain here and there. The ups and down become part of the journey. But man, when you have a team that has like 5 million payroll playing in the same league as one with 300 it’s just a bit much

 

[Natey]

The games would be awful to watch with even more sitting back than normal.

 

[cgf]

I mean I feel you. My favorite team is in Spanish 2nd division now. To a certain extent I’m not even mad, I guess when we are small club supporter we get used to cheering for the little victories we obtain here and there. The ups and down become part of the journey. But man, when you have a team that has like 5 million payroll playing in the same league as one with 300 it’s just a bit much

Meh, it only irks me when those wealthy teams use their money to play negative football...thus my feelings towards Mourinho

If they use that money to play beautiful football like Pep does, then I just enjoy watching the greatness. But I like the NBA despite being a Knicks fan...so maybe I'm just more of a masochist than I'd like to admit...

 

[Panteras]

Meh, it only irks me when those wealthy teams use their money to play negative football...thus my feelings towards Mourinho

If they use that money to play beautiful football like Pep does, then I just enjoy watching the greatness. But I like the NBA despite being a Knicks fan...so maybe I'm just more of a masochist than I'd like to admit...

Well yeah sure as a football fan if my team is going against a team that’s able to field basically all stars and we get whooped what can I do other than admire them whooping our behind. The football of that team might be beautiful but the league is a boring recycle. To be fair to Mourinho that’s how he got success with a lesser club unlike Pep that’s never had to manage a mediocre club. Let’s see if Pep can win a CL with Porto. That’s why I rate Klopp much higher.

 

[robertmac43]

1. FC Union Berlin - Wikipedia

You can hear the stadium from my grandparent's house...and I'm pretty sure that the 86 run to the DDR cup final (where we heroically lost to Lok by a score of 5 goals to 1) is still my Uncle's favorite memory

I may be going to Berlin in the Fall so I guess I'll have to add these guys to the week itinerary

 

[cgf]

I may be going to Berlin in the Fall so I guess I'll have to add these guys to the week itinerary

The atmosphere at matches is intoxicating

I'm not kidding about hearing their matches from over a kilometer away, despite the stadium being in the middle of a forest

 

[Chandrashekhar Limit]

Meh I was right when I wrote that ; )

Still wrong.

Croatia and Russia both scored in OT in QF.

 

[Rob]

Why did they abandon the golden goal?

 

[Vancouver_2010]

Football is a global sport, so a worldwide salary cap systems is impossible to implement. Even if one region (say EU) implemented it, the best players would just move to play elsewhere where they are paid the most, and that league would start to dominate the TV market. The current biggest clubs wouldn't risk their dominating position with a silly salary cap.

What do you mean? let's have a salary cap of a 1 million...yen

 

[Vancouver_2010]

Players can't constantly run around for that period of time. Continuous OT is just begging for injuries.

That is why i suggest rotating players should be allowed in OT

 

[Vancouver_2010]

I hate this forum for one month every four years.

just one month?

 

[cgf]

That is why i suggest rotating players should be allowed in OT

And f*** that grass mularkey, let’s have them play on ice, with sticks, and half as many players.

 

[Vancouver_2010]

And **** that grass mularkey, let’s have them play on ice, with sticks, and half as many players.

instead of a ball, we should make it into a short black cylinder type of object.

 

[Kyle McMahon]

I'd definitely support a return to golden goal. Seems this was only around for a few years though. I understand that in theory weather and pitch conditions could advantage a team on one side of the field, but when was the last time this actually played out in reality on a pristine WC pitch where huge stadiums block out the wind?

As for continuous ET...the only way it's possible would be to allow unlimited substitutions after 90 minutes. My fantasy world proposal would be that at the beginning of ET the manager can put out whichever 11 he chooses. Play a 30 minute period, sudden death, no subs allowed unless a goalkeeper is injured. If no goal is scored in the half hour, you can once again field whichever 11 you want for another 30, and so on.

Of course, any purist would have a heart attack if this were ever implemented. But if the idea was that penalty kicks must be eliminated, you have to get creative.

 

[Panteras]

Still wrong.

Croatia and Russia both scored in OT in QF.

damn I stand corrected lol

 

[cgf]

I'd definitely support a return to golden goal. Seems this was only around for a few years though. I understand that in theory weather and pitch conditions could advantage a team on one side of the field, but when was the last time this actually played out in reality on a pristine WC pitch where huge stadiums block out the wind?

As for continuous ET...the only way it's possible would be to allow unlimited substitutions after 90 minutes. My fantasy world proposal would be that at the beginning of ET the manager can put out whichever 11 he chooses. Play a 30 minute period, sudden death, no subs allowed unless a goalkeeper is injured. If no goal is scored in the half hour, you can once again field whichever 11 you want for another 30, and so on.

Of course, any purist would have a heart attack if this were ever implemented. But if the idea was that penalty kicks must be eliminated, you have to get creative.

Why would we get rid of penalty kicks and start rewarding talented teams for playing without ambition?

 

[Vancouver_2010]

Why would we get rid of penalty kicks and start rewarding talented teams for playing without ambition?

because soccer is a team sport and penalty kick pretty much ruins it. Plus, if you are the player, you probably wouldn't want the game to stretch too long anyways. Imagine having to play more than 140 minutes of soccer in the quaterfinal and expected to compete with teams like France in the final, who only played 90 minutes.