Exiled in Texas

One hindrance is that the clock isn't stopped in Football, which could make it difficult to make sure the correct time is spent there and so on. I'm all for it if they find a way to execute it in a good way without making too many changes to the existing game. (i.e. starting to stop the clock to use this rule etc.) Well there is nothing stopping a 'sin-bin clock' being started/stopped when the ball went out of play. Referees have a wrist watch to manage time - usually with stop watch that has an additional "stopwatch Add time feature". So that way they are tracking the game time, plus stoppage/injury time. Without a 4th official managing the Sin Bin times, the referees would need to start carrying something beyond a wrist watch to manage game time and sin bin time. Workable for pro-Leagues but tough to bring down to lower level leagues.

The old version of offside was terrible. Right winger was a shade offside on the right touchline, but the ball is played up the left side with the left winger onside....PEEEP!!!! Offside!! The new version is must better - it just needs the commentators to understand the LOTG and the difference between interfering with play, interferring with a player and being in an offside position but not interfering

As a referee - the Sin Bin concept would be another tool to let the referee manage the game. Not as severe as a Red or Yellow (which is half way to a dismissal), the sin bin could be used to add discipline and minor penalties. It would all depend on the referee and his ability to use this new tool - and any referee who fails to manage a game with the current cards will probably still fail with the Sin Bin option. But for most referees it would be a very usefull tool for game management - although perhaps difficult to manage without an official scorer when multiple infractions are occuring.

My first thought was Ice Hockey - and that it does indeed have offside on players entering the offensive zone prior to the puck So it must mean Field Hockey - and I have no idea on the rules of field hockey - offside or not.

I read "Loan Star" and thought......is he from Texas

Bellamy knows he is a t**t but doesn't care. JT tries to put on a super-dooper public image, but is really a c**t. Fair play to Bellers - and JT....shut the **** up. You got dissed publicly....TWICE!!! Love it.

So Pompey don't think it's fair to have points deducted, but they want the parachute payment. That sounds like having cake and eat it. They need to figure out if they are trying to stay up or say alive.

Sounds like Pompey are challenging the 9pt deduction. From BBC.co.uk Can't see how they can challenge that without the other clubs protesting.

I'll take Citeh for 4th place and have fun watching Liverpool's finances tumble quicker than Gerard in the Penalty Area when loosing 0-1. Knees bent, Arms out, dive, dive, dive.

that sounds awesome!!! could never get away with having a hooters over here. some liberal preachy, stuck up gits would get a massive bea in they're bonnet about how its degrading to women etc etc and then councils would stiop issue'ing them with licences etc. With the number of lap-dancing clubs around here, the talent at hooters is definately 3rd string. Obviously more lucrative places for the girls to work. We also have a Hooters-Knock Off called Twin Peaks

Selling is not the problem, but can the buying club register the player for this season - or are you buying said player at the knock-down bargain price only to "loan" them to Pompey for the rest of the season, and then they join the buying club in the summer? Or are the FA granting exemptions to allow clubs to register ex-Pompey players outside of the window. What I'm talking about about is a full transfer with the buying club being able to field the player competitively straight away. Once a club goes into administration they can invoke a crysis clause to allow them to sell their players outside the transfer window with the transfer going through immediately. The Premier League/FA wouldn't allow them to do it last time they made the request because tney weren't in admin and therefore not officially in a crisis as far as the Premier League/FA were concerned. Ah, interesting. Wonder who is the first to go in the fire sale.

My beer-league Ice Hockey team plays at the American Airlines Center (Dallas Stars arena) every year in an in-house scrimmage game. It's been a key highlight of our season for the last 6 years that we have done it. We bring players, ex-players, friends of players and even out-of-town friends who return year after year for the game. We meet up in Hooters for a pre-game meal (beer/wings) and a quick oggle of the servers, and then off to the game. Game performance always seems to be inversely related to beer consumption It's an awesome feeling to walk up the the arena/stadium on game day knowing that you are about to play there. And when you step out of the tunnel onto the ice (pitch) and look around you at the stands it's fantastic. If you're lucky enough to score a goal too and have your name announced......well worth a few beers later in the clubhouse. I know you'll all have a great time and the cost will seem irrelevant once you score at the Gallowgate end and perform the one-arm Shearer salute.

Although we call it the "Transfer Window" it's really better defined as the "player registration window". Premier League and Football League already have rules on this (as do other countries hence how players can sign for teams from other counties outside of our window). As for finding buyers....that all depends on how good the bargains are

Old Board/New Board, Keegan, Ashley, Marmite - you either love it or hate it. No amount of logic or detail will be sufficient to convince those that don't want to believe it. Yes - Ashley screwed up with the Wise/Keegan/Kinnear fiasco, but I'm not convinced that it did anything other than bring forward relegation that was looking more and more ominous each season based on our tumbling league positions. And I do think that the club is better prepared from a financial position now, than it was last season or would have been had we stayed with Hall/FFS. I truely wonder what would have happened to the club had we continued to be run by FFS on credit, loans and blind faith and then suffered relegation - what position would the club be in - or would Pompey fans be saying "at least we're not Newcastle". I'm sure that we are coming out of this better positioned for the future, both from a clubs financial perspective, and also from the overall football market where clubs will have some huge adjustments to make. I think we are just ahead of the curve, and are better positioned than most clubs for the new football order that will soon emerge

Selling is not the problem, but can the buying club register the player for this season - or are you buying said player at the knock-down bargain price only to "loan" them to Pompey for the rest of the season, and then they join the buying club in the summer? Or are the FA granting exemptions to allow clubs to register ex-Pompey players outside of the window.

You don't see a problem with a club buying a player thinking that they are 23 with at least 6 year ahead of them in their prime and still having full see-on value. And then finding out that your 23yr old is actually 29 and is on the down slide within 2 years with minimal sell-on value. That's a false bill of goods.

I can see that becoming a standard part of a medical for any player whose age might just be in question.

If treatment is required then they can resume play at next stoppage. Their own team could even create the stoppage if needed to get their player back if they needed to - but it would be less disadvantagous to the un-injured team than the current "expectation to immediately cease play - and resume with throw-in back to keeper"

Then you're getting punished for genuinely being hurt, which isn't really fair at all. There are literally no drawbacks whatsoever I can think of to just letting the physios come on to treat an injured player while the play is still ongoing. And if Physio/Injured player is in the way of play - then IFK-Dangerous Play would be the resulting restart?

Correct - drop ball does not "require" both teams to be present. Often used when a keeper has posession but "may" be injured and no foul occured......the referee can just drop the ball to the keeper to pick up and put back into play. I know that I often refer to US High School soccer rules, which do not follow exactly the FIFA standard, but they have a few good additions. One being, if the referee stops play, not for a foul or misconduct, and one team is clearly in posession, then the restart is an IFK for the team in posession. (and if neither team clearly in posession - then drop ball)

Towlie - that was my thought....either sub now or wait for next stoppage in play (none of this "Come back in, anytime game is in progress"). I know that it's different playing with fixed subs rather than unlimited, but it might encourage players to get over it quicker if they knew that stopping play for an injury would result in them waiting for next stoppage after they are ready to return.

The busiest table needs to be called the "Treatment Table"

Duties of the referee: • stops the match if, in his opinion, a player is seriously injured and ensures that he is removed from the field of play. An injured player may only return to the field of play after the match has restarted • allows play to continue until the ball is out of play if a player is, in his opinion, only slightly injured. Too many hurt but not injured players causing stoppage in play. IMO too many players go down injured and then jump back up after a quick rest (roll around looking for foul and gesture for a card). I disagree with the process that if the trainer is called on, that the player must go off but then can come back on anytime with the referee's permission. So a quick trip to the sideline and they are ready to play again and come back on 10 secs after play resumes. Were they hurt - YES, but were they injured NO. If play is stopped for treatment, then I'd like to see them have to wait for the next stoppage in play before coming back on. I'd also allow treatment at sideline during play (player cannot leave field - trainer cannot enter). If player cannot get to sideline and needs game stopped for treatment then either Sub now or accept treatment lasts until at least the next stoppage in play.

Millions of reasons, and each one with the queens face on it.

Regarding TV Blackouts - funny how some NFL teams always manage last minute sell outs when "Someone" buys up the last remaining tickets so that the game get on TV and they get the TV Revenue. We all know that the Club or Owner buys up $10,000 worth of tickets so that they get $100,000 worth of TV revenue.