Tooting Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Whenever anyone suggests there is stuff we can learn from gridirion there are howls of outrage that we shouldn't be tampering, it's been like this for 100 years etc, and generally I agree. But there were a couple of things that occured to me last night while watching I would be in favour of.
1) Each coach has two 'challenges' per match
I am against continual referral to the video, it would break up the flow of the match. But this compromise used in the US seems like a good idea. For massive decisions (was ball over line, was a 'pen' in the area, was it a dive or a sending off etc) if a manager has two chances to refer it you will lose little game-time, since most of these sort of decisions are normally followed by a mass player melee anyway; you can't overuse it, of if you do you risk missing out on a more important one later. It's up to the good judgment of the manager to only query those decisions he really is aggrieved about.
2) A 'Pro Bowl' at the end of the season - format and name very much open for discussion
The first reaction would be 'the clubs would never have it' - but that's the point. It's not the clubs you have to convince. It's a new idea and there will always be sceptics, but if you could quickly reach the stage where it was a real honour for someone from say Southampton to be judged the best left-back in the country in their position, as voted by their peers in the PFA awards, they would want to play in the game. And the clubs would have to give in.
Personally I reckon one way would be a South/Midlands v North, or maybe a Div One v Premiership. Play it at a ground where at least one player from that club had been selected, and the crowd would be pretty much guaranteed.
1) Each coach has two 'challenges' per match
I am against continual referral to the video, it would break up the flow of the match. But this compromise used in the US seems like a good idea. For massive decisions (was ball over line, was a 'pen' in the area, was it a dive or a sending off etc) if a manager has two chances to refer it you will lose little game-time, since most of these sort of decisions are normally followed by a mass player melee anyway; you can't overuse it, of if you do you risk missing out on a more important one later. It's up to the good judgment of the manager to only query those decisions he really is aggrieved about.
2) A 'Pro Bowl' at the end of the season - format and name very much open for discussion
The first reaction would be 'the clubs would never have it' - but that's the point. It's not the clubs you have to convince. It's a new idea and there will always be sceptics, but if you could quickly reach the stage where it was a real honour for someone from say Southampton to be judged the best left-back in the country in their position, as voted by their peers in the PFA awards, they would want to play in the game. And the clubs would have to give in.
Personally I reckon one way would be a South/Midlands v North, or maybe a Div One v Premiership. Play it at a ground where at least one player from that club had been selected, and the crowd would be pretty much guaranteed.
