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Hockey Shoot Out

killerandflash
killerandflash Posts: 70,048
edited August 2012 in Other Football and Sports
Did anyone else just see the hockey penalty shoot out?

Five players from each side take on the goalkeeper one-on-one from the 23m line with eight seconds to score. They have to get into the shooting circle as normal, but can have unlimited touches. I thought it was a realy good format, a much better contest between the attacker and keeper, and really interesting to watch.

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  • Floyd Montana
    Floyd Montana Posts: 3,730
    Yes, we were saying it would be a better way to settle footie games.
    Great variation there wasn't there?
    Some great keeping too.
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,822
    edited August 2012
    Just love all the Dutch girls running at me the goal scorer.
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,765
    Didn't the MLS (or precursor) used to have something similar? 1 on 1 from the halfway line or something?
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 18,770
    Our girls being out played by the Argies in the other semi at the moment.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,048
    having seen it in hockey, a version of it for football e.g. 15 seconds from the halfway line, with unlimited touches would be a much better test of footballing skills, rather than nerve.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    I think the old NASL in the US used to do something similar.
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,917
    similar to how ice hockey does it.
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,252
    in the shoot out i wondered what would have happened if the keeper when she charged the attacker down had fouled her , does it then become a penalty....

    and also there was a girl who had her first shot saved and as she got the 2nd shot off the buzzer went for the end of the 8 seconds and she wasn't sure if she'd scored or not(it wasn't allowed)... if the buzzer had sounded a few hundreths of a second later and a mass stewards enquiry would have been needed

    and also being clueless on hockey it appeared they were deliberately trying to win penalty corners by hitting the ball at opponents feet in the penalty area and they can appeal/challenge or whatever it is if they think it's hit the foot and there was one that wasn't given as a penalty corner and the video process took about 3mins odd which seemed an age
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,817
    BlackForestReds said:

    I think the old NASL in the US used to do something similar.

    Yes, they did, I have seen some on You Tube, it's a much better way of settling games.

    Not good for us though, imagine Andy Carroll lumbering I from the halfway line!

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