Keeper Timeouts are no more

What about the little hand written instruction notes we have seen players hand around when there's a sub coming on, same thing.

Garrymanilow said:

It will be interesting to see how teams immediately try and think of ways to get around this. The rule about keepers getting rid of the ball quicker was largely ignored after the first few games last season and I imagine it won't be long before teams just realise that a keeper and an outfield player colliding is a potentially fairly broad rule. How's that decided? If you're under the cosh and the keeper goes up for a high ball, and the attacker makes contact who decides whether it qualifies as a collision? Unless that's clear I don't see how the ref wanting to take a player off the pitch so you'll probably still see the keeper ask for the physio there. Fouls are also often given if the keeper gets some contact off a high ball so again that will be used. I imagine there will be some mysterious keeper head injuries as well. I also do wonder if you're getting absolutely hammered and the manager needs to get some information across if teams might think it's worthwhile to tell the keeper to go down, take a striker off for a minute, disrupt the flow of the game and reset the way the team are playing. One minute with 10 men is better than a goal, especially if you can get hold of the ball and waste that minute as much as possible

Works perfectly! Didn't see a keeper hold on the ball for new than ten seconds last season. Sometimes would be more like 45 seconds the previous season!

Cheers FA kaminski is crying nice one 

fenlandaddick said:

Going to miss them. Allowed me time to get a beer from the fridge without missing anything important.

You’ve still got be remaining 90 minutes in most of our games 

fenaddick said:

SporadicAddick said:

Tunwellsaddick said:

Just bring in a rule to ban the players and the coaching staff taking part in a tactical talk when stoppages arise. Players to remain around the centre of the pitch until the match restarts.  

so much easier than what is being implemented

It really isn't. It's much easier to keep one player off the pitch than 21 players in a small area where they can still hear the coach anyway

It really is...

The plan:-
If a referee signals that the physio can come on to treat a goalkeeper, the coach will have 10 seconds to nominate another player to leave the pitch for one minute, telling the fourth official of their choice. If no player has been selected within 10 seconds, the captain must leave the field.

The easier solution:-
If a referee signals that the physio can come on to treat a goalkeeper, all players except the "injured" player must make their way to the centre of the field. Any coach using this break to shout instructions would receive an immediate red card.

No counting and no selection criteria (If it's a genuine injury, 10 seconds isn't fair, if it's not genuine, then 10 seconds would suggest premeditation). If that fails, "remove the captain", which is arbitrary and suggests that the captain is the most influential player on the pitch, which is clearly not often the case. 

The solution is complicated and convoluted, and is still open to abuse (tactically lose a player for a minute), and doesn't resolve the issue of unnecessary tactical breaks in the game.  

Now I recognise that Howard Webb has defined the solution in conjunction with others - by it's very nature, that process drives compromise by those potentially looking to game the system - and that's the outcome i think we will have.