I think this would probably be covered by unsporting behaviour or dangerous play.
There might be some stuff that would consider the ball out of play in this scenario too as no specific player has possession, but that might be a stretch
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As far as I know it's dangerous play, because you'd be making it impossible for anyone to challenge the ball without things getting dangerous. You're supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.
You're supposed to defend the ball by using your athleticism to fend off your opponents, not by using medieval battlefield tactics to force a siege.
Games evolve over time. Get with it or get behind.
Yeah, this is coming, whether you like it or not. Anyone opposed is just regressive and afraid of trying new things and learning new tools. Probably shitty player anyway and scared they won't be able win matches anymore with their mediocre skills in this new world of siege-powered footie.
Siege powered chestie
You need to think bigger if you want to keep up. Put Siege™®© into EVERYTHING!
Better idea yet, just carry the ball in your hand, much easier and can be done by one person..
Streamlining the game, I like it!
Could mean great savings for team owners. Now they only have to pay one player.
We should also give both players cars, more efficient than running.
I'll call that Auto Polo
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Detroit add lions to their defense. Denver rushes while mounted. Chicago doubles down on drafting large, hirsute men for their team.
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But they don't allow siege cannons and mortars in stadiums :(
Those damn woke are taking our guns away, it is not even modern football without artillery.
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Surround the players with your own and starve them out.
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Pretty sure this will trigger offsides, unless they also trap an opposing team player and take them with them...
A hostage.
Exactly the opposite. Offsite means it is illegal to pass the ball to a player behind the last defender and instead you must walk the ball around said last defender. This tactic is all walking and zero passing so offsite never applies.
Instead its illegal because you are holding the ball. Every move where the ball is stuck for more than like a second is a foul.
What if one guy just bounced the ball on his head constantly while the other 10 players surround him tightly?
Not illegal in theory but easily countered by the enemy team just encircling them or forming a wall. Pushing the enemy team out of the way of the ball bouncer would be a foul.
Also the referee could just call it unsportsmanlike or obstruction of play and give a free kick to the enemy. The referee is basically always allowed to call any bullshit.
I think it's not a foul if you're using your whole body. So you just need really big guys to slowly push the wall. And if you can't bribe a referee what are you even doing playing football?
Offsides is the most bullshit rule ever invented. "You're behind all our defenders!!!" Yeah no shit that's because I'm trying to SCORE
Yeah, I have similar feelings about hockey. Your team’s offense can’t be in front of the puck until it is on the opposing team’s side of the rink. Which functionally means you can’t pass the puck forwards to the offense, because they can’t be on offense until after the puck has crossed the center line.
The defense was caught with their pants down, because the opposing team managed to get a player behind them, and then managed to pass the puck to them? That should be egg on the defense’s face, not a penalty for the offense.
They came up with it because cherry picking is outrageously boring.
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It would lead to a whistle and restart the same way you can't just sit on a ball to waste time. Not sure what the rule is called but yeah it's covered in the rules
Yeah, there's a rule against that, you can't force the ball to stay with you (like holding it between your legs or in between two people)
what if they stayed close but never touched, the ball vibrating between them
If they could pull that off I would not only be impressed but it wouldn't technically break the rules.
hah everything with a temperature is vibrating all the time!
Sorry, bye
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the moment robot football becomes a thing, I bet this is the first loophole they come up with
I had a similar idea for american football.
- Recruit an offensive line entirely of ex-sumo wrestlers
- One holds the ball
- The rest form a protective ring around them
- They casually walk down the field
- Anyone who attempts to tackle them is thrown unceremoniously aside like trash
- Touchdown!
That is what the offensive line is now and they can't grab anyone to throw them aside because that would be holding.
This is literally the point of an offensive line already, you think those boys can't sumo wrestle?
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Reminds me of the old “change one rule about a sport to make it more entertaining” thing that was popular on AskReddit for a while.
My personal rule change is that the cooler for the ice rink gets turned off ~20 minutes before a hockey game starts, and it turns into a heater instead. Anyone who has ever tried to skate on wet/melting ice knows that you just stick to it like it’s made of clay. All other rules stay the same. As the game progresses, the ice will melt more and more, until the players are basically playing water polo, with like six inches of water on the concrete subfloor.
I would like to add a rule, if the game goes long then all the hockey sticks are exchanged with samurai swords at the discretion of the referee and when the samurai swords are in play then the first team to reach the zamboni can commandeer it as a combat vehicle
You just reinvented Rugby. Wait till you develop that into American Football.
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Thus is basically the same as the, now banned, flying wedge in rugby. The manouver aparently lead to twenty two fatalities, as well as inumerable injuries, in a single year.
Enders Game (of soccer)
"The enemy goal is down."
Shaolin Soccer
What kind of Captain Tsubasa shenanigans are these?
Well the goally could just grab the ball
All players in circle immediately flop and become massively injured, near dead. Cards flicker and flash, going from yellow to red so rapidly, fans see flames and ignite their own (in the stands, just defensively, in case).
Checkmate, goally
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Bold move, let's see how it plays out for 'em, Cotton.
Well if they keep the ball like that, they'd score together! That way the score would always be even! So we could also choose to leave the ball on the spot and just grab a nice pint in the pub.
Yeah, in fact, what is this all for? waves around generally It's all pointless, let's just go to the pub
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