What will be the next big change in football?

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Over the last twenty years we have had many changes including packing the midfield and changing from 442 to more possession based strategy and pressing more. Longer ago than that obviously teams used to play completely different again.

Will there be another big change soon?

I think that it will depend on the rules and if referees change their interpretation. Maybe less flopping? Or more? What about if they used a smaller ball.
 

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One handed throw-ins. Imagine the carnage if you were allowed to throw-in like this:


You could turn throw-ins in your own half into dangerous set piece routines :drool:
 

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Stopped clock when play's paused, along with a reduction to 60 minutes match time.
 

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Samid said:
One handed throw-ins. Imagine the carnage if you were allowed to throw-in like this:


You could turn throw-ins in your own half into dangerous set piece routines :drool:
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That would be really interesting actually
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Goals in second half count double
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I am more talking about strategy under current rules not rule changes
 

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GhastlyHun said:
Stopped clock when play's paused, along with a reduction to 60 minutes match time.
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This can't come soon enough.

Another one should be that talking to the ref or hounding him should be an automatic yellow for everyone bar the captain.
 

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Banning slide tackles, and play going even further towards non contact
 

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Defenders up front and strikers in defence

The defenders up front will press and win the ball in the final third the best
The strikers from defence will be good on the ball and dribble from their own penalty area to the opponents' and score the goals
 

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I think they’ll bring in head guards to combat concussions & brain trauma from heading the ball.
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Head guards wont protect players from brain trauma due to the nature of heading. Its direct contact of the forehead to the ball and the resulting collision is where the damage occurs. In other sports the head guards provide a softening barrier between the ball or opposing player and the head. With football a head guard to provide that protective assistance would need to also cover the forehead which in turn would completely change heading. I do think you are right in that its probably going to be where the next biggest change will come but doubt it will be in head guards.
 

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No heading and mixed gender teams
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I doubt we will see mixed gender teams at the highest levels. Maybe we might see it in some sort of competitions where its done on a proportion setup. We do already see mixed gender teams in social football, fun summer leagues etc
 

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I wonder if we will finally see the sort of respect given to refs in a manner that Rugby does. if you hassle or protest in a disrespectful manner a team is marched 10 meters back or some variant of that?
 

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Players no longer having specific positions or roles. Every player being very comfortable on the ball. Game will be extremely fluid so that players play in space instead of having fixed positions. Defenders could play as a forwards and vice versa.
 

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Ekeke said:
Defenders up front and strikers in defence

The defenders up front will press and win the ball in the final third the best
The strikers from defence will be good on the ball and dribble from their own penalty area to the opponents' and score the goals
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then I'd just hoof the ball up field against you
 

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Stack said:
I wonder if we will finally see the sort of respect given to refs in a manner that Rugby does. if you hassle or protest in a disrespectful manner a team is marched 10 meters back or some variant of that?
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They tried that. It was shit.
 

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Bluetooth transmitters on players to determine whether they're offside or not. I think video replays and judgements by eye will become a thing of the past.
 

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I like Paul Doyle's idea that they should award a penalty from a foul anywhere on the pitch that stops a certain goal-scoring opportunity and equally they should award free kicks within the box for smaller infringements such as tripping or nudging players that are going away from goal or not able to have a shot.
 

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Head-gear will be used. Commercials during VAR-Decisions. Games reduced to 60 minutes with the clock paused when the ball is out of play. A deeper "offside" line. Power-play and drop-balls instead of kick-offs.
 

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GoranIvanisevic said:
I played in a mixer gender team last year and men were not allowed to jump to win the ball vs women
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I had this too. It was two established leagues that the organisers suddenly decided would be mixed.

In ours, men also weren't allowed to tackle women - so you had farcical scenes of having to shout for another woman on your team to run past you to defend if a woman on the opposition team got the ball. :lol:

There was also some nonsense mooted about men not being allowed to shoot from inside the box if the opposing team had a woman in nets.

That never actually happened because basically everyone left for a new league. Both the male and female players despised it...the only people who didn't were the league owners and their Facebook followers.

As for the topic....kick-ins instead of throw-ins. Wenger suggested this once and I think it's a great idea. Right now, throw-ins are almost a negative for the team receiving them.
 

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Dante said:
Bluetooth transmitters on players to determine whether they're offside or not. I think video replays and judgements by eye will become a thing of the past.
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Think these already exist (but used for analytics right now). You'll never catch the shoulder is off by a mm type errors with these but I'd argue that's not really the spirit of the law even if the words are written that way.
 

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bondsname said:
Head-gear will be used. Commercials during VAR-Decisions. Games reduced to 60 minutes with the clock paused when the ball is out of play. A deeper "offside" line. Power-play and drop-balls instead of kick-offs.
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God, I hope not. These sound terrible.
 

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RobinLFC said:
This can't come soon enough.

Another one should be that talking to the ref or hounding him should be an automatic yellow for everyone bar the captain.
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I think players should be able to dropkick the ref if he makes a dodgy decision.
 

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GhastlyHun said:
Stopped clock when play's paused, along with a reduction to 60 minutes match time.
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Definitely hope it's this. Timewasting is a scourge on the game.

And whatever happened to that rule about subs having to leave the pitch by the nearest touchline? They stopped enforcing it for players at away grounds because of supposed player safety. But even with empty stadiums, I can't remember a player being forced to do it. They were quite strict on it for a few weeks at most.
 

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There was a piece in the New York Times about Ralph Rangnick not long ago that suggested we'll see more emphasis placed on set-pieces over the coming years, by which they meant more focused, extensive and specialised preparation.

Beyond that, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see changes to how much heading is done in training given the worries about the damage it can cause.

VAR will continue to be tweaked, most immediately by the introduction of semi-automated offside calls.
 

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A reduction to 60 minutes? Why would anyone want that?

No way there is 30 minutes worth of stoppages in a normal game is there?
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More than that, quite often. But I'd guess the average is in or around 30min.
 

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As actually keeping the ball out of the net is a second or third priority in terms of ability for goalkeepers now.

I think we'll see a False 1 employed.
Probably by Pep against someone like West Brom and he'll be hailed further for his revolutionary genius for it, as they win 7-0, with 90% possession and his False 1 scores 2 and sets up 2.


Smaller ball as In the Op would be fun, but maybe they should play with the cheap plastic balls from the local corner shop. Match day balls can move all over the place like them anyway. Someone has to bring one in and if they get pissed off they can take their ball and go home, leaving the rest to fight about who won until they get called in for tea.
 

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PeteManic said:
I like Paul Doyle's idea that they should award a penalty from a foul anywhere on the pitch that stops a certain goal-scoring opportunity and equally they should award free kicks within the box for smaller infringements such as tripping or nudging players that are going away from goal or not able to have a shot.
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Yes, yes, yes. The current rules incentivise hacking a man down through on goal if he is outside the area and give a penalty for a small push on a player going away from goal in the penalty area.
 
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