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.
You just reinvented Rugby. Wait till you develop that into American Football.
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
Pretty sure this will trigger offsides, unless they also trap an opposing team player and take them with them…
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
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?
A hostage.
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
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.
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.
Yet*
Detroit add lions to their defense. Denver rushes while mounted. Chicago doubles down on drafting large, hirsute men for their team.
Dallas: YEEHAW!!
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.
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You need to think bigger if you want to keep up. Put Siege™®© into EVERYTHING!
Someone’s gonna do this and make the game evolve by making them add a new rule.
Better idea yet, just carry the ball in your hand, much easier and can be done by one person…
Streamlining the game, I lile 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
you have exactly 10 seconds to leave the field at the nearest point of exit (the sidelines)
Surround the players with your own and starve them out.
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!
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I mean, surely the team with the gun wins.
This is literally the point of an offensive line already, you think those boys can’t sumo wrestle?
Not to mention many of them are easily as big as the sumo wrestlers.
Because they’re also fast.
Something about someone the size of a fridge being able to outrun most amateur athletes can be a little unsettling for sure.
Sumo guys attack and maneuver really fast too. It’s just when they hit the open field, the football dudes are going to have a much faster 40m time.
That is what the offensive line is now and they can’t grab anyone to throw them aside because that would be holding.
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.
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Bold move, let’s see how it plays out for 'em, Cotton.
