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Post by Power Ranger on Jun 25, 2018 14:44:25 GMT
I only played soccer until under-12s, where we never had the offside rule. It’s been explained to me but I still don’t understand it. Why can’t you just kick the ball no matter who is in front of you?
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Post by Flying Monkeys on Jun 25, 2018 16:13:11 GMT
Because without the offside rule, players would take up residence on the opponent's goal line and it would turn into a game of booting it from one end of the pitch to the other, which would be fairly boring. The offside rule allows one team to push the other team out of their territory so is a very useful tool.
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Post by 𝔅𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔞𝔫 𝔅𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔷𝔞𝔯 𝔅𝔲𝔵 on Jun 26, 2018 21:42:48 GMT
I don’t get it either!
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Jun 27, 2018 5:11:57 GMT
I only played soccer until under-12s, where we never had the offside rule. It’s been explained to me but I still don’t understand it. Why can’t you just kick the ball no matter who is in front of you? What's difficult to understand? You can't kick the ball to a team mate who is beyond the farthest opposing team member as you kick. No doubt others will go "wrong this, wrong that" about my description because the rule is long winded to take account of all the variations. |
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Post by Power Ranger on Jun 27, 2018 10:25:32 GMT
I only played soccer until under-12s, where we never had the offside rule. It’s been explained to me but I still don’t understand it. Why can’t you just kick the ball no matter who is in front of you? What's difficult to understand? You can't kick the ball to a team mate who is beyond the farthest opposing team member as you kick. No doubt others will go "wrong this, wrong that" about my description because the rule is long winded to take account of all the variations. Oh, that I understand. Thanks. Does it include the goalkeeper? |
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Jun 27, 2018 12:26:27 GMT
What's difficult to understand? You can't kick the ball to a team mate who is beyond the farthest opposing team member as you kick. No doubt others will go "wrong this, wrong that" about my description because the rule is long winded to take account of all the variations. Oh, that I understand. Thanks. Does it include the goalkeeper? No it doesn't. That's where the rule starts to get verbose with additions, caveats, explanations to make it cover all possibilities so makes it hard to figure out. |
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Post by yggdrasil on Jun 29, 2018 11:18:52 GMT
Not many folk do in these days of "active" and "phases of play". Was made more complicated to supposedly create more goals but they should have let it be. Most changes to the game are bad, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Post by Jam Jar on Jun 29, 2018 14:43:33 GMT
Whenever I think of offside, I think of that Monty Python sketch where the philosophers play football. The Greeks score and the German philosophers say it isn't a goal because of various ludicrous philosophical reasons.
But materialist Karl Marx says it isn't a goal because... it's offside.
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