Ballboys will not be allowed to hand the ball to players from next season in England

[WinkieWATP]

Instead the player must recieve the ball from the top of a cone.

L another fucking nonsense pointless rule being brought into the game.

 

[Camby loyalist]

Good to see them getting to the bottom of the important issues.

 

[Ünnëcëssärÿ Ümläüts]

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

 

[TheFrenchTank]

Yeah, because that'll work wonderfully.

 

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

Stay alert.
Control the virus.
Save lives.

 

[Hurleyreyes]

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

You would like to think so.

If so, I don't think is a nonsense rule.
I still remember that wee filth ball boy who kicked the ball away from McGregor so he had to wait for him to get the ball.
Wanted McGregor to launch him up in the air.

 

[Skunkworks]

The boy boys should dress up as cones then as a way to get round the stupid rule, always a loophole !

 

[Japandroid]

Is this an early April Fools?

 

[vintime]

There'll be ice cream everywhere

 

[Andre55]

Instead the player must recieve the ball from the top of a cone.

L another fucking nonsense pointless rule being brought into the game.

WTF? Are they going to have cones every foot along the sidelines?

 

[Captain Cutlass]

Ridiculous rule!
Throw ins are hard enough without the ball being covered in ice cream!
They've lost the plot!



I'll get ma coat!

 

[WinkieWATP]

Ridiculous rule!
Throw ins are hard enough without the ball being covered in ice cream!
They've lost the plot!



I'll get ma coat!

Oh dear

 

[Blaew]

This is ridiculous but its down to clubs coaching their ball boys to be dicks to the opposition teams.

 

[Davieblue1977]

Wtf

 

[insanicdrunk]

I can see why they might have brought it in, but its a bag of shite.

However, it might be better having balls set up around the park rather than having to hunt one down in some situations.

If they want to speed th game up deal with the players taking the throws/kicks.

 

[Captain Cutlass]

Oh dear

I'm here all week........unfortunately!

 

[atcolin]

Clubs will be desperately trying to find an official cone sponsor.

 

[WinkieWATP]

This is ridiculous but its down to clubs coaching their ball boys to be dicks to the opposition teams.

Part and parcel of having home advantage though surely?

 

[HankNs]

just stop the clock when the ball goes out problem solved , player can take as long as they want with no effect to the “time wasting “

 

[Blaew]

Part and parcel of having home advantage though surely?

Maybe, but some clubs take the piss with it. And some actually have ball boy coaches now and run them through scenarios based on the score and where the ball is.

 

[hunter1rfc]

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First thing i thought when i seen this

 

[insanicdrunk]

just stop the clock when the ball goes out problem solved , player can take as long as they want with no effect to the “time wasting “

Sod that, its not always about the time, its the momentum, they try to break up the opponents play.

 

[Captain Cutlass]

Clubs will be desperately trying to find an official cone sponsor.

Step up Nardini's!

I know I've done the "cone" joke to death but it worked for Specsavers sponsoring our referees.
Nothing wrong with a bit of humour in corporate sponsorship...it works!

 

[Big D]

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

Yip. Ball boys / girls can only retrieve the ball and put it on a cone, from which the players have to retrieve the ball themselves. No idea if there are minimum / maximum limits on how many cones there should be, or how far apart they are spaced. If not and it's introduced up here, you just know that at some grounds there'll be like 2 cones when we visit, to break the game up as much as possible. Bring in the multi-ball system to speed the game up, then introduce this to slow it down again. Hardly progress.

 

[LoyalRanger86]

Clubs will be desperately trying to find an official cone sponsor.

Equis will be all over it

 

[Teddy Casablanca]

That wee Swansea ball boy arsehole that lay on top of the ball and stopped Chelsea's Eden Hazard from getting the ball. That then resulted in Hazard being sent off should have been jailed. I believe the wee cnut is now a multi millionaire

 

[Texas ranger]

You would like to think so.

If so, I don't think is a nonsense rule.
I still remember that wee filth ball boy who kicked the ball away from McGregor so he had to wait for him to get the ball.
Wanted McGregor to launch him up in the air.

Off of a cone or drop kick style from both hands ?

 

[Anony Mouse]

The boy boys should dress up as cones then as a way to get round the stupid rule, always a loophole !

You mean similar to this

 

[TonyAtTheBing]

Be a lot of cones falling over by accident.

 

[The Janny]

the scum started these games up here, speed up for celtic slow down for opposition or throw extra ball on pitch at crucial time.

 

[Valley Bluenose]

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

Sure I noticed this thing with the cones in the recent Hibs Women v Rangers Women game through in Edinburgh.

 

[AMC]

They had it in the league cup final between Liverpool and Chelsea, made the whole multi ball thing a bit redundant as the cones where a good few yards from the touch line so still took a bit of time retrieving a new ball.

 

[Arcadian]

Instead the player must recieve the ball from the top of a cone.

L another fucking nonsense pointless rule being brought into the game.

Is this latest stroke of ingenuity a device to stop the home team getting a quick ball from the ball boys? So now the home team can use the cone system to slow the availability of a ball to the away team?
Have the SNP taken over football administration?
Fiddling around with utter meaningless nonsense while the long-standing fabric of the game deteriorates?

 

[Coisty09]

Without a doubt, you will see two balls on the pitch on a regular basis. Teams that want to waste time will just grab/kick different balls and take throw-ins from different places and pretend it was accidental.

 

[RTD-BEAR]

Instead the player must recieve the ball from the top of a cone.

L another fucking nonsense pointless rule being brought into the game.

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

At nearly every ground we go to in Scotland the ball boys rarely give us the ball and do their own team it slows us down.

Yes we use it against big European teams but we would gain more from this rule than lose.

It's a good thing

 

[Ten Ton Tony]

Is this latest stroke of ingenuity a device to stop the home team getting a quick ball from the ball boys? So now the home team can use the cone system to slow the availability of a ball to the away team?
Have the SNP taken over football administration?
Fiddling around with utter meaningless nonsense while the long-standing fabric of the game deteriorates?

How is the long standing fabric of the game deteriorating?

 

[Carlton The Bear]

Harry Maguire is going to be in big demand. How will he do it?

 

[RTD-BEAR]

Without a doubt, you will see two balls on the pitch on a regular basis. Teams that want to waste time will just grab/kick different balls and take throw-ins from different places and pretend it was accidental.

Game doesn't stop now in that scenario think if its not interrupting play at first opportunity should be removed

Yes can still be abused but it favours the attacking team

 

[BobbyShearer]

 

[dh1963]

What problem is this rule change trying to fix?

 

[Fitba Juice]

What problem is this rule change trying to fix?

Presumably home teams having the advantage of controlling the speed with which the ball comes back into play in respect to the home team v the away team. We've all seen how quickly the ball returns to Sellik players at the piggery in comparison to when we get a throw-in.

 

[NegrisLob]

Some spfl clubs probably couldn't even afford the cones

 

[Crispy Bacon]

Will there be cones spread around the park with a ball on each one consistently? Could stop clubs using their ball boys to slow the game down.

That’s why they are doing it.

People slagging it but would change the way an Old Firm at the crimescene is played.

 

[Fitba Juice]

Some spfl clubs probably couldn't even afford the cones

Or the extra balls

 

[Roadrunner]

This is ridiculous but its down to clubs coaching their ball boys to be dicks to the opposition teams.

Like Wolverhampton Wankerers!

 

[bluetonic]

It will never work

https://imgur.com/a/fkuuMtv

 

[Harryrfc]

 

[Theoracle]

There'll be ice cream everywhere

Mmmmmm Ice cream. Homer Simpson voice.

 

[Chainman]

Yet goalies will still be allowed about 2 minutes for a goal kick.

How about the refs grow a pair and add on the proper amount of added on time.

 

[Vallance]

A waifer fecks sakes.