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[KeyffSmyff]

Independent Article yep say average time the ball is in play is 59mins.

 

[jt64]

Pearl Jam's best record

Independent timekeeping. If the independent timekeeper determines that a team is deliberately timewasting, the team infringed against has the option to add on three times the amount of time wasted.

If someone does not retreat 10 yards quickly from a free kick then you can kick the ball at them and take a new free kick at the point of contact.

Only the captain can talk to the referee unless spoken to.

 

[Stu_Blade]

Pearl Jam's best record

Independent timekeeping. If the independent timekeeper determines that a team is deliberately timewasting, the team infringed against has the option to add on three times the amount of time wasted.

If someone does not retreat 10 yards quickly from a free kick then you can kick the ball at them and take a new free kick at the point of contact.

Only the captain can talk to the referee unless spoken to.

Totally agreed with the above one I would like to add to the list is the compulsory deduction of 1 weeks wages by every player in the Premier League once a year to be invested into the NHS and other public services

 

[Nicolaus_Copernicus]

Pearl Jam's best record

Independent timekeeping. If the independent timekeeper determines that a team is deliberately timewasting, the team infringed against has the option to add on three times the amount of time wasted.

If someone does not retreat 10 yards quickly from a free kick then you can kick the ball at them and take a new free kick at the point of contact.

Only the captain can talk to the referee unless spoken to.

Hmmmmm, this takes some beating....................

 

[Nosworthys Throw]

Abolish all fouls except handball, set ball on fire, arm the players, managers must duel to the death while suspended on bungee ropes above the pitch, winner gets a +1 on goal difference. And to appease all the woke folk, lesbian show at halftime with birds from every ethnic group going at it, hard. Programmes reduced to a quid. I know that last one is a bit far fetched but one can dream

 

[XM657]

Best team game ever developed.
As it stands now needs less rules and more a change in attitude of the players and managements to play the game in, for the sake of a better word, a more Corinthian way and not a win at all costs way.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Hmmmmm, this takes some beating....................

There first 2 albums were phenomenal. Love Even Flow and Black from the first. Rear View Mirror from the second always gets me going and Indifference brings me safely back down again!

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Abolish all fouls except handball, set ball on fire, arm the players, managers must duel to the death while suspended on bungee ropes above the pitch, winner gets a +1 on goal difference. And to appease all the woke folk, lesbian show at halftime with birds from every ethnic group going at it, hard. Programmes reduced to a quid. I know that last one is a bit far fetched but one can dream

Your fairy godfather has fixed all all of that for you - accept the last one of course. Even I have my limitations.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

Best team game ever developed.
As it stands now needs less rules and more a change in attitude of the players and managements to play the game in, for the sake of a better word, a more Corinthian way and not a win at all costs way.

Harks to yesteryear when it was simpler and not the high pressure money fuelled cheat fest we know and love today. There's a lot to be said for the game rediscovering some of its founding spirit.

 

[Badger Blade]

Pearl Jam's best record

Independent timekeeping. If the independent timekeeper determines that a team is deliberately timewasting, the team infringed against has the option to add on three times the amount of time wasted.

If someone does not retreat 10 yards quickly from a free kick then you can kick the ball at them and take a new free kick at the point of contact.

Only the captain can talk to the referee unless spoken to.

2 var referrals per team from the manager, absolutely zero ref baiting. Ref baiting, appealing incorrectly or otherwise, create points after the match. Dodgy missed tackles, shithousing, falling over under a challenge and handballing all get looked at afterwards with points applied to players and bans following.

Offside was introduced to stop goal hanging. Obvious (daylight) offsides only, and inside the penalty area only. Would be worth a trial.

Can only Loan out 5 players per year to stop Chelsea etc.

Based on these, we need to follow the rugby model.

Captain's challenge where you can refer a decision to the video - if it gets overturned, you still have your referral to use again until you get over ruled yourself

Independent timekeeper - siren goes at the end of the 60/90 minutes (whichever we're going with). Kick the ball out and the game ends. My mrs knows nothing about football and was watching the Euros and said "why is the clock going upwards and why doesn't it stop instead of all this adding on when they don't really know how long to add"

Independent judiciary to hand out retrospective fines and punishments, regardless of whether they were penalised in the game or not with players previous records to be taken into account. Just because something was given as a yellow card in a game doesn't mean it can't be upgraded to a red and vice versa. Panel made up of ex players, managers, coaches, refs and independent legal adjudicator.

Implementing anything like this, with the Premier League's money will cost them virtually nothing. Trial it in the reserves league, League Cup, Women's League, wherever.

 

[jt64]

Totally agreed with the above one I would like to add to the list is the compulsory deduction of 1 weeks wages by every player in the Premier League once a year to be invested into the NHS and other public services

They pay a fortune in tax as it is

 

[Harrisblade]

HMRC investigations of footballers almost treble in a year as taxman targets image rights deals

Read the latest insights from UHY Hacker Young: HMRC investigations of footballers almost treble in a year as taxman targets image rights deals

www.uhy-uk.com

 

[Stu_Blade]

They pay a fortune in tax as it is

Yeah agreed they are on the higher tax bands but when their accountant does a bit of offshore work for them I am sure they still make a fortune too. I personally think it's bonkers when a starting salary for a NHS nurse is £24,907 per year before tax with student debt hanging over you. The average wage of a Premier League footballer is reported to be £60,000 a week (approx £3million a year + addons) based on the no add ons take home pay would be £30,792 per week. I am sure they could be without that for 1 week a year and that's just a mean average wage.

 

[Stu_Blade]

Yeah agreed they are on the higher tax bands but when their accountant does a bit of offshore work for them I am sure they still make a fortune too. I personally think it's bonkers when a starting salary for a NHS nurse is £24,907 per year before tax with student debt hanging over you. The average wage of a Premier League footballer is reported to be £60,000 a week (approx £3million a year + addons) based on the no add ons take home pay would be £30,792 per week. I am sure they could be without that for 1 week a year and that's just a mean average wage.

Just as addition to this based on approx guesses of weekly wages at all Premier league clubs via a stats site for 21/22 season by deducting a base salary weeks wage from each player it would raise in the region of £24million per year (they would still have their addons and image rights etc) . That would go a long way to the recruitment and retention of social care and other NHS services

 

[BushBlade]

Just as addition to this based on approx guesses of weekly wages at all Premier league clubs via a stats site for 21/22 season by deducting a base salary weeks wage from each player it would raise in the region of £24million per year (they would still have their addons and image rights etc) . That would go a long way to the recruitment and retention of social care and other NHS services

Why footballers specifically? Why not all rich people?

 

[Stu_Blade]

Why footballers specifically? Why not all rich people?

Why not indeed. I totally agree I was mainly just using it as an example as easy to get data but if you went down the route of "social media influencers" and the like I am sure even more could be added to that funding pot. The times you hear on the news that a health facility is closing due to lack of funding etc is tragic yet throughout all of their lives I am sure they and their families have used the NHS and take the services for granted. James Dyson is on reportly £3million a year and that's what is declared in this country. I am sure he wouldn't miss £60,000 a year

 

[Le Cynique]

Abolish all fouls except handball, set ball on fire, arm the players, managers must duel to the death while suspended on bungee ropes above the pitch, winner gets a +1 on goal difference. And to appease all the woke folk, lesbian show at halftime with birds from every ethnic group going at it, hard. Programmes reduced to a quid. I know that last one is a bit far fetched but one can dream

At last, someone talking sense on here.

I'd also make it a bannable offence to not use the multi-quote functionality on a football forum and just spam a thread with endless replies to different posts, but that's just me.

Why not indeed. I totally agree I was mainly just using it as an example as easy to get data but if you went down the route of "social media influencers" and the like I am sure even more could be added to that funding pot. The times you hear on the news that a health facility is closing due to lack of funding etc is tragic yet throughout all of their lives I am sure they and their families have used the NHS and take the services for granted. James Dyson is on reportly £3million a year and that's what is declared in this country. I am sure he wouldn't miss £60,000 a year

Yeah, chucking more money at the NHS would definitely solve all its problems.

 

[guancheblade]

No loan signings ...

That's us screwed then

 

[BushBlade]

Yeah, chucking more money at the NHS would definitely solve all its problems.

It would certainly solve some of them. For example, providing bursaries for nursing training so there was more staff available, not pretending you can run a service that has to react quickly to changes in demand in the same way as you can run a commercial business that employs mainly low skilled workers, considering having separate hospitals for infectious diseases (which would require building them), actually having a reserve of PPE instead of relying on JIT principles (which can be fine in manufacturing).
The idea of an “efficient” NHS is a myth produced by accountants who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing and propagated by politicians for their own political ends.

 

[Le Cynique]

It would certainly solve some of them. For example, providing bursaries for nursing training so there was more staff available, not pretending you can run a service that has to react quickly to changes in demand in the same way as you can run a commercial business that employs mainly low skilled workers, considering having separate hospitals for infectious diseases (which would require building them), actually having a reserve of PPE instead of relying on JIT principles (which can be fine in manufacturing).
The idea of an “efficient” NHS is a myth produced by accountants who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing and propagated by politicians for their own political ends.

In an of itself it would solve nothing, because the bean-counters that run it would just squander it. It needs additional funding but it needs proper management, from the Health Secretary downwards, so that it's run properly, effectively and efficiently.

To me the NHS is the single biggest source of pride in this country: the idea that anyone, regardless of means, can get access to appropriate healthcare without being billed at the point of need shows a society that is advanced, empathetic and just generally sensible. The reality of the NHS is, in my experience, far removed from that. Much like the BBC, it's an example of success* despite everything, not because of it. That's not the fault of most of the people, by the way, for whom I have nothing but respect.


*sadly it's limited success, in many cases

 

[Kevin Arnott]

No points for either team if a game finishes 0-0 ?

 

[SuperSonicBlade89]

Get rid of offside altogether.
More goals.
Defenders would have to be more switched on.


I've said this before but how many people get excited over someone being caught offside? People talk about time wasting, well this is probably a big part of it. The arguments it sometimes causes. The break up of play.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Fuck VAR

If not, real time replays only, 30 seconds max and if nothing to definitely overturn the on field decision it stands.

 

[BushBlade]

In an of itself it would solve nothing, because the bean-counters that run it would just squander it. It needs additional funding but it needs proper management, from the Health Secretary downwards, so that it's run properly, effectively and efficiently.

To me the NHS is the single biggest source of pride in this country: the idea that anyone, regardless of means, can get access to appropriate healthcare without being billed at the point of need shows a society that is advanced, empathetic and just generally sensible. The reality of the NHS is, in my experience, far removed from that. Much like the BBC, it's an example of success* despite everything, not because of it. That's not the fault of most of the people, by the way, for whom I have nothing but respect.


*sadly it's limited success, in many cases

Which specific areas would you say could be managed better and how? For example, if you need to have 20 staff to run a ward in peak times, you need 20 staff at all times, because you can’t always predict when the peaks are, and you can’t hire and fire staff at random, because they need training and experience, it’s not like crop farming when you can hire a load of labourers to pick your potatoes on short term contracts.
I agree any additional spending needs to be strategically targeted and there’s no point just throwing money at it but let’s not pretend it’s adequately funded right now.

 

[coaxingstar71]

Why not indeed. I totally agree I was mainly just using it as an example as easy to get data but if you went down the route of "social media influencers" and the like I am sure even more could be added to that funding pot. The times you hear on the news that a health facility is closing due to lack of funding etc is tragic yet throughout all of their lives I am sure they and their families have used the NHS and take the services for granted. James Dyson is on reportly £3million a year and that's what is declared in this country. I am sure he wouldn't miss £60,000 a year

I'm sure we have something already that performs this role, it's called Income Tax.

 

[Le Cynique]

Which specific areas would you say could be managed better and how? For example, if you need to have 20 staff to run a ward in peak times, you need 20 staff at all times, because you can’t always predict when the peaks are, and you can’t hire and fire staff at random, because they need training and experience, it’s not like crop farming when you can hire a load of labourers to pick your potatoes on short term contracts.
I agree any additional spending needs to be strategically targeted and there’s no point just throwing money at it but let’s not pretend it’s adequately funded right now.

Inter- and intra-departmental communication for one thing. I agree that the example you gave is completely valid and that staffing isn't as simple as any other business, because it's not just any other business. That said, it'd be great if my GP could effectively and efficiently talk to the various specialists I've been peddled around over the years, so that a holistic picture could be built up and accurate measures taken, rather than endless repetition of the same tests and interventions because the new doctor doesn't have a clue that they've been done before.

This sounds like it's me moaning about a personal experience, and it really isn't I assure you. I know for a fact though that my local Trust, which encompasses a city and a town and has many major and minor hospitals and surgeries under its purview, employs at least two completely separate financial systems. This means that at least one person at each of the trusts has to manually reconcile the financial information from the other to make it compatible with their own data. This is absolute madness.

I also know of at least two people who have had serious (and in one case terminal) cases of cancer overlooked because of being passed between different doctors and no effective record system making sure that their care team was aware of their medical history and complaints. That and certain cunt-like doctors who insist they know best missing loads of signs, until it was too late for anything to be done, leaving my best mate to die in agony before even having his biopsy.

It doesn't matter how hard the nurses work if the system for getting people booked and processed in the first place is fucked, because they're always going to be fighting against the current. Chucking more money at it, even to bring more nurses in (or pay the poor overworked sods a better wage) doesn't work, because it's not addressing the root cause of the issue. Sorting it all out so that the right hand knows what the left is doing would be a good start. At least the nurses might know what they're supposed to be caring for when people are dumped on the wards if that was the case.

 

[CTRL ALT DE LAET]

Strange one but i'd reduce the size of the penalty area. Doesn't seem fair to me that you can get a free shot at goal from 12 yards after being fouled 18 yards from goal or from an impossible angle.

Will hopefully reduce the amount of diving as currently as soon as a player reaches the penalty area now they'll looking for and in most occasions are initiating contact.

 

[Stu_Blade]

I'm sure we have something already that performs this role, it's called Income Tax.

Even after income tax the average weekly wage of a Premiership footballer is over £30K as a means average whilst a nurse is under that per year before tax. I know who I would rather have more of.

They could even do it on a voluntary basis to charities of their choice if like some believe the NHS doesn't need any more cash. The main point of the argument is footballers are paid far too much money for too little return. Retire at 35, 38 if you are lucky and if you don't want to and sit back on the cash "earnt" by working class people paying however much for a season ticket and merchandise.

 

[Stu_Blade]

Strange one but i'd reduce the size of the penalty area. Doesn't seem fair to me that you can get a free shot at goal from 12 yards after being fouled 18 yards from goal or from an impossible angle.

Will hopefully reduce the amount of diving as currently as soon as a player reaches the penalty area now they'll looking for and in most occasions are initiating contact.

I wonder what the thinkings were about the current size agreed with you on the diving side of things. It would make for a packed box when it comes to corners in the last minute etc

 

[Stu_Blade]

Even after income tax the average weekly wage of a Premiership footballer is over £30K as a means average whilst a nurse is under that per year before tax. I know who I would rather have more of.

They could even do it on a voluntary basis to charities of their choice if like some believe the NHS doesn't need any more cash. The main point of the argument is footballers are paid far too much money for too little return. Retire at 35, 38 if you are lucky and if you don't want to and sit back on the cash "earnt" by working class people paying however much for a season ticket and merchandise.

A larger capacity contact centre when demand is high etc also ways that could help!