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From: Real Mardin on 3 Aug 2010 14:51 On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > A match lasts until one of the teams leads by two goals. > > Pros: > - A single error by the referee couldn't be decisive. > - Defensive/destructive tactics would be meaningless. > - The best team would have more chances to win. (but less upsets could > be considered bad by some) > > Cons: > - Everything that depend from a unknown play time. (but sports like > volleyball and tennis live with it) > > Your opinion? > > -- > Cheers > milivella So if fans pay £30+ to get in and one side happens to score two goals in the first ten minutes, do the fans get their ticket fee refunded? Or do we make up for it by showing them Fletch Lives on the video screen? RM
From: Real Mardin on 3 Aug 2010 14:55 > So if fans pay £30+ to get in and one side happens to score two goals > in the first ten minutes, do the fans get their ticket fee refunded? > Or do we make up for it by showing them Fletch Lives on the video > screen? > > RM Likewise, what is the contingency plan for the PPV market? Do we fill the remaining 80 minutes with a few decent episodes of Rising Damp? RM
From: milivella on 3 Aug 2010 15:05 Abubakr: > On Aug 4, 12:06 am, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > A match lasts until one of the teams leads by two goals. > > > Pros: > > - A single error by the referee couldn't be decisive. > > - Defensive/destructive tactics would be meaningless. > > - The best team would have more chances to win. (but less upsets could > > be considered bad by some) > > > Cons: > > - Everything that depend from a unknown play time. (but sports like > > volleyball and tennis live with it) > > This is a huge obstacle in football because the relative difficulty of > scoring compared to those other sports. I'm sure that there'd be no > point in leaving games tied otherwise nor breaking those with penalty > shootouts... Yes, there would be no point. -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 3 Aug 2010 15:07 Mark V.: > On Aug 3, 7:06 am, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > A match lasts until one of the teams leads by two goals. > > > Pros: > > - A single error by the referee couldn't be decisive. > > - Defensive/destructive tactics would be meaningless. > > I think you'd see as much bunkering as ever from weaker teams. Think > about it. You'd be so fearful of losing in the first 20 minutes that > you'd take an especially conservative approach against stronger, > attack-minded teams. You'd park the bus and hope to get one on the > break. If you did, you'd stay bunkered down, fearful of losing your > hard-earned lead against a better team. Instead of attacking to get > the game over with, you'd be mindful of how much longer it *could* > last if your foe equalized, and hopeful that as the opponent tried > even harder to score you'd be able to pull a second one back even more > easily if they over-committed in the attack. I can't say that your argument doesn't convince me. Let me think about it, but for the time being yours is IMO the ultimate counter-argument to my idea. -- Cheers milivella
From: milivella on 3 Aug 2010 15:09
Real Mardin: > On Aug 3, 3:06 pm, milivella <milive...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > A match lasts until one of the teams leads by two goals. > > > Pros: > > - A single error by the referee couldn't be decisive. > > - Defensive/destructive tactics would be meaningless. > > - The best team would have more chances to win. (but less upsets could > > be considered bad by some) > > > Cons: > > - Everything that depend from a unknown play time. (but sports like > > volleyball and tennis live with it) > > > Your opinion? > > > -- > > Cheers > > milivella > > So if fans pay £30+ to get in and one side happens to score two goals > in the first ten minutes, do the fans get their ticket fee refunded? > Or do we make up for it by showing them Fletch Lives on the video > screen? :) This was obviously one of the cons "that depend from an unknown play time". My only counter-argument is: do you prefer to see 2 goals in 10 minutes or 90 minutes of bore? -- Cheers milivella |