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Newbies · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 10:49 am Post subject: AN actual question !

Now that I have wasted all that space poking fun at CJ, I would hate to have my question get lose in all that junk !! Shocked

I played and watched my first game. The pace is very slow. Is that because the guys have little or no run training ? does the pace pick up with training ?

Looks like this is going to be Very complicated to get a good training routine !

C_J · Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Forum ID: 6

Newbies · Posted: Mon Dec 02, 2002 11:54 am Post subject:

Well that answered that question. The pace does pick up dramaticly.

How does the offsides logic work. My understanding of offsides in footy it that an offensive player is offsides if he is closer to the goal than either the ball, or any defensive player.

How does it really work ?

C_J · Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Forum ID: 6

Crash B. · Rookie Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Forum ID: 414

Crash B. · Rookie Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Forum ID: 414

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Basically, an offsides occurs when an offensive player is caught behind the furthest back defensive player when the ball is kicked. If for instance, the midfielder wishes to feed the ball to it's striker (forward). If that striker or any other is behind the last defensive man back, then an offsides should be called. If he is in front of the last defender when the ball is kicked, then no offsides will be called. Once the ball leaves the passers foot, the offensive player may go behind the defense and make a run at the goal. That is why you will see a defensive always trying to push its line up the field so it can bait an offsides call.

Hope that helps a little Confused

Harry's Hoes 8* 130220 Jr. league

Crash B. · Rookie Joined: 02 Dec 2002 Forum ID: 414

I found an English Site with Soccer Rules, I hope you understand this (I do not Very Happy

)

http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~dgraham/lotg/

Offside is explained on this site like that:

The offside rule generally provides that a pass cannot legally be made to an off-ball attacker who is ahead of the ball and in the attacking half unless there are at least two defenders (one of whom may be the goalkeeper) between him and the goal when the ball is passed to him by a teammate.

Specifically, under the offside rule, an off-ball attacker who is in his opponent's half of the field must stay even with or behind the ball or, if he goes ahead of the ball, he must stay even with or behind the second-to-last-defender (2LD) until the ball is played or touched by one of his teammates. Normally, the 2LD is the last field player. However, the 2LD term is used instead of "last field player" to provide for situations where the keeper comes out of the box and the last two defenders may be field players, or the keeper may become the 2LD.

If the off-ball attacker is ahead of the ball and closer to the opponent's goal than the 2LD, then he will be called for an offside infraction IF the referee decides that he interfered with play, or interfered with an opponent, or gained an advantage from being in an offside position. It is not necessary that the player in an offside position (OSP) actually participate in play to be called for offside (technically, if an attacker is lying unconscious in front of the goal, and the keeper cannot get to the ball because of him, he will be called for an offside infraction even though he never participated in play at all). However, an infraction will not normally be called if a player in an OSP is passively standing on one side of the field while a teammate dribbles the ball up the opposite side and scores.

If an offside infraction is called, the opponent is awarded an IFK.

Geezer · Expert Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: UK Forum ID: 22

Hehe, i knew little about baseball till smallball, then i really got into it.
With Football i know the game off by heart so i got into the swing of things quickly. Of course the pace picks up Smile

Review a game between CJ and myself (CJ you bastard, sneaking in those 2 big league games as usual before i get time to train Rolling Eyes

) and you will see how it is played between 7* teams.

C_J · Veteran Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Forum ID: 6

Geezer · Expert Joined: 24 Oct 2002 Location: UK Forum ID: 22

tokek · Guest Forum ID: -1

You're offside when a fellow player passes the ball to you, and at the exact moment of passing there is only one opponent, or no one at all, between you and the goal.

There are two exceptions, and that is when you receive the ball from a backward pass, or when you receive the ball in your own half.

It is the most controversial rule in football, as it is almost impossible to enforce without video replays - which are still anathema to the world football federation FIFA.

Also, where I come from, it is generally agreed that people who don't understand the offside rule are, by that fact alone, women. Twisted Evil

Cheers
Tim