True (think I saw 1 concussion sub last season?) but there's a lot more scope for concussion in rugby. Rugby's problems are much more from people being smacked in the head or violently stopped while running which doesn't happen anything like as often in football.
There are obvious problems but I'm still in favour of a full off-field concussion check for any player who stops play with a head injury. Even if that means a temporary sub while it's happening.
This ties is with my view that we should move to a pool of available rolling subs. In the event of injury player rolls off, gets treatment, while a replacement rolls on and play is continuous. In the event of head or other serious injury the rolling sub pool could be supplemented by substitution.
The modern rules are highly compatible with preventing real contact in the tackle and benefitting the team in possession with the ball on the ground. So we might as well go to a new offence of head ball, to complement the hand ball rule (that still needs sorting out). Defenders would have to learn to take the ball on the chest, or the ground. It would be fun. "But we head the ball, it's just a thing that we do, you can't change that.". Like a fair barge of the keeper into the net, which we don't do any more to the most protected position on the pitch.
It's football, not head ball. i would not have a problem with this.
This is not satire.
Yep. Especially as defenders particularly are using it as a tactic to break up play - it's what the bin-dipping CB (Konate?) did Trentside which resulted in the drop-ball farce.
Defender stayed down clutching his head, ref had to stop the game. Defender got up and played on without treatment.
I'm actually in favour of allowing physios straight on for injuries and the game continuing around them like in rugby.
But keeping the rule that once a physio is on, the player has to leave the field of play.
Would hopefully stop such play-acting, or even staying down for trivial knocks, if you thought a physio would come straight on and you'd have to leave the field anyway.
Couldn't really have brought on a physio for Konate while play continued, he was on the edge of the 6 yard box from memory.
Ref's discretion in the penalty area.
But equally, Konate wasn't injured and was clearly play-acting (cheating?). If he thought a physio was going to run on, or that he was going to have to leave the pitch anyway, he would not have stayed down and forced the ref to stop the game.
Same effect if he knew he'd have had to go off for 5 minutes for a concussion check (obviously they'd have subbed him as we were deep into injury time). Physio coming on in-play is ok in rugby because the game generally moves around the pitch slower and (I guess) the players work around the obstruction. Don't think it works in football.
WTF? Have you actually watched any rugby?
Billy Sharp has signed for Doncaster in League Two.
Super Benny Osborn set to sign for the sheep.
There you are you see. It is coming home.
Confirmed two-year deal - and nice mention of that goal.
And he talks well.
Bad shirt.
Got a lot of time for Ben. Hope he succeeds (without succeeding so much that they're in the same league as us next year)
Thought this was going to be about him voting for Farage.
Tbf, it is the nearest league club to where Farage is standing.
