Not sure if this has been picked up on a different section of the forum but has anyone else seem the new offside ruling that will come into play this season for Premier League?

Basically the premise is that if a player shoots at goal and an offside player tries to follow up, even if they don't touch the ball it will mean any goal ensuing will no longer count.

How do people feel about this? Personally I don't like the sound of it, don't see the need to change it.

if a player tried to follow up they'd be offside anyway. its more a case of a player being stood in an offside position already and the ball being close enough to them to possibly make an action to divert the ball into the net for example if a player shoots and the offside players makes no attempt to connect with the ball and isnt obstructing the keepers view then its a goal

 

if the player is obstructing the view of the keeper or tries to connect with the ball in an offside position, but misses the ball then he is offside.

 

personally think its a good rule

They should just go back to the most basic rule of if you're past the last man your offside.

They should just go back to the most basic rule of if you're past the last man your offside.

I hate the daftness of "not interfering with play". He's on the pitch, he's interfering with play, he's offside. all this 2nd phase garbage.

I can't really see the change to be honest. The examples they showed on sky sports were more to do with offside players closing down defenders in the second phase.

It doesn't sound too different to the rule now to me - if a player tries to follow up then I'd assume he would be involved in the play, and so I'm guessing some linesmen may interpret this as offside currently anyway. Just seems to remove a bit of ambiguity rather than bring about any large changes but I could be wrong.

This is better than the previous rule and a good change. I wouldn't want to go back to the original rule due to injured players etc. This is a good change though because when a player tries to head the ball but misses and then not being given offside is bollocks (Man Utd, last year).

Edited August 5, 201510 yr by RichardCFC

I can't really see the change to be honest. The examples they showed on sky sports were more to do with offside players closing down defenders in the second phase.

When Bran was blocking Cech on that FK, with the new rule it wouldnt have counted if it went in I think

When Bran was blocking Cech on that FK, with the new rule it wouldnt have counted if it went in I think

It wouldn't have counted last season either if the ref deemed ivanovic to have interfered with play. There is very very little difference.

There's little difference, it's just taking some unnecessary subjectivity out of the process. There was way too much inconsistency over people following up shots.

I don't have a problem with. It actually makes things simpler for referees and removes the "was he or wasn't he interfering with play" debate that gives tedious TV pundits things to talk about.