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Football Thread |OT14| Only Wilbury's belly is smoother than BAAAYEEERNs season
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Freewheelin'
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The Departed was really good, but it felt like the Academy gave the Oscar to Scorsese just to say: "We're sorry we didn't give you one for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, etc."
Really fucking good film though.
And I just re-watched Pineapple Express, hilarious film.
Is that good? Context DC, context!
Well it's a shame he didn't get one before for all the mentioned classics. Same goes for Nolan, give this man his Oscar!
Meus Renaissance
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I had this idea once on how to promote technique and flair.
For every goal scored produced by one touch made by a X amount of players, the team would get 1 point. For instance,
Scholes, Kagawa, Cleverly, Rooney all have one touch and RVP scores from one of their passes = 1 point. This is on top of any result. That's 4 players passing to the goal scorer. When it involves 5 players = 2 points. We'd get some great football out of it
Wenger had a similar idea a few years back but he wanted to award an extra point depending on how many goals you scored in a match.
For every goal scored produced by one touch made by a X amount of players, the team would get 1 point. For instance,
Scholes, Kagawa, Cleverly, Rooney all have one touch and RVP scores from one of their passes = 1 point. This is on top of any result. That's 4 players passing to the goal scorer. When it involves 5 players = 2 points. We'd get some great football out of it
Wenger had a similar idea a few years back but he wanted to award an extra point depending on how many goals you scored in a match.
And the Oscar for The Stupidest Idea Ever goes to.....
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Meus is truly insane
Meus Renaissance
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Granted, Utd probably wouldn't win another title using that method
Well I think Wii did 180K in a similar time frame.
Freewheelin'
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Christ this is the worst idea ever
Nolan doesn't deserve one yet
QT deserves one more than him
Well considering what won the last years The Prestige, Inception and The Dark Knight are Oscar worthy movies.
And hey, QT gets his writing skills rewarded.
LabouredSubterfuge
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So in essence an entirely new sport?
Gareth Bale
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I don't think he is to be honest.
Freewheelin'
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True, but it'd be nice to see his films get more recognition by the Academy
The Prestige is Nolan's best film, imo. So tightly constructed and well-laid out.
LabouredSubterfuge
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I think the problem is that Meus just doesn't like football. It's not what he wants it to be.
Meus Renaissance
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Interesting. What makes you say that considering the aim would still be to score in order to win games?
Who cares, The Departed is his best movie anyway.
Meus Renaissance
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To be honest I don't think there is a homogeneous idea of what football is
Sure there is. You score more goals, you win. That's football.
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Meus Renaissance
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You'd lose all the dynamism and variety of football as it'd only reward a single play-style, out of the many that exist now. I don't see why you'd ever want to implement something that literally attempts to control how football teams go about scoring goals, unless you're purely speaking in the interest of your own team.
As for Swansea, they aren't the best footballing team in the league, no. They do play well and can be very entertaining. But that's all, really.
Gareth Bale
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It says there they have these in the Netherlands
edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYfBHA1QbGU
That's mental! Just take the steps like a normal person.
Why should there be? The variety is what makes it interesting. Every sport has different ways it is played. If they didn't, it would be incredibly boring.
The Departed is his best movie PERIOD.
Shatner's Bassoon
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The King of Comedy for me.
I can't decide between Raging Bull and Goodfellas.
LabouredSubterfuge
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You're forcing a particular play style on the sport that you consider to be the best. Part of what makes football great is that there are varying styles and they can all be successful to a degree. What you would be doing is telling teams that there is a right way to play by incentivising that style. If you follow this line of thinking, you could see how it would cause an even greater gap between the haves and have-nots in football. Everyone playing the same way would be awfully dull.
I think the rule would make it a very different sport to the one it is now, and not for the better in many ways.
Meus Renaissance
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I think some may have misunderstood. I didn't mean to suggest the only way you gain points is to play tika taka, but rather a certain type of football that involves technique and flair be incentivised with extra points. You would still see a varied game as teams try to first and foremost win their matches rather than attempt wonder goals. Considering that, would you change your opinion of the idea?
I do!
Taxi Driver 4 lyfe.
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No. That's just introducing subjectivity into a sport that is incredibly simple, objective and better because of it. Barcelona use plenty of flair and technique and they win plenty of stuff, so clearly the current model is working just fine.
Kyoufu best poster in this thread confirmed.
I meant exclusively.
If you don't appreciate variety in football then La Liga is all you need. Swansea don't play some revolutionary brand of football, or anything particularly inventive, they just play like a La Liga team.
Freewheelin'
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Have I ever told you guys that you are quickly becoming my favourite posters?
But if you make it possible to gain 1 or 2 extra points on top of your 3, then your maximum point amount is now 5. It's not incentivising anymore than it is punishing the teams who don't play a certain way. There's no possible method of adding an incentive without it coming necessary in a competitive environment.
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