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       #Post#: 50411--------------------------------------------------
       Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Affy_Moose
       Date: July 28, 2022, 4:40 am
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       IFAB announced last night some updated guidance on 'deliberate
       play' for the effect of 'resetting' offside.
       Apparently, this isn't strictly a change to the Law, but updated
       guidance.  Semantics aside, it is a pretty significant change
       that will impact football (immediately to officials, but you
       would suspect that players and fans will take longer to notice).
       There are video clips to help demonstrate the new
       intepretation/guidance, but they don't seem to be working on my
       computer.  Not sure if anyone else has more luck?
  HTML https://red.fifa.com/play/collection/13010/Law11-Offside:deliberateplayanddeflection?cId=16&itemId=12995
       In essence, the changes are now so that the referee can better
       distinguish between what is truly deliberate or intentional, and
       what is not.
       As officials, we would now consider the following as to whether
       a play was deliberate for our needs.
       The ball travelled from distance and the player had a clear view
       of it
       The ball was not moving quickly
       The direction of the ball was not unexpected
       The player had time to coordinate their body movement, i.e. it
       was not a case of instinctive stretching or jumping, or a
       movement that achieved limited contact/control
       A ball moving on the ground is easier to play than a ball in the
       air[/li]
       Otherwise, a 'deliberate' play would still remain for the
       following:
       passing the ball to a team-mate; or
       gaining possession of the ball; or
       clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it)
       I can see some immediate situations I would need to clarify
       before being able to implement in my game on Saturday, but
       presumably the clips will help (as will various Associations'
       guidance that should be released in the next 24-48 hours)
       The full IFAB article is here, as well as an embedded link to
       the video clips I cannot see!
  HTML https://www.theifab.com/news/law-11-offside-deliberate-play-guidelines-clarified/
       EDIT: the videos now seem to be loading for me
       #Post#: 50412--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: nemesis
       Date: July 28, 2022, 5:05 am
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       --- Quote from: Affy_Moose link ---
       >
       > IFAB announced last night some updated guidance on 'deliberate
       play' for the effect of 'resetting' offside.
       >
       > Apparently, this isn't strictly a change to the Law, but
       updated guidance.  Semantics aside, it is a pretty significant
       change that will impact football (immediately to officials, but
       you would suspect that players and fans will take longer to
       notice).
       >
       > There are video clips to help demonstrate the new
       intepretation/guidance, but they don't seem to be working on my
       computer.  Not sure if anyone else has more luck?
       >
       >
  HTML https://red.fifa.com/play/collection/13010/Law11-Offside:deliberateplayanddeflection?cId=16&itemId=12995
       >
       > In essence, the changes are now so that the referee can better
       distinguish between what is truly deliberate or intentional, and
       what is not.
       >
       > As officials, we would now consider the following as to
       whether a play was deliberate for our needs.
       >
       >
       > The ball travelled from distance and the player had a clear
       view of it
       > The ball was not moving quickly
       > The direction of the ball was not unexpected
       > The player had time to coordinate their body movement, i.e. it
       was not a case of instinctive stretching or jumping, or a
       movement that achieved limited contact/control
       > A ball moving on the ground is easier to play than a ball in
       the air
       >
       >
       > Otherwise, a 'deliberate' play would still remain for the
       following:
       >
       >
       > passing the ball to a team-mate; or
       > gaining possession of the ball; or
       > clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it)
       >
       >
       >
       > I can see some immediate situations I would need to clarify
       before being able to implement in my game on Saturday, but
       presumably the clips will help (as will various Associations'
       guidance that should be released in the next 24-48 hours)
       >
       > The full IFAB article is here, as well as an embedded link to
       the video clips I cannot see!
  HTML https://www.theifab.com/news/law-11-offside-deliberate-play-guidelines-clarified/
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Thanks for that. There's certainly some examples in the videos
       that I find hard to reconcile even with their new guidance !
       There are a couple of quite deliberate attempts to cut out and
       control a long pass which went wrong due to poor control which
       are deemed not deliberate.
       #Post#: 50413--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: ARF
       Date: July 28, 2022, 5:06 am
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       --- Quote ---
       > ‘Deliberate play’ is when a player has control of the ball
       with the possibility of:
       > passing the ball to a team-mate; or
       > gaining possession of the ball; or
       > clearing the ball (e.g. by kicking or heading it).
       --- End Quote ---
       Anyone else slightly confused as to how you can have control of
       the ball without being in possession of it? [emoji854]
       #Post#: 50414--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Affy_Moose
       Date: July 28, 2022, 5:30 am
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       Now that I can see the videos, there are some immediately
       obvious difficulties to reconcile differences...
       Australia v Peru; versus Napoli v PSG.  I cannot easily
       understand why one is deliberate and the other isn't (other than
       these clips appear to suggest any ball that is 'lofted' doesn't
       count, even if the time and pressure on the ball is
       significantly lower?)
       I do wonder if this will be tightened up more, just to get rid
       of the decisions which felt wrong, but where the Law didn't
       support.  For many of those clips, the defender is under no
       pressure and just makes a mess of it.  Not sure we should be
       legislating to protect that?
       Either way, I look forward to the more specific Association
       guidance...
       #Post#: 50415--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Readingfan
       Date: July 28, 2022, 6:16 am
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       I hope the EFL clubs and referees have had some reasonable time
       to prepare for this, rather than suddenly implementing something
       completely different in 24 hours.
       Where would the Liverpool V Spurs Lovren/Kane incident fit in
       with this? That's one of the highest profile incidents I
       remember.
       #Post#: 50416--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Leggy
       Date: July 28, 2022, 6:18 am
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       These endless attempts to define, with 100% accuracy, both
       Offside and Handball result in less clarity, less accurate
       decision making, more confusion and more nonsense.  The
       over-riding objective of these exercises appears to be to remove
       from the referee / assistant referee any scintilla of discretion
       to look at an incident and use their skill, knowledge and
       judgement to come up with the right outcome for the game.
       Football used to be a simple game, it has got so much more
       complex in the last twenty years and I defy anyone to say it is
       better for it.  When we see playing contorting their bodies to
       avoid being hit by the ball and penalised and when we see very
       clear offsides not flagged in fear of VAR things have gone more
       than a little awry.
       #Post#: 50420--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: ASM
       Date: July 28, 2022, 6:47 am
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       --- Quote from: Readingfan link ---
       >
       > I hope the EFL clubs and referees have had some reasonable
       time to prepare for this, rather than suddenly implementing
       something completely different in 24 hours.
       >
       > Where would the Liverpool V Spurs Lovren/Kane incident fit in
       with this? That's one of the highest profile incidents I
       remember.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       In a word,  no.
       #Post#: 50423--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: bmb
       Date: July 28, 2022, 10:35 am
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       --- Quote from: Readingfan link ---
       >
       > I hope the EFL clubs and referees have had some reasonable
       time to prepare for this, rather than suddenly implementing
       something completely different in 24 hours.
       >
       > Where would the Liverpool V Spurs Lovren/Kane incident fit in
       with this? That's one of the highest profile incidents I
       remember.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Answer from Dale Johnson in relation to that:
  HTML https://twitter.com/DavidLeaWrath/status/1552384072248397827?s=20&t=bOL4fbfU1qekIn_HSnKjVA
       #Post#: 50424--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Affy_Moose
       Date: July 28, 2022, 11:02 am
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       --- Quote from: bmb link ---
       >
       > [quote author=Readingfan link=topic=3836.msg50415#msg50415
       date=1659006988]
       > I hope the EFL clubs and referees have had some reasonable
       time to prepare for this, rather than suddenly implementing
       something completely different in 24 hours.
       >
       > Where would the Liverpool V Spurs Lovren/Kane incident fit in
       with this? That's one of the highest profile incidents I
       remember.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Answer from Dale Johnson in relation to that:
  HTML https://twitter.com/DavidLeaWrath/status/1552384072248397827?s=20&t=bOL4fbfU1qekIn_HSnKjVA
       [/quote]
       Thanks for sharing.  I find that very interesting.
       It's difficult to square why that particular situation would
       result in an onside call, but the videos where a player makes a
       mess of a clearance from a lofted through ball (and therefore
       had more time, better ability to coordinate/react, and under
       less pressure) creates an offside call...
       I suspect we'll either be given improved guidance, or this is
       going to go the way of past seasons handball amendments - i.e.
       inconsistent application
       The one element benefiting these guidelines is that these
       decisions leading to goals/no goals is not as common as handball
       and others where subjectivity is on the highest end of the
       spectrum...
       #Post#: 50426--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Changes to Law 11 - Deliberate Play
   DIR By: Readingfan
       Date: July 28, 2022, 11:31 am
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       --- Quote from: Affy_Moose link ---
       >
       > [quote author=bmb link=topic=3836.msg50423#msg50423
       date=1659022534]
       > [quote author=Readingfan link=topic=3836.msg50415#msg50415
       date=1659006988]
       > I hope the EFL clubs and referees have had some reasonable
       time to prepare for this, rather than suddenly implementing
       something completely different in 24 hours.
       >
       > Where would the Liverpool V Spurs Lovren/Kane incident fit in
       with this? That's one of the highest profile incidents I
       remember.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       Answer from Dale Johnson in relation to that:
  HTML https://twitter.com/DavidLeaWrath/status/1552384072248397827?s=20&t=bOL4fbfU1qekIn_HSnKjVA
       [/quote]
       Thanks for sharing.  I find that very interesting.
       It's difficult to square why that particular situation would
       result in an onside call, but the videos where a player makes a
       mess of a clearance from a lofted through ball (and therefore
       had more time, better ability to coordinate/react, and under
       less pressure) creates an offside call...
       I suspect we'll either be given improved guidance, or this is
       going to go the way of past seasons handball amendments - i.e.
       inconsistent application
       The one element benefiting these guidelines is that these
       decisions leading to goals/no goals is not as common as handball
       and others where subjectivity is on the highest end of the
       spectrum...
       [/quote]
       My initial reading of it was Dale Johnson was saying that
       Kane/Lovren would now be offside as Lovren was stretching for
       the ball rather than being in control? However, it doesn't bode
       well that the correct decision isn't fully clear to me from the
       explanation!
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