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Post by davethegrave on Jun 23, 2023 13:46:12 GMT
I was just on another site and was reminded of the season when kick-ins replaced throw-ins as a trial.
Can anyone remember when exactly this was? I remember it did make for more exciting set-pieces.
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Jun 23, 2023 13:51:59 GMT
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Post by Jared on Jun 23, 2023 13:51:59 GMT
1994/95
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Jun 23, 2023 14:24:20 GMT
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Post by davef on Jun 23, 2023 14:24:20 GMT
It was horrible. Anti football.
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Jun 23, 2023 19:48:35 GMT
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Post by garethl on Jun 23, 2023 19:48:35 GMT
Horrendous and how they ever thought it would be anything else beggars belief.
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Post by halftimet on Jun 23, 2023 22:29:44 GMT
On moral grounds I’ve always chosen free range kick ins.
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Post by ADMIN on Jun 23, 2023 23:39:04 GMT
There was also the season where you could not be offside from a free kick...we used to have Stuart Hemsley launch the ball under the crossbar from the half way line!
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Jun 24, 2023 6:07:59 GMT
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Post by sufc18 on Jun 24, 2023 6:07:59 GMT
To the unenlightened a kick in sounds far more appropriate for football than a throw in. Can someone explain what was so awful about it?
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Jun 24, 2023 7:44:00 GMT
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Post by davef on Jun 24, 2023 7:44:00 GMT
Every throw outside your own defending third became an opportunity to simply launch a booming kick into the opposition penalty area, not so much Route One as Route Zero. Further back you could relieve pressure with a simple punt forwards
Games had no flow.
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Jun 24, 2023 10:53:32 GMT
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Post by sufc18 on Jun 24, 2023 10:53:32 GMT
Ah, yes that makes sense. Thanks.
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Post by boomboom on Jun 26, 2023 10:09:09 GMT
Playing (partly) devil's advocate here.
A defending team booting the ball out of play when under pressure is usually the easy way out, relying little on skill, and does break up the flow of play. Awarding a kick-in, rather than a throw-in, should increase the risk of doing so and therefore reward those who seek to play their way out of trouble, ie more skilfully. Well, that's a theory but I wasn't around at the time to see whether it happened in practice.
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Post by davef on Jun 26, 2023 10:31:46 GMT
That might have been part of theory behind it, I don't know, and some teams would play the kick-in short to build play, but if a mis-placed pass in the attacking third strayed out of play the opposition could immediately punt the ball 60 yards forward. Some teams even fielded players whose sole attribute seemed to be the ability to hit dead-balls a long way with reasonable accuracy. My memory may be playing tricks but I think there was one full back (Billy ?) for a certain east London team who would not have looked out of place in the Dog & Duck 7th eleven but could put the ball on his centre-forward's head from almost any distance. www.horshamfc.co.uk/the-kick-in/
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Post by tonyd on Jun 26, 2023 11:28:26 GMT
Also, let’s not forget the delays at every kick in as we waited for the big centre backs to stroll into the opposition box.
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Jun 26, 2023 11:38:10 GMT
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Post by markf on Jun 26, 2023 11:38:10 GMT
Big Billy Goldstone at Grays. Superb at dead ball delivery and free kicks.
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Post by davef on Jun 26, 2023 12:11:32 GMT
That's the fella. Cheers Mastermind, I could picture him but couldn't remember his full name.
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Post by ttenorclef on Jun 26, 2023 12:32:00 GMT
I remember us boasting that we were the first team to score as a result of the new rule. Awarded a 'throw in' on about the half way line, we pushed everyone forward and the defending team put into their own net direct from the kick. No offisdes under the new rule (as correctly stated above) and they all panicked. Can't remember who the opposition team were though, nor the final score!
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