Post by Dave on Jan 8, 2009 22:28:47 GMT
Well I know you like football and I'm sure you have other sports you enjoy watching, or even taking part in. All sports have rules of play, some have never changed from the day the sport was born, but in most sports new rules have come in, or an old rule changed in some way.
This thread is your chance to change a rule in any sport, that you feel needs to be changed, the rule could ruin your enjoyment of the sport, or you just may think it has no real purpose and would be better of being changed.
I will start the thread of with a new rule that was brought into snooker, its a rule I dislike and one that I feel should never have come into the game.The game is called snooker and often a player will lay a snooker on his opponent. he may do this because he can't see a pot on and wants to leave the table safe, or he could be behind on points and needs to make up some points to get into a position, where he could then clear the remaining balls to win the frame.
Before this rule came in, if a player tried to get out of the snooker and did not hit the object ball, it was then a foul shot, the player who laid the snooker gets his reward by getting the points added to his total score.Then they went and changed that rule, now if the player misses the object ball the ref calls a foul and a miss, the balls are all then put back to where they were and the player must try again, to get out of the snooker.
If he misses again the same thing happens and the other players justs keeps getting the points for the foul shots. Its not to bad if only one or two balls got moved during the shot, but when its more, the balls can't really go back in the exact same spots.
As long as the snookered player made a real effort to get out of the snooker, then if he missed the other player should just get the points and the game just carry on from there. Well thats what I think, so do you agree? or do you want to tell us what rule and in which sport you would like to change.
This thread is your chance to change a rule in any sport, that you feel needs to be changed, the rule could ruin your enjoyment of the sport, or you just may think it has no real purpose and would be better of being changed.
I will start the thread of with a new rule that was brought into snooker, its a rule I dislike and one that I feel should never have come into the game.The game is called snooker and often a player will lay a snooker on his opponent. he may do this because he can't see a pot on and wants to leave the table safe, or he could be behind on points and needs to make up some points to get into a position, where he could then clear the remaining balls to win the frame.
Before this rule came in, if a player tried to get out of the snooker and did not hit the object ball, it was then a foul shot, the player who laid the snooker gets his reward by getting the points added to his total score.Then they went and changed that rule, now if the player misses the object ball the ref calls a foul and a miss, the balls are all then put back to where they were and the player must try again, to get out of the snooker.
If he misses again the same thing happens and the other players justs keeps getting the points for the foul shots. Its not to bad if only one or two balls got moved during the shot, but when its more, the balls can't really go back in the exact same spots.
As long as the snookered player made a real effort to get out of the snooker, then if he missed the other player should just get the points and the game just carry on from there. Well thats what I think, so do you agree? or do you want to tell us what rule and in which sport you would like to change.
"re spotting" the cue ball and replaying the shot has always been a legitimate call from the opponent who laid the snooker. So it's not a "new rule".