PK's or Play Until it's Over?

[DadofTwins]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

As a former H.S. (13 yrs) soccer official, and a H.S. (39 years) and college (36 yrs) basketball officials I would love to see offsides removed from the rule book. Offsides only protects teams who play poor defense and penalizes teams who play good offense.

MTD, Sr.

Now there's an interesting idea.

On the one hand, you would get a more open, end-to-end game, with players having more space to work with.

On the other hand, attacking teams would be considerably outnumbered if their defenders are holding back in fear of a long ball. It's hard enough to score 10-on-10. Remove the back line support and I suspect fewer attacks would result in shots on net.

Then again, you would likely get more attacks and less possession passing in the midfield.

You may be onto something. I'm just not quite sure.