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Drago
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Tennis - players use frying pans to bat a piece of fossilised dog poop between one another.
Ideas to Improve Sport
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raleighnut
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FTFY
Ian H
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Actually, I'm not.
Dogtrousers
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For some reason my brain popped up a mental image of fencers using table-tennis bats.
I think that would be better.
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Sport should have their time on the main TV channels in inverse proportion to there popularity. So basically, no football, F1, golf, tennis, boxing, etc. Overall l instead you might see tiddlywinks, competitive ball on string into a cup and kabadd.
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One football player per team gets one dangerous tackle for free against the opposing player he or she thinks is guilty of excessive diving, playing for a free kick or other dishonesty.
My thinking about this is the if you get a particularly nasty tackle a footballer could end their career. I do not condone deliberate violence but the idea that cheating in those ways could end the cash cow that is top flight football then they might not do it.
My thinking about this is the if you get a particularly nasty tackle a footballer could end their career. I do not condone deliberate violence but the idea that cheating in those ways could end the cash cow that is top flight football then they might not do it.
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Drago
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Rugby Union - at random times throughout the game the ref is to roll a stink bomb into the scrum.
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Don't the props do it anyway?🤷♂️
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I've got an idea that there must be a way to randomly make the rugby pitch magnetic just under the turf with just enough metal to make the ball incredibly heavy at times.
I have ideas that a scrum half waits to pick the ball to make a sneaky run, but it's playable and he's delaying, the scrum might be trying to move forward but it's really in play. So when he does eventually tries to make a run he grips the ball as usual and darts off with the scrum thinking he's got it too. Instead the ball is open and now I magnetised for anyone quick enough to spot what's happened.
This is all daft suggestions and TBH has no benefits to the game but it makes me snigger at the thought of it
I have ideas that a scrum half waits to pick the ball to make a sneaky run, but it's playable and he's delaying, the scrum might be trying to move forward but it's really in play. So when he does eventually tries to make a run he grips the ball as usual and darts off with the scrum thinking he's got it too. Instead the ball is open and now I magnetised for anyone quick enough to spot what's happened.
This is all daft suggestions and TBH has no benefits to the game but it makes me snigger at the thought of it
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If a football coach gets too vocal on the sidelines, the ref enforces a substitution of the team captain for the coach. It would be one of the substitutions and they've got to stay on the pitch the rest of the game.
It could be for too vocal criticising the red or officials. Or it could be for excessive in game coaching.
It could be for too vocal criticising the red or officials. Or it could be for excessive in game coaching.
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Teflon rugby kit. If you're a particularly squirrely back you'll slip out of the tackles.
One set every game in tennis they switch the ball for a shuttlecock. If it gets to the point of too many deuce, advantages then they bring out a tennis table to play on instead.
Tour de France stage using royal mail bicycles. Those heavy old ones. This idea courtesy of a tale I heard of a keen cyclist moaning about being overtaken by a postie on a heavy RM bike. Only to be told who the guy was, a very good semi pro road cyclist away from the day job.
One set every game in tennis they switch the ball for a shuttlecock. If it gets to the point of too many deuce, advantages then they bring out a tennis table to play on instead.
Tour de France stage using royal mail bicycles. Those heavy old ones. This idea courtesy of a tale I heard of a keen cyclist moaning about being overtaken by a postie on a heavy RM bike. Only to be told who the guy was, a very good semi pro road cyclist away from the day job.
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I like the idea personally of taking away the advantages of better kit, car or bike in sport. Imagine if F1 had all the cars set up the same way so the best driver wins not the best team. Is Veratappen really a lot better than those drivers in the minor teams who make the numbers up?
Were British cyclists really that much better than cyclists from other nations during all those highly successful years when they had the best backroom team and kit that money could buy?
Were British cyclists really that much better than cyclists from other nations during all those highly successful years when they had the best backroom team and kit that money could buy?
Dogtrousers
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Isn't that true of Kierin racing in Japan? All bikes are standard. I think it used to be true at least.
