Heading

[Ramandu]

To be banned on the day before and after a match, due to the risk associated with brain disease.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63767548

We've seen a huge move towards concussion protocols in the last few years in all sports*, which seems pretty sensible. My concern is that those in charge will be risk averse beyond what is shown in studies, and we'll end up banning heading altogether somewhere down the line.

 

*No idea what American football does at the moment, but it will eventually die with a class action lawsuit from previous players.

[Fridge]

9 minutes ago, Ramandu said:

To be banned on the day before and after a match, due to the risk associated with brain disease.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-63767548

We've seen a huge move towards concussion protocols in the last few years in all sports*, which seems pretty sensible. My concern is that those in charge will be risk averse beyond what is shown in studies, and we'll end up banning heading altogether somewhere down the line.

 

*No idea what American football does at the moment, but it will eventually die with a class action lawsuit from previous players.

Irony being in the World Cup there has been at least three players visibly confused, trying to play on and should have been told to get off by either the physio, their manager or the referee stepping and saying no.

[Guest milne_afc]

This is the beginning of the end of football. It’s already bloody rubbish with skill and flair being replaced by stamina and strategy. Heading will eventually be outlawed and half of the Dons trophy haul will be expunged from the history books.

[WesthillWanderersFC]

3 minutes ago, Fridge said:

Irony being in the World Cup there has been at least three players visibly confused, trying to play on and should have been told to get off by either the physio, their manager or the referee stepping and saying no.

The Iran goalie against England.

Clearly didn’t know if he was in the Middle East or the North East, but they kept him on until he went down a 2nd time a few minutes later, clearly still fucked. 

[Ke1t]

2 minutes ago, milne_afc said:

This is the beginning of the end of football. It’s already bloody rubbish with skill and flair being replaced by stamina and strategy. Heading will eventually be outlawed and half of the Dons trophy haul will be expunged from the history books.

Agreed. 

Next these cunts will be demanding half of every professional squad is made up of women and trannies, with at least one player who doesn't have the use of his/her/their legs... like Shayden Morris. 

Heid the fuckin' ba, ye saft cunts. 

[Russell]

Maybe they're on to something with that picture of Richardson. Could he be the poster boy for CTE?

[fine-n-dandy]

We could always use those indoor sponge balls

[ABERDEENROWIE1903]

The lawmakers are killing the game

Next week it will be no tackles in rugby 

No water in swimming pools incase someone drowns 

[thurso]

Bit of a stupid rule, players hardly train day after a game anyway 

[strachanmcgheegoal]

4 minutes ago, Sooper-hanz said:

It was as always going to go this way. It would be strange if football was only conceived as a game recently and how people would react if they were told that all players ,including children,  were allowed to strike this fast moving object, dropping out the sky, with their head! 😂 It would never be sanctioned. 

Its the chainsaw arguement.  If you went to the modern day patent office and said Ive invented this thing with whirly razor blades youd be laughed out of the place.

In all seriousness my biggest issue with this long term is kids arent going to be taught to head it properly, front of the head, look through the ball, all that jazz.  Thatll just make banning it completely all the more likely. 

[Russell]

9 hours ago, fine-n-dandy said:

We could always use those indoor sponge balls

Orange floaters 

[Ramandu]

3 hours ago, strachanmcgheegoal said:

Its the chainsaw arguement.  If you went to the modern day patent office and said Ive invented this thing with whirly razor blades youd be laughed out of the place.

In all seriousness my biggest issue with this long term is kids arent going to be taught to head it properly, front of the head, look through the ball, all that jazz.  Thatll just make banning it completely all the more likely. 

Or if you said "here's a new sport - two people are going to stand in a small area and hit each other till one of them falls over." Does boxing have concussion protocols? 

[Russell]

19 minutes ago, Ramandu said:

Or if you said "here's a new sport - two people are going to stand in a small area and hit each other till one of them falls over." Does boxing have concussion protocols? 

Aye, they count to 10

[fine-n-dandy]

3 hours ago, Russell said:

Orange floaters 

Yeah. Great for soaking with water & throwing up for someone the header

[tutankamun]

More nanny state bollox. 

Are they basing this on the Billy McNeil types who had to head the old fashioned heavy (often soaking wet) ball?

How do they police it? Are they gonna have SFA spies following players around before and after a game in case they head a ball, god forbid?

[Rico1903]

I'd imagine former pros who have either experienced problems or are worried about potentially experiencing problems might feel differently. 3.5 times more likely to die from brain disease. 5 times more likely to develop Alzheimers. Other than us who can't seem to defend set pieces, as Miller has come out and said, I'm not sure how much you'd need to practice headers anyway? 

It's not going to come down to policing. The clubs have said they're bought into to it so it will be down to them to adhere or not. 

[tutankamun]

“Experts believe there could be”

[The Boofon]

21 minutes ago, tutankamun said:

“Experts believe there could be”

What are you an expert on Tut?

[The Boofon]

On 11/28/2022 at 10:42 PM, milne_afc said:

This is the beginning of the end of football. It’s already bloody rubbish with skill and flair being replaced by stamina and strategy. Heading will eventually be outlawed and half of the Dons trophy haul will be expunged from the history books.

On the plus side you'd get a penalty if a defender headed the ball. Be good opportunity for betting on pens.

[tutankamun]

22 minutes ago, The Boofon said:

What are you an expert on Tut?

Spotting bullshit

[The Boofon]

8 minutes ago, tutankamun said:

Spotting bullshit

Haha. 

You've spelled spouting wrong.

[Hoofball]

1 hour ago, The Boofon said:

Haha. 

You've spelled spouting wrong.

I thought he was going to say the manufacturing of tinfoil hats

[maryhilldon]

Heading is part of the game. Don't play football for a living if you're worried about it. 

[tutankamun]

2 hours ago, maryhilldon said:

Heading is part of the game. Don't play football for a living if you're worried about it. 

Exactly. But it probably won’t be long until they ban heading altogether.

Almost anything could be banned for health and safety reasons. Everything we do carries a risk.

[Ten Caat]

Sure I read there is a class action currently underway of about 30 ex-pros, some fairly recently retired and some with early onset dementia claiming that the FA did nothing to protect them from head injury. Think Nobby Stiles' family are in on it too.

If it ends successfully and the FA have to cough up millions it might very well lead to the banning of heading completely. Extreme maybe but health and safety laws trump just about everything these days. 

[Reed or deed]

1 hour ago, tutankamun said:

Exactly. But it probably won’t be long until they ban heading altogether.

Almost anything could be banned for health and safety reasons. Everything we do carries a risk.

Please explain why you would choose to go about heading footballs,if the sometimes significant impact knowlingly caused damage to the soft parts of your head and brain?

What kind of witchcraft is this?

[Reed or deed]

Football would be a better game played on the deck anyway. 
 

Be no need for cart horses who can’t even control or pass the ball in central defence positions 👍

Total football at the dons 🇵🇪🇵🇪

[Ke1t]

19 hours ago, tutankamun said:

More nanny state bollox. 

Are they basing this on the Billy McNeil types who had to head the old fashioned heavy (often soaking wet) ball?

How do they police it? Are they gonna have SFA spies following players around before and after a game in case they head a ball, god forbid?

Nothing felt better than smashing your heid into a high ball that's hurtling down from the upper stratosphere after a typically Scottish-style clearance from the other team's big mad cunt of a defender. 

Fucking loved the distance you could put on one of those heiders back upfield. 

And they're trying to take that away from kids. 

They won't be happy until there's only one gender, wrapped in cotton wool, and scared of their own fucking shadow. 

Easy to control cunts like that. 

[tutankamun]

6 minutes ago, Reed or deed said:

Please explain why you would choose to go about heading footballs,if the sometimes significant impact knowlingly caused damage to the soft parts of your head and brain?

What kind of witchcraft is this?

‘If’ doing the heavy lifting in your post… it’s a big ‘if’.

It’s a bullshit ‘if’.

You should maybe direct your question to the millions of footballers still playing football despite the death sentence it brings.🙄

[tutankamun]

1 hour ago, Ten Caat said:

Sure I read there is a class action currently underway of about 30 ex-pros, some fairly recently retired and some with early onset dementia claiming that the FA did nothing to protect them from head injury. Think Nobby Stiles' family are in on it too.

If it ends successfully and the FA have to cough up millions it might very well lead to the banning of heading completely. Extreme maybe but health and safety laws trump just about everything these days. 

Experts ‘believing’ something to ‘possibly’ be harmful is a far cry from proving it in a court of law.