gotta love the people leaving comments who think they know hockey rules

"One major difference in the rules of Hockey is that the ball can not be played above head hight, making it harder for a player to pass the ball past the final defenders to any waiting attackers. "

umm no, you can play the ball above head height actually

"There is a massive difference between the two sports when it comes to goal keeping. There's no way in hell that a hockey forward is going to loiter around the goald knowing that a hockey ball could be hurtling towards the goal at any time"

umm actually yes they do... to get deflected goals and put the goalie off

Hockey IMHO has become a much faster, exciting game to play as a result of the no offside rule. People always assume that players will just goal hang if there is no offside, but this is not the case as they then effectively leave their team with less players since they are hiding behind defenders. And in football, lumping the ball into the box will not be as successful as people think since the goalie can catch the ball above a players head.

Posted By: Tony Martin on March 2nd 2010 at 13:36:59

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Blatter to get rid of the offside rule? (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 2, 13:26:01
- gotta love the people leaving comments who think they know hockey rules (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:36:59
  - There's only one rule in hockey (Other Football) - Old Git, Mar 2, 13:42:37
    - ^^^Was shit at hockey (Other Football) - Huge Small, Mar 2, 13:49:55
      - Yes, I was absolutely shit (Other Football) - Old Git, Mar 2, 13:55:28
        
        I find that rather surprising (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 14:00:07
        
        It's not difficult (Other Football) - Huge Small, Mar 2, 13:59:28
    - Men's Hockey (Other Football) - yarmyyarmy, Mar 2, 13:47:09
      - dint know they'd introduced helmets (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 2, 13:58:49
      - That is proper mental. I always wanted to have a go at that (n/m) (Other Football) - Huge Small, Mar 2, 13:53:14
      - Men's Hockey (Other Football) - Old Git, Mar 2, 13:51:05
        
        fail (n/m) (Other Football) - Huge Small, Mar 2, 13:53:47
      - I've got a Hurling stick - my Irish God Father gave me it years agoo (n/m) (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Mar 2, 13:49:47
      - haha the 2nd pic down looks like hes doing a hurling "ryan shawcross" challenge (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:48:46
    - boooo OG! Like to see you go in goal and let us hit balls at you (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:43:59
      - As long as I could wear all the poncy protective gear, fine (Other Football) - Old Git, Mar 2, 13:46:39
        
        It's good fun and I found it very similar to football but without (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:48:10
        
        you could wear all the gear, it still hurts though (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:47:39
  - they should test it out in some meaningless competition (Other Football) - Charles21, Mar 2, 13:38:32
    - World Cup is more meaningless - do it then. (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:41:00
    - lol (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:40:55
- Hoofballsprintastic - will never happen (Other Football) - Jumbo1, Mar 2, 13:32:20
- They'd have to replace it with the playground rule of "no goalhanging" (Other Football) - Old Git, Mar 2, 13:30:45
  - One easy change would be to move the offside line to much nearer the goal (n/m) (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:34:23
    - is that how it works in hockey then? (n/m) (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 2, 13:36:46
      - no, there is no off side full stop (n/m) (Other Football) - Tony Martin, Mar 2, 13:41:27
      - God knows. I played it once for about a year but never learnt (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:39:40
- Why is football so often refered to as "the beautiful game"? (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:28:27
  - that's cos it's grim up north (n/m) (Other Football) - Ralf Scrampton, Mar 2, 13:32:13
    - Well f***ing Oldham is, that's for sure. I went through a very (Other Football) - CB41, Mar 2, 13:33:48

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