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But by making the goal larger, you also make the lengths of the crossbar and goal posts marginally longer (depending how you increase the size of the goal). Therefore more to hit.

Unless you increase the depth of the goal, of course.

^this!

Not happy about this:

"An insider has confirmed Mourinho intends to sell Hazard, Oscar and Mata; believing them to be too lightweight to withstand the physical nature of the Premier League. It's understood he has board level backing for this move, which should pave the way for the return of trusted Mourinho lieutenants Geremi, Essien and Juliano Belletti. Chelsea will then complete their summer transfer activity with a move for Sunderland's Titus Bramble.

Top trolling by that "insider".

Er. No. If the goalposts and crossbars were made larger etc and so on.
The dimensions of the goal itself are changing. Not the boundaries marking out the goal. Or have I missed something?

i had thought about being that pedantic but then when i realised to make the goals bigger you would actually have to increase the size of the cross bar and posts i deleted my post

then i thought about deleting this post because john already said it ... but i didn't

Not happy about this:

"An insider has confirmed Mourinho intends to sell Hazard, Oscar and Mata; believing them to be too lightweight to withstand the physical nature of the Premier League. It's understood he has board level backing for this move, which should pave the way for the return of trusted Mourinho lieutenants Geremi, Essien and Juliano Belletti. Chelsea will then complete their summer transfer activity with a move for Sunderland's Titus Bramble.

he might as well bring back the aging and physical terry and lampard for another ye.... oh

I found myself hating Chelsea with less passion when Rafa was manager and Cunt face was out of the team.
Roll on next year I say

back to the hating
yay

and you lot call Evertonians "bitters"

pffffft>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Er. No. If the goalposts and crossbars were made larger etc and so on.
The dimensions of the goal itself are changing. Not the boundaries marking out the goal. Or have I missed something?

And I thought that you were a scientist. It took a bicycle croquet plastic scouser to explain it to you.

Indeed, I was a scientist.
Porportionally, there would still be the same amount of woodwork to hit. Shurely?

Proportionately, probably less as you would still use the same thickness of plank. Each plank would be longer and therefore have a greater surface area and be easier to hit. Shots that would otherwise go wide would hit the woodwork.

Depends what you are comparing to.

If the goal is length x and height y, with a woodwork width w, and we assume the woodwork is flat, can only be hit from the front, and has an even width all the way round the goal, the area of the woodwork would be:

2(*y*w*) + (*xw) + 2(w²)

The w² bit is because of the top corners.

The first two factors are proportional to any changes in width and height, but the corners remain constant (if you don't change w)

Also, doubling the height would give you twice as much extra woodwork (proportionally) as doubling the length would.

And of course the woodwork isn't flat, it's round, so the surface area of a curved surface is relevant, and the potential angles a ball could be hit from, and the radius of the ball, and all sorts of other factors which makes the problem much harder to work out.

In short, is the change proportional? Mathematically? No. Approximately? Yes.

There's a thread for this >>>

Keep it there.

lol
And who said the intellectuals didn't hang about here?

Top trolling by that "insider".

Not quite. They failed to spot that Carlton Cole has been released and has an orderly queue of Top Eight clubs queuing up to sign him.

Not happy about this:

Quoted as the first moan of the Second Coming era.

Quoted as the first moan of the Second Coming era.

The multiorgasmic reckoning is upon us!

whoa there einsteins

Ronaldo to Chelsea...
taps nose

Ronaldo quit football a LONG time ago.
CR7 is currently OUT of LOVE with HIM.

Also... Happy birthday, Georgie... RIP...

I sat in the row behind George Best on a flight from Stockholm to Heathrow once. The whole plane went quiet when the stewardess asked him what he wanted to drink. He asked for a mineral water.

/csb