I’ve studied this at length (in the pub, but with knowledgable other players, referees, etc.)
1 v 1’s from the halfway line (or anywhere else) are massively stacked to the attacker, even more than penalties. Very rarely does a player in open play miss a genuine clear through on goal chance, and if they do it’s almost always because they are pressured / hurried into their shot by defenders chasing back. If this was introduced it would need to be against a time clock. And besides; it’s not really that different to the ‘tragedy’ of penalties where eventually it comes down to the failings of one man.
The best solution would be an open ended golden goal period. You don’t need to artificially disrupt it then by taking players off. If a side goes all defensive without the safety net that if they hang on long enough they get penalties anyway, you can’t just let the opposition have the ball because eventually they will score. The issue is that the TV people, the police, the transport companies, etc. all want to know when the game will end, and you could in theory have games going on for hours. However – US baseball manages to deal with that. I’d like to see that given a chance. It remains a team game but where both teams have to try to get a goal as the ONLY way to win the game, I don’t think many games would last even as long as the current 30 mins extra time does.
[@ M_F; yes it was {deathly dull} but only because you still had the draw as an option. When that goes, you have to try to score because if you don’t, eventually the other side will]