Added Time. A Mistake ?

[North Cardiff Blue]

Re: Added Time. A Mistake ?

Exactly. They're not punishing or stopping timewasting, just saying 'waste as much time as you want because we'll just add it on at the end. It will actually increase time wasting. Do people really think professional footballers are now going to take throw ins and free kicks and corners more quickly ?

No, it's both, they can still book players for constantly stopping play, and they'll add the time on at the end.

[Eric Cartman]

Re: Added Time. A Mistake ?

Football is far too fast paced to play on a stop clock imo. Refs just need to be given more power to clamp down on blatant time wasting.

A good start would be clamping down on the 6 second rule wirh GKs. Giving a few indirect free kicks early in the season which leads to goals conceded will soon sort that out.

The only argument I could make for stopping a clock in football is when the game has stopped for VAR or when a goal is scored. stopping it every time the ball goes out of play ie throw, goalkick, corner is not practical.

That is basically what I meant

Normal game incidents - goes into added time bank with greater focus on punishing players who slow it

Abnormal - subs, var, goal celebrations clock stops

'they will take longer if you stop the clock' is true but then, you just set a reasonable time and punish the team who goes over.

Var pisses me off too, if it takes 4 minutes to identify a 'clear and obvious' mistake then it wasn't clear and obvious. Goal scored, clock stops, 90 second counter for var to find clear and obvious mistake, if they are still fumbling around after 90 seconds, goal stands. Move on. You will have the people who say we need to 'reach the right decision' but a) quite often after var, the result looks subjective and not consistent and b) why not apply it across the whole game if you want decisions to be correct.

[superfeathers]

Re: Added Time. A Mistake ?

As far as the stopping the clock is concerned it's for injuries, goals scored, general incidents.
There isn't much of an issue with the ball taking too long from a throw, the keeper taking too long, etc. etc. They get booked.