Time wasting

[bluesp]

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I’ve seen any number of teams do a lot worse than we did last night. I thought referees were supposed to be clamping down on it this season though?

[JumpersforGoalposts]

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I don't have any issue with players taking their time and looking to eat up a few seconds but I don't want to be watching them shamming and generally dicking around. IMHO Allsop was well out of order last night.

[EastbourneBlue]

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I don't have any issue with players taking their time and looking to eat up a few seconds but I don't want to be watching them shamming and generally dicking around. IMHO Allsop was well out of order last night.

Agreed, it’s embarrassing. I want a bit of entertainment not spend half the second half watching the goalkeeper lying on the floor with his leg in the air.

[UNDERHILL1927]

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If we're sorting out shielding the ball in the corner, let's do shepherding the ball out for a goal kick. Not timewasting but it annoys me.

Hell yes, obstruction anywhere else. Also people that take another 20 yards on a throw in, frustrates the hell out of me

[EastbourneBlue]

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For me it’s one of the worst parts of the sport, it’s complete cheating and boring as **** for everyone watching it.

But if everyone else is doing it we’d be stupid to do some moral crusade to not be time wasters.

That’s the important bit - it’s boring AF.

We have a great half where we romp to a 3-0 lead.

Then come out with the sole intention of keeping the ball out of play for as long as possible.

Yes, perhaps, that increases the chances of winning.

But it means 50% of the game is tosh.

I think football has got to be careful in many areas and try to remember that it’s suppose to be a lighthearted bit of entertainment. I don’t care what anyone says, it’s not a business.

[William Treseder’s Mam]

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Agreed and every change seems to be about money over entertainment.

While we are on things that need to change wasn’t there offside rule supposed to increase the number of goals scored, it seems to be used for any reason to chalk one off these days.

[LA Bluebird]

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It might be sacrilege to many but it's gotten so bad I wish they'd go to a 60 min running clock, I guess it will never happen for money reasons as games will run long.

But at almost every level the time wasting is reaching absurd levels, just ruins the last 30 minutes of a lot of games. You are paying for 20 minutes of action in the second half sometimes.

[the other bob wilson]

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Hell yes, obstruction anywhere else. Also people that take another 20 yards on a throw in, frustrates the hell out of me

Obstruction doesn’t exist any more apparently.

I was watching the Big Match Revisted, think it was from 1979 and it showed an incident when a defender tried to put himself between an attacker and the ball so that it went out for a goal kick - the ref blew for a free kick and yellow carded the defender. For me, this is a definite case of the older interpretation being correct and I can’t think of a rationale for thinking what happens currently improves the game.

[Bobby Dandruff]

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Obstruction doesn’t exist any more apparently.

I was watching the Big Match Revisted, think it was from 1979 and it showed an incident when a defender tried to put himself between an attacker and the ball so that it went out for a goal kick - the ref blew for a free kick and yellow carded the defender. For me, this is a definite case of the older interpretation being correct and I can’t think of a rationale for thinking what happens currently improves the game.

So it isn’t just me then……

[Rjk]

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It might be sacrilege to many but it's gotten so bad I wish they'd go to a 60 min running clock, I guess it will never happen for money reasons as games will run long.

But at almost every level the time wasting is reaching absurd levels, just ruins the last 30 minutes of a lot of games. You are paying for 20 minutes of action in the second half sometimes.

No it is being talked about seriously at the moment, I can see it being brought in - didn't they trial it in a dutch league or something recently?

[dml1954]

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If there was a 60 minute running clock then some games would literally run for 60 minutes and then finish. More injuries and moaning from fans would result. Plus if Alsop had rushed any of his kicks last night and we had lost possession and they scored from it, holy hell would break out on here with people saying he should have slowed the game down. As I said, it is up to the refs to police it properly. The fact that they dont isn't the players or clubs fault.

[William Treseder’s Mam]

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If there was a 60 minute running clock then some games would literally run for 60 minutes and then finish. More injuries and moaning from fans would result. Plus if Alsop had rushed any of his kicks last night and we had lost possession and they scored from it, holy hell would break out on here with people saying he should have slowed the game down. As I said, it is up to the refs to police it properly. The fact that they dont isn't the players or clubs fault.

In a 60 minute game the clock is stopped every time the ball goes dead.

[blue matt]

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Morison probably gave Allsop a "knowing wink of the eye" at the end of the game.

I would have , 3 points is 3 points

of course, nothing he did was against the rules, he can take the GK from either side, so just happened it was from the other side that the ball was placed

[blue matt]

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In a 60 minute game the clock is stopped every time the ball goes dead.

they do it in netball ( 4 X 15 min 1/4s ), but that just leads to the winning team passing the ball around safely for as long as they can, which can be minutes which then means the last 5 mins of the game is nothing

[Rjk]

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they do it in netball ( 4 X 15 min 1/4s ), but that just leads to the winning team passing the ball around safely for as long as they can, which can be minutes which then means the last 5 mins of the game is nothing

If a team can do that without inviting pressure then fair play to them, not quite as easy in football.

I like the idea, if players know that they don't gain anything from pretending to need treatment or slowly ambling off the field during substitutions then it'll stop on day one.

Another change I'd make would be to give an indirect free kick to the opposing side if you take too long to take a free kick or goal kick, and be really strict about it.
You wouldn't get many goalkeepers faffing about over their goal kicks if they knew they were about to face a free kick in their own box if they take too long