I'm pleased about this. I'm not against it per-say, but we always seemed to be embarrassingly bad at it, plus I can stop getting annoyed when we give the ball back to the opposition too quickly, at times when we've made a clearnace and need to get our shape back.
The Tranmere manager will be pleased. A key tactic in last seasons time wasting plan at the Valley, was to get the multi-ball system stopped as quickly as possible, highlighted by one of his coaches kicking a ball onto the pitch while the game was going on.
The shortcomings of multi ball were clear to see but behind all of this, there is an issue as to how much football the paying public actaully get to see. I'd like to see a bit more science behind additional time - I rememeber one game at the Valley last season when there was a 3 minute stoppage during the second half and the ref played 3 minutes added time. I think this aspect of the game should be assessed by an official who does not need to worry about anything else.
The main reason teams time waste is that refs/the system allows them to benefit from it.
Couldn't agree more MuttleyCAFC. But the only way to do it properly would be to stop the clock every time the ball went out of play - this would make the match go on too long if football stuck with 45 minute halves. The half length could be reduced to 30 minutes but I'm sure tradionalists would blow a fuse. And anyway, it's pretty exciting when a team scores after the allotted overtime; some of the magic may be lost if you knew exactly how much time was left.
Couldn't agree more MuttleyCAFC. But the only way to do it properly would be to stop the clock every time the ball went out of play - this would make the match go on too long if football stuck with 45 minute halves. The half length could be reduced to 30 minutes but I'm sure tradionalists would blow a fuse. And anyway, it's pretty exciting when a team scores after the allotted overtime; some of the magic may be lost if you knew exactly how much time was left.
This proposal seem to be moving towards the US sports model where they drag the game out for hours by timing the action and stopping the clock when the ball goes out of play - me missus will kill me if I arrive home at eight pm after a 3pm kick off ;-)
If you want to get every second you paid for, go watch NFL but as someone who has attended CFL (Canada's NFL) I can tell you it does anything but make it more exciting. Not adding every second of stoppages does give timewasters an opportunity, but it also gives the other team a hurry up. In NFL you just get long periods where the teams bascically stand around chatting and Sky would introduce so many ad breaks it would be unreal.
Refs just need to be a bit quicker to spot and discipline time wasting.
I think it is broke to a certain extent, but I'm not advocating stopping the clock every second the ball goes out -maybe five minutes added to games on average. The problem with what we have now is that I have a 95% hit rate in predicting what time the ref will add- I am always conservative in the extreme and don't stop my watch so you just know how they interpret it -on average I think it is about 50% too little. Its a difficult job to ref so I'm sure the added time is more about a gut feeling than real time keeping -just saying the game would benefit from something better but not adding half an hour or even 20 minutes but yes 10 minutes (which is unheard of) if a lot of play is lost during the game.
Good, because our ball boys give them back too quick to the opposition when we're winning. Unlike other clubs who tell their ball boys to take their time when winning!
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oh wait, that was just me.
when did they drop the Walkers????
The main reason teams time waste is that refs/the system allows them to benefit from it.
It ain't broke, don't fix it.
If you want to get every second you paid for, go watch NFL but as someone who has attended CFL (Canada's NFL) I can tell you it does anything but make it more exciting. Not adding every second of stoppages does give timewasters an opportunity, but it also gives the other team a hurry up. In NFL you just get long periods where the teams bascically stand around chatting and Sky would introduce so many ad breaks it would be unreal.
Refs just need to be a bit quicker to spot and discipline time wasting.