Boils my pi$$ this one. Yesterday in the second half. 7 goals with resultant ‘celebrations’, 7 substitutions, physios on for four separate occasions. Total amount of added time = 6 minutes. **** off! Rewards the time wasting a la Lincoln. Who is managing added time? Stevie ******* Wonder?
It never makes any sense. Plus, there was a two minute injury in added time yesterday yet only an extra one minute was played. It's not exactly difficult to keep track of time and it isn't subjective. In a similar vein, there can be anything up to ten minutes of added time in the second half but there is only ever one or two minutes of added time in the first, regardless of how many injuries, substitutions and goals there have been. I know there are usually more substitutions in the second half but it still makes no sense. They just stick a wet thumb in the air and make up a number. An official needs to use a stopwatch and do timekeeping properly. It's not difficult and it's not expensive. At some levels of the game we have VAR levels of officiating. At other we have estimators, making up everything as they go along.
It'll never go to a stopwatch mate. I think average time ball was in play was something like 58 minutes. Not in a million years will they add all that time on
Actually, yes, good point! But I'm only talking about stopping the watch for significant injuries here. Not every time it goes out for a throw in.
Yeah thats ridiculous and inconsistent how they refuse to add as much time on in the 1st half. You normally see 3-4 minutes at the most, even if there's been many stoppages. Time wasting should also be acted upon, whether its in the 3rd minute or the 93rd minute. And yet how many 2nd half's do we see, where nearly 10 extra minutes are added, for no apparent reason.
I remember a game at Oakwell a few years ago when a goalkeeper was treated for a good 10 to 15 minutes by the physio yet we only had 7 minutes of added time. Timekeeping should be taken away from the ref and given to the 4th official, who can then indicate a more accurate stoppage time and tell the ref when time's up. The on-field ref has quite enough on his plate without having to worry about time. Seems to work ok for the egg chasers.
I seem to remember that in days gone by, it was important to get the results in for the final score portion of Grandstand due to the importance of the football pools. With dominance of the lottery at the expense of the pools, and the coming of the internet, perhaps the timing of the results less important.
When I was A ref in local football, I had 2 wrist watches, one was set on stopwatch mode, the other was set at 3pm so it was easy to see when the initial 45 minutes was played. The stop watch was stopped for things like injuries and substitutions. Goal celebrations times were negligible as players would just make their way back practically straight after the goal. This wasn’t flawless, if I forgot to re-start stopwatch or accidentally stopped it, I could go back to guessing time to be added on, but at least I tried to add the stoppages
It's 2023. Referees watch should be linked to the scoreboard in the ground. It doesn't have to stop every second it's out of play like has been suggested but the referee should physically stop his watch every time he feels it's something he's adding time on for. That way both the players and the fans can see he's doing it and it gives transparency and should force more consistency
Timekeeping works perfectly well in both codes of rugby, down to semipro levels at least, without adding inordinate amounts to the scheduled 40 mins per half. And everyone accepts it, time is one thing I never hear even discussed at rugby. If they can do it football can. So it's down to the will of our old friends, the pillocks in blazers.
Our scoreboard struggles to show the score, you’ve no chance of linking it up to the referee’s watch.
