Time wasting

I loved it.

 

I know it was a joke. Should have booked the stewards/ball boys

 

You're actually angry and upset we've won aren't you?

A snivelling, horrible excuse for a fan.

 

It’s a normal part of the game these days. Im not sure how good we are at it. 3 bookings and 8 mins added. However we got the win. I was surprised with the 2nd half subs. Made em early yet didnt use subs to run clock down and break up play last 5 mins. Maybe need to improve our game management and sh**housery a bit. Something to work on but our creativity around the box has been great this past couple of games. So a striker and expert waster is what we need in the window.

 

I know it’s been talked about a lot, but a way we are terrible at “the dark arts” is Sam Cosgrove. I actually think there’s a good player in there, and I thought he seemed eloquent thoughtful and more passionate than I’d expected on ifollow so I hope he turns it round but how the fck hasn’t the coaching staff looked at what he’s doing to give away a free kick whenever the ball comes near him. It happened soon after he came on but it happens so often that it’s baffling me that he’s not working intensely on sorting out whatever he’s doing to cause it because it’s not like he throws himself into challenges with the defenders, id say humphrys walks that tightrope more and yet it’s constantly Sam giving away needless free kicks.

 

It does my head in the ref usually adds it all on with interest just get on with it but yesterday I thought 6 was more than fair. Must have been a fair few minutes with Pines attempted murder on Mullins, I could see the headline man of God kills Wrexham (Disney) superstar lol..

 

I thought Killip was at it from about 50 mins. So to book him in the 85th when he wasn’t actually time wasting was a bit odd..

 

I hate seeing it, though it's part of the game sadly.

What I found funny though was Phil Parkinson losing his mind because the ball boy left a ball on a cone, and walked down the front of the West Stand to pick up one that had gone out of play. They were literally doing the same thing at their place with the score at 0-0.

 

If we'd have 'gone for the jugular' in the second half yesterday, we'd have got beat about 8-2. We didn't go for the jugular in the first half and found ourselves 2 up.

 

Don’t bite,it’s all he’s got till our next defeat

 

It's worth remembering that part of the reason it happens isn't to run down the clock - it's to disrupt the flow of the game and slow things down. So to say that it didn't work because of the added time is rubbish - the added time was mainly the injury and subs.

So it did work is the TLDR of my post.

 

At least he is trying to win tickets to attend

 

I'd prefer time keeping to be taken away from the referee, the clock to be visible to all and the clock stops every time the game stops or the ball goes out of play. Like basketball. It would probably have to be half hour each way.

As long as the rules stay as they are you'll get players trying to waste time. Change the rules to the above and they can't. If the clock doesn't start again until the throw is taken, all the pissing about in the world will not make a difference.

 

Don't disagree, but t would end up needing the game to be reduced in time - probs 35 min halves in that case. I'm sure the balls only in play for something like 60% of the game - you'd still be sat in Oakwell at close to 5.30pm on a Saturday.

 

Which is why I wrote "It would probably have to be half hour each way".

 

Oh, right, and here is me thinking a thread on time-wasting was about, err, wasting time. You learn something every day. I suggest you open a new thread on disrupting the game flow ;-) On a serious point though im not sure anyone mentioned that it didnt work, more the point that we could be better at it if we want to avoid bookings and the ref adding even more time. I do agree fully though and you did make a great point on the running the clock down / break up play. I also stated as such that the breaking up play was something we could have also done with subs which im surprised we didnt do as much.

 

As I've said on previous occasions, there should be an off-pitch timekeeper who stops the clock (which should be displayed on the electronic scoreboard so even the lad timewasting can see it that it's pointless) and the referee plays to that (with a small amount of discretion).

Timewasting would instantly become literally a waste of time.

My time is wasted on here

 

So the match would finish around 5pm as usual and that would improve things how?

 

As I said in my post, there wouldn't be any time wasting.

 

As if you think I read stuff on here. My bad.