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Leave it at 45 minutes.

Independent time-keeper on the sidelines who stops the clock for injuries and substitutions.

Referee to decide how much more to add on for on-the-field deliberate time-wasting.

Simples...
 

hallamblue said:
It works in Ice Hockey and Basketball. It would also stop timewasting to a degree, and all that nonsense about added time.
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Er, where does 30-minutes each way come into effect in ice hockey?
It's played over 3 x 20 minute periods with a stopping clock.
Sudden death overtime is 20-minutes (NHL) and generally 5-minutes here in the UK and most of Europe before going to a penalty shoot out to determine a result.
 
30 Minutes each half?

Insidious nonsense, and as previous posters have stated, the game is under attack from venal commercial concerns.
 
Among other "reforms" to be discussed along with this 30 minute half nonsense is a proposal that a player not be allowed to follow up and score from a saved penalty....the ball is dead the moment the goalkeeper blocks it.

Why, for heaven's sake?
 

AndyC said:
Er, where does 30-minutes each way come into effect in ice hockey?
It's played over 3 x 20 minute periods with a stopping clock.
Sudden death overtime is 20-minutes (NHL) and generally 5-minutes here in the UK and most of Europe before going to a penalty shoot out to determine a result.
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When the puck is not in play the clock stops. The game is an hour long but takes about 2 and a half hours including period breaks. This idea would be similar. The clock would stop when the ball wasn't in play and an hour long game would take just under 2 hours including halftime. I also think that, like Ice Hockey and Basketball the fans should be able to see the clock.
 
Even if it could work in professional football, what about amateur & sunday league? Can you realy imagine a fat 50 year old ref who doesn't stray outside the centre circle being savvy enough to manage it?

If it doesn't work in amateur football, it doesn't work at all.
 
Seems like there's an industry around promoting and ridiculing every stupid rules change that anyone in the world promotes. This falls under that heading. Will never happen.
 
It's a stupid idea

There is only one big urgent change to the game that's required, and that is a unified understanding for retrospective action for things like diving and overall cheating. There needs to be something hard in law that every league under the FIFA umbrella needs to adhere too, so that this can get stamped out of the game

Things like 30 minute halves are pointless and a braking that which is not broken. Diving and cheating are the biggest issue the game currently has at the moment, under which time wasting falls. Crack down on that and start throwing out retrospective bans to divers and you'll soon get that aspect under control

The punishments for cheating have to be more severe than the rewards that be attained from doing it
 

WA Toffee said:
Even if it could work in professional football, what about amateur & sunday league? Can you realy imagine a fat 50 year old ref who doesn't stray outside the centre circle being savvy enough to manage it?

If it doesn't work in amateur football, it doesn't work at all.
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Lee Mason does Sunday league games?
 
AndyC said:
Er, where does 30-minutes each way come into effect in ice hockey?
It's played over 3 x 20 minute periods with a stopping clock.
Sudden death overtime is 20-minutes (NHL) and generally 5-minutes here in the UK and most of Europe before going to a penalty shoot out to determine a result.
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NHL overtime is five minutes during the regular season, with teams playing 3-on-3. If still tied, then a shootout. In the playoffs, it's 20-minute periods (with intermissions) with teams playing 5-on-5 until someone scores.
 
Good idea, the game is gone cynical and marked with gameship and blatant cheating.

I'd go 35 mins myself, would prefer 70 mins of contact football then 90 mins of feigning injury, diving, time wasting.
 

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