Time-wasting

[summerisle]

About time, or all part of the game ?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/plans-to-end-time-wasting-v9m6n3s9j

Plans to end time-wasting after Cardiff City spend eight minutes on throw-ins

October 2 2018, 12:01am, The Times

Morrison, the Cardiff defender, took an average of 25 seconds to deliver his 20 throw-ins against Burnley on Sunday.
Football’s law-makers are to investigate new measures to increase playing time in matches because of growing concerns over time-wasting and lengthy delays for set pieces during games.

Cardiff City’s match against Burnley on Sunday established a five-year low for playing time in a Premier League match — the ball was in play for only 42min 2sec. More than eight minutes were spent waiting for Sean Morrison, the Cardiff centre back, to take long throw-ins.

Increasing the amount of playing time is one of the main thrusts of the “Play Fair” strategy that is being considered by the International FA Board (Ifab). An Ifab source said that “a number of new ideas” were under discussion about improving playing time. Measures that could be explored include for the referee to stop his watch from the time a throw-in, corner or goalkick is conceded until it is actually taken. One previous proposal had been for a stadium clock to measure 60 minutes of actual playing time, but that has failed to gain support.

The Ifab source said: “We all want to crack down on major time-wasting and increase playing time but the fundamental question is how we do it.”
Morrison took 20 throw-ins against Burnley. The average time taken was 25sec, with the longest 37sec. Ten of them took longer than half a minute.

The total length of playing time for the match was the shortest for a top-flight game since Stoke City v Aston Villa in December 2013, which was only 40min 50sec.
All law changes or trials have to be sanctioned by Ifab’s annual meeting, being held in Scotland in March.

 

[hallamblue]

60 minutes and stop the clock when the ball goes out. Works well in Ice Hockey.

 

[Yarrgh]

With Burnley and Cardiff, that might have been the high lights of the game though.

 

[toffeejack]

42 mins, that's disgarceful. I thought us v huddersfield was bad, i'd like to know how much the ball was actually in play for that game. Just stop the clock, it's so simple. Theyll come up with a stupid rule like "ref's need to be stricter with yellow cards for time wasting", which will be enforced the odd time for the first few months and then they'll forget about it again.

Always happens, they just can't make any meningful laws to actually improve the game, they keep leaving it down to ref's interpretation and then you end with incosistencies until nothing happens. The ref's are awful so try and take as much off their hands as possible.

 

[toffeejack]

60 minutes and stop the clock when the ball goes out. Works well in Ice Hockey.

i don't get the 60 min thing, what's that all about? Can't they just stop the clock and keep the game at 90 mins? That's what the game was built on.

With all the moaning that goes in with fergie time and some ref's playing on longer because the ball is 'in an advanced position', i think a big buzzer that rings just like ice hockey dead on 90 mins would be the way to go. Alognside clock stopping of course, that is a definitive law which is concrete clear and doesn't need any interpretations to go on and reduced all the play acting and cheating we currently see. Just wipes out a lot of controversies in football.

 

[hallamblue]

i don't get the 60 min thing, what's that all about? Can't they just stop the clock and keep the game at 90 mins? That's what the game was built on.

With all the moaning that goes in with fergie time and some ref's playing on longer because the ball is 'in an advanced position', i think a big buzzer that rings just like ice hockey dead on 90 mins would be the way to go. Alognside clock stopping of course, that is a definitive law which is concrete clear and doesn't need any interpretations to go on and reduced all the play acting and cheating we currently see. Just wipes out a lot of controversies in football.

If they played 90 minutes the game would last for over 2 hours, as there is usually at least 30 minutes where it's out of play.

 

[toffeejack]

If they played 90 minutes the game would last for over 2 hours, as there is usually at least 30 minutes where it's out of play.

but that wouldn't happen, surely? The main reason these small clubs take so long is because they're time wasting. If the clock is stopped they're not going to still time waste, that defeats the object. Games are played at 90 mins now with no stop clock and don't go on for 2 hours.

 

[dead_soft]

but that wouldn't happen, surely? The main reason these small clubs take so long is because they're time wasting. If the clock is stopped they're not going to still time waste, that defeats the object. Games are played at 90 mins now with no stop clock and don't go on for 2 hours.

That’s because there is no stop clock... even without intentional time wasting the game would take forever. Also, if there’s a stop clock for 90, there is no reason for anyone to ever hurry up the game if they want to kill opposition momentum

 

[toffeejack]

i'm too conused, i think it's best if we all accept i'm right and leave it at that.

 

[The binman chronicles]

There are times when watching Everton I wish they would take 89 minutes over a throw in.

 

[YoboCopter]

Just stop the clock
Simple isnt it

 

[TheBigIguana]

I don't even think it needs to be so extreme as stop it on every throw and corner but instead stop it if it is clearly taking forever and warn the team that they're taking to long. Second time it stops start booking people. Also stop it for every injury and substitute.

 

[4737carlin]

Glad i watched the golf

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

I've been to Rugby League matches (40 minutes each way) where one or both halves have lasted over an hour. Have a timekeeper, the ref can signal when to stop and start the clock. Also stop the stupid business of stopping the game for substitutions. That would end the pantomime of the ref having to chivvy the substituted player off the pitch. If a team wants to keep 11 players on the pitch it's in their interest to get the substitution done promptly if the game is carrying on while its going on.

 

[marsh]

Saints doing it all game