Game management

I often think we are too nice as a team, we’ve been that way for a while.

The dark arts are employed by most teams we play against, referees allow it to happen. Whilst I personally don’t approve of it going on, I don’t believe it will ever stop. As such, I feel strongly about making sure we are on a level playing field and need to fight fire with fire.

The booking of goalkeepers is the one that really gets me, what is the point, a referee rarely if ever sends a keeper off via a second yellow even when they continue to waste time, all it means is that the ref is joining in the breaking up of play, affecting any momentum and are effectively time wasting themselves.
 
RavsFan said:
I often think we are too nice as a team, we’ve been that way for a while.

The dark arts are employed by most teams we play against, referees allow it to happen. Whilst I personally don’t approve of it going on, I don’t believe it will ever stop. As such, I feel strongly about making sure we are on a level playing field and need to fight fire with fire.

The booking of goalkeepers is the one that really gets me, what is the point, a referee rarely if ever sends a keeper off via a second yellow even when they continue to waste time, all it means is that the ref is joining in the breaking up of play, affecting any momentum and are effectively time wasting themselves.
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It's maddening. All it will take is one ref to have the bo!!ocks to book a keeper early doors and then send him off for a 2nd booking and it will stop overnight. its the easiest form of cheating to stop.

It's a same with a lot of the ways people cheat, there are mechanisms in place to stop it, the refs just have to understand the game more and when someone is taking the pi$$!

The one that infuriates me is the faking a head injury, no way to police that without potentially putting a genuine case at risk.
 
MickaelDebevePhenomenal said:
It's maddening. All it will take is one ref to have the bo!!ocks to book a keeper early doors and then send him off for a 2nd booking and it will stop overnight. its the easiest form of cheating to stop.

It's a same with a lot of the ways people cheat, there are mechanisms in place to stop it, the refs just have to understand the game more and when someone is taking the pi$$!

The one that infuriates me is the faking a head injury, no way to police that without potentially putting a genuine case at risk.
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The head injury one may be easy to stop, allow the trainer on the pitch while the game plays on as in rugby. Where it is a genuine injury and urgent serious medical attention needed a signal from the trainer to the 4th official could then tell the ref to stop play to allow treatment and a substitution. It would stop the mickey taking late on especially if teams have used all the subs.
 
To me the most effective thing teams do is when they are under the cosh a player will go down. It isn't the time wasted that is a killer, especially in these days of 8 minute stoppage time, it's the momentum stalled.
Doesn't have to be a head injury. If a player sits himself down in the middle of the penalty area the ref will stop the game and allow the physio to come on. In fact a player can be right next to the touchline and the ref won't move him.
 
The head injury is easy to stop imo. You have an official whose job it is to look after the clock. All the time is added on. It will cause some mad 120, 130 minutes matches for a couple of weeks but once players understand time wasting doesn’t benefit them then it’ll soon stop. They won’t go down.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
To me the most effective thing teams do is when they are under the cosh a player will go down. It isn't the time wasted that is a killer, especially in these days of 8 minute stoppage time, it's the momentum stalled.
Doesn't have to be a head injury. If a player sits himself down in the middle of the penalty area the ref will stop the game and allow the physio to come on. In fact a player can be right next to the touchline and the ref won't move him.
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Actually would agree about the momentum but maybe one way you could tackle it is to make anyone who requires treatment for a head injury to leave the field for at least five minutes so they can be assessed. It will make players think twice about cheating.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
Actually would agree about the momentum but maybe one way you could tackle it is to make anyone who requires treatment for a head injury to leave the field for at least five minutes so they can be assessed. It will make players think twice about cheating.
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But then you're penalising players who have genuine injuries.

The only real solution is if we discover that there is in fact a real and vengeful god who despises gamesmanship.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
The head injury is easy to stop imo. You have an official whose job it is to look after the clock. All the time is added on. It will cause some mad 120, 130 minutes matches for a couple of weeks but once players understand time wasting doesn’t benefit them then it’ll soon stop. They won’t go down.
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true, but it happened in the Qatar world cup and people started whingeing about the extra minutes! I thought it was great
 
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