This time wasting is killing the sport

Totally agree that it is ruining the game. Recently I stumbled across a Youtube video of a Rioch era game and I was amazed how quickly the ball was back in play. Even when teams were ahead, throws were just taken as soon as the player picked up the ball - it kind of unnerved me watching it!

They need to put a clock on it. From ball in hand/placed on touchline - all throws, corners, goal kicks, gk clearances to be taken within 5 seconds. All free kicks to be taken within 10 seconds of the referee marking out the 10 yards.
 
Isn’t there an organisation protesting about this? I think they did a study and found that on average per 90 minutes of football the the ball is in play or active around 55 minutes a game.

I’ll see if I can find it.
 
The referee tonight seemed so oblivious to it tonight, seemed bizarre. They did it from the first goal.

Why was there player allowed treatment and why did our players nip off for a drink. It was about 12 degrees. We should be hassling the ref to get him off and get on with it.
 
I spotted their coaching team practically pointing to the ground and instructing the keeper to go down in the second half. And yet the referee was still none the wiser, officiating is beyond poor in this league.

Also how the f**k did we only have 5 minutes injury time? We have had 8 and 9 minutes in the last two home games (Swansea/Sunderland).
 
Our attempts to manage the game cost us the equaliser against Stoke. If we'd just played football for those last few minutes we'd probably have been alright.
 
The clock needs to be stopped when the ball isn’t in play it’s the only way to ever fix this

It must have been out of play for at least 15-20 minutes tonight and that’s standard for most games when the away side takes a lead. Fans paying money want to see football, not who can waste the most time to grind out a result
 
TheYorkshireTerrier said:
I spotted their coaching team practically pointing to the ground and instructing the keeper to go down in the second half. And yet the referee was still none the wiser, officiating is beyond poor in this league.

Also how the f**k did we only have 5 minutes injury time? We have had 8 and 9 minutes in the last two home games (Swansea/Sunderland).
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Yes I said that. 5 minutes was ridiculous - should have been much more
 
Scrug said:
Isn’t there an organisation protesting about this? I think they did a study and found that on average per 90 minutes of football the the ball is in play or active around 55 minutes a game.

I’ll see if I can find it.
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There have been varying studies on ball rolling time - Time the ball is in play. They centre on the EPL and ball rolling time is a generally aroud sixty minutes minutes. or fifty fiive minutes depending on how its recorded.

A point is the collective time is static. Times will vary from team to team and possession based teams will see higher BRT, but game management/time wasting is not gettiing worse, or better over a decade. The tiimes are also static across leagues La Liga - Serie A - EPL have similar times, with time wasting Italy having a slightly higher average.
 
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If the ref thinks they're time-wasting they should have a time penalty bank, where the amount of additional playing time is treble that of the wasted time (or just add on a minute), it would cut it out in an instant. Reset the time penalty to zero when the outcome changes, i.e 2-0 to 2-1 wouldn't reset it, but 1-0 to 1-1 would.

No warnings for wasting time either, at any point in the game, just start dishing out cards, whether they've already had one or not.
 
I’ve long thought that refs need breaks in the game to give themselves a ‘breather’.

The time wasting gives them an easier match physically.
 
It's not just time-wasting, it's micro-coaching. They take ages over every throw-in because they have to get in position to run throw-in drill #27B. We're a couple of seasons away from the captain wearing an earpiece and calling set piece plays from a huddle.
 
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