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the talisman said:
Hear hear, been saying it for years, a 30 minute “in play” clock, would give us the same amount of football as we get now.
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A good few years ago, I used the stopwatch function on my (then) digital watch at a match at Maine Road.
The total "in play" time was 23 minutes in the first half, and just over 20 in the second. The match ended as a draw, with much timewasting by the opposition in the latter stages.
It's a lot worse today.

This topic comes up a lot, and I've always maintained that the full 90 minutes should be played. Footballers are supposedly professional athletes, and would soon realise that there would be no point timewasting as the clock would stop as soon as they started rolling around with a suspected double fracture of the cranium, only for it to miraculously heal itself when the stretcher party, doctor and priest arrive. As soon as the whistle blows, the clock and the match continue until there is no more time left, and the half/full time hooter sounds.
It happens in other professional sports, so why not football?
 
AlgarveBlu said:
not good! got relegated if I recall with a 2-2 against dippers as we didn’t know that we needed to score again to stay up
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It the words of the Bachman-Turner Overdrive, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.

I hate to tell you this, but it’s going to get a fucking sight worse!
 
crazyg said:
A good few years ago, I used the stopwatch function on my (then) digital watch at a match at Maine Road.
The total "in play" time was 23 minutes in the first half, and just over 20 in the second. The match ended as a draw, with much timewasting by the opposition in the latter stages.
It's a lot worse today.

This topic comes up a lot, and I've always maintained that the full 90 minutes should be played. Footballers are supposedly professional athletes, and would soon realise that there would be no point timewasting as the clock would stop as soon as they started rolling around with a suspected double fracture of the cranium, only for it to miraculously heal itself when the stretcher party, doctor and priest arrive. As soon as the whistle blows, the clock and the match continue until there is no more time left, and the half/full time hooter sounds.
It happens in other professional sports, so why not football?
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We don't need to go that far. Have an independent time keeper with the clock running down. The referee stops the clock for injuries and substitutions just like rugby league, no arguments then.
 
Bigg Bigg Blue said:
I have said before on here that the lad who lives next door to me is a mate of his and has said that he is a dipper fan.
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I've said this before on here but he went to my secondary school (Littlemoss) in my brothers year, from a family of reds (United) as far as my brother remembers.
 
tweety said:
We don't need to go that far. Have an independent time keeper with the clock running down. The referee stops the clock for injuries and substitutions just like rugby league, no arguments then.
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The referee should have no say in timekeeping whatsoever, His function should only be to apply the LotG in a fair and consistent manner throughout the 90 minutes of PLAY. If the ball goes out of play, or the referee blows his whistle for an infringement/substitution, the clock stops until the whistle is blown for the countdown to resume.
Remember the CL game v Livarpool at the Etihad? The ball went out for a dipper throw in, and the defender argued for over 3 minutes that the ball had gone flat. How much time was added on by Sr Lahoz? That's right, absolutely ZERO seconds. Cheating at it's finest.
 
crazyg said:
The referee should have no say in timekeeping whatsoever, His function should only be to apply the LotG in a fair and consistent manner throughout the 90 minutes of PLAY. If the ball goes out of play, or the referee blows his whistle for an infringement/substitution, the clock stops until the whistle is blown for the countdown to resume.
Remember the CL game v Livarpool at the Etihad? The ball went out for a dipper throw in, and the defender argued for over 3 minutes that the ball had gone flat. How much time was added on by Sr Lahoz? That's right, absolutely ZERO seconds. Cheating at it's finest.
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No problem with that but we all know that they'll never change, it gives them an opportunity to retain as much control as possible.
One thing you can say about rugby league is how they quickly embraced technology in the correct manner and are not slow in adapting their laws of the game.
 
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