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Post by gulfofaden on Feb 10, 2021 6:53:38 GMT
Of unsportsmanlike cheating by having multiple injuries as soon as we got any momentum with the ball. Cramp, god knows. Interestingly it started as soon as they took the lead and even in the first half. On 37 minutes they had a player down for Christ’s sake.
We lost because they were better than us, and they were. However, we were hampered getting back into the game due to relentless standing over the ball on free kicks, fake injuries, and we got 5 minutes for what was probably a good 15 in taking every free kick, corner, throw in at snails pace.
I am getting so watered off with going a goal down and having to watch this total **** farce of a game, you might as well turn off as soon as one team goes a goal down as the rest of the game will be the side with the lead on their backs getting their legs rubbed, having some kind of brain seizure taking throw ins and goal kicks where their player evidently trips out into a world of illusion for 30 seconds.
It’s totally ruining the game and the officials do absolutely nothing. Nothing whatsoever.
Oxford were perhaps the worst I’ve seen - Wycombe standard.
No wonder they are doing so well, given their game plan is to essentially play no football from the moment they go a goal up, the referees allow this as a valid tactic....if only we could ever actually score we could also essentially spend the next 70 mins as an on-pitch treatment session. Perhaps we could move a couple treatment tables to the pitch and grab a few medics students to come and observe?
Bah! It was horrible to watch that.
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Feb 10, 2021 7:34:28 GMT
It's the ref's job to deal with it and with no crowd on his back much more is let go.
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Post by stevek192 on Feb 10, 2021 9:13:51 GMT
There is an obvious method of cutting this out of the game. Yello0w card,red card and then adding on 15 minutes at the end or a suitable amount that represents the amount of time wasting. The biggest joke is when you add only 5 minutes and then allow them to time waste in that as well!!
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Post by gulfofaden on Feb 10, 2021 9:49:51 GMT
It's the ref's job to deal with it and with no crowd on his back much more is let go. I don’t understand why refs don’t seem to care. It’s like they tacitly allow it. If I was a ref I would be right on the case. Perhaps teams research refs and know the ones who are weak and the ones who won’t have it. |
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Post by somersetgas27 on Feb 10, 2021 10:13:32 GMT
I totally agree the time wasting and feigning injury is just out of control and the refs do nothing about it. The obvious answer is to stop the watch/clock on every halt in play, injury or ball out of play (throw-in, goal kick, free kick, throw in etc) and have the refs watch linked to a clock visible in the stadium (surely cheap and easily achieved these days) and then play (say) two 30 minute halves. I read a while ago that in any 90 minute game the actual 'ball in play' time is as little as 55-60 minutes anyway. This way it wouldn't matter how much time the team wasted as there will always be 60 minutes of actual play. Time wasting would be totally irrelevant then. The only advantage would be for a team to break the rhythm of their opponents by constant stoppages.
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Post by gasandelectricity on Feb 10, 2021 10:34:04 GMT
Team in the image of their horrible manager.
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Post by chewbacca on Feb 10, 2021 10:42:37 GMT
It's pretty obvious to me why Rovers never do this, we're never actually in a winning position.
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Post by gulfofaden on Feb 10, 2021 11:20:42 GMT
I totally agree the time wasting and feigning injury is just out of control and the refs do nothing about it. The obvious answer is to stop the watch/clock on every halt in play, injury or ball out of play (throw-in, goal kick, free kick, throw in etc) and have the refs watch linked to a clock visible in the stadium (surely cheap and easily achieved these days) and then play (say) two 30 minute halves. I read a while ago that in any 90 minute game the actual 'ball in play' time is as little as 55-60 minutes anyway. This way it wouldn't matter how much time the team wasted as there will always be 60 minutes of actual play. Time wasting would be totally irrelevant then. The only advantage would be for a team to break the rhythm of their opponents by constant stoppages. Or you could still play 45 with a standard 10 seconds per stoppage. I guess the issue there would be teams getting in a corner winning throw in after throw in. |
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Post by chewbacca on Feb 10, 2021 12:04:21 GMT
I totally agree the time wasting and feigning injury is just out of control and the refs do nothing about it. The obvious answer is to stop the watch/clock on every halt in play, injury or ball out of play (throw-in, goal kick, free kick, throw in etc) and have the refs watch linked to a clock visible in the stadium (surely cheap and easily achieved these days) and then play (say) two 30 minute halves. I read a while ago that in any 90 minute game the actual 'ball in play' time is as little as 55-60 minutes anyway. This way it wouldn't matter how much time the team wasted as there will always be 60 minutes of actual play. Time wasting would be totally irrelevant then. The only advantage would be for a team to break the rhythm of their opponents by constant stoppages. Or you could still play 45 with a standard 10 seconds per stoppage. I guess the issue there would be teams getting in a corner winning throw in after throw in. You know we're scraping the barrel when we're moaning about IFAB not changing the laws of the game to suit us. |
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Post by terry on Feb 10, 2021 12:09:39 GMT
in the late 50s the FA to allay criticism picked a game to see just how long the ball was actually in play during a game and picked a rovers game . The result was 37 minutes and nothing was heard of it after
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Post by rusho'gas on Feb 10, 2021 12:24:07 GMT
It's football, call it gamesmanship by any other name.
Would love to see Rovers win ugleeeee and hold on to the lead right now, bugger the sportsmanship side, that will not keep us up.
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