Their time wasting was off the scale

Look up the accountability ladder. Instead of taking accountability for own actions, people who don’t want to look at themselves will look outside and look a victim behaviours

Don’t make excuses for our poor performance on the night
 
Eight mins injury time was long enough and fair enough.
Time wasting is part of the game management, to stop the opposition getting into a rhythm, every team does it.
If we were 1-0 up, our players would do the same.

The best team on the night won, and deservedly so, they managed to nullify our attack, and had the better chances.
We have no excuse, over the two games and not scoring says it all.
 
Bernieslavenschin said:
More frustrating that we couldn't score in 180 minutes.

They're entitled to do what they want to with and without the ball, the referee didn't ignore the time wasting.

Only ourselves to blame
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The two things are different.

Nobody is saying Coventry didn’t deserve to win.

The time wasting has to be stopped for the long term good of the game. £30 plus to watch a clown in goal run down the clock by messing around and a ref too weak to deal with it properly?

Time to stop making excuses for it.
 
HolgateCorner said:
The two things are different.

Nobody is saying Coventry didn’t deserve to win.

The time wasting has to be stopped for the long term good of the game. £30 plus to watch a clown in goal run down the clock by messing around and a ref too weak to deal with it properly?

Time to stop making excuses for it.
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Spot on. They deserved the win, but the paying public deserves competence and fairness from officials. Last night's time wasting had a significant impact on the flow of the game.
 
We could have played another 10 minutes and not scored last night, overall the best team won and yes, we would have probably done the same in their position.

However, the time wasting is awful to watch and how bad does it have to get before those running football say enoughs enough. It got to a point last night where every time the ball went out one of their men just laid on the floor to stop the game. And the keeper stuff was just embarrassing, when the whole ground know whats going on then its just silly. Someone mentioned earlier that a great way to change it is to change the rules and pressure the refs to enforce the rules. He was never going to send the keeper off so just award the ball to us which would be a corner, that's a great idea and would sort it out instantly.

Its not sour grapes or an anti Coventry thing, its a football problem which last night just highlighted.
 
On The Bob said:
It happens in so many games across all leagues that it’s becoming ridiculous.

There are 2 solutions for me.

Book the first offence of time wasting. Any further repeat time wasting is a second booking. After the first time it happened tonight. I said he’ll get booked in the last 5 minutes and by then it’s too late. There has to be a deterrent.

The other option is just stop the clock when the ball goes out of play and do away with added time.

Fair enough he gave a load of time added on, but I’ve seen games where the added time has not matched the extent of time wasting.
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As in Rugby Union - simply stop the clock.
I accept that teams may still time waste to halt momentum and pressure, but it would ensure that the full 90 mins is played.
And the click should be visible to all, as in RU...it's not rocket science.
 
It's the officials that are the problem when it comes to time wasting.

Goalkeeper's should be made to go off the pitch if they have gone down like outfield players, that would immediately put an end to the pathetic time wasting that we saw last night.
 
weemoby said:
We would have no doubt done the same in Coventry's position and some folk on here would have called us 'clever' and 'managing the game well'.

UTB and onwards to next season (y)
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Some posters might but plenty would not, it does long term damage.

How many parents pushing the boat out to take the kids sit there thinking I’m not paying a load of money I could be spending on the kids clothes to watch a professional goalkeeper feigning injury no matter who he is playing for?

Football does need a moral compass as well as the will to win.
 
HolgateCorner said:
The two things are different.

Nobody is saying Coventry didn’t deserve to win.

The time wasting has to be stopped for the long term good of the game. £30 plus to watch a clown in goal run down the clock by messing around and a ref too weak to deal with it properly?

Time to stop making excuses for it.
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It's been this way forever.
Professional fouls shouldn't be given the leniency they are either, but like it or not they're a part of the game and the players know that.
Referees don't apply the rules and book or red card players early in 'big' matches because they don't want to ruin the occasion.
Paddy was clearly elbowed at one stage and the culprit escaped punishment
Coventry's experienced players put in more than a few heavy challenges before bookings started coming out.

Where are you/we drawing the line here? There's hundreds of examples of where the game is not ideal, and that's before you start talking about having to pay 30 quid (and why that much is considered acceptable) in the first place.

Sure, if you want my opinion over whether it should be stopped in an ideal world then yes.

It remains more frustrating (and significant in terms of outcome on the match) to me, that we failed to score in 180 minutes of football.

Embarrassing that a team would shut us out for 120 minutes, score on our own turf in such an important match, then run the clock down and our response as a fanbase is to whimper about time wasting.

It's easer said than done because Coventry had a great game, but there's a way of preventing a team from doing that, and it involves taking the opportunity when it's there.
 
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Every team does it including ourselves. If I recall the match at Turf Moor before Christmas Steffen was booked for the amount of time he was taking with goalkicks etc.
 
rbmfc1985 said:
All the American sports stop the clock, and their games are pretty much built for TV. They still show NBA games and the clock stops every time the ball's off the court, and there's multiple time outs that can be called during the game as well.

If the clock was stopped there would be less time taken over goal kicks, throw ins, etc, as well as less "injuries". There was far more than 8 minutes wasted in the second half as well. I'd be surprised if there was more than 25-30 minutes of actual football in the second half before injury time.
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Isn't the average 'ninety' actually 55-60 minutes of ball in play normally?

Just make it two 30 minute halves of 'in-play' action, the game would probably end up being a similar amount of time.

As others have said, book more for time wasting, change the rules that time wasting gives the opposition a free kick. There's almost no deterrent for a keeper doing it, other than a possible yellow, but definitely not a second one. If it was a free kick in the box, there's no way they'd risk it. Throw in should be the same too.

Injury game management boIIocks should be a simple if you go down causing a stoppage in play, you leave the field at the nearest touchline and are assessed for 3 minutes, during which time you aren't allowed back on whilst the game goes on without you.

Cramp isn't a stoppage in play issue, stretch and walk it off or get subbed.
 
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