timothy bird Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Referee's are quite rightly told to stop the game when their is a head injury. but it seems to me that every game this season when we are having a spell of pressure a opposition player goes down and stays down until the refeee blows up! It's cheating and it's spoiling the game! Barnsley were masters at it today and they must be under instructions from their manager to do it! What was wrong with that player who stayed down in the 2nd half until the referee blew up? Nothing! It's cheating pure and simple and it happens week after week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izza Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 How about a simple rule where if a game is stopped due to a suspected head injury the player isn't allowed back on the pitch for 5 minutes until checked over properly. That might stop this new tactic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Indeed. Notice that none of the players who were seemingly poleaxed were later subbed. I have to say if this is a signature of a Lee Johnson team it puts me right off the man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Their number 36 was the worst culprit, holding his head until the ref stopped the game and then getting spurious treatment on his leg. The 9 dived at least four times, too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Agreed Tim, certainly gives The Swindlers a run for their money as being the most cynical team this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'd have it that as soon as a player goes down, like today, the stretcher is on, the player is off the pitch and the game goes on. That would cut straight through the bullshit. Liked GJ but have to say his wheeler dealer, cockney geezer, dodgy wide boy ways were evident in his offspring's team today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llewy's right boot Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Agreed Tim, certainly gives The Swindlers a run for their money as being the most cynical team this season. Indeed,it was almost like a dress rehearsal for the impending visit of swinedon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbored Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 They just got to change the rule so it's the same as the rugby boys. Just let the physio on and let the game carry on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 All it takes is for time control to be taken out of the referees hands. Any stoppage gets properly added at the end. Time wasting becomes redundant overnight. Oh, and rather than the ball being played 50 yards back to the keeper, the play should start from where it stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 Indeed. Notice that none of the players who were seemingly poleaxed were later subbed. I have to say if this is a signature of a Lee Johnson team it puts me right off the man. A fear it is a signature of modern football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 All it takes is for time control to be taken out of the referees hands. Any stoppage gets properly added at the end. Time wasting becomes redundant overnight. Oh, and rather than the ball being played 50 yards back to the keeper, the play should start from where it stopped.The final whistle being blone as it is in Rugby League, with an external banner, or the clock being stopped as it is in Rugby Union would put an end to such nonsense. Football is still being ran by certified retards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Red Hat Posted March 28, 2015 Report Share Posted March 28, 2015 All it takes is for time control to be taken out of the referees hands. Any stoppage gets properly added at the end. Time wasting becomes redundant overnight. Oh, and rather than the ball being played 50 yards back to the keeper, the play should start from where it stopped. But it's not just time wasting, it's breaking up the play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledinwatford Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 I played local football for over 20 years and I can only remember 1 head injury. Must be playing a different game - make 'em wear crash helmets :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exiledinwatford Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 All it takes is for time control to be taken out of the referees hands. Any stoppage gets properly added at the end. Time wasting becomes redundant overnight. Oh, and rather than the ball being played 50 yards back to the keeper, the play should start from where it stopped. 100% agree Harry. We shouldn't have to sit and watch a defending team make a wall - stop the clock We shouldn't allow a player on the winning side to shield the ball in the corner (isn't that just time-wasting?) Instead of adding an abitrary 30 secs for each sub the clock should be stopped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Welcome To The Jungle Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 100% agree Harry. We shouldn't have to sit and watch a defending team make a wall - stop the clock We shouldn't allow a player on the winning side to shield the ball in the corner (isn't that just time-wasting?) Instead of adding an abitrary 30 secs for each sub the clock should be stopped Wasnt it sod who said for 33% of the game the ball is out of play. Will the clock be stopped for all this time? What's the line between reasonable time to take a goal kick and time wasting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTFiGO!?! Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Wasnt it sod who said for 33% of the game the ball is out of play. Will the clock be stopped for all this time? What's the line between reasonable time to take a goal kick and time wasting.A change in culture, whereby somebody with a 'head injury' is immediately taken off. If it is deemed a foul was committed by an opponent, then the guilty player sits it out until the injured, or otherwise, player is re-omitted. How I see it is, the authorities' are sat on quite a bit of money and prestige and don't have the will or motivation to act on anything. Whilst the fans pay up, they (the authorities) don't care. Neither do the players or their associates. We're being taken for absolute mugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRL Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 A change in culture, whereby somebody with a 'head injury' is immediately taken off. If it is deemed a foul was committed by an opponent, then the guilty player sits it out until the injured, or otherwise, player is re-omitted. How I see it is, the authorities' are sat on quite a bit of money and prestige and don't have the will or motivation to act on anything. Whilst the fans pay up, they (the authorities) don't care. Neither do the players or their associates. We're being taken for absolute mugs. That works well until you realise the keeper caused the head injury. Which I would imagine happens a lot as they do most of their challenges in the air with their hands up. I don't think the idea can work as they opposition will use it as a chance to remove the keeper from the pitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RumRed Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Colchester at their ground were shocking at feigning head injuries, slowed the game right down as we were pushing for the equaliser. Ref would be crucified though if he did nothing for a real injury. Do you think some clubs actually have acting coaches listed on their payroll? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 As someone who supports and loves both football and rugby, the discipline side of the games is the biggest difference between the two codes. In football, all this nonsense with aerosol markers at free kicks is admitting football has a problem but the solution has not addressed the problem. In rugby, failure to withdraw 10 metres results in the offence position being moved 10 metres nearer the opponents goal line. Thus in football, a free kick five metres outside the penalty area becomes a penalty! That would certainly cause the offending side to comply with the rules. And timekeeping for injuries is a simple thing. Follow the rugby way of stopping the clock for injuries that is done by the fourth official. Take that away from the onfield referee. And perhaps introduce a compulsory off the field check by a doctor for concussion. Thus any perceived head injury would result in the playing some time of the game with less than eleven. The football authorities have encouraged cheating, play-acting, time wasting by their ineptitude over many, many years. I believe, because it is now such a worldwide game, that these problems will only get worse. Rugby, on the other hand, is dominated by eight or nine countries, with it's spread through the rest of the world significantly less than football. Thus, much easier to maintain standards of behaviour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmite Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Our rhythm was broken yesterday by the constant stops in play by their players feigning serious injury. They were obviously playing that way to stop our flowing football under instructions from their manager and it worked for them, Our play was more static yesterday than it has been all season. The ref is in a no win situation here because he is a referee and not a doctor. However when players immediately jump up when the game eventually stops and are obviously ok, the ref should yellow card them and make them stay off the pitch until the ball next goes out of play by an opponent player, rather than wave them straight back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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