Time Wasting Millers

[fc_miller]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...P=share_btn_tw

An article on time wasting, which doesn't offer much solution but wastes your time reading it...oh that and they use us as the main example.

"This is not just down to time-wasting – games involving dominant teams that prioritise possession are likely to feature fewer stoppages, and it is no coincidence that the five longest games in the Premier League this season all involved Manchester City, or that no Championship ground has been treated to more action than Burnley’s Turf Moor. But that alone cannot explain why fans at City’s Etihad Stadium are on course to end the season having witnessed just 22 minutes less league football than those at the New York Stadium in Rotherham, who will have sat through five entire additional games, an extra eight hours and 14 minutes, including stoppage time, of staccato soccer.

Rotherham are an extreme case. In their home game with QPR last month the ball was in play for just 40 minutes and 16 seconds, making it the shortest match in the top two divisions this season. The second-shortest was their visit to Birmingham. When they travelled to Watford they got their first yellow card for time-wasting in the 30th minute. At Turf Moor in November Burnley scored twice in the 12 minutes’ stoppage time the referee eventually awarded to win 3-2. “Were any players booked for time-wasting?” asked the Millers’ manager, Matt Taylor. “If there were four or five bookings for time-wasting I would have totally agreed with 10 or 12 minutes’ added-on time. I would have had no complaints. The fact that no players were booked at any stage for time-wasting suggests that the referee made up the number from wherever he wanted.”

And here lies the problem. Because no method has yet been found of doing the latter, and no amount of extra minutes can make up for a team transforming a game into a succession of elongated stoppages (besides, to force this season’s Rotherham side to play the equivalent of a full match the referee would need to add on a shade over 97 minutes’ stoppage time, which would present certain practical issues)."

[millertop]

Should be time limits on throw in and goal kicks especially, then the ref should blow once count to three then produce a yellow card.

I get why it’s done sometimes but it annoys the **** out of me, obviously it’s going to be us

I’ve not clicked on the link yet and just skimmed over your post but I might waste my time later

[frogmiller]

Is it time to bring in the one hour games ?

The time is stopped when the all goes out of play, a goal is scored, injury and the likes.

Punters will always get 60 minutes of football

[millertop]

Should be time limits on throw in and goal kicks especially, then the ref should blow once count to three then produce a yellow card.

I get why it’s done sometimes but it annoys the **** out of me, obviously it’s going to be us

I’ve not clicked on the link yet and just skimmed over your post but I might waste my time later

It’s a cut this board at times, allows me to edit then won’t post

When it’s a goal kick the keeper should be taking it from the side the ball went out, not walking over to other side.
Once he puts that ball down then he should be kicking it, not picking it up and ****ing about some more

Anyway how much time does ref waste?

[crashbang]

Viktor is a past master.

[Brin]

https://www.theguardian.com/football...P=share_btn_tw

An article on time wasting, which doesn't offer much solution but wastes your time reading it...oh that and they use us as the main example.

"This is not just down to time-wasting – games involving dominant teams that prioritise possession are likely to feature fewer stoppages, and it is no coincidence that the five longest games in the Premier League this season all involved Manchester City, or that no Championship ground has been treated to more action than Burnley’s Turf Moor. But that alone cannot explain why fans at City’s Etihad Stadium are on course to end the season having witnessed just 22 minutes less league football than those at the New York Stadium in Rotherham, who will have sat through five entire additional games, an extra eight hours and 14 minutes, including stoppage time, of staccato soccer.

Rotherham are an extreme case. In their home game with QPR last month the ball was in play for just 40 minutes and 16 seconds, making it the shortest match in the top two divisions this season. The second-shortest was their visit to Birmingham. When they travelled to Watford they got their first yellow card for time-wasting in the 30th minute. At Turf Moor in November Burnley scored twice in the 12 minutes’ stoppage time the referee eventually awarded to win 3-2. “Were any players booked for time-wasting?” asked the Millers’ manager, Matt Taylor. “If there were four or five bookings for time-wasting I would have totally agreed with 10 or 12 minutes’ added-on time. I would have had no complaints. The fact that no players were booked at any stage for time-wasting suggests that the referee made up the number from wherever he wanted.”

And here lies the problem. Because no method has yet been found of doing the latter, and no amount of extra minutes can make up for a team transforming a game into a succession of elongated stoppages (besides, to force this season’s Rotherham side to play the equivalent of a full match the referee would need to add on a shade over 97 minutes’ stoppage time, which would present certain practical issues)."

''Rotherham are an extreme case. In their home game with QPR last month the ball was in play for just 40 minutes and 16 seconds, making it the shortest match in the top two divisions''. I hope they realise that Ainsworth is now the Manager at QPR and heh presto there's your answer.

[fc_miller]

''Rotherham are an extreme case. In their home game with QPR last month the ball was in play for just 40 minutes and 16 seconds, making it the shortest match in the top two divisions''. I hope they realise that Ainsworth is now the Manager at QPR and heh presto there's your answer.

When we played Wycombe in Championship a couple of seasons ago, it was a record low of 35 mins at theirs, and 39 mins at ours!

[Brin]

When we played Wycombe in Championship a couple of seasons ago, it was a record low of 35 mins at theirs, and 39 mins at ours!

I rest my case m'lord.

[MillerBill]

''Rotherham are an extreme case. In their home game with QPR last month the ball was in play for just 40 minutes and 16 seconds, making it the shortest match in the top two divisions''. I hope they realise that Ainsworth is now the Manager at QPR and heh presto there's your answer.

This very biased misinformed journalist has highlighted Rotherham as a team that waste time to their advantage.Absolute tosh !!

[Brin]

This very biased misinformed journalist has highlighted Rotherham as a team that waste time to their advantage.Absolute tosh !!

Bill don't bite pal.....it's a piece of trollop journalism.