All teams do it but to me this season, it's getting ridiculous.
If ahead a team will start time wasting on 30 mins for HT then the second half is a fake injury for every 2-3 passages of play.
I think 2 x 30 minute half's with the clock stopped when the ball is not in play should be at least, trialed but not sure how you stop the fake injuries to interrupt momentum when a team is having a spell though.
- Players having treatment whilst play continues a la Aussie rules.
- Teams been allowed a time out 1 per half (I know it's very American)
- Retrospective action including touchline suspensions for managers, for obvious injury feigning.
- Shame. Publish stats on how much injury time a team uses in a game and how often versus the opposition.
I know it's hard to prove who is really injured and isn't and you do need to protect players, just feel the ebb and flow of the game is now getting so disrupted, it's ruining the spectacle.
Answers on a postcard...
Time Wasting and Injury Feigning
posted on 9/4/23
Players feigning a head injury (like a team we played recently, can't remember who), should be sent-off.
I hate cheating more than losing.
posted on 9/4/23
How can you tell they are feigning?
posted on 9/4/23
Good question, other than a VAR type replay to see there was any head contact, it not possible I guess!
posted on 9/4/23
The cheating really pi$$es me off tho.
posted on 9/4/23
I think you have to remove the incentive to cheat. If play did not automatically stop then the player would try to get up. Teams are coached to do it - if a corner is half cleared then a player is told to go down clutching his bonce. The ref blows his whistle and a potentially dangerous cross back into the mixer is prevented. Remove the automatic stopping of play and it would stop - the stricken defender would just be playing all of the attackers onside.
There are no more genuine head injuries these days than there were in previous eras. There wasn't any shirking of aerial challenges back in the 70s for example. Yet players didn't fall to the earth like felled oaks every couple of minutes only to recover miraculously seconds later. It's because they would have been harming their team by staying down.
posted on 9/4/23
15 min sin-bin for time wasters (& Scouse).
posted on 9/4/23
comment by lastapostleofvidal (U1491)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
I think you have to remove the incentive to cheat. If play did not automatically stop then the player would try to get up. Teams are coached to do it - if a corner is half cleared then a player is told to go down clutching his bonce. The ref blows his whistle and a potentially dangerous cross back into the mixer is prevented. Remove the automatic stopping of play and it would stop - the stricken defender would just be playing all of the attackers onside.
There are no more genuine head injuries these days than there were in previous eras. There wasn't any shirking of aerial challenges back in the 70s for example. Yet players didn't fall to the earth like felled oaks every couple of minutes only to recover miraculously seconds later. It's because they would have been harming their team by staying down.
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Absolutely right. Priority is to protect those injured But there is already and has always been an incentive not to chea:t
Players, behave like a man. Stop diving spitting, whining, play-acting and whinging.
Fans, remind them of this every opportunity.
Doesn't need rules, just common sense. And a reminder of what real footy is about.
posted on 10/4/23
If someone pretends to be hurt then a they should be executed on the spot. They won't do it again. It's an idea I got from Lee Annderson.
posted on 10/4/23
I’d say a good cuff or elbow from an official should soon stamp it out …
posted on 10/4/23
Good topic 2W and some great responses!
All this cheating (as that is what it is) comes from desperation really - teams are desperate for success, desperate for promotion, desperate not to be relegated and desperate for money so all this conduct is condoned by managers and owners. Maybe the ultimate cause is the money sloshing around in the Prem which fuels greed throughout the pyramid and the need for ever more from TV or wherever.
Another example of time wasting comes from goalkeepers making a save or stop and then falling on the ball at every opportunity although I can see that sometimes this can be a justifiable tactic to take pressure off the defence and calm things down. But you see it now in even the most innocuous of circumstances. And to be fair I am happy to see Wildsmith do it if there is mayhem all around him but equally am disgusted when the oppo goalie does it when there is clearly no purpose other than to waste time.
Off the top of my head I wonder whether this could be a solution to the feigned injury - a new rule whereby the ref insists that any player seeming to be injured has immediately to leave the pitch under his own steam or be helped off by his coach or whoever. Failure to comply = a yellow for both the player and his manager. The availability of this sanction ought to sort it out. The player just gets on with it if unhurt or goes off for treatment if necessary.